Anne Cammon Fiero
Columbia University Station
P.O. Box 250218
New York, NY 10025
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Upcoming
Sunday, February 14 from 9:00-10:00 PM
Staying tuned for this special Valentine edition...
Past Shows & Archives
Saturday Night at the Opera
The featured opera is Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande, with the Orchestre Symphonique conducted by Roger Désormière. Irene Joachimz sings Mélisande with Jacques Jansen in the role of Pelléas and Henri-Bertrand Etcheverry as Golau. With commentary, speculation and dramatic readings from Anne and co-host James David Jacobs.
"Brownstone Poets"
Poets from the 2009 Brownstone Poets Anthology share their renegade brand of literary expression, with work from Patricia Carragon, Evie Ivy, Linda Lerner, Obsidian, Richard Fein and Peter Chelnik with Bob Feldman on sax.
With music by Ravi Harris & the Prophets and composers David Claman, Robert Voisey, Stuart Hinds, Adam Caird, Mike McFerron, CDZ, Christopher Ward, David Gunn, Cindy Cox, David Shannon, Gina Bivar and Katrina Wreede.
Saturday Night at the Opera
Saturday, December 12 from 9:00 PM to 1:00 AM
An interview with British mezzo-soprano Susan Bullock in the wake of her Metropolitan Opera debut as the title role in Strauss' Elektra.
Later in the evening composer Gene Pritsker joined us to discuss and share a few selections from his opera Money.
Saturday Night at the Opera
Broke-ology: Wendell Pierce and Francois Battiste
Sunday, November 1 from 9:00-10:00 PM
Terese Svoboda
Monday, October 26 from 9:30-10:00 PM
A reading and discussion with poet, novelist and essayist Terese Svoboda on her most recent book of poems, Weapons Grade.
"The Man Show"
Friday, October 2 from 9:00-10:00 PM
Revel in a variety of masculine literary expressions, with poetry from Luke Wright, Eric Amling, Ken Jones and Marc Zegans, and the very amusing sci-fi radio drama Solid State University by Jerry Stearns of Great Northern Audio Theater.
Thomas Buckner and Adam Rudolph
Monday, September 14 from 9:30-10:00 PM
A discussion with composer/ percussionist Adam Rudolph and baritone Thomas Buckner on levels of listening, the music of the eternal present, and the first Interpretations Concert of the season. The concert will take place at 8 PM on Thursday, September 17 at Roulette and will feature world premieres by Yusef Lateef and Adam Rudolph, with performances by Thomas Buckner, Joseph Kubera, both composers, and the S.E.M. Ensemble directed by Peter Kotik, who was interviewed on this show in the spring.
Saturday Night at the Opera
Saturday, September 5 from 9 PM-1 AM
Join us for English composer Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, in a 1960 recording of The London Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer himself. With Alfred Deller as Oberon, Elizabeth Harwood as Tytania, Stephen Terry as Puck, John Shirley-Quirk as Theseus, Helen Watts as Hippolyta, Peter Pears as Lysander, Thomas Hemsley as Demetrius, Josephine Veasey as Hermia and Helen Harper as Helena.
Afterwards we'll explore various off-shoots of the opera and its composer, including selections of early Greek music, Gregorian chant and Medieval polyphony and Javanese Gamelan.
"Childhood Perspectives"
Art Waves, Friday, September 4 from 9:00-10:00 PM
Explore a range of skewed perspectives: children who play Russian Gymnastics, a woman who loves nothing better than an Oak tree and hot baked bread, and a prostitute who orders her life by comic strips. And a host of children play odd games in Bruce Weber's poems. Stories from Rick Rofihe, Maura Naughton and Matt McHugh. Satellite Dish is read by Anne C. Fiero and See You in the Funny Papers is read by Alex De Suze.
With music from the 60x60 electronic music project with works by: Elliott Carlson Botero, Julia Norton, Stan Link, Mark Vernon, John Bilotta, Thierry Gauthier, Katrina Wreede, Andra McCartney, Annea Lockwood, Laurie Spiegel and Justin Breame.
Laurel Blossom
Arts & Answers, Tuesday, August 18 from 9:30-10:00 PM
An interview with writer Laurel Blossom on her book-length poem Degrees of Latitude.
Saturday Night at the Opera
Saturday, August 8 from 9 PM-1 AM
Anne is joined by co-host James David Jacobs for an evening of summer revelry and Mozart's The Magic Flute. With superb synopsis and analysis by James and a spirited reading of the libretto by both hosts.
Bansuri and Tabla
Art Waves, Friday, August 7 from 9:00-10:00 PM
An evening of poetry, discussion and performance with Eric Fraser on bansuri, Sameer Gupta on tabla, and Anne C. Fiero at the poetry mic. Recorded live at the WKCR studios.
"Coney Island!"
Art Waves, Friday, July 3 from 9:00-10:00 PM
An all-American adventure into the comic, grotesque and outrageous sides of Coney Island with poetry by Brant Lyon, Puma Perl and Hawley Hussey. Also hear a story about the amateur grifter's life in the rough hewn world of Coney Island ride-operators by Michael Schwartz. A great way to prepare for the annual Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest.
With music by Carol Lipnik, Xiting Yang, John Biggs, CD Zabu and David Gunn.
Salwa Al Neimi
Arts & Answers, Tuesday, June 30 from 9:30-10:00 PM
A discussion with Salwa Al Neimi, the Syrian-born writer of erotic prose. Proof of the Honey, the underground novel which Al Neimi intended only for a few friends, has become an international sensation through its assertion that Islamic history is ripe with sensuality. In English and French.
"Latin American Writers II"
Art Waves, Friday, June 5 from 9:00-10:00 PM
Another exciting foray into the bilingual landscape of hispanic writers in America with the rhythmic stylings of Arcadio Leos, the dry wit of Sylvia Molloy, the deeply questioning poetry of Mariela Dreyfus and a colorful depiction of a cockfight by Lorea Canales. The second of a two-part series focusing on Spanish speaking/ writing authors with a special focus on the Spanish MFA Program at New York University.
Also a thrilling musical lineup with selections from George Brunner, David Hahn, Ivan Zavada, Gene Pritsker, Nicole Kim, Laurie Spiegel, Lynn Job, Arthur Gottschalk, Robert Dick, Eldad Tsabury, Oren Fader, Cid Campos & Augusto de Campos.
Peter Kotik
An interview with the composer, conductor and flutist Peter Kotik on the eve of his performance at Alice Tully Hall when FLUX Quartet and Ostravská banda join forces with the Orchestra of the S.E.M Ensemble, which he founded in 1970.
"Latin American Writers I"
Art Waves, Friday, May 1 from 9:00-10:00 PM
An audio collage of music, poetry and fiction by Latin American writers with a special focus on the Spanish MFA Program that was recently begun at New York University. Writers include Lila Zemborain, Valerie Mejer, Gabriel Amor and Mireya Perez. There will also be a discussion with faculty from the the MFA Program including director Sylvia Molloy and professors Mariela Dreyfus and Lila Zemborain. The first of a two-part series.
"The Desk"
Art Waves, Friday, April 3 from 9:00-10:00 PM
A full-length broadcast of Carl Chetty's radio play The Desk, produced by Promising Productions of London. Angela Bull plays the widow Marnie, who rifles through her husband's study a year after his death to discover that her failed sitcom-writing spouse had more secrets hidden away even than she.
An interview with acclaimed composer Tania Leon in which she reminisces about her childhood in Cuba and the stroke of fate that brought her to the United States, claps out some clave rhythms, and shares a selection from her new CD Singin Sepia, released on Bridge Records in 2008.
"Celebration of Women Writers"
Art Waves, Friday, March 6, 9:00-10:00 PM
Hear various takes on being female, being in love, or just being on a canal in Amsterdam with a sizzling line-up of writers celebrating Women's Month. Fiction from Lesley Dormen and poetry by Saskia Hamilton, Susan Maurer and Larissa Shmailo. Music by Bobby Perfect, Bernard Hughes, Ian Dicke, Laurie Spiegel, Maggie Payne and more.
"Journeys"
Art Waves, Friday February 6 from 9:00-10:00 PM
A wander, dance, meander through various literary and geographic terrains with poetry by Gary Corseri, who takes us through Asia and Japan, Boni Joi, who shows us the shocking realities of our own burroughs and beyond, Liza Wolsky, who traces the path of an enormous emerald as it is used as a kind of traveller's insurance, and then journey to Mexico with a story by Thaddeus Rutkowski, read by the actor Chris Murrah. With music by Robert Voisey, Alex Shapiro, B. Emerson Scott, Stuart Hind and more.
Tom Sleigh
Art Waves, Friday, January 23 from 9:00-10:00 PM
An interview with poet Tom Sleigh on the nature of his work, the pantheon of Greek mythological figures who defined his understanding of human behavior, his take on space, human exploration, the soul and more, along with a generous helping of readings from his most recent book, Space Walk.Robert Ashley
Arts & Answers, Thursday, January 8 from 9:30-10:00 PM
An interview with legendary composer Robert Ashley, hailed as the "father of contemporary opera."
Amanda Petrusich
Arts & Answers, Thursday December 18 from 9:30-10:00 PM
An interview with writer Amanda Petrusich on the roots of Americana Music and the publication of her new book, It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music.
"Jordan McLean and Velez! Live"
Art Waves, Friday, December 5 from 9:00-10:00 PM
A live music and poetry collaboration between Velez! Moore and trumpeter, band leader and composer Jordan McLean of Antibalas and DROID.Robert Voisey and Jeramy Zimmerman
Arts & Answers, Thursday November 13 from 9:30-10:00 PM
An interview with Jeramy Zimmerman of CatScratch Theatre and Robert Voisey of Vox Novus and 60x60 as they give us a behind-the-scenes look at the organizational and artistic feat that is 60x60 Dance, which was performed Friday, November 14th at The World Financial Center's Winter Garden.
"New York Stories"
Art Waves, Friday, November 7 from 9:00-10:00 PM
Celebrate the grit, glamor, fun and excitement of this great city with work from Pulitzer Prize Winner Philip Schultz and poets Erik La Prade, Madeline Artenberg and Iris N. Schwartz. Also, James Vescovi shares a tale of the old world and the new as immigrant grandparents whose earliest form of long-distance communication was yodeling from mountain to mountain try to adapt to the telephone. And hear Catherine Conant tell the story of Maude, who greeted Catherine in her first New York apartment, towel in hand, explaining that she needs to use the shower.
With music from composers Ian Dicke, Nicole Kim, David Gunn, Christopher Ward, James Bohn, Christian Banasik, Andrew Eckel, Anne Van Schothorst and Gene Pritsker.
"Halloween Special"
Art Waves, Friday, October 31 from 9:00-10:00 PM
Two fantastically chilling dramas from Finalrune Productions:
Dark Passenger: Two teenage friends start scaring each other on the drive to a dismal "haunted" house in foggy Downeast Maine. But when their innocent fun starts to become all too real, they soon realize what true terror is.
Joan La Barbara, Joel Chadabe and Miya Masaoka
Art Waves, Friday, October 3 from 9:00-10:00 PM
A discussion of sound art, noise and ecology in celebration of the upcoming Ear to the Earth festival with composers and performers Joan La Barbara, Joel Chadabe and Miya Masaoka.
Philip Schultz
A special rebroadcast of Anne's March interview with Phil Schultz, the current Pulitzer Prize Winner in Poetry, on his latest collection Failure.
"Childhood Perspectives"
Art Waves, Friday, September 5 from 9:00-10:00 PM
Explore a range of childhhood and otherwise skewed perspectives. Visit with children who play Russian Gymnastics, a woman who loves nothing better than an Oak tree and hot baked bread, and a prostitute who orders her life by comic strips. And a host of children play odd games in Bruce Weber's poems. Stories from Rick Rofihe, Maura Naughton and Matt McHugh. Satellite Dish is read by Anne Cammon and See You in the Funny Papers is read by Alex De Suze.
Part I: Intro with Toy Soldiers by Bruce Weber
Part IV: Rick Rofihe, Satellite Dish
Part V: Weber, Up In the Trees
Part VI: Matt McHugh, See You in the Funny Papers
Lesley Dormen
Arts & Answers, Thursday, August 21 from 9:30-10:00 PM
An interview with fiction and magazine writer Lesley Dormen on her novel-in-stories, The Best Place to Be.
"Anne Fiero and Roger Lipson Live"
Art Waves, Friday, August 1 from 9:00-10:00 PM
A live performance of evening ragas and spoken word with Roger Lipson on sitar, Sameer Gupta on tabla, Eric Fraser on flute and poetry from Anne Fiero.
Ronna Lebo
Arts & Answers, Tuesday, July 22 from 9:30-10:00 PM
Poet and artist Ronna Lebo, aka Alice B. Talkless, shares her poetry, her process, and reminisces about the bad old days of the underground poetry scene at Jackie 60, Collective: Unconscious and other East Village haunts.
Art Waves, Friday, June 6 from 9:00-10:00 PM
A saunter through the sundry, the historical, and the just plain hot with "Ho's in History," profiles of household names who've engaged in the sex industry by Gerry Visco, "Pass the Butter" by the inimitable Andy Mannle and stirring poetry by Jean Lehrman accompanied by the vibraphone.
Bob Holman
Arts & Answers, Tuesday, May 13 from 9:30-10:00 PM
An interview with poet and Bowery Poetry Club Proprietor Bob Holman on salvaging disappearing languages.
"Flashback"
Travel back in time with the radio, listening to stories of love, war and family set in the 1940's and 50's by three writer-storytellers: Catherine Conant, Judith Black and Molly Antopol Johnson.
William Spear
Arts & Answers, Monday, April 21 from 9:30-10:00 PM
A discussion with William Spear, playwright and founder of The Hunterdon Radio Theater in New Jersey, who explains why "Radio Drama is not dead!"
Philip Schultz
Arts & Answers, Thursday, March 20 9:30-10:00 PM
A reading and discussion with 2008 Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet Philip Schultz on his new collection "Failure."
Part III: Poetry and Storytelling
Part IV: Religion, 911 and Conclusion
"Mad and Madder Poetry"
Art Waves, Friday, March 14 from 9:00-10:00 PM
Poetry, prose experimentation and new music reign on WKCR tonight with Bob Holman, E.J. Antonio and a feature on Carol Novack, editor of The Mad Hatter's Review.
Noah Creshevsky
Arts & Answers, Tuesday, February 26 from 9:30-10:00 PM
An Interview with composer Noah Creshevsky. Noah has been composing music for over 40 years, has released 14 albums, and is one of the founders of Hyperrealism in contemporary music.
"Beauty and Beyond"
Art Waves, Friday February 8, from 9:00-10:00 PM
Featuring a musical and poetic journey with tracks from the new 'Beauty' CD by Brant Lyon, Farid Bitar, Robin Small-McCarthy and Hawley Hussey. Fiction from Christena Saraceno.
"The All-Poetry Show"
An evening of poetry, with works by Mark Nickels, Lys
Anzia, Jane K. Kretschmann, Agha Shahid Ali, a
selection of Persian Ghazals sung by Shujaat Hussain
Khan, and others.
2007
Ned Vizzini
An interview with the young adult writer Ned Vizzini
about his new novel, "It's Kind of a Funny Story."
"Photon Ecstatic"
A veritable feast of sound and language with audio
work from Richard Kostelanetz, the radio drama "Photon
Ecstasy" by Melissa Grey, poetry by Mark Nickels and
fiction from Rob Stephenson.
Another exciting literary journey combining music and the spoken word. With sizzling works by Palestinian-American poet Natalie Handal, portraits of Bombay and New York City by poet Jeet Thayil, a novel-excerpt on the life of a junior cartographer by Reif Larson, and a sneak preview of Robert Voisey's text-sound adaptation of poems from my collection India Songs.
The second half of the Poets Wear Prada Series featuring editor Roxanne Hoffman, and a slightly more musical interpretation of the poetic life and process from Sheryl H. Simler and Efrayim Levenson.
"Poets Wear Prada I"
The first of a two-part series featuring The Poets Wear Prada Press, with readings and discussions by poets Susan Maurer, Jee Leong Koh, Alex Bleecker and Bob Heman.
"The Rock Poetry Show!"
Studio A, Sunday, July 29 from 9:00-10:00 PM
This show will explore the shouted, sung and chanted word, with music by Shawn Mafia and the Ten Cent Thrills, Inge Berge, Vachement Bath, Sweet Crude Bill and The Lighthouse Nautical Society, and Patient Zero, featuring special guest Jackie Sheeler, who will read her poetry and discuss her title, "Poet Laureate of Riker's Island."
David Evanier
An interview with David Evanier, former fiction editor of The Paris Review, about his new novel, "The Great Kisser."
Arts & Answers, Monday, July 2 from 9:30-10:00 PM
An interview with Philip Miller, composer of "REwind: A Cantata for Voice, Tape, and Testimony," a musical arrangement based on recordings from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa. "REwind" is part of the Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival.
Pascale Ferran
A discussion with film director Pascale Ferran about her recently released film, "Lady Chatterley," based on the novel by D.H. Lawrence. In English and French.
Brant Lyon and Anthony de Mare
Art Waves, Friday May 25 from 9:00-10:00 PM
In the first half of the hour writer Brant Lyon will read from and discuss his novel-in-progress, Oasis and Mirage, a bi-cultural romance set in contemporary rural Egypt.
In the second half of the hour pianist Anthony de Mare will discuss his performance and arrangement of piano music for The Missing Peace Concert, a musical response to The Rubin Museum's exhibition of the same title, which focuses on the teachings of the Dalai Lama.
"Run! Hide!"
Studio A, Sunday May 6 from 9:00-10:00 PM
An evening of new music and spoken word, with Estela Eaton sharing her sassy, sensual verse and Trinidadian poet Roger Bonair-Agard reading from his subversive collection "Tarnish and Masquerade." Molly Antopol Johnson shares her story “Duck and Cover,” about growing up in a communist Jewish Shtetl in McCarthy-era 1950’s.
'The Cross-Over Artists"
An evening of cross-over artists, featuring fiction and an interview with the writer/painter/composer Rob Stephenson, and poetry set to electronic music by Stephen Mead. Also featuring a segment from "The on-going adventures of the Prophet and the Guide on the 12-dimensional plane of sound and vision," a radio drama by the Chicago-based sound/ art band "We Can and We Must."
David Del Tredici
An interview with Pulitzer Prize winning composer, David Del Tredici, often hailed as the "father of neo-romantic music."
Lara Tupper
An interview with writer Lara Tupper about her debut novel, "A Thousand and One Nights," which follows the adventures of a cabaret duo through cruise ships and hotel lounges around the world. Also included is a reading by the author and music on the theme of the "Arabian Nights."
The Lives of Others
Arts and Answers, February 8, 9:30-10:00 PM
An interview with Florian Henckel von Donnersmark, Academy Award winning writer and director of the German film, The Lives of Others.
"The First Line"
Art Waves, January 19 from 9:00-10:00 PM
An all-fiction show featuring "The First Line" literary magazine, with an interview of editor, David LaBounty, and an array of TFL stories read by New York actors, Doug Shapiro, Alexandra DeSuze, and Tim Monotoya.
David Gunn
Vermont composer David Gunn discusses not only the dimensions of his space in his imagination, but composition, and, when prodded, the close of his non-pop radio show, "Kalvos and Damien," done with colleague, Dennis Bathory-Kitz. Selections of his compositions are aired.
2006
Philip Miller
Composer Philip Miller discusses his forthcoming production of "REwind: A Cantata for Voice, Tape, and Testimony," a musical arrangement based on recordings from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa.
"MiPoesias"
Amy King, managing editor of MiPoesias, discusse the on-line literary publishing world. With poetry by Grace Cavalieri, Ron Padgett, Bruce Covey and more.
Paul Morrison
A discussion with Paul Morrison, writer and director of "Wondrous Oblivion." The film depicts two Jewish and Jamaican immigrant families in a South London neighborhood in the 1960’s, innocently defying racism by playing cricket together.
"Rattapallax"
Rattapallax Press publisher Ram Devineni discusses the DVD release of the magazine's current issue. The new issue abandons paper altogether in favor of a visual format; a first in literary publishing. Also, poetry from Edward Hirsh, Takeshi Kitano, and Regie Cabico and others.
"The Riots of '68"
Reminiscences about the 1968 riots at Columbia University through the literary fiction of Ron Bass as well as factual accounts.
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
Vermont Composer Dennis Bathory-Kitsz discusses the "We Are All Mozart," project, in which he endeavors to gain and complete a new commission for each day of 2007.
"The All Poetry Show"
An evening of poetry with works by Mark Nickels, Lys Anzia, Jane K. Kretschmann, Agha Shahid Ali, a selection of Persian Ghazals sung by Shujaat Hussain Khan, and selections from Anne’s collection, India Songs.
James David Jacobs
James David Jacobs discusses who he is, his career as a cellist and radio personality, and improvises live cello to Anne’s spoken word.
"Inaugural Art Waves"
Poets Madeline Artenberg and Iris N. Schwartz read from their new book, Awakenings. Downtown writer Thaddeus Rutkowski shares his unique brand of micro fiction and the Washington D.C. based, Brian Klink Coughlin, tells us a story of magic and scratch tickets in a roadside diner.
John and Estela Eaton
Composer/ Librettist, Father/ Daughter team John and Estela Eaton discuss the upcoming production of their opera, Youth, at Symphony Space. Selections from some of Eaton's pocket operas will be aired.
Bob Holman
Bob Holman raps, recites and riffs on saving disappearing eddies of language with The People’s Poetry Project.
Author Thaddeus Rutkowski discusses elements of style and themes of family, relationships, and bondage in his new novel, Tetched. The author treats us to a reading from the book.
Thomas Hummel reads selections of his poetry and discusses the role of post-modernism, annotation, and T.S. Eliot in his own work and that of contemporary American poetry. Host Anne Cammon reads a selection from her own repertoire.
"News Surprise"
Poets Chaim Bertman and John Ebsersole and non-fiction writer Wendy Paris are featured in a choreographed, artistic presentation that transforms the written word into engaging, cultural programming.
"Catalan"
In honor of the Institut Ramon Llull's presentation of Catalan Culture in New York, the poets Francesc Parcerisas and Manuel Forcano, and the fiction writer Jordi Punti read from their work, accompanied by a selection of traditional Catalan music.
"MFA Reading Series, Part III"
This week’s readers include poet Lynne Potts and fiction writer Denise Burrell-Stinsen, coupled with selections from the 60x60 electronic music project.
This second week’s guests include fiction writer Reif Larsen and poets Stephanie Anderson, Billy Merrell and S.K. Beringer.
Composed on the Tongue, January 1 from 8:30-9:00 PM
Anne Cammon curates a three-part series on WKCR FM New York, with students and alumni of Columbia University’s MFA in Writing Program reading from their poetry, fiction and non-fiction. The first week includes fiction writers Andy Mannle and Tupelo Hassman and poets Dara Mandle and Matthew Pennock.
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