New Podcast - Spoken Label Podcast - M. L. Liebler

 

The latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) features the wonderful M. L. Liebler.

M. L. Liebler is an internationally known & widely published Detroit poet, university professor, literary arts activist and arts organizer. 

He was named The 2017-2018 Murray E. Jackson Scholar in the Arts Award at Wayne State University. Liebler is the author of 15 books and chapbooks including the Award winning Wide Awake in Someone Else's Dream (Wayne State University Press 2008) featuring poems written in and about Russia, Israel, Germany, Alaska and Detroit. Wide Awake won both The Paterson Poetry Prize for Literary Excellenceand The American Indie Book Award for 2009. 

In 2005, he was named St. Clair Shores (his hometown) first Poet Laureate. Liebler has read and performed his work in Afghanistan, Israel, Palestine, Russia, China, France, UK, Macao, Italy, Germany, Spain, Finland and most of the 50 States. 

M.L. Liebler has taught English, Creative Writing, American Studies, Labor Studies and World Literature at Wayne State University in Detroit since 1980, and he is the founding director of both The National Writer's Voice Project in Detroit and the Springfed Arts: Metro Detroit Writers Literary Arts Organization. He was selected as Best Detroit Poet by The Detroit Free Press & Detroit's Metro Time. Liebler became the Co-Editor In 2010, he received The Barnes & Noble Poets & Writers Writers for Writers Award with Maxine Hong Kingston & Junot Diaz. 

In 2011, his groundbreaking anthology Working Words: Punching the Clock & Kicking Out the James (Coffee House Press) was given a 2011 Library of Michigan Notable Book Award. In 2017, Liebler received a total of 4 Library of Michigan Notable Book Awards for both his new collection of poems entitled I Want to Be Once (Wayne State University Press / Made in Michigan Series) and for Heaven Was Detroit: An Anthology of Detroit Music Essays from Jazz to Hiphop (The Wayne State University Press Painted Turtle Series) Editor. Bob Seger's House: An Anthology of Michigan Short Stories (Co-Editor with Mike Delp). Both Heaven Was Detroit and Bob Seger's House are Finalist for the prestigious Forward Book Awards. 

2020 saw the release of RESPECT: Poets on Detroit Music  edited by M. L. Liebler & Jim Daniels (Michigan State University Press 2020). RESPECT just received both a 2021 Tillie Olsen Award & 2021 Library of Michigan Notable Book Award. In September 2020, M. L. was awarded the Michigan Humanities Champion of the Year. 

Liebler received a Wayne State University Distinguished Scholar Award for 2024-2026. He curretly directs The WSU Humanities Commons and The Detroit Writers' Guild. 

M.L. Liebler can be contacted on his website https://www.mlliebler.com/

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Can be downloaded / streamed from:

Can be streamed / downloaded from:

https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/ml-spoken-label-may-2024

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/m-l-liebler-spoken-label-may-2024/id1501847969?i=1000654222320

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/M--L--Liebler-Spoken-Label--May-2024-e2ileac

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/6ff3b4e0-e048-4c1f-9c5d-dc5c263dd33b/spoken-label-m-l-liebler-spoken-label-may-2024

https://www.audible.co.uk/podcast/M-L-Liebler-Spoken-Label-May-2024/B0D34BMW3X?ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&ref=a_podcast_S_c4_lAsin_0_0&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=J1KQZA85SR95JXT5QRJ7&pageLoadId=UbdkQOQOc3fEgifQ&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2pWObcDdURlrUvQ3LDkBL1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDn428Gb7b8&t=2s (Reading)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDn428Gb7b8&t=2s (Chat)

Speak Easy thank you's for May 2024 and how to book for June 2024

 

After the last week or two which haven't being great pesonally, our Spoken Word Open Mic Night ‘Speak Easy’ was a great night once again and picked me right up. 

With a combined audience I guess of 55 to 60 people, we had the place rocking with Steve doing a sterling job of hosting, we would like to thank the following for reading:

1)     David Bond

2)     Sam Tovey

3)      Anne Delargy

4)      Chris Platt

5)      Andy Cash

6)      Natasha Tingle

7)      David Hardy

8)      Heather Skowood

9)      Andy N

10)  Gordon Zola

11)  Steve Smythe

12)  Amanda Nicholson

13)  Connie Rigby

14)  Anne Fitzgibbon

15)  Tony Rogers

16)  Becky May

17)  Martin Elder

18)  Joe Tetley

19)  Martin COM

20)  Alan Griffith

21)  Lindy Newns

22)  Dave Viney

The next Speak Easy will be Thursday June 2024 at Dulicmer, Chorlton as always and bookings will open for it on Sunday 05 May 2024 from midday by emailing me Andy N on aen1mpo@yahoo.co.uk.

We do have pictures of everybody who read and hopefully a full audio which should be out over the next few days.

Thanks Andy, Amanda and Steve 

New Podcast - Various - Spoken Label Podcast (May 2024)

 

Latest Spoken Label (Poetry Podcast) is a various artist Poetry Podcast co-hosted with ML Liebler (whose own Podcast will follow next) featuring several of his student and a fellow young creative writing faculty member.

Alexis Ball is a 20-year-old English and creative writing student at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. They are passionate about poetry and have been writing since they learned the alphabet. Alexis hopes to one day work for an editing and publishing company and possibly become a college professor later in life.

Nicholas Lowengruber I've been writing poetry since 2016 after reading an excerpt from Walden, but I didn't really know what I was doing until studying under poets at Wayne State University like ML and Robert Laidler.  One of my biggest regrets so far is ever reading Ezra Pound; I how I wanted to be him growing up (except without being a fascist), and I still need to take time before I learn to appreciate the respect for imagery and the capability to take an object and look at it through many different lenses that Pound instilled in me. I'm wrapping up my third year at Wayne State University, double majoring in Philosophy and English; thinking too much is a curse, and I'm learning to work with it. Regarding my more current work, I'm an e.e. cummings devotee and continuing to learn to make poetry weird, turning towards the Language movement. Currently pondering Eve's morally questionable decision to leave Caleb trapped at the end of Ex Machina after everything that they went through.

Robert Laidler is a young creative writing faculty member.

Contact details:

mlliebler@aol.com (ML Liebler)

Rtlaidle@wayne.edu,  (Robert Laidler)

hg8410@wayne.edu (Nicholas Lowengruber)

alexis.ball@wayne.edu (Alexis Ball)

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Can be downloaded/streamed from: 

https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/various-spoken-label-may-2024

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/various-spoken-label-april-2024/id1501847969?i=1000653975590

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/Various-Spoken-Label--April-2024-e2ile2j

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9kOTA1ZTkwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz/episode/ZTA4NmI1MDUtMzcyYi00NzI0LThjZTctM2FmMjU3ZTM0ZTU0?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwig2LW07-uFAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqYBn1Ux5Zs

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/c89e2ee3-e98d-46b5-88d9-ba285ef22faa/spoken-label-various-spoken-label-april-2024

https://www.audible.co.uk/podcast/Spoken-Label/B08K5Z65R1?qid=1638096875&sr=1-1&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=c6e316b8-14da-418d-8f91-b3cad83c5183&pf_rd_r=S1Y5JH4EPW490EZKWFH8&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR0JwWRNBI0_2TSqlbq-aIZNzbpVH3cn7e65NoPMWVEXDjZqUEvmTF8LBJ4_aem_Ad7X0YOkaf9rXDJpJfnf3cx2SyPHFbIjZXpMZS5sz-4btnIPhXte6WD3Ma9nA8dPfHVScw4kLCCOPXZZ1DCoCwFb

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5kgo7gQWYXmhdxCvnZHIrC

https://www.instagram.com/p/C6inMqiMSj9B2ZFpf-s8xhN-EEDR3evcTrwyaE0/

New Spoken Label Podcast - Amanda Crundall

 

Latest up from Spoken Label (Poetry / Spoken Word Podcast) features making her debut, Amanda Crundall.

Amanda advises she "began to write again in January 2022 after her friends urged her to write down how she was feeling as a therapeutic outlet; so she did. She has rediscovered her creative self, amongst being a busy mummy and working life. Amanda works as a full time heart failure nurse specialist and is a single mother to two amazing children. Surprising many of her friends how she finds the time amongst such a busy life remains her best kept secret. You can find Amanda performing at her local spoken word events at Speak Out Scunny, The Confessional, Away with Words. Her debut performance was at Yada Yada Noise in February 2022 to whom she is more than grateful to; a special shout out to Alice & Mickey. She now proudly co-hosts 'Rabbiting On' spoken word group held at 'The Rabbit Hole' Independent bookshop, Brigg alongside poetry babe and partner in poetry Amy Garratt. Her poetry was featured in The Scroll Magazine during October 2022. In 2023, Amanda performed her poetry at The Festival of Love, D31 Art Gallery, Doncaster and Scunthorpe Pride on behalf of the Speak Out Scunny. She co hosted the spoken word stage at the No Limits Festival 2023 held at Normanby Hall, Scunthorpe. More recently, Amanda has taken to the radio waves and has featured both pre-recorded and 'live on air' for Phoenix Community Radio, Goole. Without this outlet and the support of friends and family, life would be a much darker place.

This is her debut publication.

Contact details: 

Email: Shewearsherheartonhersleeve@proton.me

Facebook: 'She wears her heart on her sleeve' 

Twitter (X): Heartsleeve2024 

Instagram: @AmandaCrundallPoet"

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https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/amanda-crundall-spoken-label-april-2024

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/amanda-crundall-spoken-label-april-2024/id1501847969?i=1000653498653

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/Amanda-Crundall-Spoken-Label--April-2024-e2ho255

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9kOTA1ZTkwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz/episode/M2FkOTYxOGQtZWQ1ZS00NzRmLTgyMWEtMzYxYzllNGUxNzlh?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwiopeaqp-OFAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTcOBBR-dyI&t=5s (Chat)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJuoG7WPuqs&t=3s (Reading)

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/691ea9c9-f7b9-4627-b725-389d9d9e3417/spoken-label-amanda-crundall-spoken-label-april-2024

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6Qi-5-OO9Nx-Ep53qg2J6xQlkeWbmkWaqI_KY0/ (Chat)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6QoRSeNcO_SWXTJ_TV_FTQx-XourU6O5aZXlE0/ (Reading)

https://www.audible.co.uk/podcast/Amanda-Crundall-Spoken-Label-April-2024/B0D2M46295?ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&ref=a_podcast_S_c4_lAsin_0_0&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=KQ8NV48W658YYK2HZ6DN&pageLoadId=IBTdeKdS3UVilOdJ&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8 

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6JlX2o8dJveQdGIhgQabdA

Speak Easy Readers - May 2024

 

Back this Thursday coming (May 02 2024) is the May Event for our next Speak Easy (Spoken Word Open Mic night) at Dulcimer, Chorlton where the following readers will entertain us all in 4 minutes. (Not in this order).

Show should start at 7.30pm.

Subs List – Email: aen1mpo@yahoo.co.uk (Andy N)

Andy N

Steve Smythe

David Hardy

Andy Cash

Joe Tetley

Alan Griffith

Tony Rogers

Martin Elder

Chris Platt

Sam Tovey

David Bond

Gordon Zola  

Martin CM

Dave Viney

Amanda Nicholson

Connie Rigby

Becky May

Heather Skowood

Anne Delargy

Anne Fitzgibbon

Lindy Newns   

Natasha Tingle

Roxanne Webber

Poetry Non-Stop

 

Back on Poetry Non-Stop today reading out a poem from my last poetry book ‘Changing Carriages at Birmingham New Street’

This can be heard here

New Spoken Label Podcast - Patrick Widdess

 

Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) features Patrick Widdess.

Patrick Widdess is the founder and presenter of Poetry Non-Stop. He was born in Cambridge and now lives in Norwich where he works as a production journalist and fills his time writing, podcasting, taking photos and performing improv comedy.

Patrick’s poetry and prose has appeared in Agenda, Cake, The Interpreter’s House, The Guardian and Orbis among other publications. He has also written reviews and features for Clash Music, Drunken Werewolf, Local Secrets and others and has written for the BBC.

Originally from Cambridge Patrick now lives in Norwich where he works as a production journalist and freelance writer. 

Links include: http://patrickwiddess-writer.weebly.com/

https://poetrynonstop.com/

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https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/patrick-widdess-spoken-label-april-2024

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/patrick-widdess-spoken-label-april-2024/id1501847969?i=1000652707643

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/Patrick-Widdess-Spoken-Label--April-2024-e2hh035

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9kOTA1ZTkwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz/episode/OTA2MjI5MzAtZTgwZS00MDQ4LTk0NTYtYmQ0MmM3N2I5MmMy?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjQn-TLs9CFAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTGaLXVAbDA

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/4020845c-737c-4382-9966-3ec4ae0e1dff/spoken-label-patrick-widdess-spoken-label-april-2024

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5-MTMXR6_wUB5SllYiq0G7eWILzUB92GQwtkc0/

https://www.audible.co.uk/podcast/Patrick-Widdess-Spoken-Label-April-2024/B0D1XPG66Q?ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&ref=a_podcast_S_c4_lAsin_0_0&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=WBG1Z5AHQ33S76FMCTDM&pageLoadId=GikvPKU5KFAM1osE&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1zkSAwOorfnz9hvmLRRZFc