Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Albert and the Whale: Albrecht Durer and How Art Imagines Our World.

Tonight’s program features author Philip Hoare presenting his book,

Albert and the Whale: Albrecht Durer and How Art Imagines Our World. 

Philip Hoare is professor of creative writing at the University of Southampton England. 

He spoke in June 2021 at a Zoom session produced by Canios Cultural Cafe of Sag Harbor.

Listen here:

A portion of this presentation contains photos of Durer’s work.

A video of the talk produced by Canios Cultural Cafe is here


Other works by Philip Hoare include:

The Whale: in Search of the Giants of the Sea published by Harper Collins in 2011.

Rising Tide Falling Star: In Search of the Soul of the Sea, from University of Chicago Press in 2018



 

 

Thursday, July 1, 2021

Don Lemon: THIS IS THE FIRE: What I Say to My Friends About Racism

 

Don Lemon, CNN host and author of THIS IS THE FIRE: What I Say to My Friends About Racism, in conversation with Dr. Georgette Grier-Key of Sag Harbor's Eastville Historical Society.Recorded at 'The Church', a community meeting place in Sag Harbor.
 

Sag Harbor resident Don Lemon is the anchor of Don Lemon Tonight on CNN.

He is the author of THIS IS THE FIRE: What I Say to My Friends About Racism

The book was published by Little Brown in March 2021.

Other works by Don Lemon include 'Hundred' published by Harper Collins in 2020 and Transparent, a memoir pubished by Farrah Gray in 2011.

Dr. Georgette Grier-Key is Executive Director and chief curator of the Eastville Community Historical Society of Sag Harbor.

She is president of the association of Suffolk County Historical Societies, and a History and Political Science Professor at Nassau Communtity College.

 

Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Remembering Gaza again with poetry

We present poetry, thoughts and prayer inspired by the 2014 Gaza war, a military operation launched by Israel after rocket fire from Gaza struck Israel.  

It was recorded in the summer of 2014 as the war continued.

The recent repetition of that scenario in 2021 inspired tonight's East End Ink.   

Heard were Kathy Engel, Pamela Kallimanis, Kimberly Wilder, Sigrid Meinel, Clare Coss, Blanche Weisen Cook, and the former minister at Incarnation Lutheran Church, Reverend Katrina Foster.

 

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Saturday, May 29, 2021

Poets Cheryl Boyce Taylor and Kathy Engel - May 2021

Poets Cheryl Boyce Taylor and Kathy Engel read their work and each others work.

Recorded in May 2021 in a Zoom session by Canios Cultural Cafe. 

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Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Professor Thomas Petriano on Pope Francis' book Let Us Dream

In his new book Let Us Dream, Pope Francis describes a vision of a more just society, and environmentally, post-pandemic.

Professor Thomas Petriano, Chair and Professor of Religious Studies at  St. Joseph’s College, Patchogue examines the Pope’s work in a talk recorded by Canios Books, Sag Harbor in March 2021.

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Pope Francis’ book Let Us Dream – a vision of a just society post pandemic  was written in collaboration with the Pope’s biographer, Austen Ivereigh.            

It was published by Simon and Shuster In December, 2020.

Thursday, March 11, 2021

Three Poets from Four Way Books

 

We present three poets from publisher 4 Way Books.

They were presented virtually by Canio’s Cultural Café of Sag Harbor in February of 2021.

The poets are Andrea Cohen, Rodney Terich Leonard and Angela Narciso Torres.

Their books are Everything, Sweetgum & Lightning, and What Happens is Neither

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the complete recording will be available here 

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note: east end ink was first broadcast in 2008 on wpkn radio.  

Podcasts of earlier programs are here

 

Monday, February 22, 2021

2021 Black Writers Read-in

We celebrate Black History Month with the work of African and African-American Writers read by members of the Sag Harbor community.

The annual Read-In is sponsored by the Black Caucus of The National Council of Teachers of English.

It was produced by the John Jermain Library, the Eastville Community Historical Society and Canios Books all of Sag Harbor.

The readers are Catherine Creedon director of the John Jermaine Library, Sag Harbor artist Michael Butler, Gloria Brown and Nancy Meyers.

Heard are an African folk tale "If People Could Fly", and “Talking Drums, a Selection of Poems From Africa South of the Sahara, James Baldwin’s “Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation”, from The Fire Next Time. and Let America be America Again by poet Langston Hughes.

Listen here

More:

Jacqueline Marks reads a portion of the short story Sweat (1926) by Zora Neale Hurston

Listen here

 

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