CONWAY — To celebrate National Poetry Month, Terry Wright, professor of Creative Writing and dean of the College of Fine Arts and Communication at the University of Central Arkansas, will be a guest on KUAR’s Arts & Letters Thursday, April 7 and Thursday, April 28, at 8:30 p.m. on KUAR 89.1 FM.
Wright’s latest poetry chapbooks are Graphs, published by Kairos Editions in 2011, and Fractal Cut-Ups, from Kattywompus Press in 2012. Both books demonstrate the organic heuristics of mashing up data and Internet search strings to produce prose poetry via text cut-ups/mash-ups and dadaesque word collages.
“This show not only celebrates the unique, progressive voice found in Wright’s poetry, it mashes Wright’s style with sounds of Arkansas-based musicians Rural War Room,” said J. Bradley Minnick, show creator and host. “This is not just a radio show; it’s an audio experience.”
Wright is a writer who lives in Little Rock. He holds an MFA degree in creative writing from Bowling Green State University and has taught creative writing at UCA for more than 25 years.
He received an Individual Artist Award in Poetry from the Arkansas Arts Council in 2002. His writing has appeared in numerous journals, including McSweeney’s, Lifted Brow, Nebraska Review, New Verse News, and Rolling Stone. He is also a digital artist whose artwork has also widely appeared in various publications, including Foliate Oak, Queen Mob’s Tea House, Sliver of Stone, Third Wednesday, and USA Today. More creative work can be found at his web site, wrightart.net
“The show really captures the prose poems’ connections to technology and mass media,” because it takes already mashed poems and further mashes them with sound effects, historical sampling, MST3K meta-commentary, mock annotation, and original music by Rural War Room,” Wright said. “It’s a dub version of my work.”
For more information, contact Wright at (501) 450-3293 or terryw@uca.edu.
Produced by Minnick and sound engineer Christopher Hickey at KUAR in Little Rock, Arts & Letters is an educational radio show that strives to enlighten its audience and is dedicated to showcasing aspects of the humanities and literary arts in Arkansas and beyond.
Arts & Letters audio podcasts can be accessed through iTunes or through the link on KUAR’s webpage http://ualrpublicradio.org/programs/arts-letters#stream/0
For more information, visit KUAR.org, call the station at 501-569-8485, or email arts&letters@ualr.edu.
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