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Dec. 1, 2023
National Poetry Month continues in the age of COVID-19. And, in this episode, we are heading to Tucson, virtually, to check in with our neighbors in Southern Arizona.
April 20, 2020
It’s National Poetry Month. And even as the coronavirus pandemic continues to shutter brick and mortar performance spaces, poets conquer with technology to stay in contact with audiences and promote their writing.
April 7, 2020
While we hunker down amid a pandemic, creatives are facing tough times, too. Performances have been canceled. Open mics have been shut down. But we carry on with trying to stay in touch.
March 27, 2020
We celebrate International Women’s HERstory Month with some influential Arizona writers and readers.
March 13, 2020
Established writers and those aspiring to become one met recently for the 16th-annual Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference. The series of events presented by the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University celebrated writers and readers of fiction, nonfiction and poetry.
March 6, 2020
KJZZ's second annual Haiku Writing Contest comes to an end as we round out NaHaiWriMo (National Haiku Writing Month).
Feb. 28, 2020
KJZZ's second annual Haiku Writing Contest is underway as we celebrate NaHaiWriMo (National Haiku Writing Month) on Word--a podcast about the literary arts in Arizona and the region.
Feb. 21, 2020
We're back from vacation and ready to kick off Season 3 of Word. KJZZ's second annual Haiku Writing Contest launches this month as we celebrate NaHaiWriMo (National Haiku Writing Month). We're teaming up with The Show again for the contest and offering some spirited discussions about haiku on episodes of Word this month.
Feb. 7, 2020
This is the final episode of "Word" for 2019. We explore the spookier side of Christmas with a look at the tradition of telling ghost stories during the holiday season.
Dec. 18, 2019
On this National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) retrospective and seventh episode of Season 2, we get back on the mic with some guests who joined us previously.
Dec. 6, 2019
We continue our focus on National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) in this sixth episode of Season 2. Guests include Michelle Rabe, Laura MacKenzie and Valley teacher Sonja Momon, who incorporates NaNo into her classroom in a unique way and is going rogue this month for what might be called "NaNoMyMo."
Nov. 26, 2019
Word is a podcast about the literary arts in Arizona and the region. In this fifth episode of Season 2, we celebrate writers all over Arizona who are participating in the annual NaNoWriMo.
Nov. 8, 2019
For writers in Arizona and around the world, November means composing 50,000 words for the annual NaNoWriMo. NaNoWriMo is short for National Novel Writing Month. It began 20 years ago with a small cadre of fiction writers and has become the signature yearly challenge for aspiring authors the world over.
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Nov. 6, 2019
In this fourth episode of Season 2, we celebrate Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac who died 50 years ago this month and whose legendary novel, “On the Road,” which encapsulated the Beat Generation was published 62 years ago in September.
Oct. 23, 2019
Word is a KJZZ podcast about the literary arts in Arizona and the region. In this third episode of Season 2, “All the World’s a Stage.” If so, what are theater directors doing to include more diversity on it?
Oct. 9, 2019
Word is a KJZZ podcast about the literary arts in Arizona and the region. In this second episode of Season 2, we explore children's and young adult literature in Arizona.
Sept. 25, 2019
Word is a podcast about the literary arts in Arizona and the region. In this mammoth Season 2 opener, we push back against the depiction of young people from low income families as depicted in Nick Richey's film, "Low Low" which is being screened in Scottsdale on Sept. 12. The filmmaker will participate in a Q&A following the movie.
Sept. 10, 2019
An interview with part of the team that's bringing Arizona StoryFest back to the Valley on June 1. Plus before the show takes a summer hiatus, a talk with to Cynnita Agent, co-star of "Single Black Female," and David Hemphill, stage director.
Feb. 9, 2019
Poetry podcaster Imogen Arate and poet Anna Flores join the show, plus KJZZ's Christina Estes samples some open mic poetry at a Valley bookstore.
Feb. 8, 2019
National Poetry Month Continues as Word podcast host Tom Maxedon returns to the Valley to talk to Sally Ball, associate professor of English at Arizona State University, and student poet and activist Austin Davis.
Feb. 7, 2019
