Wesley McNair Web Resources


Video Links:

Webcast of Library of Congress poetry reading with Wesley McNair and Maxine Kumin

United States Artists web site listing of all 50 inaugural USA Fellowships for "America's finest living artists" including Wesley McNair



Audio Links:

A recording of a reading by Wes McNair for the Maine Humanities Council in 2002 is now available online through a new podcast, Humanities on Demand. The podcast will feature programming from the Council and its partners.

Audio Interview on New Hampshire Public Radio (conducted by John Walters, Wednesday, October 22, 2003)

National Public Radio Weekend Edition text and audio link: Susan Stamburg interviews Billy Collins, who reads McNairs' poem "Killing the Animals" August 11, 2002 (scroll down page and click on "Hear the interview with Billy Collins, Aug. 11, 2002)

Wes McNair reads "Charles by Accident" on NPR's Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, July 13, 2002 (scroll down page for audio link)

Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac: Audio versions of poems embedded in Keillor's programs

Slate Magazine audio and text links:

"Losing My Hair"

"Speech"

"Questions at One O'Clock"

"As If the Voices in the Background When My Mother Calls"

"My Father Going Away"



Text Links:

WesleyMcNair.com

Advice for Beginning Poets (from Wesley McNair's Mapping the Heart: Reflections on Place and Poetry featured on Poetry Daily)

Indirect Entry: Notes on Poems in Progress from Poets and Writers Magazine

On Poets, Poets Teaching, And Poetry: Notes From A Journal

Margie Review (Living Twice: Thoughts about Poetry)

Advice For Beginning Poets

American Life in Poetry

Column 100: "The One I Think of Now"

Column 122: "Hymn to the Comb-Over"

Agni online:

"As Long as We Remember Him He Will Never Die"

"The 1950s"

"The End"

"If You Had Come"

"Some of the Unknown Dead"

Verse Daily:

"Charles by Accident"



Webcasts:

Library of Congress poetry webcast:

Maxine Kumin and Wesley McNair (9 November 2006 reading)



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