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The Writing Bull: a Podcast For Fearless Writers
Marcos McPeek Villatoro, Professor of Creative Writing, Mount St. Mary's University, Los Angeles
29 episodes
8 months ago
The Writing Bull Podcast is a show for fearless writers: Poets, novelists and memoirists who are committed to the written word, who can't live life without it. Marcos McPeek Villatoro, who writes in all three genres and holds the Fletcher Jones Endowed Chair of Creative Writing at Mount St. Mary's University, Los Angeles, invites you into his classroom to consider all the aspects of writing. Here you'll find everything from the "how-to" suggestions (such as how to create characters, or make of yourself a character in your own memoir), to the bigger questions: why do we do this in the first place? What are the risks of writing our own work? And what are the glories? If you crave the written word, this is your podcast.
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The Writing Bull Podcast is a show for fearless writers: Poets, novelists and memoirists who are committed to the written word, who can't live life without it. Marcos McPeek Villatoro, who writes in all three genres and holds the Fletcher Jones Endowed Chair of Creative Writing at Mount St. Mary's University, Los Angeles, invites you into his classroom to consider all the aspects of writing. Here you'll find everything from the "how-to" suggestions (such as how to create characters, or make of yourself a character in your own memoir), to the bigger questions: why do we do this in the first place? What are the risks of writing our own work? And what are the glories? If you crave the written word, this is your podcast.
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The Writing Bull: a Podcast For Fearless Writers
The Panther in the Cage
Today’s show is a recording of a poetry show I did at Mount St. Mary’s University in Los Angeles, where I teach. I took Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem “The Panther,” memorized it, and performed it for the students, along with other poems that followed the theme. The all about the cages that we live in, […]
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7 years ago
38 minutes 48 seconds

The Writing Bull: a Podcast For Fearless Writers
Writer Susana Marcelo, The Old Country and New Writing
Susana Marcelo is a professor at California State University Northridge, a writer, poet, essayist, and. . .well, a lot more! In our interview, we spend time on what it means to write in the different genres (poetry, fiction, nonfiction), and how many of us like to push against those definitions, crossing from one genre to […]
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7 years ago
36 minutes 30 seconds

The Writing Bull: a Podcast For Fearless Writers
Kennia Lopez: A New Voice in Literature
Ken Lopez is a Mexican and Salvadoran poet from Kansas City. She hopes her work will, like Chinua Achebe said, tell the story of the hunt from the perspective of the lion. She will be pursuing her MFA in poetry at Brooklyn College in the fall. I had the chance to interview her at the […]
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7 years ago
32 minutes 57 seconds

The Writing Bull: a Podcast For Fearless Writers
José Orduña: Writing and Justice
I met José Orduña at the Associated Writing Program conference in Tampa, Florida this past spring. He had arrived at the conference about 48 hours after getting arrested in D.C. for civil disobedience, fighting for the rights of DACA recipients. José is a Professor of creative writing at the University of Nevada. His take on […]
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7 years ago
29 minutes 13 seconds

The Writing Bull: a Podcast For Fearless Writers
George Plimpton, Graywolf Press and the State of Literature Today
Today’s podcast of The Writing Bull offers you a two-fer: Years ago I had the opportunity to interview one of the founders and the editor of The Paris Review, George Plimpton. You might recognize him, his face popped up all over the place in the second half of the twentieth century, playing in a professional baseball game […]
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7 years ago
30 minutes 37 seconds

The Writing Bull: a Podcast For Fearless Writers
The Exiled Poet: Guisell Gomez
While I was at the Associated Writing Programs conference in Florida this past month, I met Guisell Gomez, a student of creative writing and a published poet. Born in Colombia, she and her family moved to the United States when she was a child. She remembers the move, the brutal act of being torn out […]
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7 years ago
33 minutes 44 seconds

The Writing Bull: a Podcast For Fearless Writers
Art and Madness
There are studies on the connection between the artistic impulse and mental illness. The best are books written by Kay Redfield Jamison, especially her “Touched With Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament.” In that book, she charts hundreds of writers, from George Gordon Lord Byron to Virginia Woolf, and reveals how the mental illness […]
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7 years ago
36 minutes 12 seconds

The Writing Bull: a Podcast For Fearless Writers
Francisco Aragón: Literary Activist
Poet Francisco Aragón is doing is doing more for U.S. Latinx literature than any person I know. While writing his own work, he’s also always pushing and promoting the literary works of others, namely, the new Latinx writers on the block. He’s the son of Nicaraguan immigrants, born and raised in San Francisco, CA. He […]
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7 years ago
44 minutes 24 seconds

The Writing Bull: a Podcast For Fearless Writers
Poet Alexandra Regalado: Life Seen Through the Bulletproof Glass
When I attended the Associated Writing Programs conference in Tampa, Florida in March, I sought out Latinos, because the last time I went to the conference, about ten years ago, AWP truly deserved the nickname that people of color gave it: “All White People.” It’s still a majority white, but I found the Latina/o/x writers […]
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7 years ago
42 minutes 47 seconds

The Writing Bull: a Podcast For Fearless Writers
El Testimonio: César Vallejo y la búsqueda de mis raíces
Every once in a while I do a podcast in Spanish, and talk about what it means to be Latino today, in the U.S. Porque, para mí, el español siempre fue, y es, el idioma de amor–ese amor de la niñez, cuando las mujeres de la casa en mi pueblo natal, San Francisco, CA–las tías, […]
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7 years ago
25 minutes 36 seconds

The Writing Bull: a Podcast For Fearless Writers
The Salvadoran, Hip-Hop, Mormon Voice of William Palomo
I was at the Associated Writing Programs conference in Tampa in March, where students and professor of creative writing gather for a weekend. I had a great time, because I was on the lookout for Latino writers, and I found them. And this young man was a true find! William Palomo is the son of […]
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7 years ago
45 minutes 16 seconds

The Writing Bull: a Podcast For Fearless Writers
Your Death Is Not a Blip
We all die. But, most people don’t like to think about that, which I think is a mistake. I find it helpful to consider my own death from time to time. It reminds me I’m alive. Poets help me to meditate on my own demise. A good poet will look death straight-on, and not flinch. […]
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7 years ago
33 minutes 15 seconds

The Writing Bull: a Podcast For Fearless Writers
Brian Greene, String Theory, and the Fabric of the cosmos. Made Easy.
I interviewed Brian Greene a few years back, about his book The Fabric of the Cosmos. Now, I know this isn’t about creative writing, but the creative writer is always looking into other subjects and fields of study in order to feed her own work. And Dr. Greene is fascinating! My mind got bent all sorts of […]
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7 years ago
31 minutes 26 seconds

The Writing Bull: a Podcast For Fearless Writers
Why I Read Poetry
When my kids were little, I told them early on: don’t let your school get in the way of your education. Our education system kills beautiful things within us, and one of those casualties is our love for poetry. Poetry. I’m not talking Hallmark cards, or boxes of candies, or any of that shit. I’m talking […]
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7 years ago
47 minutes 40 seconds

The Writing Bull: a Podcast For Fearless Writers
The Holy Spirit of My Uncle’s Cojones, Part 4
I forgot to mention, the 1967 Mustang plays a big role in this novel. It’s practically another character. It’s the summer of 1978, a few months after Tony cut his wrist. The whole family knows about it, but, unlike other families who try to avoid such difficulties and pretend nothing’s wrong, the women of the […]
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7 years ago
41 minutes 4 seconds

The Writing Bull: a Podcast For Fearless Writers
The Holy Spirit of My Uncle’s Cojones, Part 3
In this part of the novel, you get a real taste of what some of us call “internalized racism.” This is when a non-white person starts to believe, on a subconscious level, what the racist world says of him: in young, sixteen-year-old’s Tony case, he’s seen as a mongrel, the mix of a white man […]
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7 years ago
53 minutes 34 seconds

The Writing Bull: a Podcast For Fearless Writers
The Holy Spirit of My Uncle’s Cojones, Part 2
Tony and his Salvadoran-Appalachian family attend his uncle Jack’s funeral, where the mourners aren’t mourning–either the men are running in just to make sure he’s dead, and the two dozen women are lining up to look at their old lover one more time. Here, we learn why Uncle Jack is so important to Tony–we go […]
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7 years ago
57 minutes 47 seconds

The Writing Bull: a Podcast For Fearless Writers
Audio Book: The Holy Spirit of My Uncle’s Cojones, Part 1
In the first pages of the novel, we meet Antonio “Tony” McCaugh Villalobos, an Appalachian-Salvadoran writer living in Knoxville, Tennessee, and far from his Salvadoran roots. He’s just published his first book, a literary novel, which means he didn’t get any money for it. He’s trying to write his next novel, but has writer’s block. […]
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7 years ago
53 minutes 55 seconds

The Writing Bull: a Podcast For Fearless Writers
The Art of Fiction: Outline Your Novel, or Don’t…Or, Yeah, Maybe
In class, the subject always comes up: should you outline your story, or not? That is, should you make a road map for your novel, one that you will follow like a disciple, from page one to the climax, three hundred pages later? Or, will you dare to step off the outline, if the story […]
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7 years ago
27 minutes 13 seconds

The Writing Bull: a Podcast For Fearless Writers
An Interview With Pico Iyer
This is an interview with memoirist and travel author Pico Iyer, about his book Sun After Dark. It is about traveling and empathy–what does it mean to dwell in someone else’s culture for a while, especially we who come from the States, who are more privileged than most of the world? What does our home become, in […]
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7 years ago
31 minutes 12 seconds

The Writing Bull: a Podcast For Fearless Writers
The Writing Bull Podcast is a show for fearless writers: Poets, novelists and memoirists who are committed to the written word, who can't live life without it. Marcos McPeek Villatoro, who writes in all three genres and holds the Fletcher Jones Endowed Chair of Creative Writing at Mount St. Mary's University, Los Angeles, invites you into his classroom to consider all the aspects of writing. Here you'll find everything from the "how-to" suggestions (such as how to create characters, or make of yourself a character in your own memoir), to the bigger questions: why do we do this in the first place? What are the risks of writing our own work? And what are the glories? If you crave the written word, this is your podcast.