Kathryn Petruccelli – poet, writer, teacher, performer

Reviews & Interviews

Book Reviews

Danielle Evans Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self audio

Dianne DiPrima’s Memoirs of a Beatnik text (kusp.org; Homestead Review)

Grace Paley’s Fidelity – textaudio (bookotron.com)

Franz Wright’s God’s Silence – textaudio, (bookotron.com)

Selected Author Interviews

Donald Hall – audio, transcript (bookotron.com)

Jean Thompson (Throw Like a Girl)– audio (bookotron.com)

Helen Simpson (In the Driver’s Seat)– audio (bookotron.com)

Ann Cummins (Yellow Cake) – audio (bookotron.com)

Frank McCourt (Teacher Man) – audio (bookotron.com)

Isabel Allende (My Invented Country) –”Burying Freedom:” audio remix of interview edited by Rick Kleffel; full transcript (Homestead Review)

Other Interviews

Listen to fellow poet Julie Murphy interview me for Santa Cruz, California KSQD radio’s The Hive Poetry Collective.

Listen to my speech “A Chair of My Own” from the book Secrets of the Sisterhood, and Angela Lussier’s interview with me on its background and my participation in Speaker Sisterhood.

Sampling of Articles on the Arts I’ve Authored

“Seaside’s Jeff Nixon, an Ansel Adams protege, makes the immense intimate”

“Stage mom,” profile of the late actress & children’s drama teacher Marcia Hovick

“The Geography of Sound,” profile of hip-hop artist Savage Sun

“Two Legends,” interview with Hal Holbrook on his one-man show “Mark Twain Tonight!” (pdf)

Preview of book launch for writer, artist and musician Bill Minor’s  memoir ”The Inherited Heart”

“Serious Fun,” Paula Poundstone interview

“Klezmer Fusion,” interview with the band The Klezmatics

Poetry-Related Articles I’ve Authored

Art & Activism,” spoken word team Climbing PoeTree perform in Big Sur

Write ’em Cowboy,” Annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Salinas, CA

Poetic Licence,” translator of China’s most famous early poets

Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Haas to Read at MPC

Award-winning Poet to Speak on Diversity as Art,” Nikki Giovanni

At the Mic,” West Coast Poetry Slam Championship

Journal Pushes Boundaries of Art,” launch of Henry Miller Library’s Ping Pong Literary Journal.

High School Poets Read their Poetry, Receive Honors

Word and Deed,” poets Diana Garcia and Frances Payne Adler

Word Play,” poetic theater ensemble Universes