Use Your Words!

This week on Use Your Words, Elise Stuart and Richard Mahler interview poet, Leonore Hildrebrandt and novelist, Robert Froese who live in Harrington, Maine and visit Silver City each spring. Robert, a former teacher of fiction at the University of Maine, has written four novels.  A Dark Music (2006) was inspired and set in the southwest desert. Lately, he switched to writing short fiction. Leonore currently teaches writing at the […]

This week on Use Your Words, Elise Stuart interviews Dr Deborah Heller,  Professor of English at WNMU. Dr Heller has taught English at both the graduate and undergraduate levels for more than twenty years.  She has published widely in the areas of eighteenth-century literature and women's writing.  Her most recent work is an edition of essays on the English Bluestocking movement, Bluestockings Now: the Evolution of a Social Role (Routledge, […]

This week features co-host Richard Mahler in a telephone interview with Dagoberto Gilb, a Mexican-American novelist and short story writer based in Austin, Texas. Huizache Dagoberto is also the founder of this on-line magazine of Latino literature. Use Your Words! is broadcast live on the 2nd & 4th Fridays of the month at 4:30pm and rebroadcast the following Fridays at the same time. Or listen at your convenience via the […]

Elise Stuart & JJ Amaworo Wilson interview author and activist, Jeffrey Scott. Use Your Words! is broadcast live on the 2nd & 4th Fridays of the month at 4:30pm and rebroadcast the following Fridays at the same time. Or listen at your convenience via the following link... Use Your Words! / Jeffrey Scott If you have questions, comments, suggestions, or would like to be a guest on the show, Elise […]

Elise's guest this week is Use Your Words cohost Richard Mahler. Richard is a Silver City writer, editor, publisher, and webmaster. He has authored 13 books, including travel guides, a natural history of the jaguar, and a mystery novel set in southwestern New Mexico.   Richard, or more affectionately, Rico was a long time columnist for the Desert Exposure and Albuquerque Journal, was once the TV critic for NPR’s Morning Edition […]

This week's episode of Use Your Words! gathers Elise Stuart, JJ Amaworo Wilson and Richard Mahler to discuss their best reads, observations, and recognition of authors that have passed on during 2016. Use Your Words! is broadcast live on the 2nd & 4th Fridays of the month at 4:30pm and rebroadcast the following Fridays at the same time. The program is currently in post-production and when completed can be heard […]

This week's installment of Use Your Words! is an interview with author, agent and publisher Peter Riva conducted by cohosts Elise Stuart and JJ Amaworo Wilson. Peter Riva is founder of International Transactions Inc.  Since 1975, Peter and his wife Sandra have specialized in international idea and intellectual property brokerage catering to multi-national, multi-lingual, licensing and rights’ representation of authors and publishers as well as producing award-winning television and other […]

This week's installment of Use Your Words! is a brief introduction of the works of Juan Felipe Herrera, Poet Laureate of the United States and a forward to his coming appearance at WNMU. Mr Herrera has been a teacher, performance artist and activist on behalf of indigenous and migrant communities and at-risk youth. He served as California’s Poet Laureate from 2012-2014 and has been the Poet Laureate of the United […]

Use Your Words! host Elise Stuart interviews author Chris Lemme. Use Your Words! is broadcast live on the 2nd & 4th Fridays of the month at 4:30pm and rebroadcast the following Fridays at the same time. Or listen to this installment at your convenience via this link... Use Your Words! / Chris Lemme If you have questions, comments, suggestions, or would like to be a guest on the show, Elise […]