Use Your Words!

On this week's installment of Use Your Words, Elise Stuart and Richard Mahler interview Bruce Wilson. Wilson is a writer, historian and educator living in Silver City, New Mexico. He is a graduate of California State University-Fullerton and Western New Mexico University where he currently teaches American History. He is a contributing author to the anthology Bug Tales by Paul Klebahn and Gabriella Jacobs and his story “Raven’s Nest” received […]

Use Your Words! host Elise Stuart and JJ Amaworo Wilson interview educator and novelist Catalina Clausen. 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! / Catalina Clausen If you have questions, comments, suggestions, or would like to be a […]

Use Your Words! host Richard Mahler and JJ Amaworo Wilson interview Sharman Apt Russell. 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! / Sharman Apt Russell If you have questions, comments, suggestions, or would like to be a […]

Use Your Words host Elise Stuart and Richard Mahler team up to interview poet and novelist Beate Sigriddaughter. Beate Sigriddaughter lives and writes in Silver City, New Mexico, Land of Enchantment. Her poetry and fiction have received several awards, including four Pushcart Prize nominations, and are widely accessible online.  She has also established the Glass Woman Prize to honor passionate women's voices. More information on Beate's work is available at... […]

Use Your Words host Elise Stuart interviews poet and publisher Stewart Warren and Warren reads from his extensive works of poetry. Enjoy! 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! / Stewart Warren If you have questions, comments, […]

Use Your Words host Elise Stuart is away from Silver City on a writers' retreat and for this week's installment, co-host Richard Mahler will interview JJ Amaworo Wilson - writer-in-residence at Western New Mexico University - on his debut novel, Damnificadoes. Richard Mahler is an author and publisher who hosted radio programs for NPR for many years as well as a long stint at Desert Exposure. Enjoy! Use Your Words […]

Welcome to the maiden voyage of Use Your Words! / Writers Speak with your host, 2nd and current Silver City, New Mexico Poet Laureate, Elise Stuart. Elise's premier guest is none other than Silver City's 1st Poet Laureate, Bonnie Maldonado, a great talent, well loved, and admired not only for her creative gifts, but for the example of a life of purpose and principle, well lived, a social activist, academic, […]