Ginny Wiehardt
Poet Ginny Wiehardt joins me on the airwaves to get Texan. We discuss our mutual fondness for the Lone Star State (in spite of recent legislative developments) and, becuase she’s a poet and we live in these times, we talk about children, money, sex, and death. I like this mix particularly because of it’s strong focus on artists who got their start late in life or avoided fame (or died young in boating accidents in the tropics heroically saving their children).
Complete playlist below; tracks in yellow were cut for time.
- Bonita, Jarabe De Palo
- God, Amy Leach
- I Believe in Bugs, Ivor Cutler
- Annie Jade, Hillary Powell
- Good Fortune, PJ Harvey
- Bird Boy, Cyro Baptista
- Typing with Oswaldo De Andrade, Cyro Baptista
- Take this Waltz, Leonard Cohen
- My My Metrocard, Le Tigre
- The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side, The Magnetic Fields
- Wed 21, Juana Molina
- Ahora, Juana Molina
- Song Sung Blue, Neil Diamond
- Nothing But Heartache, Toni Price
- Beaumont Rag, Doc Watson
- Texas Top Hand, Don Walser
- One Piece at a Time, Johnny Cash
- Walkin’ After Midnight, Patsy Cline
- In These Shoes?, Kristy MacColl
- Fairytale of New York, The Pogues & Kristy MacColl
- Can the Circle Be Unbroken, The Carter Family
- Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Israel Kamakawiwo’ole
- On the Road Again, Willie Nelson
Ginny Wiehardt is the author of Migration, winner of the Gold Line Press Poetry Chapbook Contest. Her poems have appeared in over 20 journals and magazines including Bellingham Review, Harvard Review, Notre Dame Review, PN Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Willow Springs and in the anthology Political Punch: Contemporary Poems on the Politics of Identity. Tracy Marchini at BookEnds Literary represents her children’s fiction. She works for the National MS Society, and lives in New York City with her family.