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Artspeak Radio
ARTSPEAK RADIO is a live radio program on KKFI that airs every Wednesday from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. Host Maria Vasquez Boyd serves up information about the visual and literary arts community including live interviews with artists, writers, and performers.
Writers Greg Field and MaryFrances Wagner join Maria Vasquez Boyd live in the studio.
Greg Field is an artist, writer, drummer, sailor, chemist, computer geek, and network administrator. He plays in the band River Cow Orchestra, a totally improvisational group. He has an BFA and an MA in painting and his paintings are in several private collections all over the country. His poems have been published in many journals and anthologies to include New letters, Laurel Review, Karamu, I-70 Review, and Kansas City Outloud II. His book The Longest Breath (MidAm) was a Thorpe Menn Finalist. His new book, newly released from Mammoth Press is Black Heart, which focuses on his Native American heritage. He continues to combine his love of the arts in music, poetry, and visual arts.
Maryfrances Wagner’s books include Salvatore’s Daughter, Light Subtracts Itself, and Red Silk, winner of the Thorpe Menn Book Award. Her poems have appeared widely including New Letters, Midwest Quarterly, Laurel Review, Voices in Italian Americana, Birmingham Poetry Review, Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry (Penguin Books), Literature Across Cultures (Pearson/Longman), and The Dream Book, An Anthology of Writings by Italian American Women (winner of the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation). She co-edits the I-70 Review, has served as President of The Writers Place (where she still chairs the programming committee), and currently serves on the Fringe Festival Board of Directors. She has taught academic and creative writing and creative writing workshops at all levels.
