Andrew Tonkovich on A Lovely Wallpaper
Abby Walthausen, ALW host
Tuesday, December 3, at 2 PM on KPFK, a departure, shout-out and celebration. For this month’s fund drive first edition I air the fiirst of two parts of an edited version of a terrific podcast hosted by writer Abby Walthausen featuring me --- of all people! --- as a guest. Its topic is the writer and artist whose work I curated for an exhibition now through December 13 at Cerritos College. Walthausen hosts the podcast A Lovely Wallpaper, a standout experiment in conversation, appreciation and, yes, memorization. This singular show features a guest who, with its host, "explores an underappreciated way of appreciating poetry by committing it to memory." The program's motto is "Lose yourself in a poem --- gain a world with its mastery." Past guests on A Lovely Wallpaper include writer and teacher Peter Orner, cookbook author Kate Lebo, and poet Ishion Hutchinson. You'll want to check out and subscribe to this show but, meanwhile, today it’s part one of my own recent appearance, in which we talk about artist and writer Peter Carr, subject of the show "Peter Carr: Artist for Survival" at the Cerritos College Art Gallery, discuss his artistic and literary influences --- especially Walt Whitman --- and I read some of Peter’s work. Next week, I read the featured Whitman poem and Walthausen invites her listeners to consider it, and commit it to memory. To learn more about A Lovely Wallpaper: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-lovely-wallpaper/id1731589504
For information on the final weeks of the gallery show at Cerritos College, see the website: https://www.cerritos.edu/art-gallery/main-pages/exhibitions_2024_petercarr.htm
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