Madison BookBeat

Angela Trudell Vasquez on Poetry in her Life

In this edition of Madison Book Beat, host Lisa Malawski talks with Angela Trudell Vasquez, who until recently, was the City of Madison Poet Laureate.

Madison Poet Cynthia Marie Hoffman On “Exploding Head”

Cynthia Marie Hoffman’s latest book of prose poetry, Exploding Head (Persea...

Bending Granite Tells Tales Of Leading Organizational Change

How do you make change at organizations that resemble hard granite, and aren’t designed to bend?

Only by patiently and persistently...

Ann Garvin On Writing Her First Book At Age Fifty

In this edition of Madison Book Beat, host Lisa Malawski talks with local Madison author Ann Garvin.

Ann Garvin became an author at age fifty....

Cynthia Simmons On The “Wrong Kind Of Paper”

Hallie Linden yearns to write for the New York Times. At the moment, she’s stuck at a daily newspaper in tiny Green Meadow, Indiana, a town known...