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S2 Ep1054: YOUR MONTHLY SHOT of POETRY w/Maureen McDole
YOUR MONTHLY SHOT of POETRY resumes with Maureen McDole (https://maureenmcdole.com/) updating us on her upcoming new book, events and sharing his beautifully inspired poems perfect for this season! Poem Titles: Lightning, Shade, The Last Days of Summer, When the Single Mother finds The One after Ten Years Alone, Nap Time. 1st Wednesday: Poetry Open Mic at The Studio@620 9/3 7-9pm. ABOUT MAUREEN...
5m • Aug 21, 2025
5m
S1 Ep7687: Maureen McDole's "Monthly Shot of Poetry" Podcast 6-26-24
On Thursday, June 27 Maureen McDole and other authors will be at an event in Tampa @watersttampa (https://www.instagram.com/_u/watersttampa?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR2_PmF0xkPN6RhcoYmLURH1-y_HcTSVi3B6xtuDHkJe4pKFVER8atpWF6w_aem_ywwboP3E9RmmgbHbsteogw)   featuring a  Pop-up bar; talks & signing from from Maureen McDole, Linda Hurtado Bond, Gianna Russo, Nathan Van Coops, LL Kirchner; the opport...
9m • Jun 26, 2024
9m
S2 Ep1925: POETRY MONTH Maureen McDole's Mending The Nets @Tombolo April 24
As we continue our April celebration of National Poetry Month and the City of St. Petersburg's poetry events, Lunchtime Conversation host Nanette Wiser and St. Petersburg Arts Alliance Executive Director welcome Maureen McDole (https://maureenmcdole.com/) virtually back to studio to read from her new book, Mending The Nets (cover art by her partner and artist Oliver) and talk about Keep St. Pet...
18m • Apr 06
18m
S2 Ep22: YOUR MONTHLY SHOT OF POETRY w/Maureen McDole
(LC 8/29) In her August podcast, poet/author Maureen McDole celebrates her freedom to write and pursue her passions all day as her child is now a high school graduate.  She read Mama from "Longing for the Deep End", Dear One for her lovely child James; A Boyd Hill Kind of Day, an homage to her father who passed one year ago in August; Fisher Wishing as a tribute to beginning a new season of lif...
9m • Aug 19, 2024
9m
S1 Ep6617: Arts Alive! Podcast w/ Bill DeYoung: Maureen McDole, Keep St. Pete Lit 9-18-23
Keep St. Pete Lit recently celebrated its 10th anniversary. That’s a big milestone for a popular but perpetually under-funded nonprofit dedicated to residents’ pursuit of literary outlets and offerings – along with learning opportunities vis a vis reading, writing and the spoken word. Founder and executive director Maureen McDole explains the 2013 origins of her organization on today’s Arts Al...
24m • Sep 18, 2023
24m
S2 Ep604: NATIONAL POETRY MONTH w/Maureen McDole "Your Monthly Shot of Poetry" 4/7
In this episode of "Your Monthly Shot of Poetry," host Maureen McDole talks about her journey from art to poetry and the importance of journaling during National Poetry Month and the St. Petersburg Festival of Writers series around town.  McDole's Keep St. Pete Lit https://keepstpetelit.org organizes classes, book clubs, book events and a 1st Wednesday 7-9 pm monthly open poetry mic at Studio@6...
15m • Apr 09, 2025
15m
S1 Ep7590: "Monthly Shot of Poetry" Podcast/ Maureen McDole
RadioStPete.com INSIDER news director Nanette Wiser is a fan of poetry; it soothes the soul and explores life’s challenges. We are pleased that acclaimed poet/writer/artist Maureen McDole will be in our studio monthly for her new podcast Monthly Shot of Poetry. McDole has a new poetry book coming out in 2025 – Mending the Nets. As she celebrates new milestones – a new home, her child’s high sch...
13m • May 29, 2024
13m
S1 Ep3507: "Catalyst Sessions" w/ Bill DeYoung ; Maureen McDole, Keep St. Pete Lit
Seven years ago, Maureen McDole started Keep St. Pete Lit, a nonprofit organization dedicated to making sure the literary arts – the written word – stayed well-represented in the city. Thursday on The Catalyst Sessions, McDole talked about the group’s spate of programs bringing together writers, readers, students, educators and bibliophiles through talks, group meetings, interviews, book clubs,...
29m • Apr 18, 2020
29m
S1 Ep3845: The Catalyst Sessions w/ Bill DeYoung: Maureen McDole, Keep St. Pete Lit 7-28-20
There’s a bit of a silver lining in the Covid cloud for Keep St. Pete Lit’s writing classes, as founder and director Maureen McDole explained Tuesday on The Catalyst Sessions. “What’s great about Zoom is, you can actually show your work – you can show your desktop to the group,” she said. “And one of our students lives in Maine, so she’s sharing the Writers’ Group with her whole Maine Writer’s...
31m • Jul 29, 2020
31m
S2 Ep1768: ARTS ALIVE! St. Pete Catalyst Bill DeYoung with Poet Maureen McDole
We’re thrilled to welcome Maureen McDole (https://maureenmcdole.com/) back to the Arts Alive! podcast. The St. Petersburg native, founder of Keep St. Pete Lit (https://keepstpetelit.org/) and the originator and instigator of numerous local literary pursuits, relocated to Minneapolis in the spring of 2025.  She’s in town for a quick visit, and gave a talk at the University of South Florida. McDo...
32m • Feb 27
32m
S1 Ep7359: Maureen McDole on RadioStPete's "Lunchtime Conversations" 4-5-24
RadioStPete INSIDER news director Nanette Wiser caught up with acclaimed poet/writer/artist Maureen McDole about writing poetry just in time for April's Poetry Month celebration. We were lucky enough to hear her read a new poem. Maureen is also the executive director of Keep St. Pete Lit. https://maureenmcdole.com/ #keepstpetelit #maureenmcdole #radiostpeteinsider #stpete #stpetefl #tampabay #...
18m • Apr 05, 2024
18m
S2 Ep317: Your Monthly Shot of Poetry with Maureen McDole
Your Monthly Shot of Poetry with Maureen McDole (https://www.facebook.com/maureenmcdole?__cft__[0]=AZWuLJ5uanOyDS-sY_QmaN6kG4YnMT9dOXvI-NlTtUHZlzPs4WUUFmL-PPL7FawoMNytsJ88eSIfZ7Jl0qruIGOFFxtIIjSOQPVTdvgogbpRhMdMpooA0dCJhshcRqvNqSN4-rbVOe718fLSeRr7x-Xf&__tn__=-]K-R) provides holiday solace and new year inspiration! Maureen reads from her upcoming book "Red Shag Carpeted Stairs," "Old Woman," "Th...
8m • Dec 27, 2024
8m
S1 Ep7400: Maureen McDole "Wild Country" Poetry Month 4-12-24
Acclaimed poet/writer/artist Maureen McDole just in time for April's Poetry Month celebration. We were lucky enough to hear her read a new poem. Maureen is also the executive director of Keep St. Pete Lit. https://maureenmcdole.com/ #keepstpetelit #maureenmcdole #radiostpeteinsider #stpete #stpetefl #tampabay #radio #radiostpete #nanettewiser
1m • Apr 11, 2024
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S2 Ep771: YOUR MONTHLY SHOT OF POETRY w/Maureen McDole, Keep St. Pete Lit June 2025
In this episode of YOUR MONTHLY SHOT OF POETRY for June 2025, Maureen McDole shares his exquisite point of view with new poems and some from her previos books. Maureen is a Poet & Writer/ Founder & Executive Director of Keep St. Pete Lit/ Artist-in-Residence at GISJane. Learn more: https://maureenmcdole.com/ #monthlyshotofpoetry #maureenmcdole #writer #poet #keepstpetelit  #stpete #stpetefl #t...
4m • Jun 04, 2025
4m
S2 Ep191: YOUR MONTHLY SHOT OF POETRY w/Maureen McDole 10/28
(LC 10/28) In this month's episode of Your Monthly Shot of Poetry, poet and founding director of Keep St. Pete Lit's Maureen McDole and Nanette Wiser chat about her recent hurricane challenges, climate change, resiliency and the power of poetry to sustain and support during hard times. She read from her poetry books and says her newest book Mending The Nets is still on track to publish in 2025....
12m • Oct 24, 2024
12m
S1 Ep7769: Maureen McDole Your Monthly Shot of Poetry 7/2024
Maureen McDole's Monthly Shot of Poetry 7/24 featured five poems from two current books (Feast and Exploring Options) plus her new book Mending The Nest which will publish in 2025. She talked about creativity and nature, the power of time out and read Masks, Her, Without Words and Never. The acclaimed poet and writers is also the executive director of Keep St. Pete Lit. Join her and Keep St. P...
10m • Jul 23, 2024
10m
S1 Ep6685: "Typewriter Talks" with Maureen McDole, Keep St. Pete Lit: 10-8-23; Poet Curtis Davis
SHOW NOTES This week our guest is Curtis Davis. Curtis was born and raised in Tampa, FL. He has been writing and performing poetry since a youth in high school and has since traveled all over the states competing in international, national, and regional poetry slam competitions. In 2018 he was ranked the 8th poet in the world after becoming a finalist in the Individual World Poetry Slam held i...
41m • Oct 09, 2023
41m
S1 Ep6709: "Typewriter Talks" w/ Maureen McDole from Keep St. Pete Lit: 10-15-23 Susana Darwin
SHOW NOTES This week our guest is Susana Darwin. A Southerner by birth and a Chicagoan by temperament, Susana took a detour into politics, the law, and book publishing before returning to her early passion for film. Her award-winning narrative short “Hatboxes” (2013) appeared in 15 film festivals and conferences worldwide, and the musical short "Longer" (2020) appeared in 26 festivals, COVID be...
39m • Oct 16, 2023
39m
S1 Ep6732: "Typewriter Talks" w/ Maureen McDole, Keep St. Pete Lit: Lenore Myka10-22-23 Airs Sundays 12:15pm ET
SHOW NOTES This week our guest is Lenore Myka. Lenore is the author of a prize-winning short story collection and the recipient of numerous awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared or are forthcoming in American Scholar, The Normal School, Virginia Quarterly Review, Poets & Writers, Quartz, New England Review, Five Points, and oth...
32m • Oct 23, 2023
32m
S1 Ep6756: "Typewriter Talks" from St. Pete Lit w/ Maureen McDole" Yuki Jackson 10-29-23
This week our guest is Yuki Jackson. Yuki is a Black and Japanese poet and educator. Her poetry has been published in literary journals such as Four Way Review and Cream City Review, for which she was nominated for a 2021 Best of the Net Award and the 2020 Summer Poetry Prize. Yuki is a regular contributor for the "Poet's Notebook" column of Creative Loafing Tampa Bay and her work has been feat...
36m • Oct 30, 2023
36m
S1 Ep6804: "Typewriter Talks" Maureen McDole, Keep St. Pete Lit: Nathan Van Coops
#keepstpetelit #maureenmcdole #nathanvancoops #stpete #stpetefl #tampabay #radio #radiostpete SHOW NOTES This week our guest is Nathan Van Coops. Nathan lives in St. Petersburg, Florida on a diet comprised mainly of tacos. When not tinkering on old airplanes, he writes heroic adventure stories that explore imaginative new worlds. He is the author of the time travel adventure series In Times L...
42m • Nov 06, 2023
42m
S1 Ep6828: "Typewriter Talks" with Maureen McDole, Keep St. Pete Lit: 11-12-23; Bill DeYoung
This week our guest is Bill DeYoung. Bill was born in St. Petersburg, FL where he spent the first 21 years of his life. After a long time living in other cities, working at newspapers and learning how to write on a deadline, he came back to his hometown in 2014 and now spends most of his time wondering where the city he loved so much disappeared to. He is Senior Writer and Editor of the St. Pet...
32m • Nov 13, 2023
32m
S1 Ep6848: Episode 29: "Typewriter Talks" w/ Maureen McDole 11-19-23: L.L. Kirchner
This week our guest is L.L. Kirchner. L.L. is an author and award-winning screenwriter whose life and work as an expat in Asia became the basis of two memoirs, including Blissful Thinking: A Memoir of Overcoming the Wellness Revolution, and her previous title, American Lady Creature: (My) Change in the Middle East. A Qatar Memoir., named one of Bustle’s “11 Books to Battle the Blues.” A book cr...
40m • Nov 20, 2023
40m
S1 Ep4338: :Impact 48: w/ Maureen McDole, Keep St. Pete Lit
#stpetecatalyst #stpete #keepstpetelit #tampabay #radio 
12m • Feb 27, 2021
12m
S1 Ep6883: "Typewriter Talks" w/ Maureen McDole from Keep St. Pete Lit: 12-3-23; Tyler Gillespie
This week our guest is Tyler Gillespie. Tyler is the author of the essay collection The Thing about Florida: Exploring a Misunderstood State (University Press of Florida, 2021) as well as two poetry collections Florida Man: Poems (Red Flag Poetry, 2018) and the nature machine! (Autofocus, 2023). He’s a fifth-generation Floridian, co-founder of the Florida Local Artist & Writer Network, and curr...
40m • Dec 04, 2023
40m
436: Love + Art: Poet Maureen McDole & Artist Oliver Jackson on Creative Partnerships
12m • Feb 14, 2025
12m
S2 Ep440: Your Monthly Shot of Poetry w/Maureen McDole
3m • Feb 15, 2025
3m
S2 Ep2124: ONE PLACE, MANY VOICES Tara and Kathy Hubbard Pinellas County History 6/17
In this episode of ONE PLACE, MANY VOICES - Pinellas County, podcast series host Nanette Wiser talks with Tara Hubbard (https://www.taralynnhubbard.com/) (an environmental activist and steward of the land and sea) and her aunt Kathleen Hubbard (poet Maureen McDole's mother) to talk  about the history of their family and role in Pinellas County history on the Gulf Beaches, and beyond. Please joi...
26m • Jun 14
26m
S1 Ep6426: "Typewriter Talks" Nicole Caron 7-9-23 Airs Sundays 12:20pm on 96.7 FM RadioStPete
SHOW NOTES This week our guest is Nicole Caron. Nicole’s nonfiction has appeared in numerous trade publications and regional and literary magazines; she works with novelists and memoirists as a developmental and copy editor; and her freelance copywriting has won two regional American Advertising Federation Silver Addy Awards. Nicole lives in St. Petersburg and teaches at Ringling College Of Ar...
39m • Jul 10, 2023
39m
S1 Ep6442: "Typewriter Talks" from Keep St. Pete Lit: Sara Ries Dziekonski. 7-16-23
SHOW NOTES This week our guest is Sara Ries Dziekonski. Sara holds an MFA in poetry from Chatham University. Her first book, Come In, We're Open, which she wrote about growing up in her parents' diner, won the 2009 Stevens Poetry Manuscript Competition. Her chapbooks include Snow Angels on the Living Room Floor (Finishing Line Press 2018) and Marrying Maracuyá (Main Street Rag 2021), which won...
34m • Jul 17, 2023
34m
S1 Ep6126: "Women Changemakers in the Arts" Panel Discussion 3-22-23
A WADA Panelist Discussion Tully Levine Gallery at the ArtsXchange on the Deuces Corridor The Warehouse Arts District Association celebrates Women’s History Month with seven trailblazing women of Pinellas County and the City of St. Petersburg who have paved the way and continue to work diligently for the advancement of the arts here in our beautiful city and county. The moderator: Leigh Davi...
54m • Mar 24, 2023
54m
S1 Ep6409: "Typewriter Talks"000 7-2-23: Paul Wilborn; 12:20pm Sundays RadioStPete
Typewriter Talks features interviews with writers, poets, and other bookish folks. It is hosted by Maureen McDole, Founder and Executive Director of Keep St. Pete Lit. Listen in to hear discussions on all kinds of writerly topics. Our goal is to show you that there is not one right way to be a writer.  #wilbornwrites #keepstpetelit #stpete #stpetefl #tampabay #radio #radiostpete #typewritertalk...
34m • Jul 03, 2023
34m
S2 Ep1980: ARTS ALIVE! St. Pete Catalyst's Bill DeYoung: Alsace Waltentine, Tombolo Books
Saturday 4/25 is Independent Bookstore Day across the country, and 2,000 or so non-corporate retailers will celebrate their blissful indie-hood with celebrations and specials. There are nearly a dozen such shops in Pinellas County alone. Since 2020, when venerable Haslam’s closed (perhaps never to return), the most prosperous spot on the St. Pete map has been Tombolo Books (https://tombolobooks...
18m • Apr 24
18m
S2 Ep1961: WEEKEND with WISER Let's Go Guide April 17 - May 2026
(4/17/2026) City of Writers Poetry fest continues around St. Pete with Maureen McDole at Tombolo Books 4/24, Book + Bottle events and readings. Women in Jazz fundraiser for the Al Downing Tampa Bay Jazz Association at The Palladium 4/19 @3pm. 🎶 Enjoy concerts at Central Park Performing Arts Center, Capitol Theater, Ruth Eckerd Hall, Baycare Sound, The Mahaffey, the Palladium Jazz Awards (Suncoa...
11m • Apr 17
11m

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