Chris Butters, Poetry Corner
**Actor Peter Gallagher is Playing On Air. In a visionary revival of radio as a fusion of mixed media elements incorporating stage, screen and recorded drama - yet not actually any of them - and to meet the challenges posed to rewiring radio in the digital age. Gallagher is on the line to Arts Express to delve into this new dramatic direction for him, and for audiences as well - simultaneously live, on the air and online. The star of Law & Order, The O.C., Togetherness, The Secret Lives Of Men and others on the small screen delineates this fresh approach to radio drama as 'bringing magic back to radio while sharing the power of theater.' Gallagher also takes a stroll down movie memory lane, conjuring Chekhov and sharing recollections of boxing with James Cagney, and working with screen legends Robert Altman and Jack Lemon.
**Also airing on Arts Express, is Gallagher performing in his current radio drama 2 Dads, with Bobby Cannavale.
**Poetry Corner: The Global Immigration Crisis. Kenyan born Poet Laureate of London Warsan Shire, reads from her work. Along with Asian-American hip hop artist and spoken word poet Jason Chu, referencing Fox News hate speech and Donald Trump. And, according to Shire, how 'you only leave home when home won't let you stay.' Chris Butters reports.
**Writers Corner: Ohio novelist, professor, literary scholar and poet Deborah Fleming reads from and discusses her new work of historical fiction, Without Leave. A look back at the both euphoric and tragic lives and legacy of the sixties - Vietnam, Haight Ashbury, and campus rage. Along with Fleming's commentary about her Midwestern environmental activism, strip mining, Johnny Appleseed, Yeats, Synge and post-colonialist literature.
Deborah Fleming, novelist