Harold Wilson’s guest is Dr. Michael Murphy. In addition to being an emergency medical physician in the Delmarva area, Dr. Murphy is a long-time actor with The Community Players of Salisbury. In the Player’s theatrical presentation of Edgar Allan Poe: The Dark Side, an assembly of a number of Poe’s darker poems and stories, Dr. Murphy presented “The Tell-Tale-Heart.” One of Poe’s most popular horror stories. He recreated …
Read MoreHarold Wilson’s guest is historian and poet Anne Yarbrough. They discuss Anne’s book, Refinery, which won the 2021 Dogfish Head Poetry Prize. Refinery is a book of poetry, but to my reading, it is much more than that. It is also a book of history – a history of Delaware’s only refinery built in Delaware City in 1957, and of the land around it in New Castle County. With her poetry, Yarbrough has woven poetic images of light …
Read MoreHarold Wilson’s guest is poet Linda Blaskey. They discuss the online journal Quartet, created by Blaskey and three colleagues, Gail Braune Comorat, Wendy Elizabeth Ingersoll, and Jane C. Miller. All serve as editors of the Journal which publishes exclusively the poetry of women over fifty. We believe, they say, that at this time in a woman’s life we begin to surge, to come into our own. We believe experience speaks for itself …
Read MoreHarold Wilson’s guest is poet Sue Ellen Thompson. They discuss her new book of poetry Sea Nettles. Sue Ellen is the author of five previous books of poetry, and her work has been read more than a dozen times by Garrison Keillor on National Public Radio. She’s received the Pushcart Prize and been nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize. This new book by Sue Ellen Thompson is made up of both new poems and selected poems.
Read MoreHarold Wilson’s guest is Eastern Shore writer and historian Brent Lewis. They discuss his new book Stardust by the Bushel, a chronical of the relationship of the film industry with the Delmarva. The book discusses the Eastern Shore as the location for major films like The Runaway Bride and Wedding Crashers and as a secluded getaway for some well-known stars like Robert Mitchum, Tallulah Bankhead, and Annie …
Read MoreThis is Part II of Harold Wilson's interview with Pulitzer Prize winning New Yorker staff writer Kathryn Schulz. They continue their discussion of Schulz’s recently published memoir Lost & Found. In Part I of the interview, Wilson and Schulz talked primarily about loss and Schulz’s meeting with C, the woman with whom she fell in love and to whom she is now married. This week they discuss Schulz’s relationship …
Read MoreHarold Wilson's guest is New Yorker staff writer Kathryn Schulz. We discuss her new memoir Lost & Found. This is the first of a two-part interview with Kathryn Schulz. Part two will be aired next week. In 2016 Schulz won the Pulitzer Prize and a National Magazine Award for her article “The Really Big One,” detailing the seismic risk in the Pacific Northwest. Lost & Found, Kathryn …
Read MoreHarold Wilson’s guests are Executive Editor of the Delmarva Review Wilson Wyatt, poetry editors Anne Colwell and Katherine Gekker, and nonfiction editor Ellen Brown. Fiction author Ronan Keenan also joins us to discuss his Pushcart nominated short story, “Welcome Day.”. Anne Colwell is a professor of English at the University of Delaware, Katherine Gekker is a …
Read MoreDoctor Michael Murphy is Harold Wilson’s guest to discuss the current significant increase in the pandemic and what it means for the near-term. Mike is a frequent visitor on the program and he’ll give us an update on the pandemic and information on the Omicron variant. He is an emergency medical physician and works primarily in Salisbury, Maryland …
Read MoreThis Christmas Eve edition of Delmarva Today is a special Christmas program produced in partnership with The Community Players of Salisbury. It's a program of story, music, and verse to celebrate the holiday season. Stories include “The Gift of the Magi.” Verse includes “The Journey of the Magi” by T.S. Eliot, and music, includes “Ave Maria’” and “Adeste Fideles.”
Read MoreHarold Wilson’s guest is Delmarva Public Media essayist George Merrell. Merrell has announced his retirement from radio after more than 12 years of producing a twice-monthly essay for the station. Here he sits for a personal discussion with Delmarva Today host Harold Wilson to discuss his work as an essayist and what that has meant in his life. He says he discovered the personal essay in midlife and it was as if the whole world …
Read MoreHarold Wilson’s guest is Lyn Sutton, a fitness professional, coach and organizer of a Rock Steady Boxing program here on the Eastern Shore. Most of you have probably become aware of Parkinson’s Disease through the diagnosis of Mohammed Ali and Michael J. Fox. Other notables diagnosed with the disease, however, are Alan Alda, George H.W Bush, Jesse Jackson, Pope John Paul II, Janet Reno, Linda Ronstadt …
Read MoreHarold Wilson’s guest is Dr. Heather Davis. Dr. Davis is a science teacher at The Salisbury School in Salisbury, Maryland. Davis has been a research scientist and a college professor. She also has a life-long passion for literature that is now centered around helping young writers learn the art of storytelling. In that capacity, she serves as the new state coordinator for Maryland Writers’ Association Teen Writing Program and is …
Read MoreHarold Wilson’s guest is writer Barbara Shamp. We’re discussing Barbara’s new historical novel A Wife in Watercolor. Barbara’s novel is based on the life of Oxford, MD merchant Robert Morris, Sr. in the early 1700’s. The narrative focuses on a servant Sarah Wise mentioned in Morris’ will. In the Author’s Note, Barbara, writing as B.B. Shamp says, The record of women in Western history is sparse. Through the sixteenth …
Read MoreWilson’s guests are Dr. James King, and Ms. Kim Roberts. They discuss a recent article by Leah Asmelash published by CNN. The article argues that poetry is experiencing a new golden age today with young writers of color taking the lead. As evidence Asmelash cites the general enthusiasm expressed for Amanda Gorman’s presentation of her poem at President Joe Biden’s inauguration and the fact that poet Rupi Kaur …
Read MoreAuthor Jerry Sweeney is Harold Wilson's guest. They discuss Sweeney's new book, Down Broadway, a collection of short stories. Sweeney is an Eastern Shore writer but spent most of his life in and around Manhattan. The delightful stories in this collection capture the vibrancy of the post WWII years in New York -- a time when the city was the art capital of the world, the only global super power, and the economy was growing.
Read MoreHarold Wilson’s guest is poet David Salner. They are discussing his poetry featured in the online poetry journal Innisfree. Salner appeared on Delmarva Today, July 16, 2021, to discuss his novel A Place to Hide. Salner is an accomplished poet, however. He has published four poetry collections and his work has appeared in a number of literary journals including three editions of The Delmarva Review.
Read MoreHarold Wilson’s guest is Lewes, Delaware author Jack Clemons. Clemons is an aerospace engineer and was a member of the NASA team for the Apollo and Space Shuttle programs. His memoir Safely to Earth: The Men and Women Who Brought the Astronauts Home is an award-winning book that Clemons discussed on Delmarva Today in 2019. His new novel, The Outliers lays open the raw, rough and tumble nature of Lewes at …
Read MoreHarold Wilson’s guests are Dr. Adam Wood, Department Head and Professor of English at Valdosta State University; Dr. Grant Wilson, Professor and Graduate Program Director Dept. of Astronomy, University of Massachusetts; and Dr. Christine A. James, Professor Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies also at Valdosta State University. And also joining Wilson is Don Rush, Associate Program Director …
Read MoreHarold Wilson’s guests are The Community Players of Salisbury Producer and Director Matt Brogdan, and actors Mike Murphy and Pete Cuesta. They are discussing the latest production of the Community Players, “Edgar Allen Poe: The Dark Side.” The production is a live, memorized, word-for-word recitation of the darker works of Poe. Featured works include “The Tell-Tale Heart,” …
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