Interviews & Readings
Appalachian Places interview with Jim Minick
Access the interview, A Conversation with Jim Minick, here …
Salvation South posts the poem Why Birds on their website
The Beat: Jim Minick and Robert Frost
Jim Minick reads “The Oven Bird” by Robert Frost as well as selections of some of his own poetry on The Beat: A Poetry Podcast, produced by Knox County Public Library, Knox County, Tennessee. This is Episode 11, recorded on February 28, 2023…
Listen to the podcast here
The Beat: Jim Minick and Robert Frost
PBS “Write Around the Corner” featuring Jim Minick
PBS visits the Settlers Museum in Atkins to talk with Jim Minick about his book, Fire is Your Water, Winner of the 2017 Appalachian Book of the Year for fiction. This novel explores what it means to heal and what it means to have faith in God and in each other.
Season 3 Episode 4 | 27m 34s | Aired: 11/26/19
Watch the interview here
PBS “Write Around the Corner” featuring Jim Minick
Virginia Living’s Konstantin Rega interviews Jim Minick
Konstantin Rega interviews Jim Minick for Virginia Living … “From blueberries to ravens, local author Jim Minick celebrates nature and community.”
Read the interview here
Virginia Living’s Konstantin Rega interviews Jim Minick
James Agee Online Reading Series
The James Agee Online Reading Series is hosted by Charles Dodd White, an Associate Professor in the English department at Pellissippi State Community College in Knox County, Tennessee. Charles Dodd White introduces Jim Minick who talks about the craft of writing and the secret power writers have. Additionally, Jim reads his essay “Drowning Deer” that was published in Oxford American on March 1, 2014. You can read the essay online HERE.
This reading was recorded on November 30, 2021.
A Reading from Fire Is Your Water
Jim Minick reads the first chapter of his novel Fire Is Your Water, recorded at Augusta University in March of 2017.
WVTF Public Radio
WVTF Public Radio‘s Gene Marrano interviewed me regarding two books of poetry, Her Secret Song and Burning Heaven, on February 5, 2009. In this interview, I also read selections from both books.
Listen to the “WVTF” interview here
With Good Reason
With Good Reason, the only state-wide radio program in Virginia, aired this interview in September of 2006. It follows up on an article I wrote about a project my students do when we study Thoreau. In addition to reading from Walden, students also take Thoreau grocery shopping with them, and in turn, use his insights to analyze all the luxuries and necessities in a grocery store. To read the article titled “Luxuries vs. Necessities, or Traveling with Thoreau,” click here.
Listen to the “With Good Reason” interview here
Clearstory
Clearstory is a radio station based in Nashville at 107.1 where River Jordan interviews authors and discusses books and literature.
Listen to the “Clearstory” interview here
About Harvest
Nancy O’Mallon, filmmaker and creator of About Harvest, and an expert on blueberry history, interviewed me in November of 2010. About Harvest uses media to inform, educate and celebrate agricultural history, development, and food.
Listen to the “About Harvest” interview here
Learning to Love Grits
For a sample of Jim’s readings, please have a listen to “Learning to Love Grits” …
Listen to the “Learning to Love Grits” here
A Reading of The Blueberry Years
North Carolina Writers’ Network 2016 Spring Conference, Saturday, April 23, at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro