Raymond Carver Podcast
Episodes
S3E1: Selected Shorts Live in Port Angeles: T.C. Boyle, Billy Collins, Raymond Carver, and Tess Gallagher
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this very special episode, Selected Shorts actors Kirsten Vangsness (Criminal Minds, Dave Made a Maze), Dion Graham (The Wire, After the First 4...
S3 E0: Announcement: Clatskanie Ray Carver Writing Fest May 3rd 2025
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This year, Clatskanie's Raymond Carver Writing Festival will be held Saturday, May 3rd 2025. We hope to see you there! This all day event is mostly fr...
S2: Announcement: Clatskanie Carver Fest May 17-18, 2024
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Event Announcement: Kim Stafford, Robert Michael Pyle, Chad Wriglesworth from the Raymond Carver Review, and more at a free festival in Clatskanie, Or...
Festival Time: Billy Collins, TC Boyle, and more live in April
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Coming April 25, 26, 27 in Port Angeles, join us for our ambitious new festival. Big writers, little city. Details on Eventbrite and the Raymond Car...
S2E5: "So Much Water so Close to Home" with Carver Biographer, Carol Sklenicka
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Carol Sklenicka is the author of the biography Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life. In this episode we discuss her exhaustive biography of Carver before...
S2E4: "Carnations" with Joanadel Thyarks Hurst
09 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we explore a very rare piece of work by Raymond Carver, his one-act play "Carnations". Our special guest was a fellow student, friend,...
S2E3: a Special Episode from the Carver Archives: Columbus, Ohio
30 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode we explore Carver's documents, notebooks, and original manuscript drafts in his official archives at the Ohio State University...
S2 ANNOUNCEMENT: WRITING FESTIVAL DATES: PORT ANGELES 2024
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are very excited to publish details about the first annual Raymond Carver and Tess Gallagher Creative Writing Festival to be held in Port Angeles, ...
S2 Bonus: Cheever Episode Bonus Material
18 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Here you will find background information and anecdotes related to Season 2 Episode 2 with Susan Cheever, including: the ghost of John Cheever, a Carv...
S2E2: "The Train" with Susan Cheever
21 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I interview Guggenheim Fellow and Pulitzer Prize winning writer, Susan Cheever. We begin by discussing what might be Raymond Carver's ...
S2 Bonus: Carver Reading "Grief" and "Happiness"
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Archival recordings of Raymond Carver reading his poems "Grief" and "Happiness" at Peninsula College in 1987. Bonus material for Season Two Episdoe On...
S2E1: "Grief" and "Happiness" with Billy Collins
02 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Poet Billy Collins discusses five poems by Raymond Carver. Collins then gives a brief interview and reads his own work, including several pieces from ...
S2 Teaser: Season Two Teaser
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This teaser episode inlcudes clips from Episode One of Season Two of the Raymond Carver Podcast with special guest, poet Billy Collins. Episode One wi...
S1E6: A Brief Interview with Haruki Murakami
04 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Novelist, short story writer, and Carver translator, Haruki Murakami answers three questions for the Raymond Carver Podcast.
S1E5: "Nobody Said Anything" with TC Boyle
20 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we discuss Carver's story "Nobody Said Anything" with novelist and short story writer TC Boyle, and follow with a handful of questions...
S1E4: "Birdman" with Director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
03 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
An interview with academy award winning director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about his film Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virture of Ignorance) in which...
S1E3: Full Circle: a Special Episode from Clatskanie, Oregon, Carver's Birthplace
26 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode we visit Raymond Carver's birthplace, where a new Carver mural is underway on the former hospital where he was born. We interv...
S1E2: "Your Dog Dies" with Rena Priest, WA State Poet Laureate
25 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rena Priest, Washington State Poet Laureate, discusses Raymond Carver's poem "Your Dog Dies" and speaks to us about her poetry and Lummi culture.
S1E1: "Cathedral" with Tess Gallagher
25 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For the premiere episode of the Raymond Carver Podcast, we interview the writer, Tess Gallagher, Raymond Carver's widow. We discuss parallel stories t...
S1 Teaser: Launch and First Guest Announcement
03 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Announcing the launch of the Raymond Carver Podcast. This podcast is explores creative writing. Our first guest will be poet, Tess Gallagher, Ray's wi...