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( This is an archived episode from 10/06/2022) This is Circle Anthology on WQRT, a public poetry project for SPARK Monument Circle organized by the arts nonprofit, Big Car Collaborative, and featuring 25 Indianapolis writers who share brief poems inspired by the Circle. In partnership with Downtown Indy and the City of Indianapolis, SPARK is an artist-led approach to bringing creativity, togethern...

( This is an archived episode from 10/06/2022) This is Circle Anthology on WQRT, a public poetry project for SPARK Monument Circle organized by the arts nonprofit, Big Car Collaborative, and featuring 25 Indianapolis writers who share brief poems inspired by the Circle. In partnership with Downtown Indy and the City of Indianapolis, SPARK is an artist-led approach to bringing creativity, togethern...

( This is an archived episode from 10/06/2022) This is Circle Anthology on WQRT, a public poetry project for SPARK Monument Circle organized by the arts nonprofit, Big Car Collaborative, and featuring 25 Indianapolis writers who share brief poems inspired by the Circle. In partnership with Downtown Indy and the City of Indianapolis, SPARK is an artist-led approach to bringing creativity, togethern...

( This is an archived episode from 10/06/2022) Join the Radio Free Book Club team—Traci Cumbay,  author Barbara Shoup, Craig Von Deylen , and host Ken Honeywell for a discussion of the critically acclaimed novel - Tom Perrotta's Tracy Flick Can't Win Radio Free Book Club is a radio show book club produced monthly at 99.1 WQRT in Indianapolis. We talk about contemporary novels, with an alte...

( This is an archived episode from 10/06/2022) This is Circle Anthology on WQRT, a public poetry project for SPARK Monument Circle organized by the arts nonprofit, Big Car Collaborative, and featuring 25 Indianapolis writers who share brief poems inspired by the Circle. In partnership with Downtown Indy and the City of Indianapolis, SPARK is an artist-led approach to bringing creativity, togethern...

( This is an archived episode from 10/17/2022) This is Circle Anthology on WQRT, a public poetry project for SPARK Monument Circle organized by the arts nonprofit, Big Car Collaborative, and featuring 25 Indianapolis writers who share brief poems inspired by the Circle. In partnership with Downtown Indy and the City of Indianapolis, SPARK is an artist-led approach to bringing creativity, togethern...

( This is an archived episode from 10/17/2022) This is Circle Anthology on WQRT, a public poetry project for SPARK Monument Circle organized by the arts nonprofit, Big Car Collaborative, and featuring 25 Indianapolis writers who share brief poems inspired by the Circle. In partnership with Downtown Indy and the City of Indianapolis, SPARK is an artist-led approach to bringing creativity, togethern...

( This is an archived episode from 10/17/2022) This is Circle Anthology on WQRT, a public poetry project for SPARK Monument Circle organized by the arts nonprofit, Big Car Collaborative, and featuring 25 Indianapolis writers who share brief poems inspired by the Circle. In partnership with Downtown Indy and the City of Indianapolis, SPARK is an artist-led approach to bringing creativity, togethern...

( This is an archived episode from 10/17/2022) This is Circle Anthology on WQRT, a public poetry project for SPARK Monument Circle organized by the arts nonprofit, Big Car Collaborative, and featuring 25 Indianapolis writers who share brief poems inspired by the Circle. In partnership with Downtown Indy and the City of Indianapolis, SPARK is an artist-led approach to bringing creativity, togethern...

( This is an archived episode from 10/17/2022) This is Circle Anthology on WQRT, a public poetry project for SPARK Monument Circle organized by the arts nonprofit, Big Car Collaborative, and featuring 25 Indianapolis writers who share brief poems inspired by the Circle. In partnership with Downtown Indy and the City of Indianapolis, SPARK is an artist-led approach to bringing creativity, togethern...

( This is an archived episode from 10/17/2022) This is Circle Anthology on WQRT, a public poetry project for SPARK Monument Circle organized by the arts nonprofit, Big Car Collaborative, and featuring 25 Indianapolis writers who share brief poems inspired by the Circle. In partnership with Downtown Indy and the City of Indianapolis, SPARK is an artist-led approach to bringing creativity, togethern...

Indy culturemaker Ebony Chappel goes all in with Anne on I LOVE BOOSTERS (2026, dir. Boots Riley), a color-soaked, off-kilter, bonkers shout-out to solidarity. Discussed: fast fashion, art with a purpose, SORRY TO BOTHER YOU, soul-sucking, communism, working in a warehouse, and Ebony’s encounter with Boots Riley himself.

Drawing on original research into newspaper archives, oral histories, and the margins of the official record, Will Higgins, an award-winning journalist, assembles the stories that didn't make the monument: the "hillbilly machine gunner" who charged race fans 25 cents to see Mrs. Adolph Hitler’s underpants; the French race driver who drank six pints of wine mid-race — and won; the rac...

In April 2026, photographers Jason Lee and Taylor Galloway spent a week in Indianapolis shooting images for an upcoming book and exhibition at Aurora PhotoCenter in 2027. In this interview with Aurora Director Mary Goodwin, Lee and Galloway talk about their time exploring Indy, communing with James Dean in Fairmount, IN, book-making, and their approach to the medium. 

We’re off to Japan with characters known only as “the mother” and “the son” in Bryan Washington’s  Palaver,  a 2025 National Book Award finalist. Join Ken Honeywell, Christine Hudson, Barb Shoup, and Kristin Baxter-Howell for the trip—and know that, if you need character names, Christine has some suggestions for you.

Lee Alig and Steve Mannheimer interview Judd Lord, Senior Director of Industrial Design at Delta Faucet Company in Indianapolis. As an international force in product design and branding, Delta is constantly improving the human experience at home.

Real Life Revised, Episode 8, celebrating Mother's Day and Mental Health Awareness Month, recorded May 10, 2026 at Indiana Humanities with the support of the Butler University MFA in Creative Writing, Booth magazine, and WQRT. Join us for future shows on the second Sunday of each month. More: https://www.instagram.com/reallife_revised

For this episode of "Create Hear," CAMi Director & Chief Curator Shauta Marsh sits down with Puerto Rico-based artist Ivelisse Jiménez to talk about Jiménez's background, artistic process, and new exhibit “Campo de Resonancia” at CAMi.

Real Life, Revised is a reading series of stories, poems & other truths featuring Indiana writers and produced by Sam Ferrante and John Strauss, with the support of Indiana Humanities, the Butler University MFA Program in Creative Writing, Booth magazine and WQRT. For show times and to join us for open mic opportunities, check us out on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/reallife_revised.    ...

Lee Alig and Steve Mannheimer sit down with architect Jonathan Hess, executive principal of Browning Day. As Indiana’s 2025 AIA Gold Medal winner, Hess reflects on his 40-year career and what it means to live up to his oath to “make no ugly.”

Hold onto your fedoras: On the next episode of Radio Free Book Club, Ken Honeywell, Alex Mattingly, Steve Woods, and Carol Divish head back to 1932 to tag along with P.I. Hicks McTaggart on his search for a missing cheese heiress in Thomas Pynchon’s 2025 novel  Shadow Ticket. Spoilers abound.

Real Life, Revised - A reading series of "stories, poems & other truths" featuring Indiana writers and produced by Sam Ferrante and John Strauss, with the support of Indiana Humanities, the Butler University MFA Program in Creative Writing; Booth, a journal; and WQRT Radio, part of the Garfield Park Creative Community from Big Car Collaborative. This show was recorded March 8, 2026. Our next l...

THE LIBRARIANS | guest: Mary Ann Laker | air date 3/7/26 | FLICK FIX | WQRT Who better to confront an unsettling documentary about book banning than Mary Ann Laker, an IPS high school librarian for 40 years (and Anne’s mom). THE LIBRARIANS (2025, dir. Kim A. Snyder) probes the political and personal stakes as intellectual freedom is threatened across the country, and prompts Mary Ann’s real-life s...

Lee Alig and Steve Mannheimer interview Brian McCutcheon, owner of Ignition Arts in Indianapolis. They discuss innovative fabrication for the arts and industry, and pursuing partnerships with emerging artists around the world.

Binx Bolling is on a search—and Susan Neville, Dan Barden, Anne Laker, and Ken Honeywell join him as they discuss  The Moviegoer,  Walker Percy’s National Book Award-winning debut novel from 1961, at the February 2026 meeting of Radio Free Book Club.