Under The Sun

Much radio love to all who attended An Evening Under the Sun Thursday night.  We had a packed house despite the uh, sultry weather.  Thank you also to the guests and writers who joined hosts Dan Grech and Alicia Zuckerman on stage to present this preview of Episode 3 of Under the Sun.  Our guests included Miami-Dade College professor and Topical Currents host Ariel Gonzalez, mystery novelist Elaine Viets, bookstore owner Joanne Sinchuk, exiled Haitian writer Lochard Noel, poets Yaddyra Peralta and Scott Cunningham of the Miami Poetry Collective, and the winners of our Write South Florida contest. 

People packed the courtyard at Books & Books Coral Gables.

The Poem Depot churned out budget priced, sterling quality poems on demand throughout the night.

The Miami Poetry Collective works on manual typewriters.

Peter J. Maerz, Under the Sun executive producer and WLRN/WKWM radio operations manager, introduces hosts Alicia Zuckerman and Dan Grech.

That’s assistant producer Kenny Malone helping set up the visuals.

Write South Florida contest winner Jeremy Glazer reads from his story, “Home.”

Hosts Alicia Zuckerman and Dan Grech interview Elaine Viets, author of the Dead-End Job mysteries, and Joanne Sinchuk, owner of Delray Beach bookstore Murder on the Beach.

The audience listens as Ruth Morris, producer and web contributor, interviews poet Lochard Noel.  He recounted the experiences that led him to flee Haiti for the United States.  Ruth Morris produced “Cities of Refuge,” a story about writers in exile, for Episode 3 of Under the Sun.

Kenny Malone created an animated version of a story by Natalie Garcia, who won the children’s category of the Write South Florida contest.  You can hear Natalie and the other contest winners read their works in Episode 3.

Team Under the Sun at Books & Books (clockwise from left): Dan Grech,  Alicia Zuckerman, Trina Sargalski, Alyssa Weiss Allen, Kenny Malone, Ruth Morris and Spencer Gaffney.