On Air: A Venti Podcast

Episode One, “Plein Air” with Orchid Tierney

Overview

In this episode Sarah Dailey speaks with scholar and poet, Orchid Tierney, about disasters created by petronationalism and environmental issues that stretch from New Zealand to Ohio. They discuss the role of art in responding to environmental degradation from the bold installation art of John Gerrard’s “Western Flag” to the “quiet honesty” of Cilla McQueen’s poetry.

Eduard Pechuël-Loesche, from Studies on Twilight Phenomena, after Krakatoa, 1888, Chromolithograph, Source.

Eduard Pechuël-Loesche, from Studies on Twilight Phenomena, after Krakatoa, 1888, Chromolithograph, Source.

 

Senior Editor, Sarah Dailey, in conversation with Orchid Tierney, Assistant Professor of English at Kenyon College: