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Each week, WORDTheatre® shares a brilliant short story performed live in LA, NY or London by a great actor, usually with the author in the room to hear their story being brought to life. Like what you hear? Visit WORDTheatre.org/Membership/ or if you are near the UK, visit WORDTheatreUK.org to enjoy live events and recordings by becoming a Patron or Enthusiast Member! WORDTheatre® is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in the US and a Dual Charitable Trust in the UK. We are on a mission to make a better world one story at a time.
Welcome to WORDTheatre Weekly: The Short Story
Podcast where great authors and actors meet. I’m your host, Cedering Fox, WORDTheatre’s Founder & Artistic Director.
This year, the Pushcart Prize is celebrating its 50th anniversary of showcasing the best stories poems and essays published by the small presses. We love to celebrate this remarkable publication and, since Earth Day is around the corner, we are pleased to share “Tomorrow’s Bird” a 2002 Pushcart Prize winner by Ian Frazier!. It was performed by John Heard, a WORDTheatre regular, at a WORDTheatre event in Easthampton NY, the Pushcart Prize’s hometown.
Today, you will hear John’s performance of this delightful story. We hope you enjoy it!
Before we get started, please note that WORDTheatre holds the copyright to these recordings and no portion of anything you hear on WORDTheatre Weekly, our short story podcast, may be reproduced without permission.
Now, sit back, relax, and enjoy John Heard performing “Tomorrow’s Bird,” a Pushcart Prize-winning story by Ian Frazier.
HEARD PERFORMS THE PIECE.
You’ve just heard John Heard perform “Tomorrow’s Bird” written by Ian Frazier.
If you'd like to purchase books by this brilliant writer or any of the other authors that you hear on this podcast, visit bookshop.org/shop/wordtheatre and you’ll be helping two literary nonprofits.
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We’d like to thank the LA Department of Arts & Culture, Randy & Jane Sinisi & Palisades Post for their ongoing support. And you, our audience, thank you for listening.
Until next week, this is Cedering Fox, signing off!