Off the Page

WSKG's bi-weekly interview & call-in program with local authors from Binghamton, Ithaca, Elmira and surrounding areas served by WSKG Public Radio. Off the Page is hosted by Bill Jaker.

Liz Rosenberg's literary career has led her through many genres and settled her works onto many bookshelves.  She has a fine reputation as a poet, is noted as the author of more than 20 books for children including "Adelaide and the Night Train". Her 2011 picture book,"...
In one of the stories that Grandpa Hari Chopra told to his grandson Ashok Kumar Malhotra, a young Buddhist monk has lived a life of reverence and self-discipline but after twelve years still has not seen the Buddha.  Resentful about his lost youth, the monk sets off for a drunken bender....
Poems submitted to OFF THE PAGE by 29 of our listeners -- an anthology of the air.  Click on a poet's name and read them here. Every poet needs to find a "voice" -- not merely the vocalization and sound of presentation, as important as that may be to the appreciation of the...