Conversations with Writers, Artists, Thinkers.
Hosted by two professors from the Department of Creative Writing at UTEP, Words on a Wire has become one of the most established and influential radio shows on writing and creativity.
Twelve years ago, it was hosted by Benjamin Alire Sáenz and Daniel Chacón. After Sáenz retired, Tim Z. Hernandez joined the team, and we have been going strong ever since. Our shows are available on Spotify, Apple Podcast, and YouTube.
Airing locally Sundays at noon, each week Tim or Daniel have a conversation with someone whose work they admire, poets, fiction writers, philosophers, scientists, musicians. Because they are writers themselves, the main focus for the hosts is books, and if there’s a new one that they love, they welcome that writer on the show.
We have had guests from first-time writers with new books to the world’s most established thinkers, such as former and current US Poet Laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners, and great thinkers who have dedicate their lives to making the world a better place.
Words on a Wire is Co-produced by Creative Writing MFA candidates Claudia Flores Ramirez and Iliana Pichardo Urrutia.
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In celebration of Mother’s Day we bring a special episode where Andrea Cote Botero and Jazmina Barrera, mothers and writers discuss their writing journeys and motherhood. Also, we have Rosa Alcalá reading her amazing poem "Matrilineal" originally published in The Rumpus. -
Host Daniel Chacón talks with poet, story writer and translator Arturo Mantecón about his book El día más delicioso de mi vida.
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Host Daniel Chacón talks to writer Melanie Márquez Adams.
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Host Daniel Chacón talks to writer Reyna Grande about her new book A Ballad of Love and Glory (2022).
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Hosts, Tim Z. Hernández talks to Lupe Mendez, writer, educator and activist is the author Why I am like Tequila.(Willow Books, 2019), winner of the 2019 John A. Robertson Award for Best First Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters.
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Host Daniel Chacón talks to poet, memoirist and audio writer Garret Hongo about his new book The Perfect Sound: A Memoir in Stereo (Pantheon, 2022).
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Hosts, Tim Z. Hernández and Daniel Chacón get together to talk to award-winning American poet, novelist and writer Benjamin Alire Sáenz.
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Host Daniel Chacon talks with author JJ Amaworo Wilson about his second novel "Nazaré".Wilson is a German-born Anglo-American-Nigerian novelist and non-fiction writer. His novel "Damnificados" won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fiction
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