Fred Andrle

Fred was Executive Producer and Host of “Open Line,” a daily public affairs talk show on WOSU, a National Public Radio affiliate in Columbus. He retired in May, 2009, after 20 years hosting the program. Prior to that, he was Executive Producer for WOSU-TV. He has received Ohio Public Broadcasting and Regional Emmy awards for his radio and television programs. Fred currently writes as an independent journalist. His opinion columns have appeared in newspapers nationwide.

Fred is an Associate at the Ohio State University Humanities Institute, where he produces and moderates the continuing public humanities series, “Conversations in the Humanities.” These programs, held in community settings, feature discussions of issues of public importance with leading experts, and appearances by local writers and other creative artists. The Ohio Humanities Council gave Fred their 2010 Bjornson Award for Distinguished Service in the Humanities.

Fred taught courses in mass media at Ohio Wesleyan University, Ohio Dominican University, and Northern Arizona University. He holds a Master’s Degree in Communication from Stanford.

“Fred Andrle invites us to leave the classroom of recent poetic fads and theories to accompany him outside through meadow and town as he assesses life as it is lived. I find the journey exhilarating.”
—Jerry Roscoe, author of Solving for X

“Fred’s wonderful, diverse poems are rich with bursts of memory, observations that transform the ordinary into the extraordinary, rays of humor and through ALL the themes, his deep appreciation for the wonder of LIFE! A little treasure of poems that sing, ‘To Life!’”
—Mimi Brodsky Chenfeld, author of Teaching by Heart

“Fred Andrle writes in the tradition of those American poets whose
lucid encounters with everyday truths can lead us to the beauty of shared, often profound and poignant, daily experience.”
—Marsha Sinetar, author of Ordinary People as Monks & Mystics