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He received the MacArthur Genius Award.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/42870625</guid><pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2021 17:37:53 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/42870625/ocean_vuong_podcast.mp3" length="34818249" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Grace Cavalieri</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Ocean Vuong is the author of the bestselling novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Penguin Press (2019), forthcoming in 30 languages.  He received the MacArthur Genius Award.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Ocean Vuong is the author of the bestselling novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Penguin Press (2019), forthcoming in 30 languages.  He received the MacArthur Genius Award.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2182</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>author,literature,poem,poet,poetry</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/142dafd238d8792550e0afec6d805409.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Carolyn Forche</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/carolyn-forche--42777075</link><description><![CDATA[Carolyn Forche is one of America's greatest living poets. She created the phrase, "poetry of witness," and here reads from her new memoir about witnessing the war in El Salvador.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/42777075</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2021 01:26:41 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/42777075/carolyn_forche_podcast.mp3" length="34684809" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Grace Cavalieri</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Carolyn Forche is one of America's greatest living poets. She created the phrase, "poetry of witness," and here reads from her new memoir about witnessing the war in El Salvador.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Carolyn Forche is one of America's greatest living poets. She created the phrase, "poetry of witness," and here reads from her new memoir about witnessing the war in El Salvador.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2173</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>author,literature,poem,poet,poetry</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/142dafd238d8792550e0afec6d805409.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Ned Balbo</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/ned-balbo--42474327</link><description><![CDATA[Ned Balbo reads his poems in every form: pantoum, sonnet, ghazal, villanelle, blank verse.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/42474327</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2020 03:51:04 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/42474327/ned_balbo.mp3" length="54598145" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Grace 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Verdell</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/mecca-verdell--41865044</link><description><![CDATA[Mecca "Meccamorphosis" Verdell is the winner of the 2020 DC Poet Project, and her debut collection, Things to Unlearn, is forthcoming 2021 from Day Eight.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/41865044</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2020 21:19:25 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/41865044/mecca_verdell_podcast.mp3" length="72973512" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Grace Cavalieri</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Mecca "Meccamorphosis" Verdell is the winner of the 2020 DC Poet Project, and her debut collection, Things to Unlearn, is forthcoming 2021 from Day Eight.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Mecca "Meccamorphosis" Verdell is the winner of the 2020 DC Poet Project, and her debut collection, Things to Unlearn, is forthcoming 2021 from Day 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Alexander holds a Master of Engineering degree in electrical engineering from Howard University.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1739</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>author,literature,poem,poet,poetry</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/142dafd238d8792550e0afec6d805409.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>20th Century Poet Commentaries - Robert Warren</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/20th-century-poet-commentaries-robert-warren--40500693</link><description><![CDATA[In 1986 Congress designated the term U.S. Poet Laureate to all Poetry Consultants. Warren was the first to be designated. 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Throughout her life she wrote poetry, fiction, and criticism, and became the regular poetry reviewer for The New Yorker.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>259</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>author,literature,poem,poet,poetry</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/4cca230883fa65cae05200a674222675.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jericho Brown</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/jericho-brown--36226047</link><description><![CDATA[Jericho Brown grew up in Shreveport, Louisiana, and worked as a speechwriter for the mayor of New Orleans before earning his PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Houston. 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Brown's poems are living on the page, and they give the reader that much: a sense of having been alive fully."<br /><br />Brown is the recipient of a Whiting Writer's Award and has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Krakow Poetry Seminar in Poland, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University.<br /><br />He has taught at the University of Houston, San Diego State University, and the University of San Diego, as well as at numerous conferences and workshops. 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Brown's poems are living on the page, and they give the reader that much: a sense of having been alive fully."<br /><br />Brown is the recipient of a Whiting Writer's Award and has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Krakow Poetry Seminar in Poland, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University.<br /><br />He has taught at the University of Houston, San Diego State University, and the University of San Diego, as well as at numerous conferences and workshops. 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Her poems have appeared in such literary journals as The American Scholar, Indiana Review, North American Review, Ploughshares, Poetry East, Poetry Northwest, and Southern Poetry Review - and in many poetry anthologies, including ToWoo & to Wed: Poets on Love and Marriage (Poseidon Press), Her Face in the Mirror: Jewish Women on Mothers and Daughters (Beacon Press), Don't Leave Hungry: Fifty Years of the Southern Poetry Review (University of Arkansas Press), and Ghost Fishing (University of Georgia Press). After receiving her MFA from Cornell University, where she studied with poet A.R. Ammons, she taught for more than 20 years at George Washington University, serving twice as director of the creative writing program. Among her honors are a Rona Jaffe Foundation writer's award and an individual artist's grant from the Maryland State Arts. 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What is self esteem?]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/28162415</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2020 22:39:07 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/28162415/energy_of_poetry_p_2.mp3" length="10280766" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Grace Cavalieri</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>What are our responsibilities as writers? What keeps us going? What is self esteem?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[What are our responsibilities as writers? What keeps us going? What is self esteem?]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>422</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>author,literature,poem,poet</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/9f929355106c6c9d72a042985f3fef3a.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Grace Cavalieri on Writing: The Energy of Poetry, Part 1"The Tribe"</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/grace-cavalieri-on-writing-the-energy-of-poetry-part-1-the-tribe--27091654</link><description><![CDATA[How do we access poetry? How do we harvest memory?]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/27091654</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2020 13:35:55 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/27091654/080120_002.mp3" length="6643878" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Grace Cavalieri</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>How do we access poetry? How do we harvest memory?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[How do we access poetry? How do we harvest memory?]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>416</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>author,literature,poem,poet</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/142dafd238d8792550e0afec6d805409.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Robert Pinsky</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/robert-pinsky--27090475</link><description><![CDATA[Robert Pinsky was named US Poet Laureate 1997-2000. He's a poet, essayist, critic, dramatist, and teacher. 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He's the acclaimed Dante translator.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>298</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>author,literature,poem,poet</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/acbea02c4d111448fa6a2682092a3e29.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Robert Earl Price in Concert</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/robert-earl-price-in-concert--26365863</link><description><![CDATA[Robert Earl Price holds the American Film Institute's William Wyler award for screenwriting, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry and a Cultural Olympics commission for theater. He was a 2012 recipient of a Maryland Individual Artist Award. His play Blue Monk was produced in Johannesburg, South Africa. His eleven full-length plays include an adaptation of Claude Brown's Man Child in the Promised Land and a ritual play, Black Cat Bones For Seven Sons. He has four volumes of poetry: Bloodlines, Blood Elegy, Blues Blood and Wise Blood.  His fifth book of poetry "Blood Flow"? will be published in 2020 by Snake Nation Press, Valdosta, GA.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/26365863</guid><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2020 13:58:25 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/26365863/robert_earl_price.mp3" length="35449170" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Grace Cavalieri</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Robert Earl Price holds the American Film Institute's William Wyler award for screenwriting, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry and a Cultural Olympics commission for theater. 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He is coordinator for the annual Kent County Poetry Festival.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1713</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>author,literature,poet,poetry</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/142dafd238d8792550e0afec6d805409.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>20th Century Poet Commentaries - Stanley Kunitz</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/20th-century-poet-commentaries-stanley-kunitz--26365776</link><description><![CDATA[Grace Cavalieri's commentary on Stanley Kunitz, appointed US Poet Laureate 1974 and 2000.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/26365776</guid><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2020 17:25:26 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/26365776/20th_century_poets_commentaries_stanley_kunitz_apple_podcast.mp3" length="6767795" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Grace Cavalieri</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Grace Cavalieri's commentary on Stanley Kunitz, appointed US Poet Laureate 1974 and 2000.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Grace Cavalieri's commentary on Stanley Kunitz, appointed US Poet Laureate 1974 and 2000.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>280</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/01d20622da20ff5b26e9f584c63cf860.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>20th Century Poet Commentaries - Rita Dove</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/20th-century-poet-commentaries-rita-dove--26167368</link><description><![CDATA[The first in our series is Rita Dove, appointed US Poet Laureate, 1993.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/26167368</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2020 00:34:41 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/26167368/20th_century_poets_commentaries_rita_dove.mp3" length="4303133" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Grace Cavalieri</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>The first in our series is Rita Dove, appointed US Poet Laureate, 1993.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[The first in our series is Rita Dove, appointed US Poet Laureate, 1993.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>213</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>author,literature,poem,poet,poetry</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/bbd445891fdc29f032b4ecc408b3eaf7.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Grace Cavalieri on Writing: Sensual Aspects of the Poem</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/grace-cavalieri-on-writing-sensual-aspects-of-the-poem--25811478</link><description><![CDATA[Grace Cavalieri talks about the sensual aspect of the poem.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/25811478</guid><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2020 18:46:51 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/25811478/ste_000.mp3" length="1336632" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Grace Cavalieri</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Grace Cavalieri talks about the sensual aspect of the poem.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Grace Cavalieri talks about the sensual aspect of the poem.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>84</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>author,literature,poem,poet,poetry</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/142dafd238d8792550e0afec6d805409.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Grace Cavalieri on Writing: "Intuition in writing poetry"</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/grace-cavalieri-on-writing-intuition-in-writing-poetry--25655143</link><description><![CDATA[A Poet Laureate Series]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/25655143</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2020 21:25:56 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/25655143/ste_000.mp3" length="8658024" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Grace Cavalieri</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>A Poet Laureate Series</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[A Poet Laureate Series]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>433</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>author,literature,poem,poet,poetry,writing</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/142dafd238d8792550e0afec6d805409.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Grace Cavalieri on Writing: "CHARACTER" in the Poem</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/grace-cavalieri-on-writing-character-in-the-poem--25646344</link><description><![CDATA[A Poet Laureate Series. 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He has won numerous awards, including the Midland Authors Award and a Pushcart Prize. Bilgere has received grants from the Witter Bynner Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fulbright Commission, and the Ohio Arts Council.  His poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals including Poetry, Ploughshares, the Kenyon Review, Fulcrum,and the Best American Poetry series. <br />A resident of Ohio, Bilgere lives in Cleveland, where he teaches creative writing at John Carroll University.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/23376138</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2020 04:10:47 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/23376138/george_bilgere_2020.mp3" length="27462786" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Grace Cavalieri</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>George Bilgere has published six collections of poetry, including Imperial (2014);The White Museum(2010), which was awarded the Autumn House Poetry Prize; Haywire (2006), which on the May Swenson Poetry Award; and The Good Kiss(2002), which was...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[George Bilgere has published six collections of poetry, including Imperial (2014);The White Museum(2010), which was awarded the Autumn House Poetry Prize; Haywire (2006), which on the May Swenson Poetry Award; and The Good Kiss(2002), which was selected by Billy Collinsto win the University of Akron Poetry Award. He has won numerous awards, including the Midland Authors Award and a Pushcart Prize. Bilgere has received grants from the Witter Bynner Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fulbright Commission, and the Ohio Arts Council.  His poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals including Poetry, Ploughshares, the Kenyon Review, Fulcrum,and the Best American Poetry series. <br />A resident of Ohio, Bilgere lives in Cleveland, where he teaches creative writing at John Carroll University.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1721</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>author,literature,poem,poet,poetry</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/142dafd238d8792550e0afec6d805409.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Meg Eden</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/meg-eden--23376137</link><description><![CDATA[Meg Eden's work is published or forthcoming in magazines including Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, Crab Orchard Review, RHINO and CV2. She teaches creative writing at Anne Arundel Community College. She is the author of five poetry chapbooks, the novel "Post-High School Reality Quest  (2017), and the forthcoming poetry collection Drowning in the Floating World  (2020).]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/23376137</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2020 04:10:09 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/23376137/meg_eden.mp3" length="27019098" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Grace Cavalieri</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Meg Eden's work is published or forthcoming in magazines including Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, Crab Orchard Review, RHINO and CV2. She teaches creative writing at Anne Arundel Community College. She is the author of five poetry chapbooks, the...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Meg Eden's work is published or forthcoming in magazines including Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, Crab Orchard Review, RHINO and CV2. She teaches creative writing at Anne Arundel Community College. She is the author of five poetry chapbooks, the novel "Post-High School Reality Quest  (2017), and the forthcoming poetry collection Drowning in the Floating World  (2020).]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1693</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>author,literature,poem,poet,poetry</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/142dafd238d8792550e0afec6d805409.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Brother Yao Hoke Glover III</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/brother-yao-hoke-glover-iii--23376136</link><description><![CDATA[Bro. Yao(Hoke S. Glover III) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Language, Literature, and Cultural Studies at Bowie State University. His poetry has been published in Ploughshares, African-American Review, Rattle, and other journals and anthologies. His first book, Inheritance, was published by Willow Books in Summer of 2016. For fifteen years he ran and operated Karibu Books, one of the nation's largest African American book stores. He also writes non-fiction and his essay "Hospital for the Negro Insane" was a finalist in the Crab Orchard John Guyon Non-Fiction Literary Prize in 2015, and his essay the "Fifty Four" on African American book stores and book culture was a finalist in the Missouri Review Jeffrey E. Smith's Editor's Prize in 2018. Much of his current work focuses on reading "yin' in African American culture.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/23376136</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2020 04:09:08 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/23376136/brother_yao_hoke_glover_iii.mp3" length="27613740" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Grace Cavalieri</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Bro. Yao(Hoke S. Glover III) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Language, Literature, and Cultural Studies at Bowie State University. His poetry has been published in Ploughshares, African-American Review, Rattle, and other journals and...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Bro. Yao(Hoke S. Glover III) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Language, Literature, and Cultural Studies at Bowie State University. His poetry has been published in Ploughshares, African-American Review, Rattle, and other journals and anthologies. His first book, Inheritance, was published by Willow Books in Summer of 2016. For fifteen years he ran and operated Karibu Books, one of the nation's largest African American book stores. He also writes non-fiction and his essay "Hospital for the Negro Insane" was a finalist in the Crab Orchard John Guyon Non-Fiction Literary Prize in 2015, and his essay the "Fifty Four" on African American book stores and book culture was a finalist in the Missouri Review Jeffrey E. Smith's Editor's Prize in 2018. Much of his current work focuses on reading "yin' in African American culture.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1730</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>author,literature,poem,poet,poetry</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/142dafd238d8792550e0afec6d805409.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Doritt Carroll</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/doritt-carroll--23376135</link><description><![CDATA[Doritt Carroll is a native of Washington, DC. She received her undergraduate and law degrees from Georgetown University. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Main Street Rag, North American Review, Coal City Review, Eunoia Review, Poet Lore, Rattle, Gargoyle, Nimrod, and Cherry Tree, among others. Her collection GLTTL STP was published by Brickhouse Books in 2013. Her chapbook Sorry You Are Not An Instant Winner was published in 2017 by Kattywompus. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/23376135</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2020 04:08:37 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/23376135/doritt_carroll.mp3" length="27801390" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Grace Cavalieri</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Doritt Carroll is a native of Washington, DC. She received her undergraduate and law degrees from Georgetown University. 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She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1742</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>author,literature,poem,poet,poetry</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/142dafd238d8792550e0afec6d805409.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Lauren Alleyne</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/lauren-alleyne--23376134</link><description><![CDATA[Lauren K. Alleyne is the author of two collections of poetry, Difficult Fruit (Peepal Tree Press 2014), and Honeyfish (New Issues & Peepal Tree, 2019). Her work has appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, The Atlantic, Ms. Muse, Women?s Studies Quarterly, Interviewing the Caribbean, The Crab Orchard Review, among many others. Recent honors for her work include a 2017 Phillip Freund Alumni Prize for Excellence in Publishing (Cornell University), the 2016 Split This Rock Poetry Prize, and a Picador Guest Professorship in Literature (University of Leipzig, Germany, 2015). She is currently Assistant Director of the Furious Flower Poetry Center and an Associate Professor of English at James Madison University.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/23376134</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2020 04:08:03 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/23376134/lauren_alleyne.mp3" length="27704646" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Grace Cavalieri</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Lauren K. Alleyne is the author of two collections of poetry, Difficult Fruit (Peepal Tree Press 2014), and Honeyfish (New Issues &amp; Peepal Tree, 2019). Her work has appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, The Atlantic, Ms....</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Lauren K. Alleyne is the author of two collections of poetry, Difficult Fruit (Peepal Tree Press 2014), and Honeyfish (New Issues & Peepal Tree, 2019). Her work has appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, The Atlantic, Ms. Muse, Women?s Studies Quarterly, Interviewing the Caribbean, The Crab Orchard Review, among many others. Recent honors for her work include a 2017 Phillip Freund Alumni Prize for Excellence in Publishing (Cornell University), the 2016 Split This Rock Poetry Prize, and a Picador Guest Professorship in Literature (University of Leipzig, Germany, 2015). She is currently Assistant Director of the Furious Flower Poetry Center and an Associate Professor of English at James Madison University.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1736</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>author,literature,poem,poet,poetry</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/142dafd238d8792550e0afec6d805409.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Temple Cone</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/temple-cone--22104457</link><description><![CDATA[Temple Cone is the author of four books of poetry:Guzzle, That Singing, The Broken Meadow (winner of the Old Seventy Creek Poetry Press Series Prize), and No Loneliness (winner of the Future Cycle Press Poetry Book Prize). In addition, he has published seven poetry chapbooks, as well as reference works on Cormac McCarthy, Walt Whitman, and 20th-century American poetry. He holds an MA in creative writing from Hollins University, an MFA in poetry from the University of Virginia, and a PhD in literature from the University of Wisconsin. He lives with his family in Maryland, where he is Professor of English at the U.S. Naval Academy and the inaugural Poet Laureate for the city of Annapolis.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/22104457</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2020 01:26:26 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/22104457/temple_cone.mp3" length="27650853" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Grace Cavalieri</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Temple Cone is the author of four books of poetry:Guzzle, That Singing, The Broken Meadow (winner of the Old Seventy Creek Poetry Press Series Prize), and No Loneliness (winner of the Future Cycle Press Poetry Book Prize). In addition, he has...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Temple Cone is the author of four books of poetry:Guzzle, That Singing, The Broken Meadow (winner of the Old Seventy Creek Poetry Press Series Prize), and No Loneliness (winner of the Future Cycle Press Poetry Book Prize). In addition, he has published seven poetry chapbooks, as well as reference works on Cormac McCarthy, Walt Whitman, and 20th-century American poetry. He holds an MA in creative writing from Hollins University, an MFA in poetry from the University of Virginia, and a PhD in literature from the University of Wisconsin. He lives with his family in Maryland, where he is Professor of English at the U.S. Naval Academy and the inaugural Poet Laureate for the city of Annapolis.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1733</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>author,literature,poem,poet,poetry</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/142dafd238d8792550e0afec6d805409.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Garrett Brown</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/garrett-brown--22104456</link><description><![CDATA[Garrett J. Brown’s first book of poems, Manna Sifting, won the Liam Rector First Book Prize from Briery Creek Press in 2009, and his chapbook, Cubicles, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2014. His other awards include first place in the Poetry Center of Chicago’s Juried Reading, judged by Jorie Graham; runner-up in the Maryland Emerging Voices competition; and a Creative Writing Fellowship from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared in The Black Warrior Review, Poetry East, TriQuarterly, Natural Bridge, The Account, and Passages North. He makes his home in Baltimore and is an Associate Professor at Anne Arundel Community College.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/22104456</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2020 01:25:22 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/22104456/garrett_brown.mp3" length="27617910" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Grace Cavalieri</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Garrett J. Brown’s first book of poems, Manna Sifting, won the Liam Rector First Book Prize from Briery Creek Press in 2009, and his chapbook, Cubicles, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2014. His other awards include first place in the Poetry...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Garrett J. Brown’s first book of poems, Manna Sifting, won the Liam Rector First Book Prize from Briery Creek Press in 2009, and his chapbook, Cubicles, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2014. His other awards include first place in the Poetry Center of Chicago’s Juried Reading, judged by Jorie Graham; runner-up in the Maryland Emerging Voices competition; and a Creative Writing Fellowship from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared in The Black Warrior Review, Poetry East, TriQuarterly, Natural Bridge, The Account, and Passages North. He makes his home in Baltimore and is an Associate Professor at Anne Arundel Community College.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1731</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>author,literature,poem,poet,poetry</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/142dafd238d8792550e0afec6d805409.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Shirley Brewer</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/shirley-brewer--22104455</link><description><![CDATA[Shirley J. Brewer (Baltimore, MD) graduated from careers in bartending and speech therapy. She serves as poet-in-residence at Carver Center for Arts & Technology in Baltimore, and also teaches creative writing workshops to seniors. Recent poems garnish  Barrow Street, Comstock Review, Naugatuck River Review, Plainsongs, Poetry East, Slant, and many other journals and anthologies. Shirley was awarded the first Creativity Prize for Excellence in Plorking (Play + Work) from the University of Baltimore, where she earned her Masterês degree in Creative Writing/Publishing Arts. Shirleyês poetry books include A Little Breast Music, 2008, Passager Books,  After Words, 2013, Apprentice House,  Bistro in Another Realm, 2017, Main Street Rag.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/22104455</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2020 01:24:33 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/22104455/shirley_brewer.mp3" length="27219675" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Grace Cavalieri</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Shirley J. Brewer (Baltimore, MD) graduated from careers in bartending and speech therapy. She serves as poet-in-residence at Carver Center for Arts &amp; Technology in Baltimore, and also teaches creative writing workshops to seniors. Recent poems...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Shirley J. Brewer (Baltimore, MD) graduated from careers in bartending and speech therapy. She serves as poet-in-residence at Carver Center for Arts & Technology in Baltimore, and also teaches creative writing workshops to seniors. Recent poems garnish  Barrow Street, Comstock Review, Naugatuck River Review, Plainsongs, Poetry East, Slant, and many other journals and anthologies. Shirley was awarded the first Creativity Prize for Excellence in Plorking (Play + Work) from the University of Baltimore, where she earned her Masterês degree in Creative Writing/Publishing Arts. Shirleyês poetry books include A Little Breast Music, 2008, Passager Books,  After Words, 2013, Apprentice House,  Bistro in Another Realm, 2017, Main Street Rag.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1706</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>author,literature,poem,poet,poetry</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/142dafd238d8792550e0afec6d805409.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Write Blend Poetry Collective</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/write-blend-poetry-collective--21113319</link><description><![CDATA[The Write Blend Poetry Circle was officially formed in 2018, when six named poets agreed to become part of a larger collaborative to bring cultural diversity to communities through an expansive range of their voices and poetry.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/21113319</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Dec 2019 15:19:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/21113319/write_blend_poetry_collective.mp3" length="27802224" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Grace Cavalieri</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>The Write Blend Poetry Circle was officially formed in 2018, when six named poets agreed to become part of a larger collaborative to bring cultural diversity to communities through an expansive range of their voices and poetry.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Write Blend Poetry Circle was officially formed in 2018, when six named poets agreed to become part of a larger collaborative to bring cultural diversity to communities through an expansive range of their voices and poetry.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1742</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>author,literature,poem,poet,poetry</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/142dafd238d8792550e0afec6d805409.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Pamela Murray Winters</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/pamela-murray-winters--21113316</link><description><![CDATA[Pamela Murray Winters is the author of The Unbeckonable Bird, a poetry collection published by FutureCycle Press in 2018. She has an MFA in poetry from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is at work on a second full-length collection of poems and a few chapbooks. Pam lives in Maryland with her husband and a small menagerie.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/21113316</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Dec 2019 15:18:00 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/21113316/pamela_murray_winters.mp3" length="26294769" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Grace Cavalieri</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Pamela Murray Winters is the author of The Unbeckonable Bird, a poetry collection published by FutureCycle Press in 2018. She has an MFA in poetry from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is at work on a second full-length collection of poems and a few...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Pamela Murray Winters is the author of The Unbeckonable Bird, a poetry collection published by FutureCycle Press in 2018. She has an MFA in poetry from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is at work on a second full-length collection of poems and a few chapbooks. Pam lives in Maryland with her husband and a small menagerie.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1648</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>author,literature,poem,poet,poetry</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/142dafd238d8792550e0afec6d805409.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Barbara DeCesare</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/barbara-decesare--21113315</link><description><![CDATA[Barbara DeCesare is a graduate of the Goddard College MFA-W program. She is the author of jigsaweyesore (Anti-Man Press), Adrift (Seventh Wave), and Silent Type (Paper Kite Press). Barbara curated The Prufrock Project, an art exhibit based on the T. S. Eliot poem, cast audience members to perform in her series of small plays You’re Soaking In It, and took the title in the Fear No Lit Literary Page Match automatic writing competition. Her poems and short fiction have been published in Folio, Poetry, Alaska Quarterly, Tarpaulin Sky and many others.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/21113315</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Dec 2019 15:17:04 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/21113315/barbara_decesare.mp3" length="27158376" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Grace Cavalieri</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Barbara DeCesare is a graduate of the Goddard College MFA-W program. She is the author of jigsaweyesore (Anti-Man Press), Adrift (Seventh Wave), and Silent Type (Paper Kite Press). Barbara curated The Prufrock Project, an art exhibit based on the T....</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Barbara DeCesare is a graduate of the Goddard College MFA-W program. She is the author of jigsaweyesore (Anti-Man Press), Adrift (Seventh Wave), and Silent Type (Paper Kite Press). Barbara curated The Prufrock Project, an art exhibit based on the T. S. Eliot poem, cast audience members to perform in her series of small plays You’re Soaking In It, and took the title in the Fear No Lit Literary Page Match automatic writing competition. Her poems and short fiction have been published in Folio, Poetry, Alaska Quarterly, Tarpaulin Sky and many others.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1702</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>author,literature,poem,poet,poetry</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/142dafd238d8792550e0afec6d805409.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jane Clarke</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/jane-clarke--20066932</link><description><![CDATA[Irish poet, Jane Clarke's first collection, The River, was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2015 to public and critical acclaim. Her second book-length collection, When the Tree Falls was published by Bloodaxe in September 2019 and her illustrated booklet of poems, All the Way Home, was published by Smith/Doorstop in April 2019.<br />The River was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize, given for a distinguished work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry evoking the spirit of a place. In 2016 Jane won the Hennessy Literary Award for Emerging Poetry and the inaugural Listowel Writers’ Week Poem of the Year Award. She was awarded an Arts Council of Ireland Literary Bursary in 2017.<br />Jane holds a BA in English & Philosophy from Trinity College, Dublin, an MPhil in Writing from the University of South Wales, and has a background in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. She grew up on a farm in Roscommon and now lives with her partner in Glenmalure, Co. Wicklow, where she combines writing with her work as creative writing tutor and group facilitator.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/20066932</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 Nov 2019 16:48:26 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/20066932/jane_clarke.mp3" length="27393147" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Grace Cavalieri</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Irish poet, Jane Clarke's first collection, The River, was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2015 to public and critical acclaim. Her second book-length collection, When the Tree Falls was published by Bloodaxe in September 2019 and her illustrated...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Irish poet, Jane Clarke's first collection, The River, was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2015 to public and critical acclaim. Her second book-length collection, When the Tree Falls was published by Bloodaxe in September 2019 and her illustrated booklet of poems, All the Way Home, was published by Smith/Doorstop in April 2019.<br />The River was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize, given for a distinguished work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry evoking the spirit of a place. In 2016 Jane won the Hennessy Literary Award for Emerging Poetry and the inaugural Listowel Writers’ Week Poem of the Year Award. She was awarded an Arts Council of Ireland Literary Bursary in 2017.<br />Jane holds a BA in English & Philosophy from Trinity College, Dublin, an MPhil in Writing from the University of South Wales, and has a background in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. She grew up on a farm in Roscommon and now lives with her partner in Glenmalure, Co. Wicklow, where she combines writing with her work as creative writing tutor and group facilitator.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1717</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>author,literature,poetry</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/142dafd238d8792550e0afec6d805409.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Rob Richmond</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/rob-richmond--20066936</link><description><![CDATA[A life-long musician, writer, and creative, Rob spent most of his childhood reading comic books, playing games, and making music. Graduated from the University of Virginia in 2002 with a degree in Anthropology, with a focus on ethnomusicology, he has spent the intervening years living and working as a musician and music professional. Aside from writing comics, Rob also works as an audio designer and engineer, and plays in numerous musical projects, including The Vailix, a female-fronted hard rock concept band based around the world of the Cloud Ocean. In his spare time he plays fetch with his miniature Australian cattle dogs, Luna and Astra.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/20066936</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 Nov 2019 16:47:53 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/20066936/rob_richmond.mp3" length="26789331" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Grace Cavalieri</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>A life-long musician, writer, and creative, Rob spent most of his childhood reading comic books, playing games, and making music. Graduated from the University of Virginia in 2002 with a degree in Anthropology, with a focus on ethnomusicology, he has...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[A life-long musician, writer, and creative, Rob spent most of his childhood reading comic books, playing games, and making music. Graduated from the University of Virginia in 2002 with a degree in Anthropology, with a focus on ethnomusicology, he has spent the intervening years living and working as a musician and music professional. Aside from writing comics, Rob also works as an audio designer and engineer, and plays in numerous musical projects, including The Vailix, a female-fronted hard rock concept band based around the world of the Cloud Ocean. In his spare time he plays fetch with his miniature Australian cattle dogs, Luna and Astra.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1679</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>author,literature,poetry</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/142dafd238d8792550e0afec6d805409.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Mervyn Taylor</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/mervyn-taylor--20066929</link><description><![CDATA[Mervyn Taylor, a Trinidad-born poet and longtime Brooklyn resident, has taught at Bronx Community College, The New School and in the New York City public school system. He is the author of six books of poetry, including The Waving Gallery (2014), and most recently, Voices Carry (2017). About his work, Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott said, “Taylor’s is a quiet voice. His poems possess an admirable degree of subtlety, and a tone that keeps him separate and unique.” Currently, he serves on the advisory board of Slapering Hol Press.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/20066929</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 Nov 2019 16:47:18 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/20066929/mervyn_taylor.mp3" length="27610404" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Grace Cavalieri</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Mervyn Taylor, a Trinidad-born poet and longtime Brooklyn resident, has taught at Bronx Community College, The New School and in the New York City public school system. He is the author of six books of poetry, including The Waving Gallery (2014), and...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Mervyn Taylor, a Trinidad-born poet and longtime Brooklyn resident, has taught at Bronx Community College, The New School and in the New York City public school system. He is the author of six books of poetry, including The Waving Gallery (2014), and most recently, Voices Carry (2017). About his work, Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott said, “Taylor’s is a quiet voice. His poems possess an admirable degree of subtlety, and a tone that keeps him separate and unique.” Currently, he serves on the advisory board of Slapering Hol Press.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1730</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>author,literature,poetry</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/142dafd238d8792550e0afec6d805409.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Natwar Gandhi</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/natwar-gandhi--19331794</link><description><![CDATA[Natwar Gandhi served Washington, DC, as tax commissioner and independent chief financial officer. This book narrates his journey from a primitive Indian town—no paved streets, electricity, telephone or running water—to Mumbai and then, through hard work, determination and good luck, to New York. After academic and corporate stints, Gandhi became the CFO of America's capital and played a significant role in stabilizing the city's finances, transforming it from a deficit-plagued jurisdiction into a financially healthy municipality. Still the Promised Land provides an uplifting message for present-day America, where immigrants are often reviled and immigration is viewed as bad for the country.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/19331794</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2019 00:27:43 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/19331794/nat_gandhi.mp3" length="27711735" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Grace Cavalieri</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Natwar Gandhi served Washington, DC, as tax commissioner and independent chief financial officer. This book narrates his journey from a primitive Indian town—no paved streets, electricity, telephone or running water—to Mumbai and then, through hard...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Natwar Gandhi served Washington, DC, as tax commissioner and independent chief financial officer. This book narrates his journey from a primitive Indian town—no paved streets, electricity, telephone or running water—to Mumbai and then, through hard work, determination and good luck, to New York. After academic and corporate stints, Gandhi became the CFO of America's capital and played a significant role in stabilizing the city's finances, transforming it from a deficit-plagued jurisdiction into a financially healthy municipality. Still the Promised Land provides an uplifting message for present-day America, where immigrants are often reviled and immigration is viewed as bad for the country.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1736</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>author,literature,poem,poet,poetry</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/142dafd238d8792550e0afec6d805409.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Joy Harjo</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/joy-harjo--19331790</link><description><![CDATA[Joy Harjo is a poet, musician, and author. She is also the first Native American United States Poet Laureate. She is an important figure in the second wave of the literary Native American Renaissance of the late twentieth century. She studied at the Institute of American Indian Arts, completed her undergraduate degree at University of New Mexico in 1976, and earned an M.F.A. at the University of Iowa in its Creative Writing Program.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/19331790</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2019 00:26:55 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/19331790/joy_harjo.mp3" length="27497814" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Grace Cavalieri</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Joy Harjo is a poet, musician, and author. She is also the first Native American United States Poet Laureate. She is an important figure in the second wave of the literary Native American Renaissance of the late twentieth century. She studied at the...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Joy Harjo is a poet, musician, and author. She is also the first Native American United States Poet Laureate. She is an important figure in the second wave of the literary Native American Renaissance of the late twentieth century. She studied at the Institute of American Indian Arts, completed her undergraduate degree at University of New Mexico in 1976, and earned an M.F.A. at the University of Iowa in its Creative Writing Program.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1723</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>author,literature,poem,poet,poetry</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/142dafd238d8792550e0afec6d805409.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Nancy Mitchell</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/nancy-mitchell--18948569</link><description><![CDATA[Nancy Mitchell is a Pushcart Prize recipient and the author of The Near Surround, Grief Hut, and The Out-of-Body Shop, and co-editor of Plume Interviews 1. Her poems have appeared in journals such as Agni, Green Mountains Review, Poetry Daily, Washington Square Review and have been anthologized in Last Call (Sarabande Books) The Working Poet (Autumn House Press) and Plume 3, 4, 5 & 7.<br /><br />She has been awarded artist in residence fellowships at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in San Angelo, Virginia and Auvillar, France, and at Spring Creek, Oregon State University. She taught Creative Writing for Maryland Summer Center for Arts, 2012-2014, and in the Environmental Studies Program and English Department at Salisbury University where she produced the annual Fulton School of the Arts festival WORDSTOCK. Mitchell currently teaches for CELL at Salisbury University in Maryland, and serves as Associate Editor of Special Features and Interviews for Plume Poetry. She is the Poet Laureate of Salisbury, Maryland.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/18948569</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2019 14:23:39 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/18948569/nancy_mitchell.mp3" length="25380288" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Grace Cavalieri</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Nancy Mitchell is a Pushcart Prize recipient and the author of The Near Surround, Grief Hut, and The Out-of-Body Shop, and co-editor of Plume Interviews 1. Her poems have appeared in journals such as Agni, Green Mountains Review, Poetry Daily,...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Nancy Mitchell is a Pushcart Prize recipient and the author of The Near Surround, Grief Hut, and The Out-of-Body Shop, and co-editor of Plume Interviews 1. Her poems have appeared in journals such as Agni, Green Mountains Review, Poetry Daily, Washington Square Review and have been anthologized in Last Call (Sarabande Books) The Working Poet (Autumn House Press) and Plume 3, 4, 5 & 7.<br /><br />She has been awarded artist in residence fellowships at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in San Angelo, Virginia and Auvillar, France, and at Spring Creek, Oregon State University. She taught Creative Writing for Maryland Summer Center for Arts, 2012-2014, and in the Environmental Studies Program and English Department at Salisbury University where she produced the annual Fulton School of the Arts festival WORDSTOCK. Mitchell currently teaches for CELL at Salisbury University in Maryland, and serves as Associate Editor of Special Features and Interviews for Plume Poetry. She is the Poet Laureate of Salisbury, Maryland.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1590</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>author,literature,poem,poet,poetry</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/142dafd238d8792550e0afec6d805409.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Celeste Doaks</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/celeste-doaks--18948570</link><description><![CDATA[Poet and journalist Celeste Doaks is the author of Cornrows and Cornfields<br />(Wrecking Ball Press, UK, 2015). She is also the editor of (and contributor in) the<br />poetry anthology Not Without Our Laughter: Poems of Humor, Joy, and Sexuality<br />(Mason Jar Press, 2017). Her chapbook, American Herstory (Backbone Press,<br />2019), contains poems about Michelle Obama and the art she chose for the<br />White House walls. American Herstory was Backbone Press’s first runner-up<br />prize winner. Her journalism has appeared in Huffington Post, Village Voice,<br />Time Out New York, and QBR (Quarterly Black Book Review). She is a Pushcart<br />Prize nominee; her poems have been published in on-line and print publications<br />such as The Rumpus, Chicago Quarterly Review, Asheville Poetry Review,<br />Baltimore Magazine, Bayou Magazine and others. In the fall of 2017, she<br />received a Rubys Literary Arts Grant for her, Grey Matter, her poetry manuscript-<br />in-progress. Doaks received her M.F.A. from North Carolina State University and<br />is the 2017-2020 Visiting Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at University of<br />Delaware.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/18948570</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2019 14:23:05 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/18948570/celeste_doaks.mp3" length="27714654" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Grace Cavalieri</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Poet and journalist Celeste Doaks is the author of Cornrows and Cornfields
(Wrecking Ball Press, UK, 2015). She is also the editor of (and contributor in) the
poetry anthology Not Without Our Laughter: Poems of Humor, Joy, and Sexuality
(Mason Jar...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Poet and journalist Celeste Doaks is the author of Cornrows and Cornfields<br />(Wrecking Ball Press, UK, 2015). She is also the editor of (and contributor in) the<br />poetry anthology Not Without Our Laughter: Poems of Humor, Joy, and Sexuality<br />(Mason Jar Press, 2017). Her chapbook, American Herstory (Backbone Press,<br />2019), contains poems about Michelle Obama and the art she chose for the<br />White House walls. American Herstory was Backbone Press’s first runner-up<br />prize winner. Her journalism has appeared in Huffington Post, Village Voice,<br />Time Out New York, and QBR (Quarterly Black Book Review). She is a Pushcart<br />Prize nominee; her poems have been published in on-line and print publications<br />such as The Rumpus, Chicago Quarterly Review, Asheville Poetry Review,<br />Baltimore Magazine, Bayou Magazine and others. In the fall of 2017, she<br />received a Rubys Literary Arts Grant for her, Grey Matter, her poetry manuscript-<br />in-progress. Doaks received her M.F.A. from North Carolina State University and<br />is the 2017-2020 Visiting Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at University of<br />Delaware.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1737</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>author,literature,poem,poet,poetry</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/142dafd238d8792550e0afec6d805409.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Linda Pastan</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/linda-pastan--18621917</link><description><![CDATA[Linda Pastan grew up in New York City, graduated from Radcliffe College in 1954, and received an MA from Brandeis University. She has published 15 volumes of poetry, most recently Insomnia which won the Towson University Literary Award and A Dog Runs Through It. Two of her books have been finalists for the National Book Award, one for The Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She taught for several years at American University and was on the staff of the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference for 20 years. She is a past Poet Laureate of Maryland. Pastan has won numerous awards, including The Radcliffe Distinguished Alumni Award and The Maurice English Award. In 2003 she won the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for lifetime achievement. Pastan lives with her husband in Maryland. They have 3 children and 7 grandchildren.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/18621917</guid><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2019 15:41:22 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/18621917/linda_pastan.mp3" length="27781374" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Grace Cavalieri</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Linda Pastan grew up in New York City, graduated from Radcliffe College in 1954, and received an MA from Brandeis University. She has published 15 volumes of poetry, most recently Insomnia which won the Towson University Literary Award and A Dog Runs...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Linda Pastan grew up in New York City, graduated from Radcliffe College in 1954, and received an MA from Brandeis University. She has published 15 volumes of poetry, most recently Insomnia which won the Towson University Literary Award and A Dog Runs Through It. Two of her books have been finalists for the National Book Award, one for The Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She taught for several years at American University and was on the staff of the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference for 20 years. She is a past Poet Laureate of Maryland. Pastan has won numerous awards, including The Radcliffe Distinguished Alumni Award and The Maurice English Award. In 2003 she won the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for lifetime achievement. Pastan lives with her husband in Maryland. They have 3 children and 7 grandchildren.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1741</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>author,literature,poem,poet</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/142dafd238d8792550e0afec6d805409.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Wendy Lesser</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/wendy-lesser--18621902</link><description><![CDATA[Wendy Lesser is the founder and editor of the Threepenny Review and the author of a novel and several previous books of nonfiction, including Why I Read (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014). She has written for the New York Times Book Review, London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, and other publications. To complete this biography, she was awarded one of the first National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar awards, the only one given to a Californian in 2015.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/18621902</guid><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2019 15:39:28 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/18621902/wendy_lesser.mp3" length="27752184" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Grace Cavalieri</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Wendy Lesser is the founder and editor of the Threepenny Review and the author of a novel and several previous books of nonfiction, including Why I Read (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014). She has written for the New York Times Book Review, London...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Wendy Lesser is the founder and editor of the Threepenny Review and the author of a novel and several previous books of nonfiction, including Why I Read (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014). She has written for the New York Times Book Review, London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, and other publications. To complete this biography, she was awarded one of the first National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar awards, the only one given to a Californian in 2015.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1739</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>author,literature,poem,poet</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/142dafd238d8792550e0afec6d805409.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>David Gewanter</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/david-gewanter--18621895</link><description><![CDATA[David Gewanter is author of four books of poetry: Fort Necessity (Spring 2018), War Bird (2009), The Sleep of Reason (2003), and In the Belly (1997),all published by the University of Chicago Press; and co-editor, with Frank Bidart, of Robert Lowell: Collected Poems (Farrar Straus & Giroux, Faber & Faber, 2003; paperback, 2007). He earned a B.A. in Intellectual History from the University of Michigan, an M.A. and Ph.D. in English at U.C. Berkeley, and then ran writing programs at Harvard. Book awards include: the John C. Zacharis first book prize, Ploughshares (for In the Belly); finalist, James Laughlin Award, American Academy of Poets (for The Sleep of Reason); the Ambassador Book Award, English Speaking Union - US, and the Contemporary Poetry Review Book of the Yearо (for Robert Lowell: Collected Poems).]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/18621895</guid><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2019 15:37:59 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/18621895/david_gewanter_1.mp3" length="27801577" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Grace Cavalieri</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>David Gewanter is author of four books of poetry: Fort Necessity (Spring 2018), War Bird (2009), The Sleep of Reason (2003), and In the Belly (1997),all published by the University of Chicago Press; and co-editor, with Frank Bidart, of Robert Lowell:...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[David Gewanter is author of four books of poetry: Fort Necessity (Spring 2018), War Bird (2009), The Sleep of Reason (2003), and In the Belly (1997),all published by the University of Chicago Press; and co-editor, with Frank Bidart, of Robert Lowell: Collected Poems (Farrar Straus & Giroux, Faber & Faber, 2003; paperback, 2007). He earned a B.A. in Intellectual History from the University of Michigan, an M.A. and Ph.D. in English at U.C. Berkeley, and then ran writing programs at Harvard. Book awards include: the John C. Zacharis first book prize, Ploughshares (for In the Belly); finalist, James Laughlin Award, American Academy of Poets (for The Sleep of Reason); the Ambassador Book Award, English Speaking Union - US, and the Contemporary Poetry Review Book of the Yearо (for Robert Lowell: Collected Poems).]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1742</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>author,literature,poem,poet</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/142dafd238d8792550e0afec6d805409.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Xuhua Liang</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/xuhua-liang--18621887</link><description><![CDATA[Dr. Xuhua Liang was born in a beautiful island in the southern China: Xiamen (Amoy), Fujian Province. During the political turmoil of Chinese Culture Revolution, her mother passed away. Raised by her grandparents, she was deeply influenced by her uncles and the Chinese traditional literature. Even though she only had a basic education for six years, she passed with flying color the rigorous national college entrance exam of China in 1977 and entered into the most prestigious language university in China: Beijing Foreign Languages Institute (today's Beijing Foreign Studies University). After graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish, she worked as a full time translator at China Foreign Language Publishing Administration. Later she passed with high score the national exam for the master program of Latin American literature at her Alma Mater. Two years later, she received a full scholarship to study Latin American literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She received the Master and Ph.D. Degree in Latin American Literature from SUNY at Stony Brook. She was the first woman Ph.D. in Hispanic Literature in China. During her thirty one years in the U.S., she devoted herself completely to the teaching of Spanish language and literature. She has taught at different state universities and private colleges to American and international students. Due to her family relocation, she left New York and moved to Bethesda near Washington DC, where she has been teaching Spanish language and college Spanish literature courses at Montgomery County Public Schools.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/18621887</guid><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2019 15:37:01 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/18621887/xuhualiang.mp3" length="27441519" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Grace Cavalieri</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Dr. Xuhua Liang was born in a beautiful island in the southern China: Xiamen (Amoy), Fujian Province. During the political turmoil of Chinese Culture Revolution, her mother passed away. Raised by her grandparents, she was deeply influenced by her...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Dr. Xuhua Liang was born in a beautiful island in the southern China: Xiamen (Amoy), Fujian Province. During the political turmoil of Chinese Culture Revolution, her mother passed away. Raised by her grandparents, she was deeply influenced by her uncles and the Chinese traditional literature. Even though she only had a basic education for six years, she passed with flying color the rigorous national college entrance exam of China in 1977 and entered into the most prestigious language university in China: Beijing Foreign Languages Institute (today's Beijing Foreign Studies University). After graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish, she worked as a full time translator at China Foreign Language Publishing Administration. Later she passed with high score the national exam for the master program of Latin American literature at her Alma Mater. Two years later, she received a full scholarship to study Latin American literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She received the Master and Ph.D. Degree in Latin American Literature from SUNY at Stony Brook. She was the first woman Ph.D. in Hispanic Literature in China. During her thirty one years in the U.S., she devoted herself completely to the teaching of Spanish language and literature. She has taught at different state universities and private colleges to American and international students. Due to her family relocation, she left New York and moved to Bethesda near Washington DC, where she has been teaching Spanish language and college Spanish literature courses at Montgomery County Public Schools.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1720</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>author,literature,poem,poet</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/142dafd238d8792550e0afec6d805409.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Erica Wright</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/erica-wright--18621870</link><description><![CDATA[Erica Wright is the author of the poetry collections All the Bayou Stories End with Drowned (Black Lawrence Press) and Instructions for Killing the Jackal (Black Lawrence Press). Her poems have appeared in Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, Gulf Coast, New Orleans Review, and elsewhere. She is the poetry editor at Guernica Magazine as well as a former editorial board member of Alice James Books. Her debut crime novel, The Red Chameleon (Pegasus Books), was one of O: The Oprah Magazine's Best Books of the Summer in 2014. Her new novel, The Blue Kingfisher (Polis Books), will be released this fall, 2018.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/18621870</guid><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2019 15:35:31 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/18621870/erica_wright.mp3" length="27144615" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Grace Cavalieri</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Erica Wright is the author of the poetry collections All the Bayou Stories End with Drowned (Black Lawrence Press) and Instructions for Killing the Jackal (Black Lawrence Press). Her poems have appeared in Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, Gulf Coast, New...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Erica Wright is the author of the poetry collections All the Bayou Stories End with Drowned (Black Lawrence Press) and Instructions for Killing the Jackal (Black Lawrence Press). Her poems have appeared in Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, Gulf Coast, New Orleans Review, and elsewhere. She is the poetry editor at Guernica Magazine as well as a former editorial board member of Alice James Books. Her debut crime novel, The Red Chameleon (Pegasus Books), was one of O: The Oprah Magazine's Best Books of the Summer in 2014. Her new novel, The Blue Kingfisher (Polis Books), will be released this fall, 2018.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1701</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>author,literature,poem,poet</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/142dafd238d8792550e0afec6d805409.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Susan Orlean</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/susan-orlean--18250848</link><description><![CDATA[Susan Orlean's The Library Book received The Marfield Award for Writing in the Arts.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/18250848</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2019 15:57:27 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/18250848/susan_orlean.mp3" length="27620412" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Grace Cavalieri</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Susan Orlean's The Library Book received The Marfield Award for Writing in the Arts.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Susan Orlean's The Library Book received The Marfield Award for Writing in the Arts.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1731</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>author,literature,poem,poet,poetry</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/142dafd238d8792550e0afec6d805409.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Judith Farr</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/judith-farr--18203953</link><description><![CDATA[Judith Farr is a well known poems Dickinson scholar and the author of poems, "What Lies Beyond."]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/18203953</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2019 13:47:05 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/18203953/judith_farr.mp3" length="27701727" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Grace Cavalieri</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Judith Farr is a well known poems Dickinson scholar and the author of poems, "What Lies Beyond."</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Judith Farr is a well known poems Dickinson scholar and the author of poems, "What Lies Beyond."]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1736</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>author,literature,poem,poet,poetry</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/142dafd238d8792550e0afec6d805409.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Seema Reza</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/seema-reza--17921318</link><description><![CDATA[Seema Reza is a poet and poetry activist working with veterans and galvanizing arts communities in Washington, Maryland, and Virginia.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/17921318</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2019 01:48:00 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/17921318/seema_reza.mp3" length="27176307" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Grace Cavalieri</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Seema Reza is a poet and poetry activist working with veterans and galvanizing arts communities in Washington, Maryland, and Virginia.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Seema Reza is a poet and poetry activist working with veterans and galvanizing arts communities in Washington, Maryland, and Virginia.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1703</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>activist,author,literature,poem,poet,poetry</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/142dafd238d8792550e0afec6d805409.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Steven Leyva</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/steven-leyva--17921316</link><description><![CDATA[Steven Leyva is an Assistant Professor at the University of Baltimore's School of Communications Design.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/17921316</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2019 01:46:43 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/17921316/steven_leyva.mp3" length="27795135" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Grace Cavalieri</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Steven Leyva is an Assistant Professor at the University of Baltimore's School of Communications Design.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Steven Leyva is an Assistant Professor at the University of Baltimore's School of Communications Design.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1742</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>author,literature,poem,poet,poetry</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/142dafd238d8792550e0afec6d805409.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>W.S. Merwin</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/w-s-merwin--17474140</link><description><![CDATA[Blue Eyes Wide Open, in reverence.<br />W.S. Merwin, 17th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry (1927-2019)]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/17474140</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2019 15:07:38 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/17474140/poet_poem_wsmerwin2_1.mp3" length="56631993" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Grace Cavalieri</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Blue Eyes Wide Open, in reverence.
W.S. Merwin, 17th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry (1927-2019)</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Blue Eyes Wide Open, in reverence.<br />W.S. 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Kevin Gordon transfers his poetry to powerful lyrics in his original country rock compositions.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1734</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>author,literature,poem,poetry</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/142dafd238d8792550e0afec6d805409.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Margo Jefferson</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/margo-jefferson--14692614</link><description><![CDATA[The stress and pressures of being black upper class is chronicled in this national Marfield Prize Book for writing in the Arts. 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She also holds graduate degrees in social work, (The University of Maryland School of Social Work & Community Planning), as well as in dramatic arts from West Virginia University. Her poems have also been adapted for the stage.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/14603235</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2018 01:44:54 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/14603235/sandra_evans_falconer.mp3" length="27782625" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Grace Cavalieri</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Sandra Evans Falconer writes about breast cancer, but it’s hardly a downer. With her talent, she puts light around a serious experience with energy, fresh language, and terrific conversation. Poetry revitalizes and this show proves it. Sandra holds an...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Sandra Evans Falconer writes about breast cancer, but it’s hardly a downer. With her talent, she puts light around a serious experience with energy, fresh language, and terrific conversation. Poetry revitalizes and this show proves it. Sandra holds an MFA in Writing (poetry), from Spalding University. She also holds graduate degrees in social work, (The University of Maryland School of Social Work & Community Planning), as well as in dramatic arts from West Virginia University. Her poems have also been adapted for the stage.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1741</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>literature,poem,poetry</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/142dafd238d8792550e0afec6d805409.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Chad Frame</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/chad-frame--14603232</link><description><![CDATA[Chad Frame writes of being a gay man. His work is humorous and elegant and we wonder if gay poetry is its own genre. Then, is women’s poetry? Black poetry?  Or is it all one long conversation. Chad Frame earned his MFA at Arcadia University. He’s the Poet Laureate of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, the Poetry Editor of Ovunque Siamo: New Italian-American Writing, the founder of the Margins panel of diverse artist voices, and a member of No River Twice, a poetry improv performance troupe. Chad Frame earned his MFA at Arcadia University. His work has appeared in various journals.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/14603232</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2018 01:42:54 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/14603232/chadframe.mp3" length="26614795" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Grace Cavalieri</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Chad Frame writes of being a gay man. His work is humorous and elegant and we wonder if gay poetry is its own genre. 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His work has appeared in various journals.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1668</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>literature,poem,poetry</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/142dafd238d8792550e0afec6d805409.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Tracy K. Smith</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/tracy-k-smith--14603221</link><description><![CDATA[Tracy K. Smith is the current U.S.Poet Laureate, the 4th African American to hold the poet, mother of three, teacher, and Pulitzer Prize poet. Smith blends technology and science to answer bigger questions that perplex her. Her dad, an engineer, worked on The Hubble Telescope. Smith discusses the personal reasons that are behind her writing. 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One of America’s favorite poets.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1739</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>literature,poem,poetlaureate,poetry</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/142dafd238d8792550e0afec6d805409.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item></channel></rss>
