Upcoming Show

On Monday’s show (9/28 from 7-8 EST) we’ll be discussing the notion of “important” poems and where that idea comes from. What poets do you consider important? And what role does the literary establishment play in that decision-making?

To join the conversation to share a favorite poet or  favorite poem, you may call-in at 202-588-0893.

 

Poet Carolyn Joyner will be our guest co-host. Ms. Joyner is a graduate of Johns Hopkins Writing Program. Her work has been published in several publications. She has read her work at several venues, including Heart & Soul Cafe, It’s Your Mug, the House of Ruth, Mangos, Cafe Bloom, Culture Cafe and Sankofa Books and Video. She also performed at the 7th Annual Black Writers conference at Chicago State University. In March of 1998 she toured England with “Collective Voices,” a DC-based Female Poetry Group.

 

 Later in the program, we’ll be talking with Brenda Wineapple, author of the prize-winning literary biography, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higgins. Ms. Wineapple teaches in the MFA programs at Columbia University and The New School in New York City, where she lives with her husband, the composer Michael Dellaira.

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