This month’s show is very exciting. Poets Sandra Beasley and Kyle Dargan will be in-studio with me. See below for a some information on the poets.
Sandra Beasley is the author of I Was the Jukebox, winner of the 2009 Barnard Women Poets Prize, selected by Joy Harjo and forthcoming from W. W. Norton. Her first collection, Theories of Falling, won the 2007 New Issues Poetry Prize judged by Marie Howe. Honors include the Friends of Literature Prize from the Poetry Foundation, the Maureen Egen Exchange Award from Poets & Writers, and fellowships to the Sewanee Writer’s Conference, VCCA, and the Millay Colony. She lives in Washington, D.C., where she is working on Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life, a nonfiction book forthcoming from Crown.
Kyle G. Dargan is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at American University and the founding editor of POST NO ILLS magazine. His debut collection of poems, The Listening, won the 2003 Cave Canem Prize, and his second collection, Bouquet of Hungers, was awarded the 2008 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in poetry. His poems and non-fiction have appeared in publications such as Callaloo, Denver Quarterly, The Newark Star-Ledger, Ploughshares, The Root, and Shenandoah. He has received fellowships to attend the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and The Fine Arts Work Center.
