LISA ALVARADO, AMARANTH BORSUK, HÉLÈNE CARDONA, KATE DURBIN , JOHN FITZGERALD, NAOMI SHIHAB NYE, ROBERT PINSKY: Featured Poets at World Wide Word Radio Network
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Thursday June 19
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FOR THE LOVE OF POETRY
Hosted by Cassandra Love:
A conversation with Naomi Shihab Nye
Naomi Shihab Nye is author or editor of more than 27 books — poems, essays, children’s books, seven anthologies of poetry from around the world for young readers and, most recently, Honeybee. Palestinian-American, and a resident of San Antonio, Texas, she travels widely for talks and workshops.
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EASY SPEAK with Doug Knott in conversation with Robert Pinsky, former Poet Laureate of the United States (1997-2000), and author of Gulf Music.
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THE MOE GREEN POETRY HOUR
Join Rafael F. J. Alvarado (a.k.a. Moe Green) and Kate Durbin as they feature the poetry of Lisa Alvarado.
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Sunday, June 22
A SUNDAY AFTERNOON OF POETRY AT THE AMSTERDAM CAFÉ
hosted By Rafael F J Alvarado
at 3 pm
Amaranth Borsuk
Hélène Cardona
Kate Durbin
John M. FitzGerald
Amaranth Borsuk is a Ph.D. candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California. Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in ZYZZYVA, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, Denver Quarterly, POOL, and thedrunkenboat.com. She recently placed third in The Atlantic’s student poetry contest, and her manuscript, Pomegranate Eater, has been a semifinalist for the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Four Way Books intro prize, and the Saturnalia Books poetry prize.
A citizen of the United States, France and Spain, Hélène Cardona is fluent in English, French, Spanish, German, Greek and Italian. Born in Paris of a Greek mother and Spanish father and raised all over Europe, she studied English Philology and Literature in Cambridge, England; Spanish at the International Universities of Santander and Baeza, Spain; and German at the Goethe Institute in Bremen, Germany. She attended Hamilton College, New York, where she also taught French and Spanish, and the Sorbonne, Paris, where she wrote her thesis on Henry James for her Master’s in American Literature. She has worked as a translator/interpreter for the Canadian Embassy and the French Chamber of Commerce. She is also a teacher and dream analyst and has appeared in many films. Her first book, The Astonished Universe, an uplifting and luminous collection of poetry about consciousness, is the first bilingual edition in English and French from Red Hen Press. Richard Wilbur writes that “each poem fully exists in two tongues at once, and this adds to the book’s great charm and visionary quality.”
Kate Durbin’s first collection of poetry, The Ravenous Audience, is forthcoming from Black Goat Press/Akashic Books in Fall 2009. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Drunken Boat, The Ledge Poetry and Fiction Magazine, The Elegant Variation and Boxcar Poetry Review. Currently, Durbin is a staff writer for Asian American Poetry and Writing (http://www.aapw-la.org). Durbin received her MFA from the University of California in Riverside, and is working on a novel.
A dual citizen of the United States and Ireland, John M. FitzGerald is a poet and attorney in Los Angeles. He attended UCLA and the University of West Los Angeles School of Law, where he was editor of the Law Review. His poems have been published in numerous journals and anthologies. Spring Water, a novel in verse, was a Turning Point Prize selection. His second book of poetry,Telling Time by the Shadows, came out in April 2008 from Turning Point Books. His other collections include The Mind, The Charter of Effects, and Question Creation. He has just completed his first novel, Primate, and has turned it into a screenplay. He has lived in England and Italy, and currently resides in Santa Monica. Robert Nazarene, editor of the American Journal of Poetry, says: “Spring Water is to poetry what The Silence of The Lambs is to filmdom: a harrowing, horrifying narrative trip which makes for an absolutely compelling read…brilliantly delivered by one of America’s most promising new poets.”
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