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Join Rachelle as she talks to Tara Betts Tara Betts is the author of Arc and Hue. Tara is a Cave Canem fellow and a graduate of the New England College MFA Program. She currently teaches at Rutgers University and leads community-based workshops with teens and other groups. Tara's work has appeared in Essence magazine, Black Renaissance Noire, Hanging Loose, Ninth Letter, Obsidian III, Callaloo, and Columbia Poetry Review, Gathering Ground, Bum Rush the Page, and both Spoken Word Revolution anthologies. She is also a poetry editor for The November 3rd Club, an online journal of political writing.

join Roy as he talks to Denise Giardina Denise Giardina Emily’s Ghost A Novel of the Brontë Sisters A lustrous, beautifully written reimagining of the Brontë family—and of Emily Brontë’s passionate engagement with life. Enigmatic, intelligent, and fiercely independent, Emily Brontë refuses to bow to the conventions of her day: she is distrustful of marriage, prefers freedom above all else, and walks alone at night on the moors above the isolated rural village of Haworth. But Emily’s life, along with the rest of the Brontë family, is turned upside down with the arrival of an idealistic clergyman named William Weightman. Weightman champions poor mill workers’ rights, mingles with radical labor agitators, and captivates Haworth—and the Brontës especially—with his energy and charm. An improbable friendship between Weightman and Emily develops into a fiery but unconsummated love affair—and when tragedy strikes, the relationship continues, like the love story at the heart of Wuthering Heights, beyond the grav Denise Giardina, whose fiction has been described as “brilliant . . . heart-wrenching, tough and tender” (Los Angeles Times Book Review), writes a stirring story about faith, passion, longing, and romantic solitude. Denise Giardina is the author of Storming Heaven and Saints and Villains, which won the Boston Book Review Prize. She is an ordained deacon in the Episcopal Church and lives in Charleston, West Virginia. cover image

Tonight we are privileged to review selected poems from two books by Don L. Lee/Haki R. Madhubuti "think black!" From Broadside Press and "Run Toward Fear New Poems and a Poet’s Handbook"

Join Rafael as he talks to Katayoon Zandvakili Katayoon Zandvakili was born in Tehran and now lives in Oakland, California. Her collection of poetry, Deer Table Legs, won the University of Georgia Press Contemporary Poetry Series prize in 1998; the book’s title poem won a Pushcart Prize in 2000. Zandvakili’s work has been widely published and anthologized. The piece excerpted here is from a memoir in progress, titled In the Lap of the Gods: My Eight-&-a-Half-Month Marriage to an Impostor.

Host, Stacey Mangiaracina speaks with author, John Dufresne about his highly rated book "Requiem Mass"

A.K. reviews finishing line press books