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join Rafael as he talks to Michelle Mitchell-Foust Michelle Mitchell-Foust received her Ph.D. in Creative Writing from the University of Missouri-Columbia, and she is the author of two poetry books, Circassian Girl (Elixir Press) and Imago Mundi (Elixir Press) and two chapbooks, Poets at Seven (Sutton Hoo Press) and Exile (Sangha Press). She was the winner of the Elixir Press Poetry Prize, the Nation/”Discovery” Award, the Columbia University Poetry Prize, a Writers At Work Fellowship, the Missouri Arts Council Biennial Award, two University of Missouri-Columbia Creative Writing Fellowships, and an Academy of American Poets Prize. Her first book, Circassian Girl, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Her work has appeared in The Nation, The Washington Post, Antioch Review, and Colorado Review, among many other magazines, and her work has been anthologized in Wild Flowers Every Year (James Publishing), Chapter and Verse (HWA), New Voices: University and College Poetry Prizes (The Academy of American Poets), The Best of Writers at Work Anthology (Pecan Grove Press), and The Missouri Arts Council Biennial Anthology (The Missouri Review), She has edited several literary and scholarly journals, including The Missouri Review and Oral Tradition. She was an American Poet in Residence at the Poets’ House in Donegal, Ireland for ten years as well as being a founder/coordinator of the Casa Romantica Reading Series, and she has just finished a graduate degree in mathematics education at the University of California-Irvine. She teaches Geometry at Lorin Griset Academy and lives in Dana Point, California with her husband Kevin.

Join Rachelle as she talks to Poet R AC H E L M C K I B B E N S is an ex-punk rock chola with five children. Known for her astonishingly visceral stage presence and devotion to craft, McKibbens has become one of the most respected poets in the spoken word community. She is the 2009 Women of the World poetry slam champion, is an eight-time National Poetry Slam team member, a three-time NPS finalist, and a 2007 New York Foundation for the Arts poetry fellow and Pushcart nominee. For four years, she co-curated the award-winning louderARTS Project reading series in New York City, coaching their poetry slam team to three consecutive National Poetry Slam final stages. She teaches poetry and creative writing throughout the country, from housing projects and needle exchanges to high schools, hospitals and universities. McKibbens was a mentor for Urban Word NYC, teaching poetry at Bellevue Hospital through The Healing Arts Program, targeting at-risk youth. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including The Acentos Review, The November 3rd Club, Frigg Magazine, The Pedestal Magazine, Melusine, Wicked Alice, World Literature Today, Bowery Women: Poems, and So Luminous, the Wildflowers. She co-wrote the play-in-verse Eight Chamber Hunger Orchestra which premiered at the Bowery Poetry Club in Spring of 2007 to a capacity crowd. She has shared stages with Nikki Giovanni, Kanye West, Billy Collins, Martin Espada, Ellyn Maybe, Eve Ensler and Nick Flynn. She was featured in the slam documentary, Slam Planet

Host, S.A. Griffin talks with poets Scott Wannberg about his new book, "Strange Movie Full of Death" and David Smith about his new book, "White Time". They will also discuss their upcoming poetry readings/book signings in Los Angeles on Oct 10th at Skylight Books in Silverlake and at Beyond Baroque on Oct 11th with Ellyn Maybe. Be sure to check it out 'cause ya never know whatcha might miss with these boys...

Tonight on The Reading Is Poetry Review A. K. Toney will review "Clean, Well-lighted Sentences: A guide to avoiding the most common errors in Grammar and Punctuation" by Janis Bell from W.W. Norton & Co., 2008.

Tune in and listen to Rachelle discuss poetry with Kim Addonizio.

A. K. Toney Reviews Poetry from Tupac Shakur's CD and Book "The Rose that Grew from Concrete" Remebering the 13th Anniversary of Tupac's death. Join A. K. Toney as he takes us throught the heart and mind of Tupac Shakur.