Poet Kevin Prufer talks about his work with Prosody Host Jan Beatty. Author of three books of poetry; Latest book: Fallen from a Chariot by Carnegie Mellon, 2005. Editor of Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing.

Originally aired 09/18/07

Poet Francisco Aragon talks about his work with Prosody Host Ellen Wadey. Poet and translator; Author of book of poems: Puerta del Sol; Founding editor of Momotombo Press, which promotes emerging Latino writers. Originally aired 09/25/07

Poet Robert Strong talks about his work with Prosody Host Jan Beatty. Pertinent Info: Editor of "Joyful Noise: an Anthology of American Spiritual Poetry" by Autumn House Press. Author of the collection of poetry, "Puritan Spectacle" by Elixir Press. Originally aired 05/22/07

Poet Adria Bernardi talks about her work with Prosody Host Ellen Wadey. Bernardi talks about her new novel "Openwork". Originally aired 05/08/07

Poet Douglas Kearney talks about his work with Prosody Host Jan Beatty. Kearney talks about his first collection of poetry Fear, Some. Originally aired 05/1/07

Featuring the winners of the University of Pittsburgh Writer’s Cafe Contest with Prosody Host Jan Beatty. 1st place poetry: Rimma Hussein, 2nd place poetry: Joe Clark. 1st place fiction: Brian Scullion, 2nd place fiction: Erika Suni, 1st place creative non-fiction: Greg Havlicek, 2nd place creative fiction: Grace Amorose. Originally aired 04/24/07

Poet Yama Lake talks about his work with Prosody Host Jan Beatty. Originally aired 05/15/07

Poet John Lawson talks about his work with Prosody Host Jan Beatty. His book is entitled Generations by St. Andrews College Press. Originally aired 04/17/07

Show honoring the life of artist Gilda Meckler, wife of Pittsburgh-born poet James Deahl with Prosody Host Jan Beatty and guests Michael Wurster, Judith Robinson and Rina Ferrarelli. Originally aired 04/10/07

Poet Sonia Sanchez talks about her work with Prosody Host Jan Beatty. Pertinent Info: Sonia Sanchez is the author of more than fourteen books of poetry, including Homegirls and Handgrenades (just re-released by White Pine Press, which won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation); Shake Loose my Skin: New and Selected Poems (1999); Like the Singing Comes Off the Drums: Love Poems (1998); and Does your house have lions? (1995), which was nominated for both the NAACP Image and National Book Critics Circle Award.

Originally aired 04/03/07