Jill Kandel's newest book, The Clean Daughter: A Cross-Continental Memoir, is a story about building family across cultural, linguistic, and geographical divides. Kandel’s essays have been published in multiple journals and anthologies and her poems have appeared twice in Rattle. Her first book, So Many Africas: Six Years in a Zambian Village (Autumn House Press, 2015) won the Autumn House Nonfiction Prize and the Sarton Women’s Literary Award. Kandel currently lives with her husband in Fargo/Moorhead, a few blocks away from the Red River. Kandel also blogs about writing and her recovery from brain injury.

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As always, we'll also include live open lines for responses to our weekly prompt or any other poems you'd like to share. A Zoom link will be provided in the chat window during the show before that segment begins.

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This Week's Prompt:

Write a poem about a historical figure most people don’t know. If you like, write the poem from that person’s point of view.

Next Week’s Prompt:

Open a poetry journal to any page. Go to the end of a poem. Use all or part of the last line to begin a new poem.

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