WordTemple host Katherine Hastings visits with Nathalie Handal, the author of Poet in Andalucía. This new collection is “a unique recreation, in reverse, of Federico García Lorca’s Poet in New York, considered one of the most significant books ever published about New York City.”

Also - For four years beginning in 1998, Katherine Hastings served as Alcatraz island’s first Docent. Her mission was to research historical documents stored at the old prison and write interpretive programs based on what she found. This month, Hastings presents a number of poems written by former Alcatraz inmates that she included in a program called Writers on the Rock - Inmate Poetry. You'll hear a poem by Rufus Franklin, who murdered an Alcatraz guard during an escape attempt by hitting him in the head with a hammer, a Mother’s Day poem written by the infamous mobster Al Capone, and others.