Originally aired on November 4th 2019.

Should New Orleans' Trumpet Players be paying closer attention to their risk factors and family history? What happens to your cornea after LASIK? Could there be a scandalous underside to the droplet size of prescription Glaucoma Eye Drops?

Anne sits down with Glaucoma specialist, Dr. Lena Al-Dujaili to untangle Eye Health in the next installment of our discussion series.

Originally aired on October 21st 2019.

Originally aired on October 30th 2019.

A writer of plays, poems, and fiction, Dalt Wonk lives in New Orleans. The city has inspired many of his works: French Quarter Fables, The Riddles of Existence, Spiritual Gifts, and his children’s book, The Laughing Lady (which he also illustrated). These can be viewed and purchased from lunapress.com. His plays have been produced in New York, London, Munich, and San Francisco. He has collaborated with R&B musician Charles Neville (of The Neville Brothers), and jazz composers Alvin Batiste and Julius Hemphill (of the World Saxophone Quartet). Wonk taught creative writing to inmates at the Orleans Parish Prison, and was drama critic for Gambit Weekly and WWNO, the New Orleans National Public Radio station.

Upcoming Events: Luna Press Book Launch & Signing-- Thursday, December 19, 5-8pm at Nadine Blake - 1036 Royal St.

* several books will be available

Luna Press Purchase Info: purchases can be made at www.lunapress.com, local bookstores, and Amazon.

Originally aired on November 2nd 2019.

Originally aired on October 16th 2019.

David speaks with Drs. Debbie Reese and Jean Mendoza about AN INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES (FOR YOUNG PEOPLE). Originally aired on October 17th 2019.

Originally aired on October 10th 2019.

Skye Jackson was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. She holds degrees from LSU and Mississippi College School of Law. She is an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of New Orleans Creative Writing Workshop where she currently serves as an Associate Poetry Editor of Bayou Magazine. She also co-edited The Portable Boog Reader, an instant anthology of poetry based in New York City with a focus on New Orleans writers. Her work has appeared in the Delta Literary Journal and Thought Catalog. Her prize-winning chapbook, A Faster Grave, was published in May 2019 by Antenna Press. She has taught at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts and currently teaches at the University of New Orleans.

My chapbook can be purchased in New Orleans at Antenna Gallery, Paper Machine, Garden District Book Shop, Malvern Books in Austin, TX or online at www.antenna.works.

Upcoming events:

On Friday, November 22nd 2019, I will be featured at the New Orleans Words and Music Literary Festival, as part of the late night literature session, "Poets Respond to Gentrification."

Originally aired on September 28th 2019.

Originally aired on September 26th 2019.

Originally aired on September 23rd 2019.