This week's Figure of Speech features two poets, Lauren Burgess and Geoff Munsterman:
"Lauren Burgess is a recent graduate of UNO with interests in linguistics, cats, death, fear, and particle physics. She strives to write accessible, imagistic poetry with a layered with dark humor."
And on Bill Lavender's second edition of the Writer's Retreat:
"Geoff Munsterman hails from Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. His work has been published in The Double Dealer, story|south, Steel Toe Review, Margie, The Levee Review, The Raging Pelican, Poets for Living Waters, The Southern Poetry Anthology, Spillway Review, The New Laurel Review, and Solid Quarter. His debut collection, Because the Stars Shine Through It, came out Fall 2013 from Lavender Ink in New Orleans. He can often be found at Faulkner House Books recommending Tom Franklin novels to customers or hard at work writing his follow-up poems in the Bywater coffee shop and art gallery Flora’s."
This show and the work featured in it is archived with permission from the above writers. Originally aired on November 18th 2017.