Episode 56: Deborah L. Davitt

Airdate: July 2023

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Deborah L. Davitt was raised in Nevada, but currently lives in Houston, Texas with her husband and son. Her prize-winning poetry has appeared in over fifty journals, including F&SF and Asimov’s. Her award-winning prose has appeared in venues such as Analog and Lightspeed. For more about her work, including her poetry collections, The Gates of Never and Bounded by Eternity, and her chapbook, From Voyages Unending, please see www.edda-earth.com.

Episode 55: Laurie Kuntz

Airdate: June 2023

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Laurie Kuntz is an award-winning poet and film producer. She taught creative writing and poetry in Japan, Thailand, and the Philippines. Many of her poetic themes are a result of her working with Southeast Asian refugees for over a decade after the Vietnam War years. She has published two poetry collections (The Moon Over My Mother’s House, Finishing Line Press, and Somewhere in the Telling, Mellen Press), and three chapbooks (Talking Me Off The Roof, Kelsay Books, Simple Gestures, Texas Review Press, and Women at the Onsen, Blue Light Press), as well as an ESL reader (The New Arrival, Books 1 & 2, Prentice Hall Publishers). She has poems appearing in The Gyroscope Review, Third Wednesday, Roanoke Review, The Raven’s Perch, One Art, Poetry Breakfast, Panoply, The Southern Poetry Review, Rise Up, Literary Mama, and many other magazines. Her poems have appeared in Black Lives Matter anthologies, and Ukraine War anthologies, and Blue Light Press Anthologies, and Moonstone Anthologies. Her poetry has been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes and one Best of the Net. Her chapbook, Simple Gestures, won the Texas Review Poetry Chapbook Contest and Women at the Onsen won the Blue Light Press Chapbook Contest. She was editor in chief of Blue Muse Magazine and a guest editor of Hunger Mountain Magazine.  She has produced documentaries on the repeal of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Law, and currently is an associate producer for Strangers to Peace, an award winning documentary on the Colombian peace process and reintegration of guerrilla soldiers in Colombia. She is the executive producer of an Emmy winning short narrative film, Posthumous. Recently retired, she lives in an endless summer state of mind. Visit her at: https://lauriekuntz.myportfolio.com/home-1

Episode 53: Joanne Durham

Airdate: June 2023

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Joanne Durham is the author of To Drink from a Wider Bowl, winner of the Sinclair Poetry Prize, published by Evening Street Press in 2022, and On Shifting Shoals, from Kelsay Books, 2023. She won the 2023 Third Wednesday Poetry Contest, and the North Carolina Poetry Society’s Mary Ruffin Poole Award, and has been a finalist or semifinalist in numerous other poetry contests. Her poems appear in dozens of journals and anthologies across the US and other English speaking countries, including Poetry East, Dodging the Rain, Writers Resist, and a Pushcart nomination from Poetry South. She lives on the North Carolina coast, with the ocean as her backyard and muse. You can read about her poetry at www.joannedurham.com.

Episode 51: Jane Muschenetz

Airdate: May 2023

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Jane Muschenetz, a Ukrainian Jewish refugee who arrived in the US as a child, is a 2023 City of Encinitas Exhibiting Artist. Jane was recently recognized for excellence in poetry performance by the County of San Diego. Her debut collection, All the Bad Girls Wear Russian Accents, (Kelsay Books, 2023) was shortlisted for the Jacar Press Chapbook Prize. Jane is the winner of several visual art and literary awards, including the 2022 Good Life Review Poetry Prize. Connect with Jane’s work at her website, www.PalmFrondZoo.com, and in various publications.