
In this podcast, cultural anthropologist Gina Athena Ulysse read from her poetry and discusses the narratives of her homeland Haiti, and how she strives to develop new stories in spoken word and performance poetry.

In this podcast, cultural anthropologist Gina Athena Ulysse read from her poetry and discusses the narratives of her homeland Haiti, and how she strives to develop new stories in spoken word and performance poetry.

In this podcast, Thaisa Frank reads from her novel Heidegger’s Glasses and discusses how “her intuition led her to write about circumstances that were grounded in factual events, but of which she had no knowledge at the time.”

Khadijah Queen reads from her collection, Black Peculiar, and discusses her poetry with Claire Hart in this One World Café podcast.

Naomi Benaron, winner of the 2010 Bellwether Prize for Fiction, discusses social justice and reads from her novel, Running the Rift.

Rachel Eliza Griffiths reads from her poetry, talks with Claire Hart, and shares two of her poem videos for Her Circle Ezine’s One World Café Virtual Reading Series.

Saher Alam reads from her novel The Groom To Have Been, which was awarded the Janet Kafka Heidinger Prize for fiction by an American woman in 2008. She discusses her book as well as immigration, homelands and family with Claire Hart in a new One World Café interview.

One World Cafe Virtual Reading Series presents Lauren Nicole Nixon. She talks with Claire Hart about poetry and dance in a podcast interview.

In this One World Café podcast, Traci Brimhall reads from Our Lady of the Ruins and discusses for the first time the collection that won her the 2011 Barnard Women Poets Prize.

February 15, 2012 from One World Cafe
In this podcast, cultural anthropologist Gina Athena Ulysse read from her poetry and discusses the narratives of her homeland Haiti, and how she strives to develop new stories in spoken word and performance poetry.

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