poetry

Shiori was born in Tokyo six years after the end of World War II.  She’s the daughter of an American father and a Japanese mother, and her family moved to the US when she was a toddler.  Shiori joins The Signal’s Aaron Henkin to share from her poetry collection, The Girl Who Loved Mothra

April 10, 2013

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March 11, 2013

They say everyone’s Irish on St. Patrick’s Day. At least they try, as we’ll see this Sunday.

Some folks try all year round, as you'll hear in this story from Owings Mills writer Elizabeth Bastos.

Curious about Curiosity? We hear what the Mars rover has found, and how scientists discovered a former underground lake on the red planet.

Erskine Bowles,half the Simpson-Bowles deficit-cutting duo,says so far we’ve made the “easy, stupid” cuts.He explains what needs to be done.

We speaks with Poet Jehanne Dubrow, whose new book, "Red Army Red,” is based on her experience as a child of diplomats in Communist Eastern Europe.

The poet Jehanne Dubrow spent time as a child with her American diplomat parents in Soviet eastern Europe.

Her latest collection of poetry is called Red Army Red, and the drama and absurdity of life behind the Iron Curtain jumps off the page.

Undergarments of the Soviet Era

Since Facebook announced a new tool that allows users to announce their status as organ donors, there has been a spike in numbers of organ donors. We talk with transplant surgeon Andrew Cameron about this new trend.

Michael Collier is the former poet laureate of Maryland. He teaches on the faculty of the University of Maryland, College Park, and he directs the Breadloaf Writers Conference in Vermont. He has been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Web Extra: Michael Collier reads his poem "Six Lines for Louise Bogan"

Tom Hall talks with Baltimore writer Mary Jo Salter about the poetry in the lyrics of Sondheim, the process of writing a poem, and the book she's currently working on, called Nothing by Design, which is due out in fall 2013.