A Time to Talk: Writers on Writing w/Tim Tomlinson
A Time to Talk: Writers on Writing features poets and writers from around the world reading from their work and engaging in conversation with host Tim Tomlinson and the worldwide audience. The series launches with this trio of stellar poets:
Luisa A. Igloria is Co-Winner of the 2019 Crab Orchard Poetry Competition for Maps for Migrants and Ghosts (forthcoming, September 2020, from Southern Illinois University Press); and the author of 14 books of poetry, most recently The Buddha Wonders If She Is Having a Mid-life Crisis (Phoenicia Publishing, Montreal, 2018) and What is Left of Wings, I Ask (Center for the Book Arts Chapbook Prize, 2018). Awards include the May Swenson Prize and the Resurgence Poetry Prize, the world’s first major ecopoetry award. She is a Louis I. Jaffe Professor and University Professor of English and Creative Writing in the MFA Program at Old Dominion University, which she directed from 2009-2015.She also teaches at the nonprofit Muse Writers Center in Norfolk, VA. Her work has appeared in journals like Orion, The New England Review, Poetry East, Poetry, Shenandoah, Crab Orchard Review, Lantern Review, Your Impossible Voice, and Cha, among others. Since November 2019 or for more than nine years now, she has written at least a poem a day. www.luisaigloria.com
Jee Leong Koh is the author of Steep Tea (Carcanet), named a Best Book of the Year by UK's Financial Times and a Finalist by Lambda Literary. He heads the NYC-based literary non-profit Singapore Unbound and its imprint Gaudy Boy. His latest book of poetry is Connor & Seal (Sibling Rivalry).
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley is a Liberian civil war survivor who immigrated to the United States with her family in 1991. She is the author of six books of poetry: Praise Song for My Children: New and Selected Poems (Autumn House Press, Pittsburgh, 2020), When the Wanderers Come Home, (University of Nebraska Press, 2016), Where the Road Turns (Autumn House Press, 2010), The River is Rising (Autumn House Press, 2007), Becoming Ebony, (Southern Illinois University Press, 2003) and Before the Palm Could Bloom: Poems of Africa (New Issues Press, 1998). She is also the author of a children’s book, In Monrovia, the River Visits the Sea, (One Moore Books, 2012) Her poem, “One Day: Love Song for Divorced Women” was selected by US Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser, as an American Life in Poetry June 13, 2011, featured poem. Patricia has won several awards and grants, including 2016 WISE Women Literary Arts Award from Blair County, Pennsylvania, 2011 President Barack Obama Award from the Blair County NAACP in Altoona, PA, the 2010 Liberian Award for her poetry and her mentorship of young Liberians in the Diaspora, a Penn State University AESEDA Collaborative Grant for her research on Liberian Women's Trauma stories from the Civil War, a 2002 Crab Orchard Award for her second book of poems, a World Bank Fellowship, among others. Her poems have been nominated twice for the Pushcart Awards. Her individual poems and memoir articles have been anthologized and published in literary magazines in the US, in South America, Africa, and Europe, and her work has been translated in Spanish Finnish, and Hebrew. She is Professor of English, Creative Writing, and African Literature at Penn State University’s Altoona campus.
Tim Tomlinson, a co-founder of New York Writers Workshop, is the author of Requiem for the Tree Fort I Set on Fire (poems) and This Is Not Happening to You (short fiction). He teaches in New York University’s Global Liberal Studies.