umüvme is on the road tonight!  we will be recording a reading by the lioness-of-a-poet sonia sanchez at the free library of philadelphia at 7pm and airing it on the show at 9pm.  sanchez will be reading from her new book Morning Haiku.  tune in for her seventeen syllable delights...

Due to technical difficulties, umüvme is postponed for the night and the following show will be rescheduled.  we'll see you next tuesday...

umüvme features MR. HOLLISTER, an author located in Columbus, Ohio who is currently releasing his 1st book since 2007.  Syn: The Complete Erotic Poetry Collection Volume I, published by My Time Publications, features a collection of seductive & erotic poetry dedicated to a man's adoration for woman and the various ways he pleases his woman.  Available at barnesandnoble.com as well as amazon.com, Syn has been ranked as one of the true must reads of 2010. 

Check out the podcast of last week's show featuring BARBARA CROOKER.

umüvme features BARBARA CROOKER.  The author of more than 650 poems published in over 1975 anthologies, books, and magazines such as The Green Mountains Review, Smartish Pace, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Nimrod, The Denver Quarterly, The Tampa Review, Poetry International, The Christian Century, and America, Crooker is the recipient of the 2007 Pen and Brush Poetry Prize, the 2006 Ekphrastic Poetry Award from Rosebud, the 2004 WB Yeats Society of New York Award, the 2004 Pennsylvania Center for the Book Poetry in Public Places Poster Competition, the 2003 Thomas Merton Poetry of the Sacred Award, the 2003 "April Is the Cruelest Month" Award from Poets & Writers, the 2000 New Millenium Writing's Y2K competition, the 1997 Karamu Poetry Award, and others, including three Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, and thirteen residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.  Her full-length books are Radiance, which won the 2005 Word Press First Book competition and was a finalist for the 2006 Paterson Poetry Prize;  Line Dance, which came out in 2008 from Word Press and won the 2009 Paterson Award for Literary Excellence; and More, forthcoming  from C&R Press in 2010.  Garrison Keillor has read seventeen of her poems on The Writer's Almanac, National Public Radio, and she recently read in the Poetry at Noon series at the Library of Congress.

Check out the podcast of last week's show featuring MEL BRAKE.

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Check out the podcast of last week's show featuring JEFFREY ETHAN LEE.

umüvme features JEFFREY ETHAN LEE.  Lee's poetry book, identity papers, was a 2006 Colorado Book Award finalist [http://identitypapers.org]. His first poetry book, invisible sister, at http://mmmpress.org/ was a finalist for the first MMM Press poetry prize. Lee won the 2002 Sow's Ear Poetry Chapbook prize for The Sylf (2003), created identity papers for Drimala Records, published Strangers in a Homeland (chapbook with Ashland Poetry Press, 2001), and published hundreds of poems, stories and essays in North American Review, Xconnect, Crab Orchard Review, Crazyhorse, Many Mountains Moving, Crosscurrents, American Poetry Review, Green Mountain Review, Washington Square. With a Ph.D. in British Romanticism and an MFA from NYU, he teaches creative writing at West Chester University.

Check out the podcast of last week's interview with CURTIS L. CRISLER.

CURTIS L. CRISLER is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at IPFW.  His poetry book Pulling Scabs will be released in 2009 by Aquarius Press.  In 2009, Leaving Me Behind: Writing a new me, a nonfiction book addressing the six week Summer Bridge experience at IPFW was released, which Crisler co-wrote with his 2008 Summer Bridge Students.  In 2008, Spill won the 2008 Keyhole Chapbook Award.  His poetry book Tough Boy Sonatas was published in 2007, and is also on Recorded Books.  Crisler’s Tough Boy Sonatas was a 2009 recipient of The Eric Hoffer Award. Crisler is also a Cave Canem Fellow. 

Check out the podcast of last week's show featuring TODD STEVENS.