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This week poet, teacher, and editor Ralph Adamo joins us to chat about teaching poetry, the editing process and how poems are language trying to tell the truth. He shares some of his own poems and poems by Frank Stanford and Everette Maddox.

<p>This week poet, teacher, and editor Ralph Adamo joins us to chat about teaching poetry, the editing process and how poems are language trying to tell the truth. He shares some of his own poems and poems by Frank Stanford and Everette Maddox.</p>

Episode 91: Poetry Chat with Ralph Adamo

 A native New Orleanian, Ralph Adamo is a poet, papa, and a professor at Xavier University of Louisiana.  He is also editor of Xavier Review  http://www.xula.edu/english/publications/review.html . Ralph has published seven collections of poetry, most recently Ever: Poems 2000-2014.  He received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in Creative Writing in 2003, a Louisiana Division of the Arts Individual Artist Grant in 1998, and the first Marble Faun award in poetry from the Faulkner Society in 1997. Recent reviews of his work can be found in The Hollins Critic (April 2015), Rain Taxi (August 2015) and in Today’s Book of Poetry. In 2006, the Open Society Institute awarded him a Katrina Media Fellowship to pursue investigative journalism on the state of public education in the city. Before coming to Xavier, where he has encountered amazing students and brilliant colleagues, he taught creative writing at Tulane, LSU and Loyola (where he also edited New Orleans Review for five years), as well as journalism at UNO. He and his wife Kay have two children, Jack and Lily.  Find Ralph Adamo on Facebook and at http://www.lavenderink.org/content/authors/276

<p> A native New Orleanian, Ralph Adamo is a poet, papa, and a professor at Xavier University of Louisiana.  He is also editor of Xavier Review  <a href="http://www.xula.edu/english/publications/review.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.xula.edu/english/publications/review.html</a> . Ralph has published seven collections of poetry, most recently Ever: Poems 2000-2014.  He received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in Creative Writing in 2003, a Louisiana Division of the Arts Individual Artist Grant in 1998, and the first Marble Faun award in poetry from the Faulkner Society in 1997. Recent reviews of his work can be found in The Hollins Critic (April 2015), Rain Taxi (August 2015) and in Today’s Book of Poetry. In 2006, the Open Society Institute awarded him a Katrina Media Fellowship to pursue investigative journalism on the state of public education in the city. Before coming to Xavier, where he has encountered amazing students and brilliant colleagues, he taught creative writing at Tulane, LSU and Loyola (where he also edited New Orleans Review for five years), as well as journalism at UNO. He and his wife Kay have two children, Jack and Lily.  Find Ralph Adamo on Facebook and at <a href="http://www.lavenderink.org/content/authors/276" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.lavenderink.org/content/authors/276</a></p>

Ralph Adamo, Poet