Marjorie Lotfi's guest appearances

Marjorie Lotfi

Rattlecast

The Book Week Scotland Podcast from Scottish Book Trust

Kevin Clark

Brendan Constantine

Chris Anderson

Dana Gioia

Naomi Shihab Nye

Amy Miller

Todd Davis

David Berman

Grace Thomas

Campbell McGrath

Ellen Bass

Mike White

Elizabeth Johnston

Erin Murphy

Tishani Doshi

OwlTail

Rattlecast #74 features Marjorie Lotfi, a frequent contributor to Poets Respond, and her most recent book, Refuge. Marjorie Lotfi was born in New Orleans, spent her childhood in Tehran, then lived in San Diego, Washington DC and New York before moving to London in 1999 and Edinburgh in 2005. She founded and runs Open Book, which organizes reading groups in community settings and with vulnerable adults, and The Belonging Project, a creative writing project considering flight, journey, assimilation and belonging alongside the experiences of refugees and migrants. Her poetry examines journeys and questions of belonging, particularly relating to the experiences of refugees and migrants. Refuge takes its starting point as 1970s Tehran, in an Iran on the cusp of revolution, and explores ideas of flight, journey and assimilation.Find more on Marjorie at: http://www.marjoriegill.com/Find the Open Book fundraising anthologies at: https://openbookreading.com/donate/As always, we'll also include live open mic for responses to our weekly prompt or any other poems you'd like to share. For details on how to participate, either via Skype or by phone, go to: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/This Week's Prompt:We used randomwordgenerator.com to select three random words: fear, staircase, passage. Use all three words in a poem, or use the Random Word Generator to pick three words of your own.Next Week's Prompt:A circus with no audience. The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Periscope, then becomes an audio podcast.

Rattlecast #74 features Marjorie Lotfi, a frequent contributor to Poets Respond, and her most recent book, Refuge. Marjorie Lotfi was born in New Orleans, spent her childhood in Tehran, then lived in San Diego, Washington DC and New York before moving to London in 1999 and Edinburgh in 2005. She founded and runs Open Book, which organizes reading groups in community settings and with vulnerable adults, and The Belonging Project, a creative writing project considering flight, journey, assimilation and belonging alongside the experiences of refugees and migrants. Her poetry examines journeys and questions of belonging, particularly relating to the experiences of refugees and migrants. Refuge takes its starting point as 1970s Tehran, in an Iran on the cusp of revolution, and explores ideas of flight, journey and assimilation. Find more on Marjorie at: <a href="http://www.marjoriegill.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.marjoriegill.com/</a> Find the Open Book fundraising anthologies at: <a href="https://openbookreading.com/donate/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://openbookreading.com/donate/</a> As always, we'll also include live open mic for responses to our weekly prompt or any other poems you'd like to share. For details on how to participate, either via Skype or by phone, go to: <a href="https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/</a> This Week's Prompt: We used <a href="http://randomwordgenerator.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">randomwordgenerator.com</a> to select three random words: fear, staircase, passage. Use all three words in a poem, or use the Random Word Generator to pick three words of your own. Next Week's Prompt: A circus with no audience. The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Periscope, then becomes an audio podcast.

ep. 74 - Marjorie Lotfi

Tom Pow

Welcome to the first episode in The Book Week Scotland Conversations Podcast, from Scottish Book Trust. This fascinating conversation features the creative director of A Year of Conversation, poet Tom Pow, talking to fellow poet, and founder of Open Book, Marjorie Lotfi Gill about books and reading. Enjoy their conversation.Like what you hear? Tweet us @BookWeekScot and leave us a review on whichever podcast platform you use. Podcast produced by Spence Media. Music by EssGee Productions.

Welcome to the first episode in The Book Week Scotland Conversations Podcast, from Scottish Book Trust. This fascinating conversation features the creative director of A Year of Conversation, poet Tom Pow, talking to fellow poet, and founder of Open Book, Marjorie Lotfi Gill about books and reading. Enjoy their conversation. Like what you hear? Tweet us @BookWeekScot and leave us a review on whichever podcast platform you use. Podcast produced by Spence Media. Music by EssGee Productions.

Marjorie Lotfi Gill and Tom Pow on reading