Kathleen Balma's guest appearances

Kathleen Balma

The Reading Life

Rattlecast

Kevin Clark

Tom Cooper

Robin Roberts

Clint Smith

Erik Larson

Walter Isaacson

Brendan Constantine

Laura Lippman

Lee Ledbetter

Chris Anderson

Maurice Carlos Ruffin

Dana Gioia

Naomi Shihab Nye

Amy Miller

Clint Bruce

OwlTail

Ben McGrath

The Reading Life: Ben McGrath, Kathleen Balma

Episode #26 features 2019 Rattle Poetry Prize Finalist Kathleen Balma and her chapbook Gallimaufry &amp; Farrago. Kathleen Balma is a public librarian and the author of Gallimaufry &amp; Farrago (Finishing Line Press 2018), a poetry chapbook. She received a Master of Library Science and a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry Writing from Indiana University. A Fulbright Fellow and Pushcart Prize winner, she is the recipient of a Katherine Bakeless Nason Scholarship from Bread Loaf Environmental Writers' Conference, a Tennessee Williams scholarship from Sewanee Writers' Conference, and a writer-in-residence fellowship from Rivendell Writers' Colony. She has published widely in magazines and anthologies, including Ecotone, Missouri Review, New Ohio Review, the Montreal International Poetry Prize Anthology, and the University of Canberra  Vice-Chancellor's International Poetry Prize Anthology. She grew up in the Ohio River Valley of Illinois and has lived in the Ozarks of Missouri, a Michigan forest, urban Andalucía, a naval base near the Windy City, suburban New South Wales, Western Australia, a trailer park in Little Egypt, several corners of the Hoosier state, Castilla la Mancha, small-town New England, and the only Garden District in Central Louisiana. New Orleans is her forever home.For more information, visit: https://www.kathleenbalma.com/Pre-show:"Building Nicole's Mama" by Patricia Smithhttps://www.rattle.com/building-nicoles-mama-by-patricia-smith/

Episode #26 features 2019 Rattle Poetry Prize Finalist Kathleen Balma and her chapbook Gallimaufry &amp; Farrago. Kathleen Balma is a public librarian and the author of Gallimaufry &amp; Farrago (Finishing Line Press 2018), a poetry chapbook. She received a Master of Library Science and a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry Writing from Indiana University. A Fulbright Fellow and Pushcart Prize winner, she is the recipient of a Katherine Bakeless Nason Scholarship from Bread Loaf Environmental Writers' Conference, a Tennessee Williams scholarship from Sewanee Writers' Conference, and a writer-in-residence fellowship from Rivendell Writers' Colony. She has published widely in magazines and anthologies, including Ecotone, Missouri Review, New Ohio Review, the Montreal International Poetry Prize Anthology, and the University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor's International Poetry Prize Anthology. She grew up in the Ohio River Valley of Illinois and has lived in the Ozarks of Missouri, a Michigan forest, urban Andalucía, a naval base near the Windy City, suburban New South Wales, Western Australia, a trailer park in Little Egypt, several corners of the Hoosier state, Castilla la Mancha, small-town New England, and the only Garden District in Central Louisiana. New Orleans is her forever home. For more information, visit: <a href="https://www.kathleenbalma.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.kathleenbalma.com/</a> Pre-show: "Building Nicole's Mama" by Patricia Smith <a href="https://www.rattle.com/building-nicoles-mama-by-patricia-smith/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.rattle.com/building-nicoles-mama-by-patricia-smith/</a>

ep. 26 - Kathleen Balma