Topic of the Week: April 12-16, 2010
LitChat is delighted to participate in National Poetry Month with a week of poetry discussion. Although an American tradition inaugurated
by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, LitChat would like to see this important element of literature receive international
spotlight.
Zinta Aistars
Joining us for a special evening edition of #litchat on Wednesday, April 14 at 9 p.m. ET, is Zinta Aistars. A bilingual, published author of three books (in Latvian) and working on a fourth (in English), Zinta is founder
and editor of The Smoking Poet, a literary ezine established in 2006. Her work (poetry, fiction, nonfiction, book reviews and blogs) has been extensively published online and in print publications and appears in several anthologies. She is a writer
and editor for a large health care organization and resides in Kalamazoo, Mich.
Diane Seuss
In addition to her visit on Wednesday evening, Zinta Aistars has prepared a round of questions for our regular Monday and
Wednesday afternoon chats (4 p.m. ET) that are sure to stimulate lively discussion between to poets and non-poets alike.
On Friday, April 16 at our regular 4 p.m. ET time, poet Diane Seuss joins us as guest host. Diane Seuss’s
new collection of poems, Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open, won the 2009 Juniper Prize for Poetry and will be published
at the end of April 2010 by the University of Massachusetts Press. New Issues Press published her first book, It Blows
You Hollow, in 1998. Recent poems have appeared in The Georgia Review, Poetry, New Orleans Review, and
Brevity. Seuss is Writer in Residence at Kalamazoo College, where she won the Florence J. Lucasse Award for Excellence
in Teaching.
See what is happening throughout the remaining days of National Poetry Month at Poets.org.
Follow Zinta Aistars on Twitter at @ZintaAistars and @TheSmoking Poet.
Follow Diane Seuss on Twitter at @DlSeuss.
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