Thursday, April 14, 2022
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Episode Summary
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Threa Almontaser’s poem "Dream Interpretation [Fox]" from her collection The Wild Fox of Yemen.
Participant(s) Bio
Threa Almontaser is a Yemeni American writer, translator, and multimedia artist from New York City. She holds an MFA from North Carolina State University.
Her first full-length poetry collection, The Wild Fox of Yemen (Graywolf Press, 2021), was selected by Harryette Mullen as the winner of the 2020 Walt Whitman Award, given by the Academy of American Poets and was long-listed for the 2021 National Book Award for Poetry.
Source: Poets.org