January 21, 2009

Jan 13/09--Melanie Faith featured on World Poetry Café Radio

At 9:00 PM on Tuesday, January 13th, tune in to the World Poetry Café Radio Show, when hosts Ariadne Sawyer and World Poetry Lifetime Achievement Award winner Diego Bastianutti proudly present American poet Melanie Faith via telephone!

MELANIE FAITH is an author and educator who holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte, North Carolina. Her current poetry chapbook, Bright Burning Fuse, was a finalist in the 2008 Keyhole Magazine chapbook contest, and was published by Etched Press (www.etchedpress.com) in December, 2008.

Ms. Faith has been a small-town newspaper journalist, an ESL classroom teacher for international students, and (currently) a literature and writing tutor at a private high school in rural Pennsylvania. In addition to writing
two novels (seeking representation), her articles about creative writing appeared in RWR (Dec. '08), and will be published in The Writer (Nov. '09).

Her poetry, as well as her landscape and architectural photography, have been published in MO: Writings From The River (Montana State University, Spring '09 issue), The Broken Plate (Ball State University, April '09 issue), Shape of a Box (Dec. '08, www.youtube.com/shapeofabox), The Binnacle (University of Maine), Mademoiselle's Fingertips, Emprise Review, and The Iguana Review. She welcomes literary messages or chapbook orders at writer@pa.net.

World Poetry's Canadian musicians of the month are Pancho and Sal.

The World Poetry Café Radio Show can be heard in the Greater Vancouver area on 102.7 FM, or on the internet, at Vancouver Co-op Radio, www.coopradio.org.
For more information, please contact Ariadne Sawyer, at ariadnes@uniserve.com.

Co-founder and regular host of the radio programme, Alejandro Mujica-Olea, is currently reading and travelling in Brazil and Chile. Our best wishes to Alejandro on his trip.

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