Today's show features Poet Cristina Pena.  Ms. Pena originally from Denver, but currently lives in New York City, where she teaches adult education classes in the Bronx. She is a queer, mixed-race woman, and as such much of her work explores voice, identity, and power. Her poems have been featured in a number of magazines and anthologies, and she published a full-length collection in Spring 2014. She was also a featured poet at the Mass Poetry Festival in Salem, MA.  In her free time, she enjoys spending time in nature and teaching her dog silly tricks. She shares some of the poems from the book.  

Featured Books
From This Arrid Earth by Cristina Pena, 
How Georgia Became O’Keeffe: Lessons on the Art of Living by Karen Karbo

Talk with Marie Presents Poet Cristina Pena, From This Arrid Earth

Marie highlights books from her reading list: Dietland  by Sarai Walker, Survival Lessons by Alice Hoffman and IA: INITIATE by John Darryl Winston. During Lenny Kravitz's recent concert in Boston, she discovered the music of Andra Day who's on tour promoting her new album Cheers to the Fall. 

Talk! with Marie Presents Books DIETLAND by Sarai Walker & Survival Lessons Hoffman

This is part of a series of short stories created by RedGoddess with a main character named Lola. Each story gives a slice of lola's life in the city. The narrator for this entry is bonchance longfall. Enjoy!