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The Poets Weave with Host Jenny Kander: A Production of WFIU Public Radio

The Poets Weave is a weekly five-minute program of poetry reading hosted by local poets Jenny Kander and Christopher Citro. The Poets Weave airs Sundays at 11:46 a.m. on WFIU HD1.

May 24, 2009

Jenny Burdge – Merci at the Flea Market Cafe . . .

 
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“I am breaking my connection. Nobody can please her except God, she is that type of girl.” Closing lines of “Mrs. Biswas Breaks Her Connection with Another Relative” from Reetika Vazirani’s book White Elephants.

Jenny Burdge has worked as a seamstress, assistant in a vintage fashion library, freelance writer and translator, and teacher, as well as editor a few times over, most recently as editor in chief of Indiana Review. Through investigations and syntheses of cultures, her work explores the concept of belonging and alienation as illusion.

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Christopher Citro

Christopher Citro, Born and raised in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, Christopher Citro is a candidate in the MFA and English MA programs at Indiana University. He began co-hosting The Poets Weave, in the spring of 2009. He also Associate Editor of Lyric Poetry Review and Associate Poetry Editor for Indiana Review.
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