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Susan Lilley reads poems that capture Orlando in special place and time, and talks about what it's like to be the city's inaugural Poet Laureate.Work read & discussed: "Floor Show" (poetry); "Hegemony" (poetry); "Delmonicos" (prose poetry); "Fall" (poetry).ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Susan Lilley is a Florida native. Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, Poet Lore, The Southern Review, Drunken Boat, Saw Palm, Hippocampus and Sweet, among other journals. She’s a past winner of the Rita Dove Poetry Award and has published two chapbooks, Night Windows and Satellite Beach. She teaches literature and writing at Trinity Preparatory School and has taught at University of Central Florida and Rollins College. She was recently appointed inaugural poet laureate for the city of Orlando.

David James PoissantTalk about the portrayal of Oviedo in the book The New World, and the good/bad writing about Florida places.

Racquel Henry talks about her love/hate relationship with Orlando, discovery in the writing process, her novel in progress, and Young Adult fiction.Works read & discussed: "When To Stay" (essay).ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Racquel Henry is a Trinidadian writer and editor with an MFA from Fairleigh Dickinson University. She is also a part-time English Professor and owns the writing center, Writer’s Atelier, in Winter Park, FL. In 2010 Racquel co-founded Black Fox Literary Magazine, where she still serves as an editor. She is also a board member for The Jack Kerouac Project, an Orlando-based writing residency. Her fiction, poetry, and nonfiction have appeared in places like Lotus-Eater Magazine, Moko Caribbean Arts & Letters, Thrill of the Hunt: Welcome to Whitebridge, Reaching Beyond the Saguaros: A Collaborative Prosimetric Travelogue (from Serving House Books, 2017), and We Can't Help It If We're From Florida (from Burrow Press, 2017), among others.

Jared Silvia talks about the idea of "weightlessness" in fiction, lice, bad chiropractors, and absurdism.Work read & discussed: "Infestation" (short fiction); "The Good Chiropractor" (short fiction).ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jared Silvia’s fiction has appeared in Sierra Nevada Review, decomP, Monkeybicycle, Dime Show Review, Rabble Lit, Bridge Eight, Fantastic Floridas, and other journals. He was the winner of the 2017 Brian Turner Literary Arts Prize in Fiction, and was a resident at the 2017 DISQUIET writing residency in Ponta Delgada, Azores. He received his MFA from The University of Tampa in 2014. You can find links to his work at jaredsilvia.com.f you like what you hear subscribe, rate and comment.For this and more visit www.Studio17tv.comLike us on FacebookStudio on facebook.com/Studio17TelevisionFollowinstagram.com/studio17tvtwitter.com/studio17tvintagram.com/burrowpress

Lucianna Chixaro Ramos talks experimental writing, chance operations, challenging poetic forms, and bees.Work read & discussed: excerpts from "Cell" (poetry collection).ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Lucianna Chixaro Ramos is a Brazilian-American poet. She is the Editor in Chief of Obra/Artifact, a journal of experimental literature, and an MFA student at Stetson University's MFA of the Americas. Her work can be found in the journals New South and Otoliths.If you like what you hear subscribe, rate and comment.For this and more visit www.Studio17tv.comLike us on FacebookStudio on facebook.com/Studio17TelevisionFollowinstagram.com/studio17tvtwitter.com/studio17tvintagram.com/burrowpress