Dorinda Wegener and Rina Palumbo

On the 7/3/24 edition of Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour:

Dorinda Wegener discusses the growth and organization of her newly released collection, Four Fields. She shares a poem written for her father. Much of her work begins with an image from the natural wold, and frequently helps her process pain. Wegener then reads a poem she wrote for her daughter as she was growing up. Rina Palumbo hones her love for the experimental into the curation process of the journal Third Street Review, a publication she founded. She explains a recent project that coordinates her interests by telling two stories in one novel. She also elaborates on the difficulties that arise when attempting to write historical fiction as someone with a PhD in History, as she has to suspend her knowledge of what was possible during periods. She reads some of a piece called “One Half of Newton's First Law.”

Dorinda Wegener is a Poets & Writers Magazine 2024 Get The Word Out Poetry Cohort Participant. Her debut collection, Four Fields, launched in July 2024. Wegener has work, poems or essays, in LitHub, The Antioch Review, THRUSH, Mid-American Review, Indiana Review, Hotel Amerika, Hayden’s Ferry Review and Hunger Mountain. She is a Perianesthesia Certified Registered Nurse in Richmond, VA, who holds an MFA in Poetry from New England College, where she was a Joel Oppenheimer Award Recipient. You can find her on the web at www.dorindawegener.com

Rina Palumbo (she/her) is working on a novel and two nonfiction long-form writing projects alongside short fiction, creative nonfiction, and prose poetry. Her work appears in The Hopkins Review, Ghost Parachute, Milk Candy, Bending Genres, Anti-Heroin Chic, Identity Theory, Stonecoast Review, et al. https://rinapalumbowriter.com/

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