[Melissa Tuckey] likes to disorient us, pull the rug from under our expectations, and do so quickly and decisively, so we catch our breath in astonishment and delight…

-Charles Simic,
on Tenuous Chapel (ABZ Press 2013)

Poet, writer, translator, and literary activist Melissa Tuckey will sit down with Katerina on today’s Accents Radio. Tuckey’s book Tenuous Chapel was selected by Charles Simic for ABZ Press’s First Book Prize in 2012. She also co-translated a collection by Chinese poet Yang Zi called Dead Moon.

The two will be joined on the show today by former WRFL DJ Jackson E. Schad and founder of Upper Magazine Elizabeth Hicks.

You can find Accents Radio on WRFL 88.1 at 2pm (or stream it on the web here).

Previously on Accents Radio:

• 03/21/14: poet Jessie Janeshek
• 03/14/14: poet & mixed genre writer Steven Wingate
• 03/07/14: poet Sheila Bucy Potter (download)
• 02/28/14: novelist Abigail Keam, non-fiction writer Doug Tattershall (download)
• 02/21/14: novelist Angela Jackson-Brown (download)
• 02/14/14: Affrilachian poet Jude McPherson (download)