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The Tenth Voice is the Kansas City area's only weekly broadcast created by and for LGBTQIA+ people in our community in the Greater Kansas City area and around the world online. Listeners can tune in each Saturday at 1:00 PM. Each week our team of hosts and producers present interviews, information, music, news and features especially important to Lesbians, Gay Men, Bisexuals, Transgender & Nonbinary people, Queer, Intersex, Asexual & Aromantic people and Allied collective communities. Since 1989, The Tenth Voice radio show has documented and informed the LGBTQIA+ Kansas City Community.
This April marks the 20th anniversary of National Poetry Month, which was inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996. We will discuss Mark Doty’s “Fire to Fire.” Panelists joining host Elizabeth Andersen on the Sandra Moran Alphabet Soup Radio Book Club are Philip Hooser, Ronnie Lathrop, and Michelle Pond.
THE BOOK: “Fire to Fire” collects the best of Doty’s seven books of poetry, along with a generous selection of new work. This book won the Lambda Literary Award and the National Book Award. It was also a finalist for the Publishing Triangle Award.
THE AUTHOR: Mark Doty’s seven books of poems and four books of nonfiction prose have been honored by the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Whiting Writers Award, a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writer’s Award and, in the United Kingdom, the T.S. Eliot Prize. He is a professor at the University of Houston, and lives in New York City.
