The Selection Committee Radio Show with Ginny Wiehardt 2/20/22

Poet Ginny Wiehardt joins me on the airwaves to get Texan. We discuss our mutual fondness for the Lone Star State (in spite of recent legislative developments) and, becuase she’s a poet and we live in these times, we talk about children, money, sex, and death. I like this mix particularly because of it’s strong focus on artists who got their start late in life or avoided fame (or died young in boating accidents in the tropics heroically saving their children).

Ginny Wiehardt is the author of Migration, winner of the Gold Line Press Poetry Chapbook Contest. Her poems have appeared in over 20 journals and magazines including Bellingham Review, Harvard Review, Notre Dame Review, PN Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Willow Springs and in the anthology Political Punch: Contemporary Poems on the Politics of Identity. Tracy Marchini at BookEnds Literary represents her children’s fiction. She works for the National MS Society, and lives in New York City with her family.