Poetry Spoken Here

Shara Lessley reading at the Unamuno Author Festival. The festival took place earlier this year in Madrid, Spain. This reading was recorded at El Aleatorio in Madrid Spain. Shara Lessley is the author of "Two Headed Nightingale" and, the book she reads from in this episode, "The Explosive Expert’s Wife." Lessley was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, and has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. Her essays and poems have appeared in The New England Review, Ploughshares, and The Kenyon Review among many others. Learn more about Shara Lessley, here: http://www.sharalessley.com/ Purchase "The Explosive Expert's Wife" here: https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/5701.htm Visit our website: www.poetryspokenhere.com Like us on facebook: facebook.com/PoetrySpokenHere Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/poseyspokenhere (@poseyspokenhere) Send us an e-mail: poetryspokenhere@gmail.com