Uindy's Potluck Podcast

In this episode of the UIndy Potluck Podcast, where we host conversations about the arts, ENGLISH 479 students Hope Coleman, Cassi Dillon, and Imani Gilbert interview the 2020 Whirling Prize poetry winner. Etchings Press, a student-run publisher at University of Indianapolis, awards The Whirling Prize each fall to two books that demonstrate an excellent and compelling response to a theme selected by students. The 2020 theme was the genre of Horror, and the student judges talk with poet Laurel Radzieski, author of the winning collection, Red Mother. Special thanks to Music Technology major Oliver Valle for editing this episode’s audio. Laurel Radzieski is the Grant Writer for Lackawanna College and a Teaching Artist for the Arts in Education in Northeastern Pennsylvania. She is the author of Red Mother, and her poems have appeared in Rust + Moth, Atlas and Alice, SPLASH!,and other journals. In addition, her poems have been featured on roadsides and a street sign in Wisconsin. Laurel Radzieski has presented on-