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WORDS ON A WIRE: Martha Serpas

Dayanna Sevilla after recording her Poetic License in the KTEP studios

  Daniel talks with Martha Serpas, author of the poetry collection "The Diener."  A diener is a person who works in a morgue, handling and cleaning the corpse.  Martha, who is also a  trauma hospital chaplain at Tampa General Hospital, talks about her conversations with the hospital's diener, and how their respective jobs influenced the works in this collection.  The book not only touches on death, but on the destruction of the Gulf Coast wetlands.  http://www.marthaserpas.com/index.html

For the Poem of the week, Martha Serpas reads "Pearl Snap."

Today's Poetic License features Dayanna Sevilla singing 2 poems by Federico Garcia Lorca: "Canción del Naranjo Seco" and "Despedida," set to the music of Marta Gomez.  Sevilla accompanies herself on her Peruvian percussion instrument, the cajón. (The music you hear after Dayanna's Poetic License is Marta Gomez's rendition of "Canción del Naranjo Seco")

Plus...Daniel reflects on why he can't stand genre fiction...vampire books in particular.  He began to question his stance, however, when he experienced a sort of interaction with the dead in Buenos Aires.

Aired Feb. 8, 2014.

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