In Conversation

(first aired January 24, 2017). Host Sheila Bender speaks via phone with Bellingham novelist Laura Kalpakian about her writing and her work with the Red Wheelbarrow Writers community.

(first aired January 10, 2017). Host Sheila Bender talks via phone with frequent visitor to Port Townsend, author Sayantani Dasgupta, about her poetry and creative nonfiction.

(first aired December 27, 2016). Host Sheila Bender interviews Seal Press author Cami Ostman via phone from Bellingham, WA and discusses her nonfiction works about finding authenticity through running.

(first aired December 13, 2016). Host Sheila Bender speaks in studio with Port Townsend resident Harriet Cannon, co-author of the timely book Mixed Blessings: A Guide to Multicultural and Multiethnic Relationships.

(first aired November 29, 2016). Host Sheila Bender interviews via phone Katha Pollitt, award winning poet, personal essayist and a long-time political columnist for The Nation magazine.

(first aired November 15, 2016). Host Sheila Bender interviews via phone Sharon Bryan, poet and teacher of poets.

(first aired November 1, 2016). Host Sheila Bender interviews in studio Mary Lou Sanelli, poet, author and literary reader.

(first aired October 18, 2016). Host Sheila Bender interviews Poulsbo poet Jenifer Lawrence via phone about inspirations for her poetry that include experience with the Alaskan landscape.

(first aired October 4, 2016). Host Sheila Bender visits via phone with playwright Jeni Mahoney and talks to her about writing for the stage and teaching others to do so.

(first aired September 20, 2016). Host Sheila Bender interviews Sammamish, Washington writer Michael Dylan Welch via telephone, and discusses his career writing poetry, publishing anthologies of poems and translating poetry from Japanese.