Politics & Prose at Busboys and Poets, 14th & V, presents Elizabeth Poliner discussing her new book What You Know In Your Hands along with Kim Roberts discussing her new book Fortune's Favor: Scott in the Antarctic.
A teacher at Hollins University’s Jackson Center for Creative Writing, Poliner has published stories and poems in many literary journals, in addition to Mutual Life & Casualty, a novel in interlinked stories, and Sudden Fog, a collection of poetry. Poliner’s second gathering of poems looks back to her prose, recording her characters’ valediction to their creator at the end of the writing.
Editor of the on-line journal Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Roberts has published her own poems throughout the U.S., Canada, Brazil, and France. Her work has been included in American Poetry: The Next Generation and she is the author of The Wishbone Galaxy and The Kimnama, based on travels through northern India. Always drawn to the exotic, in her third book Roberts reimagines Scott’s second, tragic expedition to the South Pole.
