Word Ballast hosted by Billy Burgos

Join Billy Burgos as he talks to Remica L. Bingham, Remica L. Bingham, a native of Phoenix, Arizona, earned an MFA from Bennington College and is a Cave Canem fellow. Among other journals, her work has been published in New Letters, Callaloo and Essence. Her first book, Conversion, won the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award, was published by Lotus Press and shortlisted for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. A book of her selected poems, The Seams of Memory, will be translated into Arabic and published in 2011 in conjunction with the Kalima Project. Currently, she serves as the Writing Competency Coordinator at Norfolk State University. For more information on her work and upcoming events visit www.remicalbingham.com.