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SUNDAY, JULY 31 @ 5:00 PM PT
KITA SHANTIRIS (DR. KITA S. CURRY)
and
CLARA BINGHAM
with host
TIM CARPENTER
KITA SHANTIRIS, also known as Dr. Kita S. Curry, is an American poet and psychologist. Published in the U.S., Ireland, and England, her award-winning poetry has appeared in Ambit, Crannóg, The Fish Anthology, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Quarterly West, The Moth, Slipstream, Wisconsin Review and other journals. In her other life, psychologist Dr. Kita S. Curry is CEO of Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services, a non-profit in Los Angeles. For that work she has been honored for erasing stigma and bringing mental health services to communities of color. Listen in as Tim Carpenter talk to Kita Shantiris about her first full-length poetry collection, What Snakes Want, and the art of making poetry of the mind. Learn more here.
CLARA BINGHAM produced the documentary “The Last Mountain,” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2011, screened in theaters in over 60 cities, and won the International Documentary Association’s Pare Lorentz Award. Bingham’s second book, Class Action: The Landmark Case that Changed Sexual Harassment Law, was adapted into the 2005 feature film, “North Country” (Warner Bros) starring Charlize Theron and Francis McDormand. Clara also served as a Washington, D.C., correspondent for Newsweek from 1989 to 1993, where she covered the George H. W. Bush White House leading up to and during the 1992 presidential election. Tim Carpenter talks to Clara Bingham about her most recent book, Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost its Mind and Found Its Soul. Learn more here.
