LITERATURE

We hear about Boca Tuya's residency at Adams Theater, celebrate Free Comic Books Day, and learn about the memorial celebration for Nat Graves at the Shea Theater.

We broadcast from the Emily Dickinson Museum with Executive Director Jane Wald, Program Director Brooke Steinhauser, and poets Nathan McClain and Rebecca Hart Olander.

We chat with folx from The Massachusetts Review in honor of National Poetry Month, have a Live Music Friday with Springfield artist Parris, and return to State Street Fruit Store for the latest Wine Thunderdome.

We revisit an archival conversation with the late Pulitzer Prize-winning Williamsburg author, Tracy Kidder, hear the sounds of the tabla with Salar Nader, and McGovern with Rep. Jim McGovern.

We hear poetry from local author Martín Espada and talk to State Senator Jo Comerford ahead of this weekend's Support our Immigrant Neighbors benefit. We also hear live music from The Soul Rebels.

Author Anne Fadiman on her latest collection "Frog", Brooklyn-based band The Dream Eaters, and Mr Universe talks Oscars and changes in Pluto's status

In the new novel "All that Life Can Afford," by Emily Everett, an American graduate student from western Massachusetts goes off to London. Anna is eager to leave the U.S. and steep herself in the land of English literature and write her dissertation on Jane Austen. But she finds, as much as she tries, she can't leave her true self behind in the states.

We hear from Easthampton mayoral candidate Lindsi Sekula, learn about Massachusetts Farm to School Month and celebrate Catherine Newman's new novel, "Wreck."

We engage in healthy discourse before the WIT Literary Festival, talk with author and musician Mister G before his book release concert, and check out the lineup for this year's Northampton Jazz Festival.

Today we host a roundtable discussion with four local organizations who are facing real-life material consequences from widespread federal funding cuts.