June 24, 2007
Guest – Judith Valente
Program:
Nourishing Your Soul
Judith Valente is an
awarding-winning print and broadcast journalist, poet and essayist.
She began her work in journalism at the
age of 21 as a staff reporter for The Washington Post. She later joined
the staff of The Wall Street Journal, reporting from that paper's
Chicago and
London bureaus. She was twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, first
in the public service category as part of a team of reporters at The
Dallas Times Herald investigating airline safety in the 1980's. In 1993,
she was a finalist in the Pulitzer in the feature writing category for
her front page article in The Wall Street Journal, chronicling the story
of a religiously conservative father caring for his son dying of AIDS.
For the past eight years, Ms. Valente has
been a regular contributor to the national PBS-TV news program Religion
& Ethics NewsWeekly. She has won eight broadcast awards for her work on
the show. She is also a commentator for National Public Radio and
Chicago Public Radio where she covers religion, interviews poets and
authors, and is a guest essayist. She is also a segment producer for the
Hallmark Channel program, “New Morning.”
Ms. Valente has won numerous awards for
her poetry. In 2004, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver selected
her poetry chapbook, “Inventing An Alphabet,” for the national Aldrich
Poetry Prize. She was awarded a Jo-Anne Hirshfield Poetry Award in 2005
for her poem “Body & Soul” and an Illinois Arts Council Poetry Award in
2003 for her poem, “Green” She was a finalist in 2004 for the Emily
Dickinson Prize from Universities West Press.
Listen to selected
poems from Twenty Poems to Nourish Your Soul:
- Conjugating
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Juvenile Day Poem
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