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Lonely Animals: Music and Poetry

Posted on 15 April 2010

ONI BUCHANAN is a young American pianist who has performed solo recitals throughout the U.S. and abroad.  She is also an award-winning poet. Her second book of poetry, Spring, was published by the University of Illinois Press in September 2008, selected by Mark Doty as a winner of the 2007 National Poetry Series. Her first poetry book, What Animal, was published in 2003 by the University of Georgia Press. She received her Master’s degree in piano performance from the New England Conservatory of Music, her Bachelor’s degree in music from the University of Virginia, and conducted three years of her music studies at the University of Iowa School of Music while pursuing an M.F.A. in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.  I spoke with Oni in June of 2009.  Listen to the podcast here: