KPR Presents: Al Ortolani, "Swimming Shelter"

By Kaye McIntyre

Published August 27, 2021 at 8:06 PM CDT

Photo of Kaye McIntyre and Al Ortolani standing in front of KPR backdrop

Week of August 22, 2021: How did YOU spend the first 100 days of the COVID-19 pandemic? If you were Lenexa poet Al Ortolani, you wrote one poem a day...then published them in "Swimming Shelter: 100 Days of Coronavirus -- An Exercise in the American Crawl." Our 2021 Kansas Notable Book series continues with this conversation with Al Ortolani, plus Part 5 of our series "Where It Hurts."

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Kaye McIntyre

Kaye starts her weekends the same way you do: with Weekend Edition Saturday, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, This American Life, and To the Best of Our Knowledge. She started at Kansas Public Radio in 2001; in 2006, she became the producer of our weekly public affairs program, KPR Presents. In her spare time, she loves to read, travel, and attend theater.

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