Conversations from the Pointed Firs 5/1/26: Charles Cantalupo

Host: Peter Neill
Producer: Spencer Albee
Music by Casey Neill (Mock Turtle Music)

Conversations from the Pointed Firs is a monthly audio series with Maine-connected authors and artists discussing new books and creative projects that invoke the spirit of Maine, its history, its ecology, its culture, and its contribution to community and quality of life. Airs the first Friday of every month from 4-5pm. Online at pointedfirs.org.

This month, host Peter Neill has a conversation with Charles Cantalupo, Professor Emeritus of English, Comparative Literature, and African Studies at Pennsylvania State University. Charles is an active contributor to various literary journals, a co-author of the Asmara Declaration on African Languages and Literature, a critic and translator of African writers from Eritrea; author of a personal memoir, Joining Africa, about his African experience, and a poet himself, with several published anthologies. He lives in Eastport, Maine.

About the host:
Peter Neill is founder and director of the World Ocean Observatory, a web-based place of exchange for information and educational services about the health of the ocean. In 1972, he founded Leete’s Island Books, a small publishing house specializing in literary reprints, the essay, photography, the environment, and profiles of indigenous healers and practitioners of complimentary medicine around the world. He holds a profound interest in Maine, its history, its people, its culture, and its contribution to community and quality of life.

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