On today’s Delmarva Today, my guest is poet Nancy Mitchell. Nancy is the Poet Laureate of the City of Salisbury, Maryland and is also a former professor at Salisbury University.

My guest is poet Luisa A. Igloria. Luisa is the recently appointed Poet Laureate of Virginia, an honor well deserved. She is also the author of 14 books of poetry and 4 chapbooks. Originally from Baguio City in the Philippines, Luisa now makes her home with her family in Virginia where she is Professor of Creative Writing and English at Old Dominion University.

Margo Shea is my guest on Delmarva Today tomorrow morning. She is associate professor of history at Salem State University in Salem, Massachusetts. The subtitle of Shea’s book is Memory and Political Struggle in Northern Ireland and it certainly is that. But it is much, much more. Derry City is a civil rights book that chronicles the struggle of Irish Catholics for equality and justice against institutional, political, and cultural bigotry as Northern Ireland defines its own identity.

My guest is Salisbury University Professor Adam Wood. We’ll discuss the University’s plans for the fall session. Dr. Wood is the outgoing President of the Faculty Senate at Salisbury University, former chair of the department of English, and past member of the Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure.

Wilson’s guest this week on Delmarva Today is Doctor Michael Murphy. Dr. Murphy is an emergency medical physician affiliated with the Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, MD. Dr. Murphy discusses the status of the pandemic in Maryland and the Salisbury area. He also talks about how our knowledge of the virus has grown over the last five months and how treatment has changed as well.

Who was Noor Inayat Kahn? Most Americans have never heard of her or of the quiet but pivotal role she played as a British spy in Nazi occupied Paris. In his new book Code Name Madeleine, Arthur Magida says: There was something elfin about her; it was as though the vibrations of her personality were so graduated as to pass almost uninhibited through those around her.

Wilson’s guest is Karen Huston Karydes. Karydes discusses her new book, complete but not yet published, about the life and work of three pioneer women writers of the 1940’s and 50’s: Shirley Jackson, Margaret Millar (the wife of Ross Macdonald), and Patricia Highsmith.

What is it like to survive the coronavirus? Delaware author and resident Betty Kasperski did just that. Betty talks with Hal Wilson about her experience but also the tragedy that befell her family from the virus.