Joining Rina Risper today is Laura Apol, Associate Professor at Michigan State University, where she teaches children's literature and poetry. In addition to numerous professional publications, she is the author of three collections of her own poems: Falling into Grace, Crossing the Ladder of Sun (winner of the Oklahoma Book Award), and Requiem, Rwanda, her newest collection, which is drawn from her work using writing to facilitate healing among survivors of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi.