OUT cast 08/31/2020

Tune it to OUT Cast for PART 2 of our interview with Bob Carr on Monday, August 31st, 1 to 1:30 p.m. Sive and Steve continue their series; “Deja Vu? The COVID Pandemic and the AIDS Crisis” on WMPG. Bob was an early AIDS activist here in Maine who went on to a career in public health centering on infectious disease in Massachusetts. Bob is also a published poet and will be reading from his collection of poems, The Unbuttoned Eye, which addresses his personal evolution through the HIV pandemic. Robert Carr is the author of Amaranth, published in 2016 by Indolent Books and The Unbuttoned Eye, a full-length poetry collection from 3: A Taos Press. Among other publications his poetry appears in the American Journal of Poetry, Massachusetts Review, Rattle, Shenandoah and Tar River Poetry. Robert is poetry editor with Indolent Books and Deputy Director for the Bureau of Infectious Disease and Laboratory Sciences at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/outcast/1082/thumbnail.jp