Bookland Heights features Riehl’s Sightlines audio book
Mary Cunningham and Diana Black feature Janet Riehl on Bookland Heights. Wanna know how Pop is responding to all this fame? Here’s your answer.
Mary Cunningham and Diana Black feature Janet Riehl on Bookland Heights. Wanna know how Pop is responding to all this fame? Here’s your answer.
If you go to www.bloggingauthors.com, you can hear these five recordings on “Fascinating Author Podcasts”: 1. Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary 2. Why I Wrote a Book 3. Praising Mother 4. Memento Mori: Life and Death, Moment by Moment 5. P.O.D. Quality Control I enjoyed making these recordings and hope you’ll enjoy listening to them.
My morning breakout session has a long title: “Accessing Transpersonal Dimensions of Healing Through Writing and Poetry.” Whew! I’m out of breath just saying it. It’s short and sweet, only an hour and 15 minutes including questions. What are the doors that poetry can open at the end of life? –dying hospice patients can write…
WHAT MAKES REAL MEN TICK? When I was a college student back in the 1960’s, my roommate and I decided, after a series of disappointing love affairs, that we were going to study men and try to figure out what made them tick. We were tired of the insipid frat boys and wimpy intellectuals. We…
During my years of community development in Gabane, Botswana (just outside of Gaborone, home of the fictional Precious Ramotswe) working to set up and stabilize Tswaragano Craft Center there, I sat in many a Kgotla meeting or community and tribal council (see Wikipedia note at end of post). Last week in the cave of the…
Here’s the Audio-Link for my Septemeber 2nd sermon at the First Unitarian Church of Alton, Illinois. Click here for a link to listen to “Memento-Mori: Life and Death, Moment by Moment” (just the sermon) or the full service. Neither my father nor I were amplified for our violin-playing, but you can hear it if you…
Photo: Richard Barnes/Museum of Modern Art One of my favorite artists, Marin Puryear is an African-American artist who has prevailed and brought it on home. Read Roberta Smith’s comprehensive review “Humanity’s Ascent in Three Dimensions” at the NY Times online and see a slide show of Puryear’s visually pure, carefully wrought, and deeply felt work….