Riehl’s spoken word on Authors Airwaves

Byriehlifegrace December 18, 2009

When Victor Volkman hosted me on Authors Airwaves, he said that he was proud to feature a special podcast “Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Poetry and Music” by Janet Riehl. Her book “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary” is Janet’s family love story, a remembrance narrated in story poems that traverses the boundaries of life and death. These 90 poems have been amplified in the audio book with 40 poems, stories, and banter during the music session in her father’s parlor.

If you missed it the first time, here it is again. If you’ve become a Riehlife Villager and downloaded the poetry and music recording then you’ve heard this.

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Submit Your Valentine’s Day Stories to Third Coast Digest

Byriehlifegrace January 19, 2011January 19, 2011

My friend Holly Banks introduced me (via Facebook) to Tom Strini Senior Arts Editor and partner of the Third Coast Review. They worked together at Halpin Music in Alton, Illinois during the early seventies. She taught piano and he taught guitar. We both attended SIUE at the same time. Since then he has been the…

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Pig Farmer Kin Sayings

Byriehlifegrace July 29, 2008July 31, 2008

My mother’s father farmed pigs. Courtney Johnston loved his grandkids. As we ran to him, he’d welcome us in his arms with the endearment: “My little runts!” You have to know that “the runt” is the littlest pig of the litter. And the youngest grandchild was ever his “runt.” What we do shapes our language….

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Janet Riehl guests on PIVR program “Marketing for Fun and Profit” hosted by Janet Elaine Smith…and other internet audio links to hear Riehl reading from and speaking about “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary”

Byriehlifegrace April 4, 2008August 16, 2010

INTERNET RADIO At PIVR click on the March 31, 2008 archive recording where my name and my book’s title appears. March 31, 2008 Janet Elaine Smith PIVR (Passionate Internet Voices Radio) “Marketing for Fun and Profit spoke with me and I read my poem “Crocus.” (Which you can read on the sidebar of Riehlife under…

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“Carving Time,” by Eden Maxwell

Byriehlifegrace October 11, 2010

Recently I sent one of my father’s carvings to Eden Maxwell–a blogging buddy who lives in New Mexico. Eden is not only a committed writer, but a writer with profound insight into the creative process. Eden posted “Carving Time” on his blog to acknowledge my father’s critter “I.M.A. Fox”–otherwise known as “Mr. Fox.” There’s a…

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Prose? Poetry? Who knows?

Byriehlifegrace March 14, 2011

Prose? Poetry? Who knows? My collaborator Stephanie Farrow and I have discussed this topic endlessly. Where is the line between poetry and prose? Is a story poem just prose with line breaks? Does a poem have to be obscure to qualify as art? I’ve explored these questions and many others with participants at conferences for…

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“Shadow & Substance: My Time with Charlie Chaplin,” novel by Gerry Mandel

Byriehlifegrace October 5, 2010

Gerry Mandel’s new novel, “Shadow and Substance: My Time with Charlie Chaplin,” will be off the presses in three weeks. Twelve years in the writing. And rewriting. And rewriting. Otta be worth the read!

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