ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS

ARTICLES

BILLY COLLINS: MAKING POETRY PUBLIC
Billy Collins sighed as possible answers positioned in his mind. The former U.S. Poet Laureate took a break from reading and teaching at the Key West Literary Seminar. After three days in Florida, he felt like a lectore from the area’s old cigar factory days.…MORE

THE FILM/LITERATURE LINK
Since cinema’s inception in the 1890s, nearly all movies have been derived from three principal sources: Books, Plays, and Original Screenplays…MORE

CALLING THE BOOK DOCTOR
You’ve written a book-length manuscript. You suspect it needs work. You’ve written and revised each chapter so many times that you can’t stand to read it again…MORE

WRITE DEEPLY HEAL DEEPLY
Brenda walked through the door, a bright-eyed, long-haired, tanned Southern Californian. She appeared to be in perfect health. She decided to embrace her creative process in a "Writing Your Inner World" workshop…MORE


INTERVIEWS

AMERICA’S NEWEST IDOL: CARRIE UNDERWOOD
Just over a year ago, Carrie Underwood was one of 100,000 people auditioning for a place on the American Idol TV show. Today, she is country music’s shooting star, having set a record for most album sales…MORE

A CONVERSATION WITH JIM MCCLEAN
Since Arnold Palmer and friends started the Golf Channel, Jim McLean has served as resident swing instructor. He enjoys a worldwide audience…MORE

THOM HARTMANN
Thom Hartmann lives for the next generation. He also lives in the eternal present. Put the two together, and you receive a prolific, wise author of some 30 books, including The Prophet's Way, Beyond ADD and Healing ADDMORE

ROBERT YEHLING ON WRITER'S CONFERENCES
Bob Yehling of WordJourneys.com, in an interview conducted by Jenna Glatzer of www.absolutewrite.com, for a writer's newsletter on the importance and value of writer's conferences…MORE

PULITZER POETRY NOMINEE – HARVEY STANBROUGH
Harvey Stanbrough's love for the written word can only be matched by his adoration for the well-written traditional poem. In a literary world where free verse has apparently reigned since Ezra Pound broke the ice at the turn of the 20th century…MORE

MARTY BALIN – IN TWO MOVEMENTS
First Movement — Music Icon
Second Movement — Crusade of Love

GAYLE MADELEINE RANDALL, MD
Imagine going to the doctor with an ailment, and having that practitioner access more than a dozen of the world's most advanced and holistic forms of healing in the course of your visit…MORE

DIARY IN QUILTS
Internationally-known fabric artist Penny Sisto creates her unique works at her home of cedar logs in Southeastern Indiana. She has stitched hundreds of incredible quilted art pieces…MORE

ON TOP OF THE WORLD
If Erik Weihenmayer isn't Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Year or a candidate for Time's Man of the Year, something's wrong. He put the dreams of all blind and handicapped people on his back and summited a mountain that turns away 90 percent of its visitors…MORE


 

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