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Riehl Life Village Wisdom for the 21st CenturyRiehl Life Village Wisdom for the 21st CenturyCreating connections through the arts and across cultures. Articles
Culture of Women in Ruth-Miriam Garnett?s novel ?Laelia?
2008-05-15 19:00:00 Laelia anceps What is a Woman? Strength and Sensuality I filled the bath and threw in a bath tea bag of lemongrass and green tea to relax and finish reading Ruth -Miriam Garnett ’s novel “Laelia.” Ruth-Miriam Garnett portrays the culture of womanhood in concentric circles from intimate homelife, to community, and hints at the broader swath of ... More About: Women , Culture
Smith Magazine?s Six-word Memoir Project (as heard on NPR)?and now?Story Ci
2008-05-15 03:52:00 Six-word memoir was hot this year. And, it’s fun as well. Some time back I phoned in my 6-word memoir: Country girl roamed. Home grazing sweetest. and my 6-word description of “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary” A downhome family lovestory beyond death. for the May Story Circle Network Podcast. Frankly, I’d forgotten all about it. Then, this morning on the Independent Authors Guild ... More About: Magazine , Word , Project , Smith
?Harlem Duet? sings: St. Louis Black Rep Company stages Djanet Sears? award
2008-05-15 00:28:00 Ruth-Miriam Garnett and I have great “bumping into each other” luck. I first met Ruth at the St. Louis Poetry Center gala last fall. Subsequently, we’ve magically bumped into each other 1) on the metro platform at the Central West End; 2) at Wole Soyinka’s talk at the Black Rep with her friend Lavelle Wilkins-Chin; ... More About: Company , Award , Sears
Writing Secrets: write when there?s no time to write?by Erwin A. Thompson
2008-05-13 16:51:00 Erwin A. Thompson , author of Thompson Western Series and Folk Treasure I will share my secret of being able to write when there is no time for writing. When I am in a boring job that only requires my presence, when I wake up at night and tend to remember all of the dirty deals that people ... More About: Writing , Time , Write , Secrets
All Mothers Day?for mothers and others?the truth of interconnection
2008-05-11 14:18:00 Happy ALL MOTHERS DAY, you mothers and others. This is a good day to recognize the truth of Tibetan Buddhism: that every being was at one time my own mother…your own mother. Hey! that means you were mine and I was yours. Taking it into present time….you are mine and I am yours. We nurture, cultivate, and ... More About: Truth , Mothers Day , Mothers , The Truth
Donation Sustains Music Program: Erwin A. Thompson in the news
2008-05-10 20:55:00 At the Writers Club Reception this week Pop said, “If I’d have to choose between music and writing, I’d be hard put to choose.” With this set of articles in The Telegraph this week, looks like he doesn’t have to. Pop’s a newsmaker! At 92 he’s on a roll! On May 8, 2008 at 11:08PM Telegraph’s ... More About: News , Music , In the News , The News , Donation
Thompson?s Literary Legacy honored at AHS: Writing His World?from 1932 to t
2008-05-10 00:11:00 Erwin A. Thompson & Janet Grace Riehl, father-daugther writing team Click here to read article “The Write Stuff: Writers’ Club Co-Founder speaks to students” by Stephanie Kiszczak in The Telegraph online. At the AHS Writers Club end of year celebration yesterday the past met the present and moved right on into the future. Faculty, students, friends, family, and ... More About: Writing , World , Legacy , Literary
Dempsey?s Tuanortsa previews ?Two Candles?
2008-05-09 22:52:00 My Man in Pakistan, Ernest Dempsey (aka Karim Khan)—a Man of Letters who is an author, editor, freelance writer, and book reviewer—responded to May Garsson’s challenge to write a poem in the experimental Tuanortsa form. Ernest Dempsey is a moving force with World Audience. He is President of World Audience, a publishing consortium, and editor-in-chief ... More About: Candles
VE Day: 1945?Edward R. Murrow reporting
2008-05-08 15:40:00 The biggest throw-your-hat-up-in-the-air news on May 8, 1945 was VICTORY IN EUROPE - GERMANY SURRENDERS! Click here to go to a site where you can hear a live report from Edward R. Murrow of CBS news standing in Piccadilly Circus in London”amidst a crowd of jubilant Britains celebrating the end of the war”. Go to CBC News ...
Botswana?s Bessie Head: A Meeting with Barbara Bamberger Scott
2008-05-07 16:42:00 A refugee is a person whose heart has been broken. “My daughter, who was 11 at the time, also loves Bessie’s books and was deeply influenced by living for two years in Botswana . One of my favorite expressions from there is Ke moto fela - “I’m just a person.”–Barbara Bamberg Scott (Read her impressive ... More About: Head , Meeting
?Tunanortsa??poetry call for Clive Matson?s ?Crazy Child Scribbler?
2008-05-06 15:48:00 Hello poets! May Garsson (maygarsson@yahoo.com) is collecting submissions for Clive Matson’s publication Crazy Child Scribbler using a new form called “tuanortsa” (astronaut spelled backward). This is a simple form, a poetic palindrome that reads more or less the same from top to bottom as from bottom to top. Here’s an example May gives (taken from an excerpt ... More About: Poetry , Write , Call
?Second Love,? new poem by Erwin A. Thompson
2008-05-06 04:32:00 Erwin and Ruth Thompson snuggle up on a past wedding anniversary Second Love by Erwin A. Thompson For the second anniversary of Ruth’s death, May 1, 2006 My first love was like a pansy, brought too soon from the greenhouse’ sheltering glass. A late frost took its vicious toll. That love was never meant to last. My second love was like ... More About: Poem , Erwin
Happy May Day?Happy Mothers Day?My Mother?s Second Anniversary?We?ll be Ste
2008-05-01 13:46:00 Flora, Goddess of Flowers May first. May Day is a many-splendored thing with more official holiday designations than perhaps any other day of the year. I recall as a child weaving May Day wreaths from spirea branches cut from our bushes and hanging them on our neighbors door. I especially liked hanging my wreath on ... More About: Anniversary , Mothers Day , Happy , Mother , Mothers
What Use Is the Poet? William T. Dawson?s ?Snow Blindness?
2008-04-30 21:33:00 The Poet gropes in the darkness for the switch knowing that the light that is sought lies within. –William T. Dawson I met William Dawson when I told a story at last year’s Sunflower Festival in Mountainaire, New Mexico. We shared supper on his simple terrace as we gazed across the desert leading up to the ... More About: Snow , Blindness
Argentine Poet Juan Gelman wins Cervantes Prize in Spain
2008-04-30 20:28:00 Spain’s King Juan Carlos gave Gelman a medal symbolizing the Cervantes Prize at a ceremony in Alcala De Henares, the birthplace of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, the author of “Don Quixote.” Read entire article in International Herald Tribune (Culture section) by clicking here….Argentine poet Juan Gelman receives Spanish-speaking world’s highest literary honor To read Gelman’s work in ... More About: Spain , Poet , Wins
Riehlife Poems of the Day:
2008-04-30 18:40:00 Riehlife National Poetry Month Editor Stephanie Farrow writes: Dear Friends, It has been such a treat to share poetry during this past month. Thank you all for participating! Because today is the last day, I?d thought initially that the final poem should be deep and meaningful, inscrutable perhaps and profound—something along the lines of what the New ... More About: Poems
Barry D. Yelton, ?Scarecrow in Gray? author, hails from hill country of Nor
2008-04-30 16:48:00 Barry D. Yelton, author of Scarecrow in Gray, (September 2006, Universe ) based roughly on the Civil War experiences of his great-grandfather is currently at work on the sequel. Barry says: As to my work, I am a bit of a poet, a bit of a novelist, and a whole lot of Southern. I come from the hill ... More About: Country , Author , Hill , Barry
Riehlife Poem of the Day: Martín Espada?s ?Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100
2008-04-30 01:16:00 ALABANZA: IN PRAISE OF LOCAL 100 Martín Espada Alabanza[excellent video!] (for the 43 members of Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Local 100 working at the Window on the World restaurant, who lost their lives in the attack on the World Trade Center ) Alabanza.Praise the cook with a shaven head and a tattoo on his shoulder that said Oye, a blue-eyed Puerto Rican with ... More About: Poem , National Poetry Month
Blog Duet: Curating the Examined Life
2008-04-28 21:30:00 Crazy Ali Poet of Turkey Photo by Marcy Burns An unexamined life is not worth living. —Socrates An examined life is worth curating. —Janet Riehl Like a museum curator chooses what to put in the exhibit and where to put it, we all choose where and when and with whom to place the events that make up our ... More About: Life , Blog
Riehlife Poem of the Day: Galway Kinnell?s ?Blackberry Eating,? from ?Morta
2008-04-28 15:57:00 Blackberries “en bushed” Sign of the times: Google “blackberry” and what comes up is a mechanical device, not a fruit. To find the fruit on Google, you must type in “blackberry fruit.” Vis: more people have likely held Blackberry devices in their hands these days than have gone berrying and experienced the pleasures Kinnell describes in ... More About: Poem , Galway , Eating
Riehlife Poem of the Day: Wendell Berry?s ?The Hidden Singer?
2008-04-27 14:42:00 The Hidden Singer by Wendell Berry from The Selected Poem s of Wendell Berry (Copyright © 1998) The gods are less for their love of praise. Above and below them all is a spirit that needs nothing but its own wholeness, its health and ours. It has made all things by dividing itself. It will be whole again. To its joy we come together— the ... More About: National Poetry Month
Salon 53 bronze sponsor for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Dance St. L
2008-04-26 18:25:00 Freida Wheaton gets around. She’s a board member of Dance St. Louis and a member of the Ballet Ball Committee. Freida’s fun and saavy. She assembled a group of friends and supporters to join her at table #33. Freida, Salon 53 and friends provided Bronze Sponsor ship to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Alvin Ailey ... More About: Theater , American
Riehlife Poetry Treasuretrove of the Day: PBS Fooling with Words
2008-04-26 17:52:00 Wow! Go over the Bill Moyers Journal for links to poetry videos and transcripts of your favorite poets. Hey, Hal Manogue! Here’s a video of Coleman Barks reciting Rumi that will set you up for several days! More About: Poetry , Words
Moyers & Wright: Beyond the Soundbite
2008-04-26 17:39:00 I left The Space (see post below) to rush home through our big thunder and lightening storm…headed for Bill Moyers ’ Journal on PBS…featuring an interview with Reverend Jeremiah Wright and looking for insights into… Black Churches, Black Theology and American History James H. Cone’s quotation set the tone of Rev. Wright’s conversation with Moyers: Black churches ...
?Deeper Shade of Blues? performed by Joel P. E. King at The Space
2008-04-26 17:04:00 “Deeper Shade of Blues ,” a two-act one-man show written and performed by Joel P. E. King premiers at The Space . And, there’s still time to see it! Tonight is Saturday at 8 p.m. and tomorrow is Sunday at 6 p.m. for only a $10 admission. Just go to THE SPACE in St. Louis on 320-24 ...
Riehlife Poems of the Day from Sequoyah School, Pasadena, California
2008-04-25 15:43:00 The Wildflowers Were In Bloom (photo by Sequoyah School ) My goddaughter Jennifer Delaquil’s son R. attends Sequoyah School in Pasadena. On my last trip out to Southern California , I visited them there. Josh Brody, Director Sequoyah School, sent out some wonderful poems and photos from a student outing in their newsletter called “News from Beyond ... More About: Los Angeles , Poems , Write
Riehlife Poem of the Day: Turkish poet Crazy Ali recites ?Do You Know??reco
2008-04-24 16:19:00 He introduced himself as ?Crazy Ali?, and he wasn?t thinking about selling something to us. He wanted to share. Crazy Ali, The Turkish Poet (Photo by Marcelline Burns) I asked, ?Who gave you that name?? to which he responded with obvious pride, ?I gave it to myself more than a quarter century ago. I am Crazy ... More About: Write , Poem
Crazy Ali of Turkey: ?The Village Poet,? by Marcelline Burns
2008-04-24 16:17:00 Marcelline (Marcy) Burns is an author-friend I made through her response to “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary” and continued penpal correspondence with both my father and myself. She is one of my role models I use when answering the question, “What kind of old woman do I want to be?” This was a question posed to ... More About: Turkey , Write , Crazy , Village
Poem in Your Pocket plus 30 ways + 3 to Celebrate Poetry Month with Pop
2008-04-24 02:43:00 Put a Poem in Your Pocket and share it. What a great idea…on this day, or any day. Poets. Org lists 30 things to do to celebrate poetry month (April, right?). 31) But, here?s one they haven?t thought of. My father, Erwin A. Thompson, encloses a poem along with his bill to the Great Central Lumber Company. ... More About: Poetry , Write , Celebrate
Poetic Asides?Robert Lee Brewer?Writers Digest?Prompts & Poetry
More articles from this author:2008-04-23 17:48:00 There’s lots of great poet participation going on over at Poetic Asides blog. Robert provides a poem and poetry prompt each day in April for National Poetry Month. More About: Write , Writers , Digest 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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