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A professional writer since , Robert Yaniz Jr. The show has evolved a lot since it began and will enter a new era when it returns with a new concept in late The thing you will find out about FreeCircle when you dig deeper is the concerns of a United world. FreeCircle sees things in a fresh new way. Nonpartisan in political views and strong in moral compass.

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You can listen to her podcast on most major platforms. The Uncommonwealth Podcast takes an unfiltered, comedic look at the quirky history and culture of Pennsylvania. Mandy co-created Winning Mindset Consulting after her business partner, Keith Smith, co-managed a membership-based massage studio. They discovered a significant gap within the franchise regarding entry level sales training and management training. They published their first book, The Top Ten: Lessons for Successful Business Leaders and Managers, in Now Mandy and Keith help business owners, training their staff in sales and supporting the managers as they deal with the logistics of handling their team.

Despite a horrific childhood that was underpinned by sickening abuse, cruelty, and violence, he has emerged from being a victim to a victor and now uses his real-life experiences — along with the influences of many world-class mentors — to positively inspire others to become the very best they can be.

BBXX helps people live better relationships and a better life with the highest quality information about sexuality, intimacy, and communication. His role included the Podcast Technical Working Group which defined the IAB Podcast Measurement Guidelines — an attempt to get the podcast industry to talk the same language when it comes to podcast content and advertising numbers, and help the industry scale! They are collecting personal stories of perseverance from regular people. Joe is a serial podcaster and creates a community around psychedelics as medicine.

Psychedelics are a wildly promising field of medical and creativity research and may help many thousands of people when legally therapy is finally available. Jared has lived abroad and traveled extensively. Jared and his co-host Chad are both fans of travel, culture, and language, and wanted an outlet to talk about that-hence the Untranslatable Podcast.

We are a semi-unconventional and uncensored podcast that aims to be different than just a weekly recap show by covering wrestling world topics that are intriguing, random and based on experience through the eyes of two substantial wrestling fans and one filthy casual. Missy Sorg is the number cruncher and data wrangler for Sorgatron Media.

She assists with production of in-house podcasts such as AwesomeCast and Wrestling Mayhem Show and helps with marketing those shows as well as client podcasts. Jason is the Co-Founder of Climate Dads. Launched in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Fathers Day of , Climate Dads is a community of fathers and male caretakers who are interested in understanding the role parents play in a changing climate. Jeanine is the new COO of Simplecast. Thousands of individual creators and companies trust Simplecast with their audio, including TechCrunch, Harvard, Medium, Fast Company, and many others.

Capable of handling even the most confusing aspects of podcasting with the greatest speed and accuracy, Simplecast makes professional podcasting easier than ever with the helpful tools and resources you need to publish and share your stories, evolve your craft, and connect with a world of listeners. Jonathon Roberts, aka ComposerDad, accepts intense compositional challenges from a talking Bible while out with his kids. He documents all of this on the family adventure podcast, ComposerDad vs.

He lives in Beacon, New York, with wife, ProfessorMom, the kids, and a tangled box of electrical cords. Ryan Is a retired military veteran. Originally from southern California, he relocated to Utah in Ryan is started his podcast journey in May of Ryan has spent the last 16 in law enforcement. Lauren Tickner is a year-old entrepreneur and personal branding expert.

Her podcast, The Millennialaire Podcast, made it to 14th in the world in the business charts within 24 hours of launching. Lauren has created a six-figure income and following through helping others build and monetize their personal brand. Sara is one of the co-hosts of the show as well as the content editor and designer. She enjoys anything to do with the ocean, traveling, hanging out with her puppy Murphy, getting lost in a good book and hanging out with friends and family!

Josh is a hillbilly from eastern Kentucky who over his years has met some interesting people from around the world. He has held many jobs from coal miner to Office Manager of a university, but currently has the privilege of being a stay at home dad. Brad Linder is a freelance journalist in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is also co-producer of the Loving Project, a podcast featuring stories of interracial married couples 50 years after the Supreme Court decision that legalized interracial marriage.

She met a few interesting and inspiring women with unusual, ground-breaking or quirky careers and thought that if she was interested in their stories, then other people might be too. And so, Smashing The Ceiling was born. Adam works in Corporate Finance and has always been interested in strange and odd information. He teamed up with his life long best friend, Chase, to start the podcast where they explore real things that sound totally made up.

We also cover the NFL although with all the media and podcasts out in the marketplace we do not place a huge emphasis on this product. Wray Dunn started this project back in when his wife GiniB Sound Girl was diagnosed with cancer and this project because a coping tool for both of us to put our attention into and it has grown to unexpected levels. He currently Resides in St. Louis Missouri with his Wife and Two Children. Alli Hoff Kosik is a full-time freelance writer.

She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband and in her dreams, at least three golden retriever puppies. She is the host of The SSR Podcast, which reexamines books from our tween and teen years from a kind of grown-up perspective. Eddie Ravert was itching to get back behind the microphone, but how? Then one day, while watching his favorite guilty pleasure TV show, a light bulb went off. Given the viewing audience of this reality dating show was about 90 percent female, Eddie knew he needed an influential female voice, and there was only one person for that job- his sister.

So they invested in more advanced podcasting equipment and software and really went for it. They started interviewing uber popular contestants from the show weekly. Word was starting to spread about this brother-sister duo from Philadelphia. Contestants started talking to each other saying how much fun they had on the Rose Buds podcast. But most importantly, these reality TV stars were sharing links to their episodes with their massive social media following side note: Now, Rose Buds was really starting to take off.

This lead to them being covered in numerous major media outlets for countless stories including People, E! After cracking the iTunes top 75 charts and garnering thousands of downloads per weekly episode, Rose Buds Nation was growing at an alarming rate. For a little, independent podcast competing with the major Bachelor Nation podcasts from all the major broadcast companies, you could say Rose Buds was disruptive.

The future is bright for Rose Buds, as they continue to grow, interview top-tier contestants and uncover scoops no other Bachelor-themed podcast could even fathom. The month of July was exciting for the Podcast Movement community! We had an absolute blast meeting so many of you in Philadelphia for PM18! The community continues to grow each month and we want to take the opportunity to shine the spotlight on some of our newest members. We hope that you will check out their shows or at least say hello and welcome them to the Podcast Movement family!

Jessica Brassington is an online influencer, author, and holistic health coach. She lives on the lake north of Houston, Texas with her husband, three girls, and rescue named Chelsea. She and her husband received hope from conversations with others who had made it through similar situations. Zack began listening to podcasts as a study tool in high school long before joining Google and founding the Google Podcasts product. Google Podcasts, which is newly available as an Android app, aims to help double worldwide podcast listening over the next couple of years, especially through new AI-powered experiences.

He and his friend Phil launched their podcast in May and teaching themselves what it takes to produce, launch, and promote an independent podcast. He previously worked at the U. Leah Collie is a freelance writer and podcast host reigning from New Jersey. Podcast in as a way to get her voice heard and to create a platform for young women of color.

Leah hopes that Pretty Please? Podcast will break the glass ceiling and bring Women of Color podcasters together. Verginiya Yancheva is an internationally published advertising and fashion photographer based in Europe. Turns out this was exactly what the industry needs because the podcast received lots of love with its very start. Almost three years later the podcast is already having over episodes, with a variety of topics and amazing guests such as Tamara Williams, Felix Rachor, Gerhard Merzeder, Henrik Adamsen, Jonas Jensen, Benjamin Kaufmann and many others.

Every Wednesday they publish a new interview with a big name in the industry and every other Friday there is an episode with tips and tricks for all photography lovers out there! The audience of the show is constantly growing and the owners are very fortunate to have their feedback, so they can constantly improve, update the audience with the latest news on the photography scene and deliver the best experience!

Natasha is a co-host of the podcast Girls Uninterrupted. The project started by Natasha and Sara, where they bring together a collection of unapologetic ideas and voices. After sealing their friendship with a shared bond of the being the most two outspoken girls in a one square mile radius, they decided to create something all their own where they could truly be heard. Each episode they bring on guests that they admire, ranging from friends to public figures.

What all of they all have in common is their ability to proudly and imperfectly share their opinions. Whether that be on politics, pop culture, local event and more! As a temporarily retired pastor, Paula has had a passion for helping families for over 30 years. When her own children needed focused attention, she pulled back on ministry, but that desire never left.

She authored 4 books. And now, she talks with women about their kids, their husbands and their sanity from a decidedly Christian perspective. As a podcast hosted by two young black British males, we would describe ourselves as students of life and striving to be the best version of ourselves. We would also pride ourselves on our vulnerability and ability to share the highs and lows of our personal journeys.

In she learned how to rack up millions of airline miles and hotel points using only her good credit score and regular household spending. Since Lisette has been teaching people how to earn hundreds of thousands of miles and points using travel credit cards sign up bonuses. She is the creator of the online video course, Jet Set Becoming a Travel Hacker, which launched in Lisette is also the host of The Globetrotter Lounge podcast, interviewing inspiring women who have found creative ways to travel more.

She lives in the Seattle area with her photographer husband and teenage son. The Money Twins are identical twins, with diverse backgrounds in finance. They merged this background to create themoneytwins. This podcast is mostly about hip-hop music and sports. After developing a love of Star Wars and comic books as a child, Zohner was destined to be a geek. With interests touching on computers, video games, tech, books, TV and movies, and toys and collectibles, he is the epitome of a well-rounded geek who eventually stumbled into podcasting.

After hosting a successful weekly tech podcast for nearly a decade, he decided that he wanted to do something more meaningful so he helped start Hope Strikes Back, a non-profit media group based in Salt Lake City, UT focused on using the platform to help others. Clara Harris is an actor anywhere that will have her — television, film, stage, and audio. Clara loves a good story. She is passionate about new work for the stage and fresh interpretations of classic texts.

She recently completed filming a feature with Nancy Stafford, who she met while working alongside Doug Jones and Anson Williams in the feature Nazareth. In addition to her work on stage and screen, she is an active audiobook narrator for both fiction and nonfiction. Clara has been honored with the Emerging Artist Award by the Kentucky Arts Council Playwright, , and her plays have been shortlisted and honored nationally and internationally. Clara thinks riding long distances on her bicycle, past lovely vistas, and camping under the stars is a perfect vacation.

She loves to cook and hosts a podcast talking to people about what they make for dinner — an average, workaday dinner. And though she does not understand a fraction of the science behind it, she is a total nerd about everything to do with space and space exploration. Vic is an invisible force in the North of England and beyond; Vic works tirelessly to enable people to achieve their dreams and ambitions, whatever their background. In recognition of her achievements to date, Vic was included on the prestigious Northern Power Women Future List Vic also flies the flag for women in the media.

Her debut podcast Tourist is an alternative travel guide with the funniest people on the planet. They have been together now for one and a half years. Some of the shows that are the main focus of their podcast are The Flash, Arrow, Mr. Carson grew up always wanting to outperform his current self.

This led to him undertaking internships with companies like Berkshire Hathaway at the age of Soon, he wanted to start something for himself. At the end of his sophomore year in high school, he developed an online ministry for teenagers called TeenLyfeMinistries.

He began his podcast after his junior year with the mindset of developing young leaders today so that they are able to flourish tomorrow. Megan Hall, like most women, is a wearer of many hats. She teaches her clients simple life strategies that help them minimize their stress and maximize their joy. Through her role as host of The Inspired Women Podcast Megan connects her audience with inspirational women who share their real stories and chats about topics relevant to women today.

The goal of the podcast and The Inspired Women Community is to help women feel connected, inspired, and supported in their daily lives. Her goal is to inspire others to overcome their feelings of being hopeless and helpless so they can live their best life possible. The Zero2Hired Podcast helps job seekers land the job quickly. You might be asking yourself, how? Zero2hired host, John Ribeiro, Author of the Zero2Hired book, interviews industry career experts, and coaches who share insider insights on how to successfully navigate and succeed in the interview process. This podcast goes deep to provide you with the best information in the industry.

Her mom was right. Meet the Disruptor for Good! She really likes to stir things up and get people thinking AND acting. One of her favorite past times is making people laugh and because she was clearly born with multiple sets of tear ducts, crying makes the list too. Gina cries proudly and frequently — mostly tears of joy. A few things that immediately turn the tears of joy faucet on are her team accomplishing a goal they set; letters from ten-year-old girls sharing that, because of Mrs. Things like mass shootings, children dying of starvation every day due to climate change, the devastation of our oceans and our rainforests and the rate of extinction for our four-legged friends.

Her advice if you are thinking about writing a book? As a published author, Mrs. Be sure you have the fire in your belly, the time to tell your story and then really commit to it. The Queen of Green warns everyone that she stops for birds, all wildlife and to snap pictures of the numerous ways plastic pollution is impacting the health of our planet. Gina is a dreamer at heart. She has spent most of her adult life working to improve the lives of at-risk children and families, and now our at-risk planet.

She is madly and passionately in love with this great planet or ours and is tireless in her efforts to preserve it. Raise the consciousness, of every human being on this planet, about the reality of our climate and the health of our planet. Then, educate, inspire and engage them to be the change they wish to see in the world. I have 3 beautiful girls ages are 2, 12, and 14, I also have a son who is 9. I have a beautiful fiancee who likes my beautiful children I love more than anything!

My cousins father Kellen who I shout out the start of each episode always loved the stories and laughed, told me that I needed to be on radio everytime he would see me after that. I was playing drums in different bands at the time so just kind of kept it in the back of my mind. About years ago I started listening to podcasts until one day it just hit me, I decided I want to start my own podcast.

So luckily, income tax time was upon us and I was able to get the laptop I am currently still using, and got a Blue Snowball mic that I was using until a few weeks ago. I then did it by myself and though I was enjoying it every episode it just felt like something was missing. I was working at a factory here in my hometown and Lette was working there and we had been talking about doing a podcast for a while and it just kind of hit me to start doing the podcast with Lette. She has helped us so much we made her our manager and with her business, in online marketing www. Together with us 3, are not just a great team, but we are friends, family even!!

I love this show and our segments. We do comedy, gaming, music, paranormal, vaping, and more! Anything we want to talk about we talk about it and we have so much fun doing it! We just want to learn as much as we can to help improve our show and entertain our listeners. We started out posting our episodes on Soundcloud but now we have moved over to Podbean which we LOVE and so glad we made the move to their platform.

Love the podcasting community we just want to do our part to make it grow and be better. We talk about the topics that are important to Latina Lesbian, Bisexual and Queer women. Veronica is a mental health professional and an adjunct professor of human behavior. She will use her mental health and social justice perspective to frame the conversations and interviews in this podcast. Join David Willms, Mike McGrady, Nephi Cole, and entertaining guests each week as they use humor, storytelling, and more than 40 years of collective experience in law, science, and policy to explain important decisions affecting your outdoor experience.

They belong to you. Every day, decisions are being made that affect your land, your water, and your wildlife. You should know about them. This is Your Mountain. Department of State DOS. She served in that position until January Boarderline obsessive, Rory Mc exercises his talents as a producer by placing a microscope on the Jack Klassen Show and reflecting that magnified image on social media and the web in general.

The Jack Klassen Show was at one time a thriving and established FM radio show but hard times fell on the show and it was reduced to dead-air. Rory heard past episodes of the show via Youtube, and other places. He took notice of a special quality and talent found in the show, and Jack, that he felt was being left by the wayside.

So, Rory contacted the comedy talkshow host, who at the time, was sitting in a metaphorical dirty bathrobe, smoking cigarette butts from a metaphorical ashtray and collecting a metaphorical talkshow welfare dole. Rory divided his efforts between the continued promotion of past shows and producing brand new ones.

As the show gains popularity, Rory feels great satisfaction. He continues to see great potential in the shows future. Mark and Clarissa have been together since , and married since The goal is to encourage you to fight for your marriage as they fight for theirs! Dylan Adams is an actor, singer, and producer in New York City. As a recent graduate from the Maggie Flanigan Studio in New York City, his mission as an artist is to create work that is engaging and thought-provoking.

Junto Media creates original and branded podcasts for specialty audiences who are passionate about their businesses and hobbies. Peter is a podcaster, artist, game designer, and writer. As a game designer, artist, and writer he has developed professional material for R. As a podcaster he was one of the founding co-hosts of the Tri Tac PodCast. He is currently the host of the video series and podcast MythWits where he interviews industry guests every week.

Angela Brown has been a professional house cleaner for 25 years. Bench Warming Podcast is the dream podcast for sports lovers. No sports are off limits for Joe and Jeffrey as they live out their dreams of talking about sports for others to hear. The Bench Warmers are just out here providing facts and fun from the point of view of two Midwesterners.

Patrick is a former international finance lawyer who saw the light and quit, to dedicate his life to ethics, culture, and the restless pursuit of knowledge. The two have been in countess bands together and talk about music both past and present, as well other fun topics like family and their professional industries. Robert lives in Columbus, OH with his wife, daughter, and high-energy dog. He enjoys sports and roots for whichever team LeBron is on. In his spare time he enjoys tweaking the Simple Theology podcast and website to make it better one small tweak at a time!

Colleen is finding her fantastic. She is breaking the stereotype by being a voice to the people who feel alone in the struggles and hustles they are experiencing. She believes that being authentic transparent and vulnerable are the keys to living your best life. In a world of stereotypes she chooses to break them and live her adventure. She knows that others are struggling with the mundane and she wants to bring them along with her and help everyone find their fantastic. Because its in the finding.

Daren is a New York City raised now Sydney based; jack of all trades, master of some. Bell is a professional writer, musician, wonk, and political consultant. Karen James is a global purpose expert with a no-nonsense approach to igniting ethical transformation. Fast-talking, funny and pulling no punches, Karen is a Jersey girl turned social entrepreneur, corporate change maker, engineer, author, podcast host, and speaker.

Nelson Crawford is letting you in to his life by opening the window to his experience to as person in the world with the good, bad, funny, and ugly. Kendra performed in numerous plays in high school and college, and directed a play for her senior project, which earned her the school Drama Cup. Among the projects she has worked on as an Associate Producer are P. She has two young adult children, and is an avid knitter and spinner.

Cory is a co-host and creator of the podcast Convince Us! Cory and his best friend and co-host Colin had been living in different timezones for 8 years, and upon both moving back to their hometown felt the need to do something creative and fun together and thought of the idea of a podcast! In a random brainstorm they settled on the conspiracy theory topic and have both fallen in love… with podcasting.

Cory recently discovered the online community of podcasters and it has been a game changer! The support and networking has helped Cory and Colin to see podcasting as a long-term venture, and not just a random hobby. As the slogan suggests, The Fathergamer Podcast is more than just a podcast. TFGP celebrates geek and nerd culture, and interacts with all walks of life, be it gaming, comics, movies, or any form of creativity out there. Pari D is a professionally trained chef who hosts a brand new podcast on food.

They started this podcast in response to the outcry in the financial independence community on the lack of female prominent voices.

They felt there was a need to fill the gap. From real estate to starting your own online business to making bank writing romance novels to full time travel to AirBnb and more. If you or someone you know suffers from extreme addiction to talking about Financial Independence this is the place for you!

Marriage and motherhood has given Eve an urgency to sound the alarm and bring global awareness to Maternal Narcissistic Abuse, while providing hope and creating solutions for freedom. Eve has re-mothered herself, healed from the abuse and now she coaches other women that suffer from the effects of Maternal Narcissism. She takes pride in maintaining a vastly growing podcast, with listeners reaching as far as the UK and Germany. Corinne lost lbs after a lifetime of battling obesity. She decided to lose weight the way she would LIVE it.

She now helps women on her podcast learn how to lose weight, too, without a bunch of BS tricks. She focuses on changing how you think about food, ditch calorie counting and start living. Suzie is a burnout prevention strategist and a yoga teacher. She focusses on burnout prevention in the areas of work, education, and relationship with self and others.

Collaborating with people and supporting them in claiming their purpose, passion, and vision keeps her candle lit. In addition to coaching and yoga, she has provided professional development support for educators in the public school and university settings. She is a public school educator with over 20 years of experience. Christopher Orapello — Down at the Crossroads — Music. Christopher Orapello is an author, artist, witch, and animist with a background in Western occultism, ceremonial magick, and Freemasonry and has been on his journey for over 20 years.

He cohosts the podcast Down at the Crossroads with his partner, Tara-Love Maguire, and is a signature artist with Sacred Source, a leading producer and distributor of ancient deity images in North America. After a growing desire for a more locally based form of witchcraft, he and Tara founded the Blacktree Coven in and set out to forge a modern approach to traditional witchcraft for a new era of praxis. Sure, they can dress up and pass muster at a black tie event as well as the next yankee, but this passionate husband and wife team are pretty much just a couple of punks who work hard, drink responsibly, and use their unique brand of passion to connect with their community… and with you!

Pontifacts is a light hearted, only slightly blasphemous papal history podcast, ranking all the Popes from Peter to Francis. Hosts Bry and Fry dig into the lives of the pontiffs, determine the value of their contributions, and uncovered juicy scandals that shock the whole of Christendom! Kalena is a film industry professional with over a decade of experience working in the Locations Department.

As host of The Credits Podcast, Kalena interviews her fellow crew members to shine a spotlight on the often unheard of positions that scroll by at the end of every movie. She currently resides in Atlanta, GA with her husband. Joe Laber has been entertaining radio audiences since He continues to do so from his A Cup of Joe Media home studio. He is also a professional voice and copy write talent for other various media outlets TV, video and social. Nancy Becher dreams of a world that runs on the vibrancy of thousands of small businesses, all working together, making money and living in great supportive communities.

As an author, journalist and business consultant for more than 30 years, she has worked with hundreds of companies — large and small throughout the United States and internationally — helping them create strategies and processes that are built to give them more revenues, less stress and raving fans. Practical tips and techniques can be found on her website at www. I started podcasting a month ago. I speak about renown individuals, supernatural, mysterious stories, and some poltergeist activity.

The Krazy Wabbit started podcasting in He provides a buffet style of podcasts with topics including sports, tech and social issues of the day. He also utilizes live streaming to provide the audience real time interaction. Martin also has developed strong community relationships by assisting Community Shelters Inc. This has inspired Eren to start his own non profit , The Eren Martin Foundation, which he has recently dissolved and is restructuring it. After leaving the corporate world in , he could no longer resist the entrepreneurial spirit that was pulling at him consistently to venture out and start his own businesses.

Since, he has become a social media guru, bringing some of the most viral videos to the internet. I also have analytics to verify. He has self-taught himself how to code and launched his first mobile app on Google Play store last year. That has branched into a full blown software startup called ErenLogic https: Eren is currently partnering with Holotouch, Inc, and others to create prototypes and A. I software for commercial businesses. Since he has so many things going on, he felt the best way to promote it, was to start a podcast. After about 2 months of learning the ins and outs of what podcasting was and how it works, he was ready to start his own.

He put up an Instagram post asking if anyone was interested in being a co-host with him. To much of his surprise, most people in his hometown area and abroad, did not even know what a podcast was. Luckily, one of his long-time business partners and close friend, Jonathan Waters asked if he could do it.

Eren then asked a child hood friend, which he refers to a lot on the show as Ty-Ty, to be a part of the show as well. Since she was a native New Yorker, and a hip-hop enthusiast, he felt it was an easy choice to bring her aboard. After reaching iTunes top 5 in the music category of podcasts a few weeks ago, inspired Eren to take the craft of podcasting even more seriously. Mark Kilaghbian is the Co-CEO of Cryptoconomy, which he cofounded to help bridge the gap between crypto and consumers.

Mark was the Entrepreneur of the Year at the University of Texas at Austin, before going on to intern at the Whitehouse. Cryptoconomy is currently working on consumer-facing mining hardware FortyNinerMiners.

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Joseph Mugen is an aspiring podcaster. Joseph recently owned a brick-n-mortar shop, but has since let that business go to pursue an online career in e-commerce and digital marketing. It was digital marketing that led Joseph into trying podcasting; he has been hooked since. Also useful is a collection of interviews with the Coen Brothers. Of course, Fargo was so successful that it spawned a TV spin-off twenty years later!

There are mixed reports about whether the Coen Brothers like the television series, but for my money, the original film is all you need. Or you might just want to stick with the special edition DVD of Fargo. However you watch Fargo, just be sure to laugh. How to read this poem? Love and fear simultaneously? There is mixed, conflicted affection in the poem. The father dances around the room so roughly that pans slide off the kitchen shelf. However you read this poem, it is a poem of great intimacy — the grown man looking back at what passed for a close moment with his father.

Even the boy himself seems to wonder how he was supposed to feel. The title of the volume in which the poem appears — The Lost Son — may give us a clue as to how to read the poem, whether a fond remembrance of affection or a terrifying memory of fear. He was born and raised in Saginaw, Michigan, where his German immigrant father, Otto, owned and ran a twenty-five-acre greenhouse.

When Roethke was fourteen, his father died of cancer and his uncle committed suicide. From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke. Her most famous book — which went into 33 printings — was The Frugal Housewife, first published in In all, Child wrote more than 50 books. In addition, she edited the first American children's magazine, compiled an early primer for the freed slaves, and published the first book designed for the elderly.

You can visit Transcendentalists. A Lydia Maria Child Reader is available. And believe it or not, you can still buy a copy of The American Frugal Housewife. Another lovely book is Over the River and Through the Wood: She created characters with such powerful voices — women and men of Appalachia who spin yarns through story and song. So it was an honor years later to edit a collection of previously published interviews with her. Gathering these interviews in Conversations with Lee Smith was like sitting on the porch drinking sweet tea and hanging out with a long-lost but beloved cousin.

Last year when Lee published her newest book, Dimestore: In the interviews I had collected, Lee had told bits and pieces of her story — but now came Dimestore, a collection of personal essays, roughly arranged in chronological order. Taken together, they read like a memoir. As the book goes on, the reader learns also about her son Josh and his diagnosis of schizophrenia at age eighteen. One essay in the book stands out for me above all the others. I was fortunate enough to meet my best friends, Amy Young and Jennifer Soule, in Atlanta for the conference.

By this time, Lee and I had long since met and become friends, and we had talked about the mental illness that ran through both of our families over many generations. And I knew that her son Josh had recently died of complications of his schizophrenia. I had sent a card and made a donation to the group home where he lived. But little did I expect that Lee would talk openly that night about the heartbreaking loss of Josh and about the role her writing played in helping her to recover her own life.

Indeed, there were no dry eyes in the auditorium as the audience leapt to its feet in a long-standing ovation.

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The author of thirteen novels and four short story collections, Lee Smith leaves her fictional worlds behind and lets us see behind the curtains into her own life. You can read excerpts from the book: Journeys of such epic proportions are rare even for the increasingly ubiquitous genre of memoir. But the young Jill — hemmed in by the extreme drudgery of sheep farming, the tedium of the dry, parched landscape of the Australian outback, and later by the emotional demands of her widowed mother, who had relocated the family to Sydney — dreams big dreams. But it is The Road from Coorain that stays with the reader most powerfully.

You can then watch a seventeen-minute video interview conducted in with Conway. Poe was a relatively unknown writer when he published the poem in January in the New York Evening Mirror and again the next month in The American Review. Do this, do that — and voila, a wildly successful poem! If a person could read a poem or story in one sitting, Poe believed, the author could better control the unity of effect.

If you want to terrify your reader, best to do it in one concentrated burst with every element of the poem or story contributing to that terror. Some literary scholars lift a critical eyebrow about it, concluding that it is not fine literature. But as you listen to me read the poem in its entirety, are you really thinking about fine literature or are you just caught up in the creepy, eerie feeling it creates? Even Poe himself asserts that he set out to write a poem that would "suit at once the popular and critical taste.

Perhaps because he was so popular, some scholars call into question whether he can be seen as a serious artist. But to my mind, creating works that are accessible to a wide range of readers is a mark in his favor. Few readers know — or even give much thought to — how Poe wrote the poem. They are too busy enjoying it! You can even buy an Edgar Allan Poe action figure! Mexican painter Frida Kahlo is known for her stunning self-portraits. You might not think of her immediately as a painter who tells stories through her art.

Indeed, you could be forgiven if you think of her husband, muralist Diego Rivera, as the more narrative painter of the two. After all, his paintings told tales of the Mexican Revolution. For the tale she told in so many of her paintings was the devastating effect a serious bus accident had on her body and her simultaneous refusal to let that accident define her life. The accident she endured — and the injuries that resulted — are almost too gruesome to imagine. As a university student, she was on a bus when it collided with a streetcar.

Several people were killed, and though Kahlo survived, she suffered an almost incomprehensible injury: Kahlo spent the rest of her life recovering from the accident. She was eighteen when she was injured. She was forty-seven when she died. In those intervening decades, she experienced excruciating pain and was sometimes confined to plaster corsets that left her lying on her back for months at a time.

Though Kahlo had been at the university to prepare for medical school, during her long recovery she found herself drawn to painting. Ultimately, she was extremely driven to be a painter, and even though she was flat on her back for months at a time, she rigged up a mirror and a canvas and painted portraits of herself as she appeared lying in bed. Of her approximately two hundred paintings, many were self-portraits — and these are the images that stay with us today.

It was also the painting for which she received the most money in her lifetime. The Frida on the left appears in a Victorian white dress, representing, some art historians have suggested, her paternal German heritage and her European-influenced, elite, privileged upbringing. The Frida on the right appears in the traditional indigenous clothing of a Mexican peasant, suggesting her maternal Mestiza ancestry, which she embraced as a key part of her involvement in the Mexican Revolution. Many Mexican women artists and intellectuals were also dressing in Mexican peasant clothing to emphasize their indigenous ancestry.

Kahlo became known in her art for depicting herself in traditional clothing — and very well known in her life for her embrace of indigenous clothing and accessories. She wore long and colorful skirts and dresses, elaborate headdresses in her hair, and striking traditional jewelry. The reason for the indigenous clothing and jewelry is not hard to understand. The Mexicanidad movement was rejecting European colonialism and elevating the traditional folk culture of Mexico.

A striking element in The Two Fridas is the broken blood vessel that connects the hearts of the two Fridas. Kahlo also indicated that the painting was a way of mourning her separation from Diego Rivera, to make vivid her broken heart, the feeling of being split in two. The Frida in the white dress may be independent and fierce, but the traditional Frida — as encouraged by her husband, whose portrait she holds in her hand — has embraced a revolutionary identity.

Which Frida is the real Frida? The fact that the two Fridas are set against the background of an intensely stormy sky indicates that this quest for self-understanding caused a great deal of turmoil for Kahlo. While the petite and physically frail Kahlo was largely overshadowed both literally and figuratively by her near giant of a husband, interest in her work surged in the late s and has only gained momentum in the years since. Today, you can buy not only Frida Kahlo posters but also Frida Kahlo home furnishings, hair accessories, and clothes.

You can easily find a shower curtain, an action figure, a magnetic dress-up play set, socks, and of course, calendars featuring images from her various self-portraits. Interestingly, the Frida Kahlo Corporation controls access to images of the famed artist. Other valuable resources on Kahlo are the excellent Wikipedia post about her; an entry on Biography. In this scene, Frida attends her Mexican exhibition against all odds.

The show featured Shirley Jones as a widowed mother of five children, who scheme to put together a band as a way of helping the family financially. Susan Dey, Danny Bonaduce, and two younger children rounded out the family cast. In fact, it was the first show my family watched when we got our first color TV. What a thing to see on a color set! No more Partridge Family. We have laughed ever since about those technicolor lips of Shirley Jones.

The only actors who performed in the band were David Cassidy, as lead singer, and Shirley Jones, who sang backup. This made no difference to us — for it was David Cassidy we wanted, and he was there front and center. That was the magic of the song: David Cassidy himself recorded an updated solo version in My fifth-grade self would be proud. What a magical storytelling device! Imagine thirty travelers walking from London to Canterbury to worship at the shrine of St. How would they while away their time? By holding a storytelling competition, of course, and regaling each other with one tale after another.

Storytelling was an immensely popular form of entertainment in England at that time, and storytellers had enjoyed besting one another in contests for centuries. The prize for the winner? A free meal at the Tabard Inn at Southwark on their return from Canterbury. What emerges from this narrative device is one of the great masterworks of world literature.

Pilgrims from all walks of life tell tales. We listen as the merchant spins his fable and as the miller — who admits he is quite drunk — tells the uproarious and bawdy story of a cuckolded carpenter. Chaucer began writing The Canterbury Tales in , and it appears that the collection was unfinished when he died in Nevertheless, The Canterbury Tales -- twenty-four tales with over 17, lines of poetry — is considered by virtually everyone to be his masterpiece.

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You might be surprised! An easy way to dip a toe into The Canterbury Tales is to read a modern English translation. It takes some getting used to — and it can help to have an edition with the original Middle English and the modern English translation side by side. It can also be fun to listen to an audio version of the tales in Middle English. LibriVox provides a useful collection of audio recordings of the various tales. The series includes an interactive map tracing the route from London to Canterbury.

The song is not particularly innovative artistically speaking. As she sews the coat for young Dolly, she tells her the Biblical story of Joseph and his coat of many colors. The joy and pride she feels in wearing the rainbow-colored coat are dashed when the other children at school make fun of her for her coat made of rags. When the song hit it big, Wagoner had the receipt framed. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ranked it tenth on its list of one hundred songs of the South.

LeConte, I was mesmerized by a photo history book of the area as it existed before it was made into a national park in Families had lived scattered throughout the rugged but spectacularly beautiful terrain. Among those original families were the Partons and the Ogles. Dolly Parton and Judy Ogle, as is told in the television movie, became best friends in school and remain so to this day. Her mother was a singer and taught her young daughter religious music as well as the traditional ballads her ancestors brought with them when they settled in the Smoky Mountains.

Raised as a Pentecostal in the Church of God, Dolly became a singing sensation at an early age. When she was thirteen, she appeared on the Grand Ole Opry, where she met Johnny Cash, who encouraged her to pursue her career in the way that felt right for her. The day after her high school graduation in , Dolly Parton moved to Nashville. On her first day in the city, she met Carl Dean, her future husband, in a laundromat.

Dean is now retired from his work paving asphalt roads in Nashville. And according to both Parton and Dean, he has seen her perform only once. Perhaps Carl Dean is one of the reasons Dolly Parton stays so rooted to her past despite the wigs and gowns and over-the-top makeup. What I love about Dolly Parton is that she spans two worlds that seem at once far apart and extremely close. Dolly Parton very much has one foot squarely planted in that mountain past. The fact that she feels a strong tie to her home and her people is made clear in her theme park, Dollywood, and her other business ventures in nearby Pigeon Forge, just a few miles from the one-room cabin where Parton was raised with eleven siblings.

Parton employs many people at Dollywood who are descended from those original mountain families. But Dolly Parton also very much has her other foot planted just as firmly in the glitzy, glamorous, modern world of show-biz — Nashville, where she makes her home, and Hollywood, where she has made her films. She herself is larger than life, a walking, talking, singing coat of many colors. She embodies — literally — that in-your-face joy and fierce mountain woman pride. To explore the song and its spin-offs, consider purchasing the album Coat of Many Colors.

Revisit this classic American song — and find out how even the glitzy, glamorous Dolly Parton brings life to her deep-seated mountain pride. It was broadcast eight consecutive nights, and like countless other viewers, I was glued to the TV set every night. I was there, front row, center, for every episode. The concluding episode still ranks as having the third largest audience in television history.

The story Haley recounted in Roots was nothing short of miraculous. After years of genealogical sleuthing, he made his way back to the African village of his ancestors. The story Haley told went like this. Haley writes near the end of the book,. As it turns out, however, this amazing story is not actually true. When the book was originally published in , it had been promoted as nonfiction and flew to the top of The New York Times bestseller list for nonfiction. It is now often described as a novel. Also dogging Haley were two charges that the book was plagiarized. Harold Courlander claimed that large portions of Roots were drawn from his book The Africans.

Haley and Courlander settled out of court, and Haley acknowledged that he did use passages from The Africans in Roots. Despite these controversies, Roots remains a powerful book indeed. For me, as for many readers, it is the idea of Roots that matters. In the late s, the National Endowment for the Humanities had a slogan: I firmly believe that if any American traced her family history, she would see in very personal terms the history of this diverse nation. This idea motivated my explorations in my memoir, Power in the Blood: A Family Narrative, and is a driving force as well in my current book-in-progress, Ferguson Girl: A Story of Family, Place, and Race.

Most of us feel it's highly unlikely that Alex actually found the village whence his ancestors sprang. It was an important event because it captured everyone's imagination. Gates speaks my mind. Even if Roots does not represent unerring and rigorous genealogy, it is the idea of Roots that signifies.

Haley encouraged many other Americans — especially black Americans — to seek and claim their ancestry. To get a taste of Roots, you can read Chapter 1 online. Buckle your seatbelt, though: If you want to watch the miniseries, you can purchase the seven-disc DVD box set. His Life, His Works. You can then watch Alex Haley reflect on Roots in What is your family history? Is the young Elizabeth aware of this as it is happening? Or is it the older adult Elizabeth who looks back and recognizes what this moment was? Young Elizabeth — about to turn seven in just three days — sits in a waiting room while her Aunt Consuelo has a dentist appointment.

The adult Bishop writes:. Why should you be one, too? I knew that nothing stranger had ever happened, that nothing stranger could ever happen. What similarities— boots, hands, the family voice I felt in my throat, or even the National Geographic and those awful hanging breasts— held us all together or made us all just one?

The War was on. Outside, in Worcester, Massachusetts, were night and slush and cold, and it was still the fifth of February, No matter how many times I read this poem, I will never cease to be amazed at how deftly Bishop depicts the common, but extraordinary, experience of coming into an awareness of self. Bishop provides the freeze-frame, tells us to stop, pay attention. Poems, Prose, and Letters. The Biography of a Poetry. Earlier this year, a new Bishop biography was published.

A Miracle for Breakfast draws on a collection of letters Bishop wrote to her psychiatrist in , letters previously unknown by Bishop scholars. Knowing all the uproariously funny jokes to come, all the farcical plot twists and turns Wilde has up his sleeve just adds to the fun. Who is your favorite character in the play? But the rest of the play is supremely satisfying comedy as well as we learn the importance of being Ernest.

Like Lady Bracknell, Oscar Wilde himself was a force to be reckoned with. No upholder of the aristocracy, Wilde instead flouted convention at every turn. Wilde and Bosie pre-empted the plan, and Wilde prosecuted the Marquess for criminal libel. Eventually, Wilde dropped the charges against the Marquess but was then himself arrested and tried for gross indecency with men. Ultimately, Wilde was convicted and received the maximum penalty for crimes of homosexuality: In — more than years after his conviction — Wilde was pardoned for his offense.

When Britain passed the Policing and Crime Act of , homosexuality was no longer a crime in the United Kingdom, and an estimated 50, men, including Wilde, were pardoned. Unfortunately, the trial and imprisonment exacted a great toll upon Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest was his last play, and he never fully recovered — creatively or otherwise — from his trial and imprisonment. Five years after The Importance of Being Earnest premiered in London and three years after being released from prison, Wilde died penniless in Paris at the age of A great literary light was extinguished.

Ready to revisit this wonderful play — or to discover it for the first time? You can read the play online at Project Gutenberg or buy a hard copy of the play. Later on I think everyone will recognise his achievements; his plays and essays will endure. Of course you may think with others that his personality and conversation were far more wonderful than anything he wrote, so that his written works give only a pale reflection of his power.

Perhaps that is so, and of course it will be impossible to reproduce what is gone forever. Published in , Things Fall Apart tells the story of Okonkwo and his traditional Igbo village and the devastating transformation it undergoes with the arrival of British colonialists. But the novel is every bit as much about Okonkwo as a tragic hero — his story regardless of time and place — as it is about the damage wrought by Europeans.

Things Fall Apart demanded that the Igbo be taken on their own terms. Now almost sixty years later, Nigerian literature has expanded considerably. If not completely comfortable in all of these worlds — or indeed maybe not comfortable in any of these worlds — they nevertheless figure out how to move in these worlds.

The two main characters — Ifemelu and Obinze — are modern, urban Nigerians. Hailing from Lagos, the capital city of the West African nation, their postcolonial Nigeria is a place of power-shifting, power-grabbing corruption. Eventually, they both return to Nigeria, determined to make a go of it in their home country. All that transpires from their youth in Africa to their adventures in North America and the U.

It certainly seems that Lagos has developed in ways Achebe might have anticipated but never personally witnessed. Her debt to his literary legacy is evident, of course. Born in Nigeria, Adichie now divides her time between her home country and the United States. To learn more about Adichie and her work, visit her website. Near the beginning of the video, Adichie reads the opening of Americanah. Oh, how I love this poem! It packs so much into a short space. In the poem, Hughes plays with the idea of using writing — words on paper — as a tool to bridge racial, social, class, and educational differences.

Like so many other writing teachers, the professor tells his students to write what they know.

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Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you — Then, it will be true. The student goes back to his room at the Y and writes his essay, naming things he likes, including music: Though they are located right next to each other, they are nevertheless worlds apart.

Or are they worlds apart? Reflecting on his passions, the things that shape his identity, the student writes:. So will my page be colored that I write? Being me, it will not be white. I especially love that Hughes seems to have Walt Whitman in mind. I hear New York, too.

He makes clear that he and the professor are both American. You are white — yet a part of me, as I am a part of you. Nor do I often want to be a part of you. The list of my favorite Langston Hughes poems would be long indeed, but no volume of his poetry makes my heart sing like Montage of a Dream Deferred.

The story goes that Hughes wrote Montage of a Dream Deferred in a creative outburst in one week in September Hughes had just moved into his own home after being a renter his entire adult life. Montage of a Dream Deferred is very much a tour de force. In his early work, Hughes showed how the blues as a uniquely African American musical form shaped his poetry. By the s, however, jazz had more than come into its own, embodying the vast creativity and artistry of African Americans.

Jazz was, of course, a distinct creation of African American musicians. Though there were many white musicians who became interested in and mastered jazz and pushed it in new directions, jazz was largely an African American cultural phenomenon. In a prefatory note to the book, Hughes writes,.

He employs different voices, takes different vantage points, takes the same words and plays them back to us in a different way. Some of these poems depict blacks still able to hope and dream, but the most powerful pieces raise the specter of poverty, violence, and death. Famous for its Renaissance in the s, when African American migrants from the rural South poured into the Manhattan neighborhood and filled it with music, art, literature, rent parties, and life, Harlem by the late s was in decline.

The dream African Americans had sought in their own vibrant neighborhood was, indeed, drying up like a raisin in the sun. Their songs—those of Seventh Street—had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going. If you want to go deeper, consider taking the Langston Hughes walking tour the next time you are in Harlem. You can also watch actor Danny Glover recite the poem. Though Melville had been working on the novella Billy Budd, Sailor for the last five years of his life, it appears that he may not have finished it when he died in Earlier in his life, he was known for the extremely rapid pace at which he wrote.

For example, he wrote the mammoth Moby-Dick in just eighteen months — an epic novel that was about six times longer than Billy Budd. Looking back after more than years, we can see that Melville was not insane but was rather highly innovative and deeply cynical about the human psyche. Like Walt Whitman, Melville blew the lid off literary convention and, also like Whitman, was very much misunderstood and rejected by many in polite society.

But unlike Whitman — and indeed unlike the whole band of Transcendentalists and their friends — Melville had a deeply pessimistic view of the world. He disappeared into a quiet career as a New York Customs House inspector. So the question many Melville fans ask is: And what of the fact that the manuscript was apparently unfinished? He wanted to challenge the intelligent and alert reader — the reader whom he so desperately wanted to find, the reader who would be waiting for him later in the twentieth century.

Why, then, do scholars think the novella was unfinished? Fragments, repetitions, scraps of text compete with each other. Melville had a lifelong history of losing control of manuscripts. God keep me from ever completing anything.

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Lord, when shall we be done growing? Lord, when shall we be done changing? But Billy Budd is not simply an unfinished manuscript. To the degree that it is finished, it is deliberately ambiguous. Billy Budd is peppered with words that give the book an unfixed quality. These words are used in key scenes — scenes we often recall vividly. But when we reread these scenes, we find that any vividness we remember is but the vividness we have ourselves created.

And the main characters — Billy Budd, John Claggart, and Captain Vere — shift and shape-change not only throughout the book but also within individual scenes. Not so fast, Melville seems to say. Truth is not so neat. The symmetry of form attainable in pure fiction cannot so readily be achieved in a narration essentially having less to do with fable than fact. Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges; hence the conclusion of such a narration is apt to be less finished than an architectural finial.

Melville urges us to take care with what we read, to be slow in casting judgment and in reaching conclusions, and to allow ourselves to fully enter into the ambiguous exploration of the labyrinth. There is more mystery than we had thought, and we may agree with dying Gertrude Stein that answers are less important than questions. Not the tidy discourse of our first impression, [ Billy Budd ] is almost as inexplicable as Moby-Dick.

Perhaps nothing underscores this more than the fact that readers and scholars have been finding their own individual answers to the problem of Billy Budd since the book was first published in It provides our first full introduction to Billy Budd. In so many ways — both in his poetry and in his interviews — Allen Ginsberg made clear that he owed a great debt to Walt Whitman.

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Of course, Ginsberg often acknowledged his poetic debt to Whitman. What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes! But be sure to appreciate also how Ginsberg pays homage to Walt Whitman as a personal role model.

Where are we going, Walt Whitman? The doors close in an hour. Which way does your beard point tonight? It is much easier to identify it as her most influential and enduring work than it is to place it into a genre. It is all this — and more. It is a dense text with complex concepts, and some readers find it hard to understand. And it can be unsettling, especially to white male readers who might find their notions of privilege and status being called into question. Despite the challenges the book presents, there are so many wonderful sections and aspects to this multilayered, multifaceted book.

It is a consciousness of the Borderlands. It is quite a linguistic feat. The first half of the book features heady, theoretical essays, geographical history, and personal autobiography. The second half of the book is comprised of powerful and sometimes intensely personal poems. Theory and poetry — two seemingly opposed discourses placed right up against each other in one volume. An explorer of sorts, the narrator makes her way into the basement, the moist, dark, musty cellar underneath a house.

Basements and cellars are spooky, unsettling, creepy. Most pervasive is the dirt — rich, pungent, loamy earth. But a cellar is also often a place of nourishment — as jars of canned preserves often line the walls. The trip downstairs into the dank heart of the house is frightening, but it is the only way the narrator can find this sign of new life. Numerous theories have been offered for this poem.

Going down is a metaphor for the writing process, some say. Others point to the psychological journey the narrator is on as she delves into the space underneath her house. I will have my voice: I will overcome the tradition of silence. Emory University places her work in a postcolonial context, and Ms.

Magazine offers a retrospective of her career and her impact. Be sure to visit the website for the Gloria E. Writings by Radical Women of Color, and look also at another volume she edited: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Feminists of Color. Also worth a read is the University of Texas Press anthology Bridging: When I was a senior in high school, my favorite English teacher, Mr. Alwood, agreed to do an independent study with me. He selected four challenging novels he thought I was up to understanding and studying.

But in my way, limited by life experience though I was, I did appreciate them. One of those novels was E. The novel hinges on an accusation of rape. One of the main characters is Mrs. Moore, a refined British lady who has come to visit India, still a British colony. Moore is sensitive to the cultures and religions of others, and when she visits and enters a Muslim mosque reverently, she forms an unlikely but heartfelt friendship with Dr. Aziz, an Indian Muslim doctor in the town of Chandrapore. At first it seems that a bridge can be built between cultures, between the colonizer and the colonized, but when Dr.

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