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Mahnaz Badihian: Rebel Poet, Painter, Translator 3

Mahnaz Badihian is an Iranian poet and painter whose work reflects ideas of immigrants and exiles, women’s issues, poverty, struggles for justice and, of course, love.  An award-winning poet and author of two poetry collections, and a recording of Rumi poems with her own translations with the poems read by […]


Lisa Marie Simmons:

“Employing Empathy, Shooting for Artistry, Talking Truth” Mass media creates music stars whose talent and vision varies and is at times altogether absent. But alongside these commercialized voices are original talents who shine brightly spreading their gifts throughout the world. I would like to take the opportunity to highlight one […]


Freedom, Responsibility and Artists 4

I entered Grace cathedral on Saturday   with its three-story high arched Anglican ceilings, its neon lit Jacob’s ladder, “Jacob’s Dream A Luminous Path” created by Grace Cathedral 2016 Artists’ in Residence, Benjamin Bergery and Jim Campbell along with traditional stained-glass windows and saint depictions, to sit in the quiet […]


Poems Birthed in Italia

While in Italy I started a number of poems. The following three poems were begun in Sardinia and were observations of or responses to festival offerings. around the grove the trees speak discreet words from a sonorous voice disembodied poems overlapping images knotted phrases insistent love forgotten promises remembered betrayal […]


Defining Artists 6

When does a person become an artist and not simply a person who at times creates art? In music it requires a certain attainment of skills to simply play music and then the line is formed as professional or an amateur musician, lines that do not necessarily reflect on one’s […]