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 […]
I always have problems answering the question of what poet or poets most influence me. In what way? In what period of my life? Living or ancestor? Yet when one of them passes I am deeply aware of how profound their influence was and is. Mari Evans is one such […]
giovanni singleton is a writer who is always seeking to find new lands where her ideas can root and new seas where they can sail. Award winning Poet and editor, , visual poet, and prose writer, giovanni singleton is a writer who dares to be herself. e.e. cummings once wrote […]
I know you as a composer, poet, film maker, performance artist, multi-genre theater producer, singer and more, but focusing on those how does each art feed the other? Is there one art which takes primacy over the other? While I’d love to say that I have these inspired, long-term ambitions, […]
