“Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Poetry and Music” reviewed by Yvonne Perry at Authors Den
Read Yvonne Perry’s (Writer in the Sky) review of “Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Poetry and Music” on Authors Den.
Read Yvonne Perry’s (Writer in the Sky) review of “Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Poetry and Music” on Authors Den.
Hail, Poets! While we spend our time watching various wana-be-a star-competitions in dance, and song the Arab world has its own TV competition shows for poets! The Million’s Poet is one of the most popular TV shows in the Middle East where poets, male and female, poor Bedouin or university scholar, read their elegant, emotionally…
The last step in producing an audio book is to celebrate! That’s what my Nashville Production team did with me at the Sportsman Bar and Grille this week. It looks like a theme park version of those grand old WPA (Works Progress Administration) lodges in the great parks like Yellowstone and Yosemite. The food was…
Family stories do not have to be diary-like stories. They can be word ideas. Little boy in diaper. Icecream cone. There, now: don’t you get vivid images and memories from these phrases?
In 2006 I published my book “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary”with iUniverse. While my first-line audience was friends and family, I quickly found there were second-third-and-fourth-line audiences rippling out there who were interested in my book, my topic, and by extension, in me and what I thought and had to say. I marketed “Sightlines” by every…
Dear Riehlife, I feel swamped after my first week teaching. Is my extensive creative life outside school as a dancer and workshop leader a dodge or escape or a wish for failure for my main work as a poet? What am I in quest of? Instead of spinning off in so many different directions, I…
Jeffrey L. Buford Jr. is my guest today on Riehlife. He grew up on the banks of the muddy Mississippi River on my father’s property. He’s a growing writer and musician. Here is our conversation. –Janet ____________________________ Riehlife: Tell us about your writing path so far. Jeffrey: Through writing about history and politics I found…