Poem Against the First Grade by George Venn Marking the Magic Circle: Poetry, Fiction, and Essays Alex, my son, with backberry jam smeared ear to ear and laughing, rides his unbroken joy with words so fast we let him get away on the jamjar without clean cheeks first. He spills frasasass tea with milk and…
On Saturday, March 28 at 7:30 PM in Abbott Auditorium, at Southern Illinois University, the Women’s Studies Department presented a special event as part of Women’s History Month 2009. Fanny’s cousin Lavelle Wilkins-Chin drove us over to the Edwardsville Campus in the pouring rain. The two of us laughed, clapped and sang along to yet…
Pesto in August by Katrina Vandenberg from Atlas How many times does this ritual repeat itself, preparation that begins with sweetness unlocked by the parting of leaves? How many women have unpetaled garlic cloves, dripped oil cold-pressed from olives down a bowl’s curve, ground the edible seeds of pine with mortar and pestle until the…
Oh, frabjous day. Callo! Callay! It’s National Poetry Month! And once again we have trusted friend, poetry lover, and marvelous poet Stephanie Farrow as our Riehlife Poem of the Day editor. Thanks, dear friend.–Janet Stephanie says: Unfortunately, April has only 30 days, which means only 30 poems-a-day, and there are so many more that deserve…
Sinta Seiber-Lane interviewed Daddy for an WUIS radio program on Lincoln. Guests besides my father Erwin A. Thompson included Chris Vallillo and Todd Cranson..
Susan Tweit’s newest book “Walking Nature Home” invites us as readers to lope along the field of a life shaped by challenge and close looking at nature. Her book contains good guidance lessening the need to control and learning to let go more. Her insights into ways to view chronic illness, talk about it, and…
Ernest Dempsey is starting a new magazine called Recovering the Self, on self-help/growth/development. It will be published by the Loving Healing Press and will include articles, essays, stories (both fictional and true), journal entries, book reviews, short plays, interviews – virtually anything on the theme of healing/recovering from a trauma, setback, or loss. Feel free…
Mary Trimble has two outstanding remembrances of Africa on her blog.
Our 10-minutes audio book clip is on Victor Volkman’s “Author Airwaves.”
Once again, this Saturday, March 28, 2009 at 7:30pm at SIUE, in the Abbot Auditorium, Miss Fannie Belle Lebby will perform her sizzling one woman show “Ladies of the Blues.” Woodie Award nominee Miss Fannie Belle Lebby’s one woman show, “Ladies of the Blues”, including portrayals of blues artist/jazz singer Alberta Hunter and comedienne Moms…