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Artists and Writers

Janet Riehl guests on PIVR program “Marketing for Fun and Profit” hosted by Janet Elaine Smith…and other internet audio links to hear Riehl reading from and speaking about “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary”
Byriehlifegrace April 4, 2008August 16, 2010

INTERNET RADIO At PIVR click on the March 31, 2008 archive recording where my name and my book’s title appears. March 31, 2008 Janet Elaine Smith PIVR (Passionate Internet Voices Radio) “Marketing for Fun and Profit spoke with me and I read my poem “Crocus.” (Which you can read on the sidebar of Riehlife under…

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Fannie Belle Lebby’s Sizzling One Woman Show “Ladies of the Blues” lit up The Space
Byriehlifegrace April 4, 2008

Woodie Award nominee Miss Fannie Belle Lebby performed her one woman show, “Ladies of the Blues”, including portrayals of blues artist/jazz singer Alberta Hunter and comedienne Moms Mabley at The Space. Fannie Belle Lebby has merged her active performing career with activist work such as Jobs for Justice. Miss Freida Wheaton’s Salon 53 sponsored the…

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Riehlife Poem for MLK’s life and death: “Democracy,” by Langston Hughes
Byriehlifegrace April 4, 2008

In honor of the 40th anniversary of the assassination of the great civil right’s leader Martin Luther King, Jr. Riehlife offers Langston Hughes’ poem “Democracy.” —JGR _________________________ Democracy by Langston Hughes Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear. I have as much right As the other fellow has To…

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Riehlife Bonus Poem of the Day: Linda Jo Smith’s “Jazz Marsalis”, a Sankofet, a poetry form created by the Sisters-Nineties Literary Group
Byriehlifegrace April 4, 2008April 4, 2008

Sankofa is an Adinkra Symbol from Ghana meaning “Return and Fetch It.” Click here to read Riehlife post from December 5, 2007 on how Sankofa has defined the path of my life. The SANKOFET is a poetry form created by the Sisters-Nineties Literary Group. The format has three verses or stanzas of seven lines each….

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Riehlife Poem of the Day: Nabokov’s Butterflies
Byriehlifegrace April 4, 2008

Painting by Joseph Lamarque (see profile under Art Matters) Vladimir Nabokov’s poem was suggested by my friend Leigh Davidson as our poem of the day.–JGR Nabokov’s Butterflies: Unpublished and Uncollected Writings No, life is no quivering quandary! No, life is no quivering quandary! Here under the moon things are bright and dewy. We are the…

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Riehlife Poem of the Day: Langston Hughes’ “A Negro Speaks of River” with links to audio and scholarly article
Byriehlifegrace April 3, 2008

I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. This is the first stanza of one of my favorite poems “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” by Langston Hughes (from The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes,…

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Riehlife Poem of the Day: “November Idyll: After the Still Life,” by David Lee
Byriehlifegrace April 2, 2008

Click here to read about the Festival of the Cranes at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in Soccorro, New Mexico November Idyll: After the still life Leviticus 7:12-15 by David Lee (from Orion Magazine, November/December 2007) Above the grain field stubble a lift of cranes like a great table cloth shaken. _____________________ “The poet’s…

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Riehlife April Poetry Month begins with “Introduction to Poetry,” by Billy Collins
Byriehlifegrace April 1, 2008

My friend Stephanie Farrow, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, is our Poetry Editor for April. She writes: It’s April 1, which means it’s the first day of National Poetry Month—no fooling! Being a certified PL (Poetry Lover), I’m celebrating the occasion by selecting one poem to share every day this month. Some will be sad, some…

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Swick’s take on journeys and places
Byriehlifegrace March 30, 2008

Click here to read the entirety of Swick’s find essay “Photo book can reveal places, but not experiences there.” Journeys don’t spare us; they drag us through the raw on our way to the sublime. –Thomas Swick, travel editor of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel

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Pelicans “Just Visiting” Along the Mississippi Flyway
Byriehlifegrace March 30, 2008

Pelicans were part of my lyric life in Northern California as Daniel and I paddled round the small peninsula on Clear Lake in our kayaks and there, they are! A cloud of squawking white swirling and settling on the water. I see a blur of pelicans this morning, looking over my shoulder, as I drive…

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