I’m so happy to see a re-run of my poem “Integrating the Shadow” at New World Review. This poem was originally published in Redheaded Stepchild and later appeared in my collection, I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast, as well as in Verse Daily, Recours au Poème, and Ishaan Literary Review. I wrote this poem years ago, and I love to think of it out there now traveling around on its own.
http://www.neworldreview.com/vol_11No_77/poem-studdard.php
Here’s a fun new podcast hosted by Paul Harrison. I was delighted to be on the first episode, along with Shaindel Beers. Below are Paul’s notes about the show and a link to the Fiction Earth website.
Fiction Earth Podcast 1: With Melissa Studdard And Shaindel Beers.
Welcome to the Fiction Earth podcast.
In this first podcast I had the pleasure of chatting with poet, authors and teachers Melissa Studdard and Shaindel Beers.
In this first podcast we discuss poetry, writing, creativity, personal inspiration, and also throw in a little bit of fun and nerdy entertainment.
On the podcast
Shaindel, Melissa and myself had a fantastic chat and covered everything from spirituality to Star Trek, as well as looking at personal inspirations and motivations.
Hope you enjoy the podcast.
http://fictionearth.com/podcast/melisa-studdard-shaindel-beers-discuss-poetry-creativity-pordcast/
She asked what I’d say to other writers, and I said, “You have the opportunity to thrill someone the way your favorite writers have thrilled you. You have the potential to be someone else’s favorite writer. Isn’t that wonderful?”
Thanks to Cindy Huyser for this interview and these great questions in preparation for tomorrow’s reading.
I’ll be at BookWoman in Austin at 7 PM tomorrow night!
Many thanks to Weasel Patterson for his wonderful questions in this interview for his forthcoming documentary.
Poetry is not dead! (smile)
Fantastic News: Many of you have written me to inquire about a paperback release of ‘I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast’ to use for teaching. It’s here! And it is discounted for your students through Ingram. It’s not quite showing up on the Amazon search yet, but here’s a link you can use for Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0988944766 —
And here are the ISBN Numbers: ISBN-10: 0988944766
ISBN-13: 978-0988944763
YAY!
With gratitude to Okla Elliott for his wonderful questions–