Everywhere in nature I see invitations to go the distance as a writer and artist. Take this rose, bid by the sun to unfurl from center out, leaving in its spiral form and spectrum of petal reds and golds a […]
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I am so pleased to announce that “Two Gardens” (from Berkeley Postcard, a collection of poems about my mother) has won the first Rockvale Writers’ Colony poetry contest on the theme of Time. "Two Gardens" …
A Butterfly Lantern for Querents
April 30, 2019
Here's a recent sketch, using one of my favorite exercises from the Heart’s Compass Tarot and Writing Workbook I’m working hard to finish this month. For this exercise, you draw three tarot cards in order …
San Diego Writer’s Festival Interview with The Bold Poet
April 12, 2019
In celebration of the San Diego Writer's Festival, Susan J. Farese of SJF Communications conducted interviews with participating authors. Here's a link to the San Diego Writer's Festival website where you can find the full schedule of …
Heart’s Compass Tarot and Writing at AWP 2019
April 3, 2019
Daffodils, rain, transport by poetry connecting kindreds everywhere we turned: Hundreds of writers flooding AWP, Portland, where I served writers with three card tarot readings and learned about so many of their own beautiful writing …
Heart’s Compass Tarot and Writing News
February 19, 2019
Happy February! How has the month of love treated you so far? So many faces the face of love wears! I hope this post finds you abundantly receiving love from all directions...your people, your family, …
Two Views of Healing: Songs of Survival
October 15, 2018
For Songs of Survival, I am reading two poems, “Peer Counselor,” and “Opossum,” for the celebration of the anniversary of the MeToo movement at Awakenings Gallery in Chicago this coming Thursday, October 18, 2018 (go …
I’m overjoyed to share an interview with Loraine Van Tuyl, PhD, author of the spiritual memoir, “Amazon Wisdom Keeper: A Psychologist’s Memoir of Spiritual Awakening” (forthcoming from She Writes Press at the end of this …
The Tarot cards, all 78 of them, appeared to be silos of experience through which I could interpret many aspects of the Sixties--William Haigwood Editor’s Note: The Counterculture Tarot: a photo journey through the Sixties is a beautiful …
The Art Tarot: A Deck Makers Interview with Art Lande
November 8, 2016
Editor’s Note: Today’s notes are from a beautiful conversation with Art Lande, Grammy-nominated and internationally known pianist, composer, improviser, drummer and educator. Lande is also the maker of the Art Tarot, a deck he created …