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A dynamic interview with poet Kwoya Fagin Maples, educator and the author of Mend.To learn more about Kwoya and to get her book https://kwoyafaginmaples.com/mend/To support Present Tense, check out books, programs, and courses here.

Find a comfortable spot and listen to this 17-minute guided awareness practice with writer Anne Markham Bailey as she explores the space around us and within us. This session is recorded live from the red dirt road at Lake Martin in Eclectic, Alabama. Dedicated to Reed Young.Produced by Present Tense Media. 2022www.presenttense.mediaCheck out:The Practice of Being bookAnne Markham Bailey

In this episode, we hear from Ester Song, entrepreneur, bicycle advocate, and artist based in Los Angeles. She discusses family, life, entrepreneurship, and more with podcast host Anne Markham Bailey. To check out Roadrunner BagsLearn more about host Anne Markham BaileyExplore The Practice of Being BookExplore The Practice of Being Course

Presented by Present Tense Media 2022. To learn more about the Old-Growth Forest Network, https://www.oldgrowthforest.net/About Joan Maloof, and for Joan Maloof's books https://www.joanmaloof.com/booksTo learn more about Wild Alabama, /https://www.wildal.org/To learn more about Forest Bathing https://www.annemarkhambailey.com/forestbathingfaqsTo learn more about The Practice of Being book and online course, https://www.annemarkhambailey.com/

A 15-minute guided awareness practice explores the spaciousness of being the body. Check out The Practice of Being book by Anne Markham Bailey. At https://bookshop.org/shop/Annemarkhambailey and at https://annemarkhambailey.com. Check out the online course! New session coming soon! The Practice of Being Course

This 15-minute guided awareness session explores the practice of moving into the breath as a conduit for opening the senses in the body. Led by Anne Markham BaileyProduced by Present Tense Media. 2022. www.presenttense.mediaCheck out: The Practice of Being bookThe Practice of Being online course

The first episode in the new series is a 10-minute guided awareness practice that is simple and accessible for any level of practice.Presented by Present Tense Media 2022. Hosted and Produced by Anne Markham Bailey. Learn more at annemarkhambailey.com Check out The Practice of Being book Check out the 5-week online Practice of Being course

A new series inspired by the book The Practice of Being by Anne Markham Bailey, author, poet, awareness educator, and host. Anne Markham Bailey lets us in on what to expect.Produced by Present Tense Media 2022.To learn more: Anne Markham BaileyThe Practice of Being book.The Practice of Being course

Teacher Anne Markham Bailey offers a guided practice for working with anxiety through awareness of our breath and body.

As the series draws to a close, host and producer Anne Markham Bailey offers a summary of the Bankhead Movement. Terra Manasco names six warriors who have passed away prior to the series interviews.To see photos, documents and to learn more, go to www.greenbucketpress.com/present-tense-podcastTo learn more about Wild South, go to www.wildsouth.orgTo contact us with stories from the Bankhead Movement: hello@greenbucketpress.com

Janice Barrett of Wild South, protector of forests and all things wild, talks about how she came to wilderness advocacy, the power of the wild and her work as an artist.

Chief Billy Grayfox Shaw talks with Present Tense about his Cherokee heritage, rooted in the Bankhead National Forest and his role in the Bankhead Movement.To learn more: www.greenbucketpress.com/present-tense-podcast

Vince Meleski, former Program Director of Wild Alabama talks about the process of working on the restoration of the Bankhead National Forest, and the challenges that remain. To learn more, go to www.greenbucketpress.com/present-tense-podcast.

Larry Smith talks about his role in the Bankhead Monitor, and his understanding of the Bankhead National Forest and the wild. To learn more: www.greenbucketpress.com/present-tense-podcast

An interview with artist and conservationist Terra Manasco whose work with the Bankhead Movement continues to focus on the power of the wild in our lives. To learn more about Terra and about the other interviews in this series, go to:http://www.greenbucketpress.com/present-tense-podcast

In conversation with photographer Charles Seifried, whose images of the Bankhead National Forest inspired the hearts and opened the purse strings of supporters of the Bankhead Movement.Learn more about Charlie and see some of his photos at: www.greenbucketpress.com/present-tense-podcast

We're in conversation with Greg Preston, a founder of the Bankhead Movement and the Bankhead Monitor newsletter that became Wild Alabama, now Wild South. With host Anne Markham Bailey and Janice BarrettTo learn more: www.greenbucketpress.com/present-tense-podcast

We go deep with Bob Crow regarding the Bankhead National Forest, her role in the movement to change US Forest Service policy and her connection to the Great Spirit Mother and to the wild.For more information go to: http://www.greenbucketpress.com/present-tense-podcast.Please leave us a review and follow us.

Listen to our interview with Dr. Charles Borden, part of “The Fight For Alabama’s Last Wild Places”For more information go to: www.greenbucketpress.com/present-tense-podcast

We hear from iconic author, historian, conservationist and Echota Cherokee Rickey Butch Walker whose love for the Warrior Mountains called him to work to form a movement to save the Bankhead National Forest.

In episode 2, we hear from citizen eco-warrior, artist, potter, and teacher Ruth Manasco. Ruth talks with us about her life, the forest and the work to achieve passage of the Eastern Wilderness Act, designating a swath of the Bankhead National Forest as the Sipsey Wilderness.

Janice Barrett of Wild South’s Alabama office offers context about the Warrior Mountains, the Bankhead National Forest and the Sipsey Wilderness, and the movement to protect them.

In Episode 1 of this 13-part series, we hear from Lamar Marshall, a powerful voice in the movement to save the Bankhead National Forest from the toxic policies of the US Forest Service. Lamar talks about wilderness as a right and a legacy, worth fighting for.

Featuring Terra Manasco, Greg Preston, Dr. Charles Borden and Chief Grey Fox. Listen to the voices of the citizen eco-warriors who joined together to save Alabama's last wild places.

Introducing a fascinating series of interviews and conversations with the eco-warriors who fought the US Forest Service policies that did grave harm in the Bankhead Forest of north Alabama.

Musician Davey Williams sat down with Present Tense host Anne Markham Bailey to talk about origins, art, birth, cancer, music and more.

n the first episode of Season 2 we sit down with poet Erica Dawson as she sits down at Revelator Coffee in Birmingham, Alabama with host Anne Markham Bailey to talk about being a poet, the power of poetry in society, her relationship with words and more.

The writers of the 2018 Ada Long Creative Writing Workshop at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) sat down with Anne Markham Bailey to talk about writing, to explore their lives as writers, why they write, what challenges they face, what they are reading and their plans for the future.

Yasmeen Khan, Senior Rare Book Conservator at the LIbrary of Congress sits down with host Anne Markham Bailey in Washington to talk about her family, her Pakistani lineage and her work as a conservatorFor more information, a photo of Yasmeen and notes on the episode, see http://www.greenbucketpress.com/present-tense-podcastPlease leave us a review!

Host Anne Markham Bailey interviews singer, healer and family constellation therapist Rita Feldman on family loss, the Holocaust, evacuation to Uzbekistan from the Ukraine, cultural life in Tashkent and her eventual emigration to Birmingham, Alabama. To see photos of Rita, her mother and her son, go to http://www.greenbucketpress.com/present-tense-podcast?category=Podcast

In the second episode of the Emerge Alabama Voices of Progress series, we hear from Amy Wasyluka, Lindsey Deckard and Dr Stacie Propst, Executive Director of Emerge Alabama. These are women who have committed to a vision of the future that is more just, equitable and inclusive. These women see governance as a way to serve and to shape a better Alabama, in which citizens are educated and valued, offered opportunities for economic and community empowerment, in which well-being is not a dream but is a premise of leadership.

In this episode we hear from Cara McClure, a boots on the ground activist and candidate for Alabama Public Service Commission Place 1. Cara talks about the 70 hours of candidate training offered by Emerge Alabama, the state affiliate of Emerge America whose goal is to train Democratic women to run for public office and win. Cara discusses activism, public service, the future that she imagines and is in the process of shaping in Alabama.Music from the Red Dirt Roses, a Birmingham acoustic trio. Beverly Corbin, Caroline Baker and Jean Marie CampbellFor more information, go to www.greenbucketpress.com/present-tense-podcast

Poets of the Magic City Poetry Festival in Birmingham, Alabama discuss why they write, their intimacy with words, the power of poetry in society and their identities as poets.

Poets of the Magic City Poetry Festival speak out about writing poems, the role of the poet and poetry in society and their relationships with words.

Part 2 of the story "Not Too Bad" by Anne Markham Bailey.

Writer Anne Markham Bailey presents the story of J Everett Batterbury (1922-1997), milker of cows, squirter of milk, lover of cats and exemplary human being. Not Too Bad is a story from 12th Street South in Birmingham, Alabama.

Host Anne Markham Bailey presents stories of sexual abuse woven into audio art followed by a discussion with members of Sister City Connection Spoken Word Collective.