Podcast appearances and mentions of irene o'garden

"Risk is the tightrope that connects us to what we want."Those words. This woman. (Who took great delight in the fact that I'd gotten water stains and a honey crisp apple sticker on her memoir.)This week's guest is poet and author Irene O'Garden, who Elizabeth Gilbert calls a "walking, writing, beam of light." And she's right. Irene shares with us her wisdom on how gratitude can be transformational, and why, in spite of all that is falling apart around us, we should be glad to be human. We talk about her newest book, and about the memoir that brought us together. Enjoy this week's episode, and let gratitude fill as much space as possible in your life.Learn more about Irene at https://ireneogarden.com. Check out catpoland.com/podcast for all episodes and show notes, and subscribe on iTunes or Spotify. 

How do we retain an optimistic viewpoint when so many troubling things are happening in the world? Playwright, poet, and author Irene O’Garden returns to In the Balance to discuss the ingredients to maintaining optimism, compassion, and hope. She encourages us to listen with our heart, not to question moments of “gladness,” and to never doubt that optimism always lies within. 

The Dr. Pat Show: Talk Radio to Thrive By!: Glad To Be Human: Adventures in Optimism with Irene O' Garden

The Dr. Pat Show: Talk Radio to Thrive By!: Glad To Be Human: Adventures in Optimism with Irene O' Garden

In a world filled with distressing news, finding ways to rejoice in the simple, everyday things that happen isn't a luxury, it's critical for one's well being. If you really look, you can find plenty of reasons to feel gratitude and hope, peace and joy, but we all need a little help sometimes. Today's special guest, Irene O'Garden, actress, playwright, artist, poet, and award-winning writer, reminds us of the radiance of human existence. In her book Glad to Be Human: Adventures in Optimism  there is one simple message: Through contemplation, meditation and with literary style, you're invited to view life through a positive leans. From small daily activities to journey's overseas, O'Garden has a knack for finding beauty and meaning in all life's adventures--even in our deepest pain and suffering--helping all of us feel glad to be human. Yes, there is a lot of breaking news in our lives right now. Everyone needs a break now and then from the anxiety and discomfort of the current national conversation. This is a simple, necessary invitation to take a little break to just breathe, relax a little, and regroup to get grounded. Irene O'Garden has won--or been nominated for--prizes in nearly every writing category from stage to e-screen, hardcovers, children's books, as well as literary magazines and anthologies. Her critically acclaimed play Women on Fire (Samuel French), starring Judith Ivey, played to sold-out houses at Off-Broadways' Cherry Lane Theatre, and was nominated for a Lucille Lorgel Award. O'Garden's new memoir, Rising the Rapids: How My Wilderness Adventure Healed My Childhood was published by Mango Press in January 2019.

My guest today is Irene O'Garden and we talk about her book, "Glad to Be Human." In a world filled with distressing news on a daily basis, we can't control pandemics or protests, but we can control what we focus on and the joy we get from the little things in life. Irene has slightly less than 50 wonderful essays in this book and she reads a couple including "Glad to Be Human," for which she won the "Pushcart" prize. This is a wonderful book if you like to read inspiring essays.

Authors on the Air host Pam Stack is honored to welcome Irene O'Garden and John Pielmeier to the studio. John and Irene are one of the arts super couples, with their work encompassing stage and screen (Agnes of God, Voices in the Dark, Choices of the Heart, Sins of the Father, The Memorykeeper's Daughter ) to books including Hook's Tale, Riding the Rapids, Glad to be Human to poetry from both John and Irene, For her work in children’s literature, Irene O'Garden received the Alice Curtis Desmond Award. She also won the Gold Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Best Book Award for The Scrubbly Bubbly Car Wash (Harper). Her first children’s book, Maybe My Baby, (Harper) has sold over 90,000 copies. Her latest children’s book, Forest, What Would You Like? was published by Holiday House. Irene is a guest host for National Poetry Month on Authors on the Air. See full bio at https://ireneogarden.com/about-the-artist John Pielmeier's latest play, a stage-adaptation of William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist, was produced in London’s West End in the autumn of 2017 to wonderful reviews, and will be a followed by a Broadway production in 2018. In addition, Agnes of God will enjoy a Broadway revival in the near future. His first novel, Hook’s Tale, was published to great acclaim by Scribner in 2017. Full bio here https://johnpielmeier.com/bio/ @copyrighted. Please listen to all of our podcasts on your favorite app or check us out on www.soundcloud.com/authorsontheair

Authors on the Air host Pam Stack is honored to welcome Irene O'Garden and John Pielmeier to the studio. John and Irene are one of the arts super couples, with their work encompassing stage and screen (Agnes of God, Voices in the Dark, Choices of the Heart, Sins of the Father, The Memorykeeper's Daughter ) to books including Hook's Tale, Riding the Rapids, Glad to be Human to poetry from both John and Irene, For her work in children’s literature, Irene O'Garden received the Alice Curtis Desmond Award. She also won the Gold Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Best Book Award for The Scrubbly Bubbly Car Wash (Harper). Her first children’s book, Maybe My Baby, (Harper) has sold over 90,000 copies. Her latest children’s book, Forest, What Would You Like? was published by Holiday House. Irene is a guest host for National Poetry Month on Authors on the Air. John Pielmeier is the writer of the stage production Agnes of God, that was later turned into the movie. He has written for stage, television and books. John's latest play, a stage-adaptation of William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist, was produced in London’s West End in the autumn of 2017 to wonderful reviews, and will be a followed by a Broadway production in 2018. In addition, Agnes of God will enjoy a Broadway revival in the near future. His first novel, Hook’s Tale, was published to great acclaim by Scribner in 2017. He is currently working on the stage adaptation of his book and writing other stage productions. @copyrighted. Please listen to all of our podcasts on your favorite app or check us out on www.soundcloud.com/authorsontheair

Authors on the Air host Pam Stack is honored to welcome Irene O'Garden and John Pielmeier to the studio.  John and Irene are one of the arts super couples, with their work encompassing stage and screen (Agnes of God, Voices in the Dark, Choices of the Heart, Sins of the Father, The Memorykeeper's Daughter ) to books including Hook's Tale, Riding the Rapids, Glad to be Human to poetry from both John and Irene, For her work in children’s literature, Irene O'Garden received the Alice Curtis Desmond Award. She also won the Gold Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Best Book Award for The Scrubbly Bubbly Car Wash (Harper). Her first children’s book, Maybe My Baby, (Harper) has sold over 90,000 copies. Her latest children’s book, Forest, What Would You Like?  was published by Holiday House.  Irene is a guest host for National Poetry Month on Authors on the Air. John Pielmeier's latest play, a stage-adaptation of William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist, was produced in London’s West End in the autumn of 2017 to wonderful reviews, and will be a followed by a Broadway production in 2018. In addition, Agnes of God will enjoy a Broadway revival in the near future. His first novel, Hook’s Tale, was published to great acclaim by Scribner in 2017. @copyrighted.  Please listen to all of our podcasts on your favorite app or check us out on www.soundcloud.com/authorsontheair       ..        

April 27, 2020 - The Elephant By Dantika, Read By Irene O'Garden by The Desmond-Fish Public Library & The Highlands Current, hosted by Ryan Biracree

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Guest host acclaimed author and poet IRENE O'GARDEN IN CONVERSATION with poet Rosalie Moffett, part of the Authors on the Air support for the 2019 Miami Book Fair. GUEST POET:  Rosalie Moffett is the author of Nervous System, winner of the National Poetry Series, chosen by Monica Youn, forthcoming from Ecco press. She is also the author of June in Eden, winner of the Ohio State University Press/The Journal prize. She has been awarded the "Discovery"/Boston Review prize, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing from Stanford University, and scholarships from the Tin House and Bread Loaf writing workshops.  Her poems and essays have appeared in Tin House, The Believer, FIELD, Narrative, Kenyon Review, Agni, Ploughshares, and other magazines, as well as in the anthology "Gathered: Contemporary Quaker Poets." She is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Southern Indiana.  GUEST HOST:   IRENE O’GARDEN has won or been nominated for prizes in nearly every writing category from stage to e-screen, hardcovers, children’s books as well as literary magazines and anthologies.

Acclaimed author and poet Irene O'Garden is IN CONVERSATION with poet laurate Richard Blanco as part of the Authors on the Air continuing support of the Miami Book Fair. ABOUT RICHARD BLANCO:  President Barack Obama selected Blanco in 2012 to serve as the fifth presidential inaugural poet in U.S. history, following in the footsteps of such luminary poets as Robert Frost and Maya Angelou. The youngest, first Latino, immigrant, and gay person to serve in such a role, Blanco read “One Today,” an original poem he wrote for the occasion, at Obama’s inauguration ceremony on January 21, 2013. A children’s book of his presidential inaugural poem, One Today, in collaboration with renowned illustrator Dav Pilkey, was released in 2015. In his first prose publication, For All of Us, One Today: An Inaugural Poet’s Journey (2013), Blanco shared the emotional details of his experiences as presidential inaugural poet and reflected on his understanding of what it means to be an American. ABOUT IRENE:  IRENE O’GARDEN has won or been nominated for prizes in nearly every writing category from stage to e-screen, hardcovers, children’s books as well as literary magazines and anthologies.   Part of the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network in support of the 2019 Miami Book Fair.

Acclaimed author and poet Irene O'Garden is IN CONVERSATION with poet laurate Richard Blanco as part of the Authors on the Air continuing support of the Miami Book Fair. ABOUT RICHARD BLANCO: President Barack Obama selected Blanco in 2012 to serve as the fifth presidential inaugural poet in U.S. history, following in the footsteps of such luminary poets as Robert Frost and Maya Angelou. The youngest, first Latino, immigrant, and gay person to serve in such a role, Blanco read “One Today,” an original poem he wrote for the occasion, at Obama’s inauguration ceremony on January 21, 2013. A children’s book of his presidential inaugural poem, One Today, in collaboration with renowned illustrator Dav Pilkey, was released in 2015. In his first prose publication, For All of Us, One Today: An Inaugural Poet’s Journey (2013), Blanco shared the emotional details of his experiences as presidential inaugural poet and reflected on his understanding of what it means to be an American. ABOUT IRENE: IRENE O’GARDEN has won or been nominated for prizes in nearly every writing category from stage to e-screen, hardcovers, children’s books as well as literary magazines and anthologies.

Guest host acclaimed author and poet IRENE O'GARDEN IN CONVERSATION with poet Rosalie Moffett, part of the Authors on the Air support for the 2019 Miami Book Fair. GUEST POET: Rosalie Moffett is the author of Nervous System, winner of the National Poetry Series, chosen by Monica Youn, forthcoming from Ecco press. She is also the author of June in Eden, winner of the Ohio State University Press/The Journal prize. She has been awarded the "Discovery"/Boston Review prize, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing from Stanford University, and scholarships from the Tin House and Bread Loaf writing workshops. Her poems and essays have appeared in Tin House, The Believer, FIELD, Narrative, Kenyon Review, Agni, Ploughshares, and other magazines, as well as in the anthology "Gathered: Contemporary Quaker Poets." She is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Southern Indiana. GUEST HOST: IRENE O’GARDEN has won or been nominated for prizes in nearly every writing category from stage to e-screen, hardcovers, children’s books as well as literary magazines and anthologies.

Guest host acclaimed author and poet IRENE O'GARDEN IN CONVERSATION with poet Rosalie Moffett, part of the Authors on the Air support for the 2019 Miami Book Fair. GUEST POET: Rosalie Moffett is the author of Nervous System, winner of the National Poetry Series, chosen by Monica Youn, forthcoming from Ecco press. She is also the author of June in Eden, winner of the Ohio State University Press/The Journal prize. She has been awarded the "Discovery"/Boston Review prize, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing from Stanford University, and scholarships from the Tin House and Bread Loaf writing workshops. Her poems and essays have appeared in Tin House, The Believer, FIELD, Narrative, Kenyon Review, Agni, Ploughshares, and other magazines, as well as in the anthology "Gathered: Contemporary Quaker Poets." She is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Southern Indiana. GUEST HOST: IRENE O’GARDEN has won or been nominated for prizes in nearly every writing category from stage to e-screen, hardcovers, children’s books as well as literary magazines and anthologies.

Acclaimed author and poet Irene O'Garden is IN CONVERSATION with poet laurate Richard Blanco as part of the Authors on the Air continuing support of the Miami Book Fair. ABOUT RICHARD BLANCO: President Barack Obama selected Blanco in 2012 to serve as the fifth presidential inaugural poet in U.S. history, following in the footsteps of such luminary poets as Robert Frost and Maya Angelou. The youngest, first Latino, immigrant, and gay person to serve in such a role, Blanco read “One Today,” an original poem he wrote for the occasion, at Obama’s inauguration ceremony on January 21, 2013. A children’s book of his presidential inaugural poem, One Today, in collaboration with renowned illustrator Dav Pilkey, was released in 2015. In his first prose publication, For All of Us, One Today: An Inaugural Poet’s Journey (2013), Blanco shared the emotional details of his experiences as presidential inaugural poet and reflected on his understanding of what it means to be an American. ABOUT IRENE: IRENE O’GARDEN has won or been nominated for prizes in nearly every writing category from stage to e-screen, hardcovers, children’s books as well as literary magazines and anthologies.

Irene O'Garden healed her childhood by Risking the Rapids

Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina introduces us to Irene O’Garden, author, playwright and poet, who takes us on a journey of risking the rapids of life. Irene candidly shares how a journey in the wilderness of Montana in her 60’s taught her how to take risks, reconnect with family and heal her childhood. Vivid and engaging, Irene draws practical application from wilderness experience to help others step out in courage and take risks. Risking the rapids is a powerful analogy that each of us can apply to our own lives- identifying our comfort zones, self judgement, limiting beliefs- and begin to break free from those beliefs and habits that hold us so that we can make progress, live a “risky” life on our own terms. Grab a cuppa something wonderful and join in on this transformative conversation. www.feminineroadmap.com/episode096/

Susan talks with award winning writer, poet, playwright Irene O’Garden, about growing up surrounded by emotional distress, the power of finding our identity, witnessing love and acceptance, and using risk to heal and grow. 

Here is my interview with Irene O'Garden about her new book entitled "Risking the Rapids.

Meet Marcie Manfredonia of CBD Live Natural. She can tell you what to look for when you want CBD oil. But first, no matter your age, you can heal from childhood hurts. Author and poet Irene O'Garden takes us on a healing journey in Risking the Rapids. And, Jane Green stops by with another book to take on your adventure; The Friends We Keep. Life doesn't always work out as we planned. But we can navigate the waters. Thanks for listening! Come with me on a weekend adventure this summer! July 26 and August 16! Kacey - www.kacey.co

Multi-award-winning author Irene OGarden joins Christine to share about her riveting journey into the wilderness, and how this helped heal her repressed mid-century Midwest Catholic upbringing.

Title: Risking The Rapids: How My Wilderness Adventure Healed My Childhood Author: Irene O'Garden Website: IreneOGarden.com

Our conversation with writer, Irene O'Garden was like talking with one of my own siblings. Coming from a dysfunctional 50s family, like a lot of us were, it's easy to understand the need to connect later in life. Listen in and see if you don't agree.

    Today's guest, Irene O'Garden, has won or been nominated for prizes in nearly every writing category from stage to e-screen, hardcovers, children's books as well as literary magazines and anthologies. O'Garden's critically acclaimed play, Women On Fire, starring Judith Ivey, was twice extended and played to sold-out houses Off-Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theatre. It was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for Best Solo Show and is published by Samuel French. Two of its monologues are published in Best Women's Stage Monologues. Her new play, Little Heart, about artist Corita Kent, won her a Berilla Kerr Playwriting Fellowship and was awarded full development at the New Harmony Play Project. In this episode, Irene and I embrace the paradise of a writer's mind. Although writing is a solitary process; the impulse is communicating with others.     Irene shares many tips for those of us who are newer writers on the path + committing ourselves more deeply to our writing practice. Especially ways in which to write in the landscape of a busy life. Later, we immerse ourselves in Irene's book Risking the Rapids + how she wrote about her family members. Irene then weighs in on victimhood, taking inspiration from others, and the inquiring consciousness. In This Episode: Today's guest, Irene O'Garden [ 6:25 ] Writing is a safe place of healing expression [ 9:15 ] Spontaneity creates order [ 11:20 ] Navigating the fullness of life + finding the time to write [ 17:20 ] Risking the Rapids  [ 27:45 ] Write what you must write + decide the destination [ 30:40 ] Victimhood is an unpractical way to live [ 38:55 ] Should we read another person's work while trying to write our own? [ 42:55 ] Writing is a process + needs no maintenance [ 47:00 ] Find a therapist to help you talk about family struggles [ 52:20 ] The inquiring consciousness [ 56:00 ] Irene's most beloved writers [ 57:30 ] Irene finally got a pet canary  [ 60:30 ] Soul Shifting Quotes: “The kindness part is important too; that you're around people who are treating your dream with kindness.” “So often we are afraid to look within ourselves. It is actually within us where that universal energy, love, power, and healing takes place.” “Noticing within myself something is knocking on my heart; it wants to be written down.” “If you can train yourself to relax in any situation, you can feel what is going on inside of yourself in a very loving way.” “There is nothing that affects us more than the family that we were brought up in.” “What we want to do is enlarge our vision, scope, and heart to include what is going on behind the behaviors of the people we love.” “Begin playing a little bit more with the energies in life.” Links Mentioned: Learn more about Jennifer Reis Yoga here Psychic Politics by Jane Roberts A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle Agnes of God by John Pielmeier Purchase your ticket to the Ignite Your Soul Summit! To learn more about Irene head to her website: www.ireneogarden.com and follow her on Instagram: @iogarden Tag me in your big shifts + takeaways: @amberlilyestrom Did you hear something you loved here today?! Leave a Review + Subscribe via iTunes Listen on Spotify  

The Pielmeier & O'Garden literary love knot has given birth to 2 new books! John Pielmeier (Agnes of God, The Pillars of the Earth) became was enchanted on a remote island and suddenly understood the truth of Captain Hook! Hook's Tale sets the record straight. JP is also awaiting the opening of his stage adaptation of The Exorcist in London's West End. Meanwhile the beautiful and brilliant Irene O'Garden presents a collection of poetry called Fulcrum - true tales set to verse will delight your heart and your mind's eye. Listen in as she reads a poem about... well....you just listen in and then you will know.