Podcast appearances and mentions of Michael Harper

JOAN ROSS SORKIN is a playwright, musical theatre bookwriter and lyricist, opera librettist, and screenwriter. Her two most current musical projects are Black Swan Blues with Randy Klein, and Bordello with Barbara Bellman and Emiliano Messiez. Black Swan Blues had a staged reading in October, 2022 as part of The York Theatre Company's Developmental Reading Series, and Bordello is scheduled to have the same in December, 2023.   Joan's family musicals include Dandelion, with Mary Liz McNamara, with its world premiere at Playhouse on Park, W. Hartford, CT in April, 2023, and the award-winning Isabelle and The Pretty Ugly Spell with Steven Fisher with productions at The Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre, Coral Gables, FL (Winner, National Children's Theatre Award), NYMF (Outstanding New Family Musical), and Vital Theatre; and Go Green! Prince Charming's Quest for Love and Ecology in NYC with Mary Feinsinger, presented in the very first New York Children's Theater Festival. Randy Klein is a multi-award-winning composer, pianist, record producer, author and music educator. He is the composer of For My People, a song cycle featuring the poetry of American author, Margaret Walker. For My People was featured at the Furious Flower Poetry Festival at James Madison University and the University of Kansas. The music premiere of the renowned poem by Margaret Walker ‘For My People' was April 2, 2011 at the Forbes Center for the Arts, James Madison University, VA. His compositions, Facing It and Dear John, Dear Coltrane, based on the poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa and Michael Harper premiered at the 2014 Furious Flower Poetry Conference featuring the combined James Madison University and Morgan State Chorales. His musical, Black Swan Blues, in collaboration with Joan Ross Sorkin, bookwriter and lyricist, inspired by the ballet “Swan Lake,”. Black Swan Blues explores white privilege and racism in America in the South in the early 1960's. Set in New Orleans, a rich, idealistic journalist and a poor, vulnerable blues singer's true love is challenged when secrets from their tangled past involving race, murder and the Ku Klux Klan are revealed. Only through the magic of voodoo do they find eternal love. The score is timeless and contemporary evoking the period.

Lichen is a strange presence on this planet. Traditionally, scientists have understood lichen as a new organism formed through symbiosis between a fungus and an algae. But the science is evolving. It seems that there may be more than one species of fungus involved in this symbiosis, and some scientists have suggested that lichen could be described as both an ecosystem and an organism. Lichen may even be immortal, in some sense of the word.In lichen, the poet Forrest Gander finds both the mystery of the forest and a rich metaphor for our symbiosis with one another and with the planet, for the relationship between the dead and the living, and for how our relationships with others change us indelibly. In his poem, “Forest,” lichen are a sensual presence, even erotic, living in relationship to the other beings around them. They resemble us, strangely, despite our dramatic differences.The words of the poem teem with life, like the forest they explore, and Forrest's marvelous reading of the poem adds a panoply of meanings and feelings through his annunciation, his breaths, his breaks. It's phenomenal.This poem, and his work more broadly, is about nothing less that who we are on this Earth and how we live—how we thrive—in relationship.Forrest Gander writes poetry, novels, essays, and translations. He is the recipient of many awards and honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for his book, Be With. As an undergraduate, like me, he studied geology, which became foundational to his engagement with ecological ethics and poetics.Forrest often collaborates with other artists on books and exhibitions, including a project with the photographer Sally Mann. His latest book of poetry is a collaboration with the photographer Jack Shear, called Knot (spelled with a “k”). He recently collaborated with artist Ashwini Bhat on an exhibition at the Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Los Angeles, called “In Your Arms I'm Radiant.”His poem, “Forest,” is from his 2021 collection of poems, Twice Alive.Forrest has taught at Harvard University and Brown University. He spoke to me from his home in Northern California, where he now lives.This episode of Chrysalis is part of the Chrysalis Poets series, which focuses on a single poems from poets who confront ecological issues in their work.You can listen on Substack, Apple Podcasts, and other podcast platforms.Please rate, review, and share to help us spread the word!Forrest GanderBorn in the Mojave Desert in Barstow, California, Forrest Gander grew up in Virginia. He spend significant years in San Francisco, Dolores Hidalgo (Mexico), Eureka Springs, and Providence. With the late poet CD Wright, he has a son, the artist Brecht Wright Gander. Forrest holds degrees in both Geology and English literature. He lives now in Northern California with his wife, the artist Ashwini Bhat. Gander's book Be With was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize. Concerned with the way we are revised and translated in encounters with the foreign, his book Core Samples from the World was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Gander has collaborated frequently with other artists including photographers Sally Mann, Graciela Iturbide, Raymond Meeks, and Lucas Foglia, glass artist Michael Rogers, ceramic artists Rick Hirsch and Ashwini Bhat, artists Ann Hamilton, Tjibbe Hooghiemstra, dancers Eiko & Koma, and musicians Vic Chesnutt and Brady Earnhart, among others.   The author of numerous other books of poetry, including Redstart: An Ecological Poetics and Science & Steepleflower, Gander also writes novels (As a Friend; The Trace), essays (A Faithful Existence) and translates. Recent translations include It Must Be a Misunderstanding by Coral Bracho, Names and Rivers by Shuri Kido, and Then Come Back: the Lost Neruda Poems. His most recent anthologies are Pinholes in the Night: Essential Poems from Latin American (selected by Raúl Zurita) and Panic Cure: Poems from Spain for the 21st Century.Gander's books have been translated and published in more than a dozen other languages. He is a United States Artists Rockefeller Fellow and has received fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim, Whiting, and Howard Foundations. In 2011, he was awarded the Library of Congress Witter Bynner Fellowship. Gander was the Briggs-Copeland poet at Harvard University before becoming The Adele Kellenberg Seaver Professor of Literary Arts and Comparative Literature at Brown University where he taught courses such as Poetry & Ethics, EcoPoetics, Latin American Death Trip, and Translation Theory & Practice. He is an Emeritus Chancellor for the Academy for the Academy of American Poets and is an elected member of The Academy of Arts & Sciences.Gander co-edited Lost Roads Publishers with CD Wright for twenty years, soliciting, editing, and publishing books by more than thirty writers, including Michael Harper, Kamau Brathwaite, Arthur Sze, Fanny Howe, Frances Mayes, Steve Stern, Zuleyka Benitez, and René Char.“Forest”By Forrest GanderErogenous zones in oaks slung with stoles of lace lichen the sun's rays spilling through leaves in broken packets a force call it nighttime thrusts mushrooms up from their lair of spawn mycelial loam the whiff of port they pop into un- trammeled air with the sort of gasp that follows a fine chess move like memories are they? or punctuation? was it something the earth said to provoke our response tasking us to recall an evolutionary course our long ago initation into the one- among-others and within my newborn noticing have you popped up beside me love or were you here from the start a swarm of meaning and decay still gripping the underworld both of us half-buried holding fast if briefly to a swelling vastness while our coupling begins to register in the already awake compendium that offers to take us in you take me in and abundance floods us floats us out we fill each with the other all morning breaks as birdsong over us who rise to the surface so our faces might be sprungRecommended Readings & MediaForrest Gander reading his poem “Unto Ourselves” from Twice Alive.TranscriptIntroJohn FiegeLichen is a strange presence on this planet. Traditionally, scientists have understood lichen as a new organism formed through symbiosis between a fungus and an algae. But the science is evolving. It seems there may be more than one species of fungus involved in this symbiosis. And some scientists have suggested that lichen, and could be described as both an ecosystem and an organism. Lichen may even be immortal in some sense of the word. In lichen, the poet Forrest Gander finds both the mystery of the forest and a rich metaphor for our symbiosis with one another and with the planet, for the relationship between the dead and the living, and for how our relationships with others change us indelibly. In his poem, "Forest," lichen are an essential presence, even erotic, living in relationship to the other beings around them. They resemble us strangely, despite our dramatic differences. The words of the poem teem with life, like the forest they explore, and Forrest's marvelous reading of the poem as a panoply of meanings and feelings through his enunciation—his breaths, his breaks; it's phenomenal. This poem in his work, more broadly, is about nothing less than who we are on this earth, and how we live; how we thrive in relationship. I'm John Fiege, and this episode of Chrysalis is part of the Chrysalis Poets series. Forrest Gander writes poetry, novels, essays, and translations. He is the recipient of many awards and honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for his book Be With. Forrest often collaborates with other artists on books and exhibitions, including a project with a photographer Sally Mann. His latest book of poetry is a collaboration with a photographer Jack Scheer called Knot. He recently collaborated with artist Ashwini Bhat on an exhibition at the Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Los Angeles, called In Your Arms I'm Radiant. His poem, "Forest," is from his 2021 collection of poems, Twice Alive. Forrest has taught at Harvard University and Brown University. He spoke to me from his home in Northern California, where he now lives. Here is Forrest Gander reading his poem "Forest."PoemForrest Gander“Forest”Erogenous zones in oaks slung with stoles of lace lichen the sun's rays spilling through leaves in broken packets a force call it nighttime thrusts mushrooms up from their lair of spawn mycelial loam the whiff of port they pop into un- trammeled air with the sort of gasp that follows a fine chess move like memories are they? or punctuation? was it something the earth said to provoke our response tasking us to recall an evolutionary course our long ago initation into the one- among-others and within my newborn noticing have you popped up beside me love or were you here from the start a swarm of meaning and decay still gripping the underworld both of us half-buried holding fast if briefly to a swelling vastness while our coupling begins to register in the already awake compendium that offers to take us in you take me in and abundance floods us floats us out we fill each with the other all morning breaks as birdsong over us who rise to the surface so our faces might be sprungConversationJohn FiegeThank you. It's so wonderful hearing you read it, the intonation and the flow of the words and your emphasis is just like completely new hearing you read it, rather than just reading it myself. I want to start with the sexual imagery. You begin with "erogenous zones in oaks, slung with stoles of lace lichen." And that last line, "stoles of lace lichen the," that was one of the things that jumped out to me, is the is at the end of the line there. And you read it as if it was the end of the line rather than pausing and using it as part of the next stanza. But in addition to these, this erogenous zone, you've got thrusting mushrooms in a layer of spawn, and sexual imagery doesn't often accompany decomposition, and decomposers like lichen and in fungi, but this combination brings a strong sense of the interconnectedness of life and death of reproduction and decomposition. And so this is the cyclical world we live in, even though we're often myopically or delusionally, focused on some kind of progressive, linear, supernaturally immortal view of our lives. How are you imagining the reader encountering the beginning of this poem, and its images of sexually charged decomposition?Forrest GanderI'm, uh, trying to connect decomposition and eros, or the merging of more than one species, one individual, into a community. And I'm trying to use a syntax, which you notice, that also doesn't easily separate itself into clear, discrete sentences, but seems to be connected at both ends. And the sense is for us to lose our security in reading our feeling that we dominate the reading that we can figure it out quickly and divide it up into these parcels, and instead, create a kind of reading experience that mimics the kind of experience that we actually live, where everything is connected, and, and where the erotic and the decomposing are involved in the same processes.John FiegeYeah, and thanks to Governor Jerry Brown, lace lichen is now the official California state lichen making...Forrest Gander(Chuckles) Isn't that great? John Fiege...making California the first state to recognize a lichen as a state symbol. And the poem, like you were saying, how the syntax is mimicking the organic world. Visually, the line breaks and the varied intended indentations appear as local lace lichen itself. Can you talk about your relationship with lichen?Forrest GanderYes. You know, I think like you think, which is why you're doing these podcasts, that we're in an exigent historical moment where the environment is rapidly changing, and species are rapidly disappearing. And we've been hearing about this for decades without really responding in a sufficient way to the exigency of our situation. So I'm trying to find models of, instead of just heaping on more climate information horror, I'm trying to find models of other ways of thinking about our relationship with the world. And one, since I have a background in science—I have a degree in geology—is a scientific one. And I worked with a mycologist, named Anne Pringle, who taught me to see fungus and lichen in places where I hadn't been seeing them before. And it turns out lichen covers about 92% of the world you can find lichen in. And despite that, most people know what it is. They've seen, like on rocks, green, brown, little spots. It turns out, scientists don't really know what lichen is.John FiegeIt's cool to find something that scientists don't feel like they know that much about.Forrest GanderIt is! And yet, it seems like there's more more of those things that we don't really know that we can't measure, that we can't feel like we are in control of it all. And lichen is these two—more actually, it's not just an algae and cyanobacteria, or Sienna bacteria and fungus that get together it there's more organisms that are involved that come together, and are transformed completely and can't go back to what they were. And they formed this new organism that acts completely differently. And we're not so different from that, that our own bodies are full of other organisms, and even our DNA contains DNA of parasites that long ago became incorporated into our system. So lichen gives us a way of thinking about the mutualities that our lives are really made of.John FiegeYeah, and this poem, "Forest," is part of that collection, Twice Alive, where you have "Post-Fire Forest" and other poems related to wildfire and the aftermath of them, and that collection follows on the heels of your previous collection, Be With, which, you know this moving series of eulogistic poems to your late wife. It seems that Be With wrestles with and processes personal grief, while "Twice Alive" adds the element of ecological trauma. How are those two realms of trauma-related phenomena—the personal and the ecological? And how do they play out in the poem?Forrest GanderThe poems of "Be With”… they are so personally painful to me, I couldn't even read from the book after I published it. I think I read twice and then stopped reading from it. And one, as Albert Camus says, you can't live on in a grief or depression that's so terrible that it doesn't leave you with any openings. And so I wanted to find positive things to write about. But we're living during an ecological crisis. So I'm, and I've been writing about that crisis through really most of my adult life. But I wanted to find positive ways of reimagining our relationship with the world and maybe with death also. Because in lichen, and in the metaphor of like, and work, to two or more things come together and are transformed. I thought of human intimacy and the way that my relationship, my close relationships, I'm transformed in those relationships, I become something else. And that thing, which is welded in love, has a durability, and lasts. And in the same way, scientists—some scientists are saying that our whole idea of death comes out of our mammalian orientation. And that may be because some things don't die, and have theoretical immortality, and lichen, given enough nutrients, may be one of those things.John FiegeThat's amazing. How does it make you feel to think about the possibility that there's something that actually has some kind of immortality?Forrest GanderHow does it make us feel? I think it checks what we have always thought we've known. And it checks our instinctual perspective. And that kind of check, I think, is really helpful in terms of how we begin to reimagine our place in a world of other species that are completely different from us, and yet, share so much DNA.John FiegeCan you tell me about the Sangam literary traditions that you've referenced as an important element of your recent work in Eco-poetry?Forrest GanderSure! What brought me to Sangam was looking for other models of relationships between the human and the nonhuman. And it turns out that, you know, 2000 years ago, in Southern India, there was a blossoming of literature, which came to be called Sangam, which means convergence, and that one of the two styles of that poetry, which is called Akam, it was considered not only unethical but impossible to write about human emotions, as though they were independent of the landscape around us, which affects our perceptions. And, it impacts how and what we feel. And so, using that model for poems and finding that the same five landscapes that come up in the Sangam poems are the same five landscapes that one can find in California, where I live, I used those Sangam poems as a kind of model for writing poems that expressed that mutuality of, of the human and the nonhuman in the five landscapes of California in my home.John Fiegeisn't that so satisfying on so many levels to be able to look so far back in history? And to see people encountering the world in ways that are so resonant with the ways you are, we are encountering the world today in a completely different part of the planet, even? It's kind of amazing.Forrest GanderIt is! And yeah, I think it's what we will find everywhere that, you know, the Native Americans in what we now called the United States. They didn't think that these European invaders would last very long because the European invaders hadn't lived for thousands of years, with animals and plants of this continent. And so they thought we would fail. And we have failed, we've failed to live in a way that takes into account our interdependence with the nonhuman world.John FiegeWell, jumping back into the poem, your word choices and juxtapositions and the sounds, and the rhythms of the words in the poem are so powerful. Here's a section that begins at the end of a stanza and carries on to the next, "a force call it nighttime thrusts mushrooms up from their lair." I like this idea of nighttime as a force that has the power to push things up out of the earth. And nighttime is when we rest, but also maybe when we have sex, or maybe when we don't have sex often enough. But how is nighttime of force for you?Forrest GanderBecause there are so many processes, especially plant processes, that take place after the sun goes down. And that often, we're not thinking about night being a reenergizing process for other species. And also, I'm connecting nighttime, and that darkness with the half-buried to the things that go on in the dark, the things that go on underground.John FiegeRight! Well, here's another section I'd like to dig into. If you don't mind me reading, I feel bad reading your poem as you read it so beautifully, but just to go through it again. Like memories, are they or punctuation? Was it something the earth said to provoke a response, tasking us to recall an evolutionary course, our long-ago initiation into the one among others? So in this section of the poem, you shift from third person into first person plural, and we don't exactly know what the 'we' or the 'us' is, but I'm imagining it to be our species collectively speaking with the earth here. I personified a personified Earth. And each of us is merely one among others, one person among other people, but also humans are just one among many other species on the earth. So what's going on here, with the earth being provocative, the shift to first person plural, and to us thinking about our evolutionary course?Forrest GanderSo I'm thinking of mushrooms as kind of exclamation marks that come up and call our attention to the nonhuman, and also how memories are like that, that they pop up from the darkness of our mind into our conscious mind. And that, what they remind us of, what any contact with a nonhuman reminds us of, is our involvement with them; our long ago initiated course as an interdependent species, as a community in a community, that we are one among many others, as you say, and that if we forget that, then we don't take care of the earth because we don't recognize that it's part of taking care of ourselves. And for many human communities and cultures earlier, this was de rigueur, it was understood that, that we were involved. Our lives were educations in how to live with the world around us. But we've become so separated from that in our urban cultures that we need reminding.John FiegeRight, right. Well, and that reminds me of another section of the poem, we have this phrase "newborn noticing." So the stanza it's in is, "and within my newborn noticing, have you popped up beside me, my love? Or were you here from the start?" And I love this idea of newborn noticing it suggests that we're noticing a new, but also noticing, as a newborn does, like Lao says—‘newborn baby, unbiased, undistracted, nonjudgmental.' And this section feels like it touches on our deeply ingrained, anthropocentrism and ignorance of other species, and maybe how poetry can help us notice the world around us more fully, especially the other-than-human world. What is this 'newborn noticing' to you?Forrest GanderRight, I'm so glad you bring up Lao Tzu, also. Lao Tzu says, "Those who are not in constant awe; surely some great tragedy will befall them." And hear the 'newborn noticing,' again, that earlier passage you mentioned, that connects the punctuation to coming out of the ground of the mushrooms, to memories that come out of the darkness of our mind into our conscious mind. That's also the birth of something.John FiegeSo here's... oh, go ahead.Forrest GanderI just like that you've been, I mean, some people ask, you know, what can we do in this environmental crisis, and one of the things we can do is to try to have a chorus of not just scientists and biologists, but a chorus of artists and priests, and poets. And that's what you've been doing: putting together that chorus of responses to our crisis. And I think it's going to take the voices of a lot of people from a lot of different trajectories, to affect any kind of change. So I'm proud of what you're doing.John FiegeYeah, I totally agree. And I'm glad you notice and appreciate that (chuckles). You know, one thing I say all the time is, you know, our environmental discourse is dominated by science, economics, and policy. And those three things are all extremely important, and we have to keep on top of all of them. But it's leaving out the whole rest of the human experience. And if we are not all focused on this problem, and dealing with it in the ways that we know how, and the ways that we know how to interact with the world, we just... we can't get there because the problem is... it's so overwhelming as it is to leave it up to a small portion of the population to address is not sufficient,Forrest GanderRight? Or it would have changed already. And I think what art and poetry and literature can do is add a kind of an emotional and psychological approach to it, that can add it to the science, and can be more convincing,John FiegeRight? And not even just like, a way to convince people, but just a way to, to understand and feel the problem is so much beyond, you know, just a reason-based problem that you can solve or not, you know, but that it's part of who you are and what you value in the world and what you know, get you up out of bed every morning.Forrest GanderThat's beautifully put. Yeah, I agree with you.John FiegeWell, here here's another line I love from the poem, "A swarm of meaning and decay." And this goes back to that cyclical view of life and death; birth and decomposition. And it also brings in this concept of meaning—this thing that humans are obsessed with. Our perpetual question of why—what is the meaning of life? And so much of the foundation of our understanding of meaning is bound up in the perpetuation of life. And oftentimes, in the avoidance of death, despite the need for death to bring life. Can you talk more about this "swarm of meaning and decay?"Forrest GanderSo the "swarm of meaning and decay" comes just a moment after my "newborn noticing." And here, the poem merges the human—we don't really know for sure whether I'm talking about human beings, or I'm talking about other forms of life that are emerging from the underworld, like fungus, for instance. And in that merging of subjectivity and world, I'm trying to emphasize how the human life and the processes of the life—lives that aren't human—are completely related to each other. It's interesting to me that the kind of poetry that I write is sometimes categorized as eco-poetry, the idea of Eco-poetry is that there might be a way of writing in which human subjectivity and the non-human aren't so discrete from each other and that we might be able to show in writing, a different way of experiencing, or really, the real way of experiencing our relationships with otherness, which is that our subjectivities merge into otherness. That we're made of multiple creatures and were made by multiple interactions with the world. And I think that's what art has always done, is that it's expanded our way of thinking of the human.John FiegeDefinitely, definitely. Well, let me jump into the last two stanzas in the poem, which read, "And abundance floods us floats us out, we fill each with the other all morning breaks as songbird over us who rise to the surface, so our faces might be strong." And again, there's so much richness in this language. But to start off with, how does abundance, both flood us and float us?Forrest GanderWell, our lives are abundant; the world is abundant. And that sense of merging with another in intimacy, in love, and merging with the world is a sense of expanding. This, you know, the notion of the self, and that's an abundance, it's recognizing our collaborative relationship with otherness. And it floats us out of ourselves so that we're not locked into our own minds, our own singular psyches, we fill with each other. And then again, here, the syntax is working in two ways. We fill with each other, we fill with the other "all morning". And then we revise that as we, as we make that break. We fill with the other "all morning breaks as birdsong over us." And I'm thinking here about how human beings, Homo sapiens, from the start, almost all of human beings have experienced birdsong since we were born, since early in our lives. We've grown up with the songs of birds infused in our minds, in our hearing. And how much of a part of us birdsong is. We're rising to the surface like the mushrooms coming from underground to blossom so that our faces might be sprung. And here again, the human and the nonhuman? Am I talking about mushrooms here? Or am I talking about human beings? I'm purposely talking about both in a way that is perhaps indistinguishable.John FiegeAnd as you mentioned, the poem starts with the imagery of the mushrooms thrusting upward. And then, at the end here, it seems that the we in the poem rises to the surface. And the last line of the poem is, so our faces might be sprung. This sense of emergence comes to that most intimate thing—our faces—and this vague 'we' suddenly has a face. And we are like flowers or emergent mushrooms in the nighttime. Where does this poem leave you? And how do you think about where you'd like to leave the reader at the end?Forrest GanderI think in that uncertainty about where the human and where the non-human begins, I think that's the strategy of the poems, which is presenting not some romantic notion of our involvement with others, but I think a form of realism, it's recognizing that our involvement with otherness is entire, that were composed of otherness. So I think the feeling of what a mushroom is, is just the face, it's this little—fruited body, they call it—of an organism that's underground that we don't see at all. And, in a way, that's what our lives are also: this brief flourishing of the face of something that's connected to a body that's much larger than ours. And that ambiguous space is what I'm interested in, in thinking about.John FiegeAnd does that noticing or that knowledge calls us to do something? In particular, do you think?Forrest Gander  32:43Well, I don't want to turn the poem into a didacticism. But the poem presents a vision. And that vision can contribute to the way that we see ourselves in the world. And the way we see ourselves in the world forces us to make ethical decisions about how we are and what we do. So in, I want to provide a vision or share a vision. And I want readers to do with it what they feel called upon to do. There have been different ways that we've understood our relationship and our role in a living Earth, through time and in different cultures. And the worldview that we have now, which is using the Earth very transactional, can be changed. And that art can inspire us to imagine those kinds of changes. In some ways, we're like the yeast that gets put with grapes to make wine. The yeast, which is a fungus, eats the sugar, and it secretes basically alcohol. That's what where we get alcohol from, and it proliferates and proliferates, and keeps producing alcohol until at about 13%. The yeast kills itself it dies because it can't live with an alcohol content greater than that. And we're like that yeast on this earth. We're using up all of the resources, and we're proliferating, and pretty soon, there's not going to be room for us to live on the world will pollute ourselves out of existence, and the world will go on. It's just that we won't be part of it.John FiegeThat's a beautiful place to end; with yeast, and lichen, and erogenous zones. All swirling around together. Can you end by reading the poem once again?Forrest GanderSure. So, 'forest' is one of the five major landscapes that appear in the Sangam poems.[See poem as transcribed above]John FiegeForrest, thank you so much. This has been wonderful.Forrest GanderThanks a lot, John. I'm really pleased to be a part of your series and to be part of the chorus of voices that you're putting together.John FiegeAnd it's a beautiful voice that you've brought to it. OutroJohn FiegeThank you so much to Forrest Gander. Go to our website at chrysalispodcast.org, where you can read his poem "Forrest" and find our book and media recommendations. This episode was researched by Elena Cebulash and edited by Brody Mutschler and Sophia Chang. Music is by Daniel Rodriguez Vivas, mixing is by Juan Garcia. If you enjoyed my conversation with Forrest, please rate and review us on your favorite podcast platform. Contact me anytime at chrysalispodcast.org, where you can also support the project, subscribe to our newsletter, and join the conversation. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.chrysalispodcast.org

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Carl is 74 and Michael is 40.  They've been together now for twenty years.  We discuss how that's worked out in this May-December romance, partnership and marriage.Photo: Copyright Wilkinson/2022Opening and closing music courtesy the very talented Zakhar Valaha via Pixabay.To contact Wilkinson- email him at BecomingWilkinson@gmail.com

In this episode Jon talks with Alex Thwaites and Michael Harper from energy retailer OVO Energy about their activity and ambitions to help households decarbonise heat. Roxanne Pieterse, Senior Analyst, from Delta-EE adds her expert views.

Widening the repertoire of classical music comes under the spotlight in today's Free Thinking conversation as New Generation Thinker Christienna Fryar speaks to researchers uncovering music that has been left out of the canon. Ahead of concerts featuring their work, she hears about the stories of three composers: the 18th-century French polymath Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the Japanese trailblazer Kikuko Kanai and the prolific African-American composer Julia Perry. Christopher Dingle, a Professor of Music at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, is studying the music of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799). Born in Guadeloupe to an enslaved mother and a French plantation owner father, Boulogne lived an extraordinary life – as well as being one of the first black colonels in the French Army, he was a master fencer, celebrated violinist and conductor, whose concertos rival his contemporary Mozart in their fiendish virtuosity. Mai Kawabata, from the Royal College of Music, is a musicologist and violinist. She shares the story of Kikuko Kanai (1906-1986), the first female composer in Japan to write a symphony. Kanai made waves in the musical establishment by fusing Japanese melodies with Western-classical influences –her “life mission” was to popularise the folk music of her native Okinawa. Michael Harper, a vocal tutor from the Royal Northern College of Music, is championing the work of Julia Perry (1924-1979). Perry occupied a unique place as a black American composer – female and upper-middle class, she won Guggenheim fellowships to train in Europe. Despite a life cut short by paralysis and illness, her works include 12 symphonies and 3 operas. This research, done in collaboration with the AHRC and Radio 3, will result in special recordings and a concert performed by the BBC Philharmonic broadcasting works by Nathaniel Dett, Margaret Bonds and Joseph Bologne in Afternoon Concert on BBC Radio 3 on Wednesday 2nd February at 2pm and then on BBC Sounds https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001414g And listen out for another episode of the Arts & Ideas podcast featuring the research being done into the classical musicians: Nathaniel Dett, Margaret Bonds, Ali Osman and Isaac Hershow and a further concert. Produced by Amelia Parker If you want more information about the Diverse Composers project you can find that on the website of UK Research and Innovation https://www.ukri.org/news/celebrating-classical-composers-from-diverse-ethnic-backgrounds-2/ If you enjoyed this – there's a playlist called New Research on the Free Thinking website where you can find discussions about everything from conserving fashion and putting it on display in museums to recording the accents found around Manchester, so do dip in. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03zws90

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Interview by Chicke Fitzgerald of the Game Changer Network One of the Most Important and Surprising Business Books of the Year And it might just also change your life! What do dragons have to do with business? According to Shawn Nason, Robin Glasco, and Michael Harper, dragons belong in our daily work lives. In fact, they can be wonderful companions, even partners to travel with us on our career paths where challenges and even dangers often prevent us from becoming our best selves. In this most unique book —“Kiss Your Dragons” — you get to take a journey with three unique souls (Shawn, Robin, and Michael) and business leaders on a very rich and raucous journey. Your three guides open their hearts and speak their truth to assist you in looking at your workplace with new eyes. As the reader, you join the trio on a trip that embraces dragon lore, tales, and metaphors that make the journey exciting and illuminating. Throughout this book, you are invited into a lively discussion that feels like a cozy fireside chat as the trio address the big issue of creating radical relationships to change the way you work and live. The result? You will walk away with a new-found sense of self and a deeper commitment, more than ever, to live not just an ordinary, but a life that includes a special dragon that may well become your best friend. https://www.amazon.com/Kiss-Your-Dragons-Relationships-Heartsets/dp/1944027866/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1H63VYR6VFZR3&keywords=kiss+your+dragons+shawn+nason&qid=1639658452&sprefix=kiss+your+dragons%2Caps%2C202&sr=8-1&tag=thegamechange-20

The most important gauge of success for a data platform is the level of trust in the accuracy of the information that it provides. In order to build and maintain that trust it is necessary to invest in defining, monitoring, and enforcing data quality metrics. In this episode Michael Harper advocates for proactive data quality and starting with the source, rather than being reactive and having to work backwards from when a problem is found.

Christienna Fryar speaks to the researchers uncovering classical music that has been left out of the canon – discovering the stories of three composers whose voices and stories have been marginalised and obscured over time, despite their profound influence on music: the 18th-century French polymath Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the Japanese trailblazer Kikuko Kanai and the prolific African-American composer Julia Perry. Christopher Dingle, a Professor of Music at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, is studying the music of Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799). Born in Guadeloupe to an enslaved mother and a French plantation owner father, Boulogne lived an extraordinary life – as well as being one of the first black colonels in the French Army, he was a master fencer, celebrated violinist and conductor, whose concertos rival his contemporary Mozart in their fiendish virtuosity. Mai Kawabata, from the Royal College of Music, is a musicologist and violinist. She shares the story of Kikuko Kanai (1906-1986), the first female composer in Japan to write a symphony. Kanai made waves in the musical establishment by fusing Japanese melodies with Western-classical influences –her “life mission” was to popularise the folk music of her native Okinawa. Michael Harper, a vocal tutor from the Royal Northern College of Music, is championing the work of Julia Perry (1924-1979). Perry occupied a unique place as a black American composer – female and upper-middle class, she won Guggenheim fellowships to train in Europe. Despite a life cut short by paralysis and illness, her works include 12 symphonies and three operas. Their research, in collaboration with the AHRC and Radio 3, will result in special recordings and concert broadcasts of these composers' works. Produced by Amelia Parker Today's conversation was a New Thinking episode of the Arts and Ideas podcast made in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research council which is part of UKRI. And if you want more information about the Diverse Composers project you can find that on the website of UK Research and Innovation https://www.ukri.org/news/celebrating-classical-composers-from-diverse-ethnic-backgrounds-2/ If you enjoyed this – there's a playlist called New Research on the Free Thinking website where you can find discussions about everything from conserving fashion and putting it on display in museums to recording the accents found around Manchester, so do dip in. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03zws90

In this episode, Ted and Barb welcome Mike Harper and Susen Trail. Michael and Susen share about Simple Safety Coach, a safety management system geared towards mid-market companies. It is budget-friendly, readily available, and easy to use. It reduces paperwork, increases organization, and saves time. Michael Harper, Co-Founder and CEO of Simple Safety Coach, is an accomplished business and technology leader with a passion for creating organizational value through the smart use of technology in support of organizational goals. He brings thirty years of experience and superior results in joining technology vision, business strategy, and sound execution principles. Michael's passion isn't just in applying this philosophy to Simple Safety Coach, but also in ensuring that clients are gaining that same type of benefit when implementing the software. Susen Trail, Co-Founder and Chief Content Officer of Simple Safety Coach, put herself through college working in factories, farms, bookstores, and as a veterinary technician. Susen then worked as a Chemical Hygiene Officer and Molecular Biologist before returning to the University of Michigan for her Master's Degree in Industrial Health. Susen is also the owner and Industrial Hygienist at Practical Safety and Health Solutions. Resources: https://www.healthandsafetynow.com/ (Total) https://www.healthandsafetynow.com/ (Health & Safety Solutions) https://safetyfm.com/ (Safety FM) https://www.simplesafetycoach.com/ (Simple Safety Coach) Phone: 888.489.0997

The Michael Harper from Funky Picnic Brewery & Café dropped by to tell us what is going on with him and boy was it informative. We talked, HOPS, HOPS and more HOPS. Also wetn into details about Wayne's World and more. I'd say the the Girls Gone Wild Ebay look up is where I tuned out. 

From the paralyzing impact of fear to the limitations caused by a scarcity mindset, dragons everywhere are holding us back. To wrap up the Kiss Your Dragons mini-series, we join authors Shawn Nason, Robin Glasco, and Michael Harper as they dig into the obstacles that prevent all of us from being the people that the world needs us to be and examine the lasting impact that dragon kissing has had on their work, their relationships, and their lives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Claiming to be customer-centric has become a throwaway buzzword for lots of organizations. On this episode of the Kiss Your Dragons mini-series, authors Shawn Nason, Robin Glasco, and Michael Harper explore the transformative power of heartsets in challenging us to rethink our approach to and relationships with the business world. Join us for a blunt conversation about putting people first, leading with love, and connecting our minds and hearts.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

They say, “your vibe attracts your tribe,” but your tribe ain't your swarm. On this episode of the Kiss Your Dragons miniseries, authors Shawn Nason, Robin Glasco, and Michael Harper discuss how to build truly effective swarms in your workplace and community and how to navigate the messiness that comes with the territory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ready to get radical? As our Kiss Your Dragons journey continues, authors Shawn Nason, Robin Glasco, and Michael Harper examine the challenges they've overcome and the lessons they've learned by embracing the messy, radical relationships they have with each other and the world around them. Spoiler Alert: If you're convinced that you already have radical relationships in your life, you may need to reconsider after listening to this episode!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Living Your Values with Shawn, Michael, Barry and Darius on Thriving Entrepreneur hosted by Steve Kidd It is so easy to have values, beliefs and then never really living them out. It can be so much easier to focus on what is wrong than achieving the what is right that is often right in front of us. Can we spend each day living our values. Shawn Nason and Michael Harper share from them #1 International Best Selling Book “Kiss Your Dragons: Radical Relationships, Bold Heartsets, Changing the World” how we can begin approaching both live and work by knowing and living and adopting a life that comes from our heartset and as importantly how to be open and accepting of others heartset as well. Barry Habib talks about his book “Money in the Streets” and shows us how we can capitalize on opportunities. He teaches us how to see the opportunities and how to make use of them in our life. Darius Mirshahzadeh's book “Core Value Equation” brings us back to the concept of living our values. What are the things we value and how do we express them every day As we define and live our values and we give other spaces to life theirs as well we all grow together. Join Steve and his guest as we talk about Living Your Values today on Thriving Entrepreneur.

Every journey starts with a single step, or in this case, a single page. Join us for another episode of the Kiss Your Dragons miniseries, as authors Shawn Nason, Robin Glasco, and Michael Harper discuss what compelled them to turn their mindsets and heartsets into a book and why they're on a journey to challenge people and organizations to rethink their day-to-day interactions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the book, Kiss Your Dragons: Radical Relationships, Bold Heartsets, and Changing the World, Shawn Nason, Robin Glasco, and Michael Harper challenge readers to live and work differently by embracing a powerful set of mindsets and heartsets. In this first episode of the Kiss Your Dragons mini-series, the three authors sit down to discuss the mindset that is most important to each of them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It is so easy to have values, beliefs and then never really living them out. It can be so much easier to focus on what is wrong than achieving the what is right that is often right in front of us. Can we spend each day living our values. Shawn Nason and Michael Harper share from them #1 International Best Selling Book “Kiss Your Dragons: Radical Relationships, Bold Heartsets, Changing the World” how we can begin approaching both live and work by knowing and living and adopting a life that comes from our heartset and as importantly how to be open and accepting of others heartset as well. Barry Habib talks about his book “Money in the Streets”  and shows us how we can capitalize on opportunities. He teaches us how to see the opportunities and how to make use of them in our life. Darius Mirshahzadeh's book “Core Value Equation” brings us back to the concept of living our values. What are the things we value and how do we express them every day   As we define and live our values and we give other spaces to life theirs as well we all grow together. Join Steve and his guest as we talk about Living Your Values today on Thriving  Entrepreneur.

Lacy talks to Mike Harper, supervisor of the Fitness & Wellness Unit at the Texas Department of Public Safety, as he walks his East Austin neighborhood in between rain storms. Having lost his father to an early heart attack, Mike motivates us to engage with our own health and to make an annual wellness visit to the doctor. He shares the surprising reasons men are more reluctant than women to go to the doctor and why “knowing your numbers” matters. Mike also reveals his top two tips for anyone looking to improve their exercise and nutrition. Learn about the little known health impacts of excess weight and programs (available at no cost to HealthSelect health plan participants) that really work. 

For this episode, we invited  past guests, as well as friends and activists, to share their views  on the government's  recently published Sewell report on race and ethnic disparities. Reactions are resounding! Thank you to the following contributors — Michael Harper,  Martha Daniels, Dionne Usherwood, Rosemarie Jenkins, Marcus Shukla, Dr. Simi, Deborah Gordon, Shabnam Ahmed, Esther Fajoye, Meg Lyons, SiSta QueEn, Ana Barandalla, Dianne Greyson and Josephine Namusisi Riley. 

To kick off season four, we flip the script and put host Shawn Nason in the guest seat. That's right: the unapologetic founder of Man on Fire and the Nason Group ecosystem (MOFI, Disruptor League, Truth Tellers, and The Pink Couch) will be the focus of the conversation for a change. It'll be a unique opportunity to get inside the mind of this insanely creative disruptor and strategy expert who often gets pegged as a “corporate pastor” because he can't help but take care of other people. Join Shawn and guest host Michael Harper as they explore the origins of The Combustion Chronicles podcast, the disruptive mindsets that are the foundation of their work, and what it really means to kiss your dragons. (Spoiler alert: it's a good thing!) Download the executive summary for this episode at manonfire.co. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I catch up with my professor and mentor Michael Harper today. He is the department head at UVU for what is Utah's first 4-year bachelor's program in digital product design. We chat about what he has learned from graduating the first full cohort (which I was a part of) and what he is adjusting in the curriculum to adapt to the changing times. The most important thing we discuss is how to stand out as a design student. We are of the opinion that Product Design isn't something you can be accredited with and instantly be qualified. It's a craft that requires practice and dedication. This episode talks about how you can become that kind of designer who is amazing at the craft and stand out from the influx of students coming into the field. Contact Harper at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelharperut/ https://twitter.com/academictrekker?lang=en --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thewayofproductdesign/message

The founders of https://hotelstrategyco.com.au/ (Hotel Strategy Co), Michael Harper and Andreas Palmqvist, wrote a great article about https://insights.ehotelier.com/insights/2020/07/30/hotel-performance-hacking-in-the-downturn/ (Hotel Performance Hacking in the Downturn) and they join the show to talk about their process for developing a predictable hotel growth system that makes sense of the fragmented, competitive and technology dominated industry we operate in. They share great examples of performance hacking your hotel and the mindset required to successfully lead your business through the current downturn. It's a fantastic episode that will set you and your team up to take advantage of the upswing that will eventually come our way. Hotel Strategy Co is a hotel performance consulting company that has developed a unique and simple to follow system for achieving growth. Some of the points we discuss include: eHotelier article on “Performance Hacking” and how are hotels coping with the market (3:42) Examples of basics, principles and actions that hotels need to get back to (6:10) Hotel recovery, the business landscape in Australia, looking ahead to travel patterns and consumer confidence (10:07) How Michael and Andreas are helping hotel clients find clarity for rest of 2020 and in to Q1-2021 (14:15) Leaning in to budgets, forecasting and market share (15:48) Determining what is a profitable guest (17:50) Critical resources are in short supply that need to be addressed (18:50) How Michael and Andreas see hotel businesses changing as we move through the next few years (22:12) Where you should put your attention to get going in the right direction (24:45) About Michael Co-founder, Dynamic Educator and Hotel Super Coach, Michael has a strong background in sales, marketing and business development and now specialises in corporate sales development as well as online marketing and messaging for Hotels. Michael prides himself on fresh ideas, practical thinking, maximising technology and focusing on real results that afford his clients the business growth they are after. About Andreas Co-founder, Number Cruncher and Yield Wizard, Andreas possesses over 20 years' experience in the hotel industry, specialising in Revenue and Distribution Management. Andreas has worked with numerous hotel chains including Southern Pacific Hotels Corporation, Stamford, Outrigger and Events Hospitality and Entertainment. He offers strategic expertise, and the technical knowledge of systems vital to successful Revenue and Distribution Management. Links: Hotel Strategy Co:: https://hotelstrategy.com.au/ (https://hotelstrategy.com.au/) The 9 Super Easy Ways to Stop Hotel Booking Leakage: https://hotelstrategy.com.au/9-easy-ways-to-stop-hotel-booking-leakage (https://hotelstrategy.com.au/9-easy-ways-to-stop-hotel-booking-leakage) Free Trial of their ‘Beat the Market' Hotel Growth System: https://hotelstrategy.com.au/hotel-growth-system (https://hotelstrategy.com.au/hotel-growth-system) eHotelier Article: https://insights.ehotelier.com/insights/2020/07/30/hotel-performance-hacking-in-the-downturn/ (Hotel Performance Hacking in the Downturn)

On Wednesday's "The Extra", host Shannon Brinias focused on what's next in the medical and scientific fight to treat coronavirus and search for a vaccine.  Guests Dr. Michael Harper with Optum-East, and Josh Nathan-Kazis, reporter for Barron's, shared advances made since the virus first surfaced in treatment and vaccine research.  More information can be found here: barrons.com/articles/the-number-of-covid-19-cases-hits-a-new-high-what-comes-next-51593722229?refsec=coronavirus  

Dr. Michael Harper talks about how COVID-19 can be transmitted.

On Wednesday's "The Extra", Optum's Dr. Michael Harper joined the discussion to provide information and answers about coronavirus and Covid-19, and how medical providers are working to make patients seeking care feel safe.  For more information, you can go to cosprings.optum.com or call  1-719-522-1133. 

Dr. Michael Harper talks about teleehealth.

Dr. Michael Harper talks about what to expect when going to see your doctor during COVID-19.

Dr. Michael Harper talks about what Optum is doing to keep you save during COVID-19.

With our rapidly aging society, there is a growing question around what it means to be geriatric and what will happen to each of us when we reach that stage in our lives. Dr. Michael Harper has had a long and satisfying career in the field of geriatric medicine and, in this episode, brings his expertise and knowledge to the discussion. Unlike a lot of other specialities, in many medical schools, there is no specific geriatric training, other than end of life care,  It is also a field of medicine that has many fellowship training spots unfulfilled each year. Therese Markow and Dr. Harper discuss why this may be, as well as the growing needs of geratric patients.       Key Takeaways: There are a lot of variations in how we age and every person is different. As we get older, those differences become more stark than when a person was younger. Those in the geriatric speciality, have one of the highest career satisfaction ratings in medicine.  Geriatricians know how to keep people out of the hospital, how to prevent unnecessary care, and more, if we give them the chance to share.    "We need to increase our exposure of young people, before medical school, to older adults." —  Dr. Michael Harper     Connect with Dr. G. Michael Harper: UCSF Profile: Michael Harper, MD   Book: Geriatrics Review Syllabus (10th Edition)     Connect with Therese: Website:   www.criticallyspeaking.net Twitter: @CritiSpeak Email: theresemarkow@criticallyspeaking.net     Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.      

In this episode, Michael Harper and I discuss a lip injury he sustained during his college education, and what his road back to healthy playing looked like.Michael Harper joined the Jacksonville Symphony in January 2018 as 2nd trumpet. He has performed as a substitute musician with the Sydney Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony, Atlanta Baroque Orchestra (on baroque trumpet), New World Symphony, and Chicago Civic Orchestra. Mr. Harper has spent his summers as a member of the Tanglewood, Verbier, Lucerne, Aspen, NOI, AIMS, Chosen Vale, and Interlochen music festivals. He performed the Arutunian Trumpet Concerto with the Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Jahja Ling in April 2016, having won the school’s concerto competition the fall prior. He won first prize in the 2016 Tuesday Musical Scholarship Competition brass division and second prize in the 2017 Edith Knox Performance Competition. In March 2010, Michael was featured on NPR’s From The Top with his trumpet trio, the only such ensemble to ever perform on the show.Mr. Harper earned his Bachelor of Music in Trumpet Performance and in Music Theory at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music, studying with Charles Geyer, Barbara Butler, Christopher Martin, and Robert Sullivan. He earned his Master of Music at the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM), studying with Michael Sachs and Michael Miller. While studying at CIM, Mr. Harper also developed a strong interest and earned certificates in Eurhythmics Pedagogy and Early Music Performance; he began playing the baroque trumpet and performed in the Case Western Reserve University baroque orchestra and chamber groups. He earned a Professional Studies Certificate at the Colburn Conservatory of Music, studying with Jim Wilt. Michael was born in Annapolis, Maryland, and began his musical studies on the bugle at the age of eight, studying with his father. Support the show (https://thatsnotspit.com/support/)

Fully Rely On God - Michael Harper - 2/23/2020 PM Worship by Carlisle church of Christ

Find Your Soul Mate - Michael Harper - 3/1/2020 AM Worship by Carlisle church of Christ

The Other Ethiopian Eunuch - Michael Harper - 1/19/2020 AM Worship by Carlisle church of Christ

This week we are on the road at Brutal Beerworks in North Richland Hills. It is here that Funky Picnic's very own Michael Harper completed a collaboration with Jason and Eric from Brutal Beerworks. We were lucky enough to get the interview for this special beer release. "Lil Squeeze". We have known Jason and Michael forever, but this was our first time sitting down with Eric and we got to know the minds behind two of the best new Breweries in the DFW region.  Brutal Beerworks Funky Picnic

On this week's episode, Michael Harper (Funky Picnic Brewery & Café) joins the podcast to talk about his brewing process, where his love of beer originated, his crazy names for each beer, and a lot more! Photo courtesy of Funky Picnic Brewery & Café. "Punch on the TV" performed by Bruno Freitas on www.hooksounds.com. For more information about The Culinary School of Fort Worth's programs, visit: www.csftw.edu/ Check out our website: www.fwfoodstories.com/

One malty, summer day we visited the new space for Funky Picnic Brewery and Cafe We took a journey with Samantha and Harper from Funky Picnic. We talk about how visiting Funky Picnic is a better alternative to heroin while trying some of their offerings. We discuss recipe formulation, malts, non-trademarked hops, gender equality in brewing, and Harper explains to Samantha what the internet is. Then we figure out which Gilmore Girls character we would be. And be sure to check out Harps by Harper for all your harp needs. "It's an embarrassment of harps!" The Cool Guys in this episode are Ross and Chance With Special Guests Samantha Glenn and Michael Harper

Historian and ancestral drummer Michael Harper envisions family as the core of all our existence. In this wide-ranging conversation Michael reveals the griot who sparked his love for history, hilarious family stories and how the drums saved his life. And so much more.

I talk to Michael Harper about Oak Highland's medal from GABF and we gush about lager.

Michael Harper of Summit Marketing Group shares his Closet of Shame Story and its outcome.

More Lies We Believe - Michael Harper - 2/25/2018 by Carlisle church of Christ

Carlisle church of Christ Sunday Evening Sermon Preacher: Michael Harper 2/26/2017

Carlisle church of Christ Sunday Morning Sermon Preacher: Michael Harper 2/26/2017

We were lucky enough to get some time with Michael Harper the head brewer (not the Master Brewer) of Panther Island Brewing. This is our first time recording offsite, so please give us some feedback.   facebook.com/PantherIslandBrewing twitter.com/PantherBrewing twitter.com/prsgtrfrk twitter.com/_faaron

Michael and I watch an episode of Smackdown! and recall the legend of Old Greg.