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Ep. 56 DuEwa interviewed poet, writer, publisher, and professor, Roberto Carlos Garcia. Roberto Carlos discussed his latest book, a collection of essays, Traveling Freely (Curbstone Books / Northwestern University Press 2024).Visit www.Roberto Carlos Garcia.comVisit www.duewafrazier.com Follow Nerdacity on IG @nerdacityartsTweet us at X @nerdacitypod1Listen and subscribe to previous episodes at Spotify, iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts and more!BioRoberto Carlos Garcia is associate professor of English at Union College of Union County NJ. He writes poetry and prose about the Afro-Latinx and Afro-Diasporic experience. His work has been published widely in places like Poetry Magazine, NACLA, Poets & Writers, The Root, and others. Garcia is a 2023 New Jersey State Council of the Arts Poetry Fellow and the author of five books. Four poetry collections: Melancolía (Cervena Barva Press, 2016), black / Maybe: An Afro Lyric (Willow Books, 2018), [Elegies] (Flower Song Press, 2020), What Can I Tell You: Selected Poems (Flower Song Press, 2022), and one essay collection, Traveling Freely, (Curbstone Books / Northwestern University Press 2024). Garcia is the founder of Get Fresh Books Publishing, a literary nonprofit.

"Dance Talk” ® with Joanne Carey with special guest Samuel Pott, founder and artistic director of Nimbus Dance.In this episode of "Dance Talk” ® with Joanne Carey interviews Samuel Pott, the artistic director of Nimbus Dance. They explore his journey into dance, the founding of Nimbus Dance, and the upcoming world premiere of the re-imagined Firebird. They touch on the collaboration with the New Jersey Symphony, the thematic elements of Firebird, and the personal connections that inform the work.Together they discuss the benefits of dance, the importance of community engagement, and the creative process behind reimagining classic works. Samuel shares insights from his experiences with the Martha Graham Dance Company and emphasizes the significance of authenticity in storytelling through dance.Samuel Pott (Founding Artistic Director) founded Nimbus in 2005 . Mr. Pott's work as a performer, choreographer, educator, and arts leader, is dedicated to the authentic, humanistic, and equitable engagement that emerges in individuals and in communities through deep exploration and learning in the dance and the arts.Under his direction, the organization has toured nationally, built the Nimbus Arts Center at The Lively in Downtown Jersey City, developed the School of Nimbus which serves over 400 students onsite and many thousands in offsite community programs annually, and become the largest contemporary dance organization in the State of New Jersey. Mr. Pott's choreography has embodied the organization's endless fascination with exploration and engagement with important themes of the day, and collaboration with artists from many genres, among them: composers Daniel Bernard Roumain, Samson Young, Judd Greenstein, Aaron Parks, and Qasim Naqvi; visual artists Nicola Lopez, Bryant Small, Laia Cabrera/Isabelle Duverger, Theda Sandiford; and writers Alysia Souder and Rashad Wright. Pott maintains a multi-year artistic partnership with the New Jersey Symphony. Mr. Pott's 20+ original works for Nimbus are complemented by his commitment to support the work of diverse established and emerging choreographers through commissions, including: Dawn Marie Bazemore, Sofia Nappi, Darshan Singh Bhuller, Yoshito Sakuraba, Pedro Ruiz, Vernard Gilmore and Korhan Basaran. As a performer, Mr. Pott danced as a soloist with the Martha Graham Dance Company, performing in iconic roles–the Husbandman in Appalachian Spring, Agamemnon in Clytemnestra, and Adam in Embattled Garden–and new choreographic works created by a range of leading contemporary choreographers including Larry Kegwin, Ann Bogart, Robert Wilson, and Lar Lubovitch. Prior to joining the Graham company, Mr. Pott performed as a lead dancer with American Repertory Ballet, Oakland Ballet, and Savage Jazz Dance Company, in a wide range of new and classical repertory. A recipient of Choreography Fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts in 2008, 2017, and 2023, and named a Distinguished Teaching Artist by the Council in 2012, Pott was one of 25 arts leaders nationally selected for the Association of Performing Arts Presenters' (APAP) inaugural Leadership Fellows Program, serves on the Dance Advisory Council for New Jersey Performing Arts Center and the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee for ArtPride NJ, and is a co-founder of the Jersey City Arts Council.To get tickets to see Nimbus Dance, March 7th, 8th & 9th and to catch this world premiere click belowhttps://www.njsymphony.org/events/detail/the-firebird-with-xian-zhangTo learn more about the company and their programshttps://www.nimbusdance.org/“Dance Talk” ® with Joanne Carey wherever you listen to your podcasts. ⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://dancetalkwithjoannecarey.com/Follow Joanne on Instagram @westfieldschoolofdanceTune in. Follow. Like us. And Share.Please leave a review!“Dance Talk” ® with Joanne Carey"Where the Dance World Connects, the Conversations Inspire, and Where We Are Keeping Them Real."

Host Jason Blitman talks to Karissa Chen (Homeseeking) about musicals--particularly The Last Five Years' influence on her writing, dreams as well as idealism, the coincidence of reconnection, and the concept of seeking home. Jason is then joined by Guest Gay Reader Paul Lisicky (Song So Wild and Blue) and talk about all things Joni Mitchell. Homeseeking is the January 2025 Good Morning America Book Club selection. Karissa Chen is a Fulbright fellow, Kundiman Fiction fellow, and a VONA/Voices fellow whose fiction and essays have appeared in The Atlantic, Eater, The Cut, NBC News THINK!, Longreads, PEN America, Catapult, Gulf Coast, and Guernica, among others. She was awarded an artist fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts as well as multiple writing residencies including at Millay Arts, where she was a Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Creative Fellow and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, among others. She was formerly a senior fiction editor at The Rumpus and currently serves as the editor-in-chief at Hyphen magazine. She received an MFA in fiction from Sarah Lawrence College and splits her time between New Jersey and Taipei, Taiwan.Paul Lisicky is the author of seven books including Later: My Life at the Edge of the World (one of NPR's Best Books of 2020), as well as The Narrow Door (a New York Times Editors' Choice and a Finalist for the Randy Shilts Award), Unbuilt Projects, The Burning House, Famous Builder, and Lawnboy. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, Conjunctions, The Cut, Fence, The New York Times, Ploughshares, Tin House, and in many other magazines and anthologies. He has taught in the creative writing programs at Cornell University, New York University, Sarah Lawrence College, and elsewhere. He is currently a Professor of English in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Rutgers University-Camden, where he is Editor of StoryQuarterly. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. BOOK CLUB!Use code GAYSREADING at checkout to get first book for only $4 + free shipping! Restrictions apply.http://aardvarkbookclub.comWATCH!https://youtube.com/@gaysreading FOLLOW!Instagram: @gaysreading | @jasonblitmanBluesky: @gaysreading | @jasonblitmanCONTACT!hello@gaysreading.com

I have a Christmas and Hanukah gift for you: my show with Stephen Dunn. This is one of my favorite shows and he was one of my favorite poets. He published something like 21 collections of poetry. The show you're about to hear from 2001, the first time he was a guest on the show. Writers on Writing was on the radio then. Podcasting wouldn't be along for four more years and it would be a number of years—I've lost track—before my cohost Marrie Stone joined us.   I first learned of Dunn back in the early 1980s. I was on a bus in San Francisco, looking up at the placards that lined the roof of the bus and there was a poem of his. It may have been his poem, “Contact,” which he reads during the following interview. Back then the City posted poetry on MUNI busses (I think it's doing that again). Dunn and I never met in person but he graced me and the show with his presence a half dozen times. Stephen Dunn was born on June 24, 1939, in Forest Hills, Queens. He graduated from Forest Hills High School in 1957. He earned a BA in history and English from Hofstra University, attended the New School Writing Workshops, and finished his MA in creative writing at Syracuse University. Dunn's books of poetry include the posthumous collection The Not Yet Fallen World (W. W. Norton, 2022); Pagan Virtues (W. W. Norton, 2019); Lines of Defense (W. W. Norton, 2014); Here and Now: Poems (W. W. Norton, 2011); What Goes On: Selected and New Poems 1995-2009 (W. W. Norton, 2009); Everything Else in the World (W. W. Norton, 2006); Local Visitations (W. W. Norton, 2003); Different Hours (W. W. Norton, 2000), winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry; Loosestrife (W. W. Norton, 1996), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; New and Selected Poems: 1974–1994(W. W. Norton, 1994); Landscape at the End of the Century (W. W. Norton, 1991); Between Angels (W. W. Norton, 1989); Local Time (William Morrow & Co., 1986), winner of the National Poetry Series; Not Dancing (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1984); Work & Love (HarperCollins, 1981); A Circus of Needs (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1978); Full of Lust and Good Usage (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1976); and Looking For Holes In the Ceiling (University of Massachusetts Press, 1974). He is also the author of Walking Light: Memoirs and Essays on Poetry (BOA Editions, 2001), and Riffs & Reciprocities: Prose Pairs (W. W. Norton, 1998). About Dunn's work, the poet Billy Collins has written: The art lies in hiding the art, Horace tells us, and Stephen Dunn has proven himself a master of concealment. His honesty would not be so forceful were it not for his discrete formality; his poems would not be so strikingly naked were they not so carefully dressed. Dunn's other honors include the Academy Award for Literature, the James Wright Prize, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. He has taught poetry and creative writing and held residencies at Wartburg College, Wichita State University, Columbia University, University of Washington, Syracuse University, Southwest Minnesota State College, Princeton University, and University of Michigan. Dunn has worked as a professional basketball player, an advertising copywriter, and an editor, as well as a professor of creative writing. Dunn was the distinguished professor of creative writing at Richard Stockton College and lived in Frostburg, Maryland with his wife, the writer Barbara Hurd. He passed away on June 25, 2021. He won a Pulitzer Prize for Different Hours, the focus for our talk on this day in 2001. We also talk about the poets' state of mind, writing poems during and after the moment, existing in the world of ambiguity, being a retrospective poet, how his focus has changed over the years, how he taught poetry, good training for a poet, hearing from readers, National Poetry Month, and more. For more information on Writers on Writing and to become a supporter, visit our Patreon page. For a one-time donation, visit Ko-fi. You can find hundreds upon hundreds of past interviews on our website. If you'd like to support the show and indie bookstores, consider buying books at our bookstore on bookshop.org. We've stocked it with titles from our guests, as well as some of our personal favorites. And on Spotify, you'll find to an album's worth of typewriter music like what you hear on the show. Look for the artist, Just My Type. Email the show at writersonwritingpodcast@gmail.com. We love to hear from our listeners! (Recorded in 2001 in the KUCI-FM studio at University of California Irvine campus.)  Host: Barbara DeMarco-BarrettHost: Marrie StoneMusic: Travis Barrett (Stream his music on Spotify, Apple Music, Etc.)  

The conversation focuses on the Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts, in Millville, highlighting its mission to support local artists and engage the community through various art programs and exhibits. Diane Rogers, the executive director, discusses the center's history, its role in promoting the arts in Cumberland County, and the importance of collaboration with local artists and organizations. The center offers art education programs, hosts exhibitions, and provides a space for artists to showcase their work. Additionally, the conversation touches on upcoming events, membership opportunities, and the significance of community involvement in the arts. takeaways The Riverfront Renaissance Center has been a community hub for the arts since 2001. The center collaborates with local artists and organizations to promote art education. Art exhibits change regularly, showcasing a variety of local talent. Membership at the center provides artists with opportunities to display their work. The center hosts themed exhibits that allow artists to participate without fees. Community engagement is a key focus, with events open to the public. The center has a gift shop that supports local artists and raises funds for operations. Upcoming events like the High Street Arts Fest aim to showcase local art and artists. The art library offers resources for artists and the community to learn about art history and techniques. Funding from organizations like the New Jersey State Council for the Arts supports the center's initiatives. Sound Bites "The arts are alive in Cumberland County." "We are here for the artists." "It's an art community center, definitely." Chapters 00:00 Introduction to the Riverfront Renaissance Center 01:09 Mission and Community Engagement 04:05 Art Exhibits and Local Artists 09:04 Membership and Artist Support 12:43 Open Calls and Community Involvement 19:25 The Role of the Arts Center in the Community 24:36 Gift Shop and Fundraising 26:06 Upcoming Events and Collaborations 30:53 Art Library and Artist Studios 36:31 Funding and Support for the Arts

In Ruchama Feuerman's novel In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist (Open Road Media 2024), Isaac, a lonely, heartbroken New York haberdasher, moves to Jerusalem after he's jilted by his bride-to-be and his mother dies. He stumbles into a job as the assistant to a famous kabbalist and spends his days helping the elderly man and his wife dispense wisdom and soup to the troubled souls who come into their courtyard. Isaac crosses paths with Tamar, a newly religious young American woman desperate to find a spiritually connected husband, and Mustafa, a physically deformed Arab janitor who works on the Temple Mount. Isaac doesn't realize that simply being kind to the janitor will change both their lives. Because of that kindness, Mustafa gifts Isaac with an ancient, discarded piece of pottery that he found in the garbage pile on the Temple Mount. His gift lands Isaac in jail and puts Mustafa in danger. Tamar is the only person Isaac knows who can help avert a disaster. First published in 2014, In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist has just been reissued with an intriguing afterward. Ruchama Feuerman is the author of Seven Blessings (St. Martin's Press), and several books for children and young adults. She is grateful to the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Christopher Isherwood Fellowship which allowed her the time and means to devote herself entirely to her writing. Her prize-winning stories have appeared in Narrative Magazine, the Michigan Quarterly Review, Lilith, Tablet, and other publications. She has written and ghostwritten books for children, young adults, and adults, and helps people create their own novels, memoirs, stories and books of non-fiction. Her dream is to return to Israel, the setting for both her novels, where she lived and taught Torah for ten years. It's a place, she finds, where extraordinary stories are handed to you daily. Researching her latest novel led Ruchama to kabbalists, Israeli ex-convicts, Arab laborers, archeologists, Temple Mount police men, connoisseurs of Israeli prison slang, and soup kitchens, among other places. One of the most transformative experiences was her time spent at a Jewish funeral home in New Jersey where she observed a ritual purification for a scene she was writing. Afterward, she volunteered at the Hevra Kadisha burial society for three years and wrote about the experience for the New York Times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In Ruchama Feuerman's novel In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist (Open Road Media 2024), Isaac, a lonely, heartbroken New York haberdasher, moves to Jerusalem after he's jilted by his bride-to-be and his mother dies. He stumbles into a job as the assistant to a famous kabbalist and spends his days helping the elderly man and his wife dispense wisdom and soup to the troubled souls who come into their courtyard. Isaac crosses paths with Tamar, a newly religious young American woman desperate to find a spiritually connected husband, and Mustafa, a physically deformed Arab janitor who works on the Temple Mount. Isaac doesn't realize that simply being kind to the janitor will change both their lives. Because of that kindness, Mustafa gifts Isaac with an ancient, discarded piece of pottery that he found in the garbage pile on the Temple Mount. His gift lands Isaac in jail and puts Mustafa in danger. Tamar is the only person Isaac knows who can help avert a disaster. First published in 2014, In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist has just been reissued with an intriguing afterward. Ruchama Feuerman is the author of Seven Blessings (St. Martin's Press), and several books for children and young adults. She is grateful to the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Christopher Isherwood Fellowship which allowed her the time and means to devote herself entirely to her writing. Her prize-winning stories have appeared in Narrative Magazine, the Michigan Quarterly Review, Lilith, Tablet, and other publications. She has written and ghostwritten books for children, young adults, and adults, and helps people create their own novels, memoirs, stories and books of non-fiction. Her dream is to return to Israel, the setting for both her novels, where she lived and taught Torah for ten years. It's a place, she finds, where extraordinary stories are handed to you daily. Researching her latest novel led Ruchama to kabbalists, Israeli ex-convicts, Arab laborers, archeologists, Temple Mount police men, connoisseurs of Israeli prison slang, and soup kitchens, among other places. One of the most transformative experiences was her time spent at a Jewish funeral home in New Jersey where she observed a ritual purification for a scene she was writing. Afterward, she volunteered at the Hevra Kadisha burial society for three years and wrote about the experience for the New York Times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

Welcome to the Bridgeton Beacon. Today we're delighted to join Sharon Kiefer, the Curator and Director of Gallery 50, in Bridgeton.

Penny Harter's most recent books are Keeping Time, Still-Water Days, and A Prayer the Body Makes. Earlier collections include Recycling Starlight; The Night Marsh; Buried in the Sky; Grandmother's Milk; Turtle Blessing; Lizard Light: Poems from the Earth; and Stages and Views. With her late husband, William J. Higginson, she is co-author of The Haiku Handbook (Kodansha America), and with him was a co-editor of From Here Press for many years. She is also the author of several chapbooks, including collections of haiku. Her awards include three Poetry Fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, including the Arnold Gingrich Award; the Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America, a teaching-poet award from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, and two fellowships from Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Visit her online at: https://www.pennyharterpoet.com/ Review the Rattlecast on iTunes! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rattle-poetry/id1477377214 As always, we'll also include live open lines for responses to our weekly prompt or any other poems you'd like to share. A Zoom link will be provided in the chat window during the show before that segment begins. For links to all the past episodes, visit: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ This Week's Prompt: Write a sequel: a poem that refers to another poem and starts immediately after the events in that poem. Next Week's Prompt: Write a haibun that mentions time. The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, then becomes an audio podcast. Find it on iTunes, Spotify, or anywhere else you get your podcasts.

During this episode of Why Change? co-hosts Ashraf and Jeff discuss the season of change in their work. Jeff shares his interview with Porché Hardy, an arts program officer from the Wallace Foundation. They discuss the changing landscape and processes of philanthropy towards more equitable giving; primarily through humble curiosity. Ashraf and Jeff think about the implications for the broader field of arts, culture, and creativity funding in the U.S.  In this episode you'll learn: How funding processes can be more equitable for a variety of funders; Why listening, learning, and flexibility are key factors in the equitable distribution of resources; and The power of humility in continuous improvement. Check out some of the things mentioned during this podcast, including:  The Wallace Foundation The Foundation's five-year initiative focused on arts organizations of color" S3 Ep10: Reframing Philanthropy with Nikki Kirk ABOUT PORCHÉ HARDY:  Porché is an arts administrator and senior program officer with The Wallace Foundation who brings deep expertise and experience working with teams in both government and nonprofits to develop programs to help build a stronger arts sector and a more equitable pathway to social change through arts funding and arts education. She began her arts administration career at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center where she grew from intern to Associate Director of Arts Training before shifting to community based arts education as Assistant Director of the Institute of Music for Children. She leveraged her experience of non profit arts leadership to further improvements in arts funding as a Program Officer with the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.  Porché is also a performer and holds a BA in Sociology from Rutgers University. She is currently pursuing a Masters in Public Administration there, as well. She is an alumna of the William Esper Studio and has studied classical music (voice) at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Montclair State University, and privately with award-winning singers and coaches.  This episode was produced by Jeff M. Poulin. The artwork is by Bridget Woodbury. The audio is edited by Katie Rainey. This podcasts' theme music is by Distant Cousins. For more information on this episode and Creative Generation please visit the episode's webpage and follow us on social media @Campaign4GenC --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/whychange/support

Raymond Saá in his studio Raymond Saá is a Cuban-American artist born in New Orleans and raised in Miami. He graduated from the New World School of the Arts in 1991, received his B.F.A. from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1995, and studied at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf in 1996. In 1997, he earned an M.F.A. from Parsons School of Design. Selected exhibitions include White Columns, the Islip Museum, Wave Hill, the Museum of Art Puerto Rico, and El Museo del Barrio. Saá received a 2019 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, in addition to awards from Public Art for Public Schools, the Pollack Krasner Foundation, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, and New Jersey Fellowship in Art. The artist lives and works in New Jersey. The Blue Bird, 2023 Raymond Saá Morgan Lehman Gallery 'The Blue Bird' series, 2023 Size: 30 x 24 in Medium: gouache collage on sewn paper 'The Blue Bird' series, 2023 Size: 30 x 24 in Medium: gouache collage on sewn paper 'The Blue Bird' series, 2023 Size: 30 x 24 in Medium: gouache collage on sewn paper

Today on Crushing Classical, you'll hear my interview with Ariel Grossman, Founder & Artistic Director of Ariel Rivka Dance. I've never talked with a choreographer before and I just loved finding all of the parallels between our worlds.  This episode is brought to you today by Happiest Musician Coaching. You are amazing, and I believe in you. What are you trying to create?  What do you need your career to be and do for you? What are you not seeing that you need to do and work on?  I love these conversations and supporting musicians like you. For a limited time, I'm offering a free 30-minute call to get you some clarity around your next steps, and see how I might help you get unstuck!  Ariel Rebecca (Rivka) Grossman is a native New Yorker, who trained at LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and the Performing Arts and Joffrey Ballet School. In 2008, she founded an all-female contemporary company, Ariel Rivka Dance. Most recently, Ariel received a 2023 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Ariel's work has been presented worldwide, including BAM Fisher, NJPAC, Bryant Park, NYLA, Baruch Performing Arts Center, Martha Graham Studio Theater, NYU Tisch, Rutgers University, Roxbury Performing Arts Center, and in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Houston, Cleveland, Florida, Oklahoma, Detroit, Memphis, Istanbul, Turkey, and in 2023, Perigord, France and Bari, Italy. She has been commissioned by Dance Lab NY, Konverjdans, Ballet Vero Beach, and Skidmore College. Collaborations include Rioult Dance NY, Taylor 2, Heidi Latsky, Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company, and Sean Curran. Ariel is a past recipient of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (New) Moves Fellowship, Monira Performance Residency, and a Nimbus Arts Center artist residency. ARD is an awardee of Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, The Charles & Joan Gross Family Foundation, the O'Donnell-Green Music & Dance Foundation, Jersey City Council of the Arts, and New Jersey State Council on the Arts and more. Ariel draws inspiration from the struggles and joys of the human experience, particularly through being a woman and mother of two. Through collaboration, Ariel encourages her artists to bring themselves to the work—molding pieces that are striking, evocative, and multi-layered. This conversation was fascinating. Firstly, because I loved hearing Ariel talk about her art in a way that was both brand new to me and also completely relatable. The connections are so clear and it's amazing to think about movement, interpretation, and leadership in a totally different field than my own.  Secondly, because I loved hearing her take real ownership of her own strengths - I don't hear this nearly often enough from people, even the amazingly accomplished people I'm interviewing right here, and ESPECIALLY from working musicians.  I know you will love this interview. If you are in NYC, catch Ariel Rivka Dance's 15th Annual Season presented by NYU Tisch at the Jack Crystal Theater on May 31st-June 2nd, and a special family matinee co-presented by 14Y Theater on June 3rd.  Here's a teaser for her upcoming collaboration, Never Fade Away Follow Ariel Rivka Dance on Instagram at @arielrivkadance or @arielgrossman; or on Facebook Thanks for joining me on Crushing Classical!  Theme music and audio editing by DreamVance. You can join my email list HERE, so you never miss an episode! Or you could hop on a short call with me to brainstorm your next plan.  I'm your host, Jennet Ingle. I love you all. Stay safe out there!  

John Gromada & Tony Angelini talk about expressing meaning in sound craft for the theatre and audio drama.  A “must listen” not just for theatre artists, but all artists who want to explore deeper meaning in their work.John Gromada (Composer/Sound Designer) has composed music or designed sound for more 40 Broadway productions, including All My Sons, Torch Song, The Elephant Man, The Trip to Bountiful with Cicely Tyson (Tony nomination), Gore Vidal's The Best Man (Drama Desk Award), Clybourne Park, Seminar, Man and Boy, The Columnist, Next Fall, A Bronx Tale, Prelude to a Kiss, Proof, A Streetcar Named Desire, Twelve Angry Men, and the original A Few Good Men. His other New York credits include Amy and the Orphans, Bruce Norris' Domesticated, Old Hats, Measure for Measure (Delacorte Theater), The Orphans? Home Cycle (Drama Desk and Henry Hewes Awards), Shipwrecked! (Lucille Lortel Award), The Singing Forest, Julius Caesar, The Skriker (Drama Desk Award), Machinal (OBIE Award) and many more. His television and film credits include a score for the Emmy nominated The Trip to Bountiful, and Showing Roots . Gromada has received the National Endowment for the Arts Opera/Music Theatre Fellowship and grants from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. All music in this podcast was written by John Gromada, and here is the order in which the pieces are heard:Bobadeepadoobop (Twelfth Night at the Long Wharf Theatre)To Kill a Mockingbird - Main ThemeBronx Tale: Lorenzos ThemeValentine's Day (The Orphans Home Cycle / Mockingbird)Drive (The Orphans Home Cycle / Mockingbird)Jeeves and Wooster Travel Music (Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense)Listen to his music and audio dramas on Soundcloud: https://on.soundcloud.com/qGvsaThe Orphans Home Cycle / Mockingbird album available on amazon here: https://amazon.com/music/player/albums/B003DYG7GG?marketplaceId=ATVPDKIKX0DER&musicTerritory=US&ref=dm_sh_D2q7bpLMCRbLNaz5wsGvXk1h7I'm your host, Tony Angelini. Thanks for listening. Find out more at www.creativemindset.org

Comprised of hundreds of objects fabricated using multiple glass processes, Between Seeing and Knowing is a large-scale, site-specific installation by artists Anna Boothe and Nancy Cohen. The installation is on view now through February 5, 2023 at Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass, Neenah, Wisconsin. Created as part of a collaborative residency that took place at the Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass (CMoG) in 2012, the artwork has been previously exhibited at Accola Griefen Gallery, New York, the Philadelphia Art Alliance, and Philadelphia's International Airport. At its core, Between Seeing and Knowing is the result of both artists' long-standing interest in and in-depth study of Tibetan Buddhist thangka paintings and the integration of their otherwise very separate studio practices. Thangkas are ordered cosmological paintings, often scrolls, created for the purpose of meditation and composed of numerous visual elements. This installation reinterprets the symbolism in the paintings to create new work that reflects the organizational structure and palette of the paintings, as well as the sense of expansiveness and lack of hard resolution characteristic of Buddhist ideology.  Boothe and Cohen state: “Overall, through this collaboration, its subject matter, and our chosen methodology, we seek to understand, both visually and viscerally, another cultural perspective or expression unlike our own, through our dissection and re-assemblage of elements unique to that culture. Just as collaboration brings forth the opportunity for a deep exchange of ideas and the development of sympathetic approaches to doing what one does, pragmatically and metaphorically, this is our attempt at bridging gaps between cultural approaches to explain the unexplainable.” With degrees in sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design and glass from Tyler School of Art/Temple University, Boothe has worked with glass since 1980. Included in the permanent collections of CMoG, Racine Art Museum and Tacoma Museum of Art, her cast glass work has been exhibited widely, including recently at the Albuquerque Art Museum, Fuller Craft Museum, Kemerer Museum of Decorative Arts and the Hotel Nani Mocenigo Palace in Venice, as well as at several villas in Italy's Veneto Region. Boothe taught in Tyler's glass program for 16 years, helped develop and chaired Salem Community College's glass art program and has exhibited and/or lectured internationally in Australia, Belgium, Israel, Italy, Japan, Switzerland, Taiwan and Turkey, as well as at numerous US universities and glass-focused schools. She served on the Board and as President of the Glass Art Society from 1998-2006 and is a former Director of Glass at Philadelphia's National Liberty Museum.     With an MFA in Sculpture from Columbia University and a BFA in Ceramics from Rochester Institute of Technology, Cohen has been working with glass (among other materials) since 1990. Her work examines resiliency in relation to the environment and the human body. Cohen's work has been widely exhibited throughout the United States and is represented in collections such as The Montclair Museum, The Weatherspoon Art Gallery, and The Zimmerli Museum. She has completed large-scale, site-specific projects for The Staten Island Botanical Garden, The Noyes Museum of Art, The Katonah Museum, Howard University, and others. Recent solo exhibitions include Walking a Line at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in Chelsea, New York, and Nancy Cohen: Atlas of Impermanence at the Visual Arts Center in Summit, New Jersey. Group exhibitions include All We Can Save: Climate Conversations at the Nurture Nature Center in Easton, Pennsylvania, and ReVision and Respond at The Newark Museum. Cohen is a 2022 recipient of a Mid-Atlantic Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. She currently teaches drawing and sculpture at Queens College. In a review of Boothe and Cohen's collaborative project, Elizabeth Crawford of N.Y Arts Magazine, wrote: : “Intuitively proximate to Buddhist philosophy, the piece is about the inter-relatedness of things. Each glass part appears sentient and in direct communication with the others. In a Thangka painting, none of the forms are meant to be isolated but work together to invite the viewer to take the painting in at once, as a whole. Similarly, all of the pieces in Boothe and Cohen's installation contribute to a sense of continuous breath or movement which is enhanced by light reflecting through the glass.” For this innovative work the artists used an astounding range of glass processes including kiln-casting, slumping, fusing, blowing, hot-sculpting and sand-casting.  

Joshua Stamper has been a composer and collaborator for nearly thirty years. Equally at home in the jazz, classical, avant-garde, and indie/alternative worlds, and working with filmmakers, dancers, visual artists, poets and architects, his work reflects a deep commitment to transdisciplinary collaboration. Joshua has worked as an orchestral arranger, a studio conductor, and session musician for Columbia / Sony BMG and Concord Records, Lionsgate Films, Warner Bros. Pictures, and Legendary Entertainment, and for independent labels Domino, Dead Oceans, Important Records, Sounds Familyre, Smalltown Supersound, Joyful Noise Recordings, and Mason Jar Music.Joshua's work has been commissioned by the Daedalus Quartet, Mantra Percussion, and the Grammy-winning chamber choir, The Crossing. He is a MacDowell Composition Fellow, and is also the recipient of the Lincoln City Fellowship and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship. His work has been supported by the American Composers Forum, the Lilly Endowment, the Anne M. and Philip H. Glatfelter III Family Foundation, the Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia, the Eric Stokes Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.The Bass Shed

Joshua Stamper has been a composer and collaborator for nearly thirty years. Equally at home in the jazz, classical, avant-garde, and indie/alternative worlds, and working with filmmakers, dancers, visual artists, poets and architects, his work reflects a deep commitment to transdisciplinary collaboration. Joshua has worked as an orchestral arranger, a studio conductor, and session musician for Columbia / Sony BMG and Concord Records, Lionsgate Films, Warner Bros. Pictures, and Legendary Entertainment, and for independent labels Domino, Dead Oceans, Important Records, Sounds Familyre, Smalltown Supersound, Joyful Noise Recordings, and Mason Jar Music.Joshua's work has been commissioned by the Daedalus Quartet, Mantra Percussion, and the Grammy-winning chamber choir, The Crossing. He is a MacDowell Composition Fellow, and is also the recipient of the Lincoln City Fellowship and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship. His work has been supported by the American Composers Forum, the Lilly Endowment, the Anne M. and Philip H. Glatfelter III Family Foundation, the Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia, the Eric Stokes Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.The Bass Shed on IG / The Bass Shed on Twitter / View More Episodes

Angela Kariotis is an “artist as public servant." She is a community-engaged culture worker and educator building creative experiences serving the needs of cities, institutions, and students of all ages for public good. Kariotis integrates restorative practices with the pedagogy of play for a transformative learning experience. Angela is winner of a New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship in playwriting, a National Performance Network Creation Fund Award for her solo performance work, and a Tennessee Williams Theater Fellowship. As a performance artist, she's been presented by venues such as UCLA, University of Texas at Austin, People's Light, Legion Arts in Iowa, and Contact Theater in Manchester, UK. Kariotis is Curriculum Director and Facilitator of Walking the Beat, a national arts education program interrogating the history of police, the way we police each other, and ideating alternative cultures of care. The project centers violence as a public health crisis, not a criminal justice issue and is being supported by a grant from the NJ Attorney General's Office as a Community Based Violence Intervention Program. They are creating virtual reality modules, theater and performance, and a community-based oral history project. Concurrently, she is proud to work at Brookdale Community College as their first Director of Diversity & Inclusion working to integrate a healing-centered education framework in higher ed. You can find Angela's website here and watch the trailer for Walking the Beat 2022: protect your heART here.We want to thank Paper Monday for the interviews and portraits, Jo Barratt and Dike Godstime for the audio engineering and Maria Tan from House of Thriving for co-producing this podcast season.

Playwright Stephen Kaplan stops by in person in the episode of Playwright's Spotlight. This discussion is about as well-rounded as it gets, touching on a plethora of aspects go playwriting, including - avoiding directing on the page and the minimal use of stage directions and action, common habits and the pitfalls of a beginning playwright as well as the playwright's toolbox, teaching subtext, and the structure of playwriting vs screenwriting. We also go into detail about Aristotle's Poetics, Deus ex Machina in theatre, rules in playwriting, editing as you write, and standing up for yourself in production. This is only a small amount of topics we discuss in this episode. It's definitely worth listening to the end. We hope you enjoy it.Stephen Kaplan is an award-winning playwright with productions off-broadway and in regional theaters nationally. His productions include the world premieres of Tracy Jones at Williamston Theatre, Michigan and CenterStage, Rochester, and the world premiere of Branwell (and other Brontës): An Autobiography Edited by Charlotte Brontë at Loft Ensemble, Los Angeles. His play Tracy Jones is currently a finalist for B Street Theater's New Comedies Festival in Sacramento, CA, and was a finalist for the ScreenCraft Stage Play Contest and the Trustus Playwrights Festival. He is a 2021 Individual Artist Fellowship winner in playwriting from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. He earned his BFA from NYU – Playwrights Horizons Theatre School and his MFA from Point Park University. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and serves as Northeastern Regional Representative on the DG National Council.To view the video format of this episode, visit the link below -https://youtu.be/L6q3otHLbEMLinks to site and resources mentioned in this episode - Loft Ensemble -https://www.loftensemble.orgScreenCraft -https://screencraft.org/NYU - Playwrights Horizon -https://tisch.nyu.edu/drama/about/studios/playwrights-horizons-theater-schoolThe Blank Theatre -https://www.theblank.com/livingroomseries/Website and contact information for Stephen Kaplan -Stephen Kaplan -www.bystephenkaplan.comThe New Play Exchange -https://newplayexchange.org/users/255/stephen-kaplanWebsites and socials for James Elden, Punk Monkey Productions and Playwright's SpotlightPunk Monkey Productions - www.punkmonkeyproductions.comPLAY Noir -www.playnoir.comPLAY Noir Anthology –www.punkmonkeyproductions.com/contact.htmlJames Elden -Twitter - @jameseldensauerIG - @alakardrakeFB - fb.com/jameseldensauerPunk Monkey Productions and PLAY Noir - Twitter - @punkmonkeyprods                  - @playnoirla IG - @punkmonkeyprods       - @playnoir_la FB - fb.com/playnoir        - fb.com/punkmonkeyproductionsPlaywright's Spotlight -Twitter - @wrightlightpod IG - @playwrights_spotlightPlaywriting services through Los Angeles Collegiate Playwrights Festivalwww.losangelescollegiateplaywrightsfestival.com/services.htmlSupport the show

Motherhood is a varied yet permanent stage of life. No mother's experience is identical to another, but somewhere along the way motherhood touches all humans. This episode highlights the diversity of experiences motherhood offers with editors of The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood. This anthology is a collection of poems, essays, and writing prompts that represent and describe a wide range of experiences. Edited by Emily Pérez and Nancy Reddy, The Long Devotion celebrates the multifaceted types and lifestyles of motherhood ranging from intersections of parenting and race; single parenting; adoptive, foster, and step-parenting; life with chronic illness, mental illness, and disability; and the choice to remain childless.Emily and Nancy share a poem from the book called “Feed” which speaks to the various forms of transitions women experience through motherhood. Our conversation touches on topics such a Matrescence, navigating work and motherhood, as well as learning how to adjust to motherhood and finding a creative spark again. Show Notes: In this episode of the Thryving Mother Podcast, we discuss, What led Emily and Nancy to create this anthology.What their findings were on “what it means to be a mother who writes?”Areas of the book focusing on transitions and balancing being a mom and creative professional including Nancy reading a poem from the book called “Feed”.  Their suggestions for mothers who would like to begin to write their experiences in motherhood.About the Writers: Emily Pérez is the author of What Flies Want, winner of the Iowa Prize; House of Sugar, House of Stone; and two chapbooks. She is co-editor of the anthology The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood. A CantoMundo fellow and Ledbury Critic, she's received support from Hedgebrook, Bread Loaf, The Community of Writers, Jack Straw Writers, and The Artist Trust. Her poetry has appeared in Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, Copper Nickel, Poetry, and Fairy Tale Review, and her reviews can be found in RHINO, LA Review of Books, The Guardian, and The Georgia Review. She teaches high school in Denver, where she lives with her family. Find more at www.emilyperez.org.Nancy Reddy is the author of Pocket Universe (LSU, 2022); Double Jinx (Milkweed Editions, 2015), a 2014 winner of the National Poetry Series; and Acadiana (Black Lawrence Press, 2018). With Emily Pérez, she's co-editor of The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood (UGA, 2022). Her essays have appeared in Slate, Poets & Writers, Electric Literature, Romper, Brevity, The Millions, and elsewhere. The recipient of a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers' Conference and grants from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Sustainable Arts Foundation, she teaches writing at Stockton University.Learn more about Emily and Nancy at: @theemperez | @nancy.o.reddy & www.emilyperez.org Links to Thryve:Thryve WebsiteThryve Living InstagramPodcast Website 

In this episode of Veteran Et Cetera Podcast host Mike Kim is joined by guest author Mary Jane Nealon to discuss a topic closely tied to " Writing about Pain ".  Mary Jane Nealon is a seasoned registered nurse, granddaughter of a WW I veteran, daughter of a WW II Combat Veteran, coach (at Red Vale Consulting), published poet, and recognized freelance medical writer/memoirist.  She is a graduate of the Warren Wilson College M.F.A. Program for Writers. She is the recipient of two fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1995-1997. In 1998, she was awarded a fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation. She lives in Jersey City, New Jersey.  Mary Jane's works include the acclaimed book Beautiful Unbroken: One Nurse's Life. Her books containing poetry are Rogue Apostle and Immaculate Fuel.  More of Mary Jane Nealon's expansive narrative can be found in here website  mjnealon.com Follow Mike on his LinkedIn pageFollow Mike on Instagram @mikekimveteranSearch for Mike on Facebook @MikeKimVeteranSearch for Mike at #mikekimveteran or Google him at "Mike Kim Veteran"Email Mike at agathoskim@gmail.comFollow us on IG @cominghomwell_bts and @behindtheservicepodcastFacebook at Coming Home Well or Behind The ServiceLinkedIn at Coming Home Well

In this episode, we cover:The reality of pregnancy discrimination and the damaging narrative that "having babies means you aren't serious about your career."What it looks like to be a mother + writer, and how having kids can actually enhance our creative process.Balancing the good and bad of modern motherhood: more honest, candid conversations paired with unrealistic expectations and overwhelm. The tempting trap of parenting trends that ultimately make moms feel worse about themselves + the rabbit hole of social media.There is no "right way" to be a mother AND there is no "right way" to be a mother plusser: pursuing the other side of your plus is not a one-size-fits-all! Nancy Reddy is the author of Pocket Universe (LSU, 2022); Double Jinx (Milkweed Editions, 2015), a 2014 winner of the National Poetry Series; and Acadiana (Black Lawrence Press, 2018). With Emily Pérez, she's co-editor of The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood (UGA, 2022). Her essays have appeared in Slate, Poets & Writers, Electric Literature, Romper, Brevity, The Millions, and elsewhere. The recipient of a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers' Conference and grants from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Sustainable Arts Foundation, she teaches writing at Stockton University. She's working on a narrative nonfiction book about the animal experience of early motherhood.You can find Nancy here:NancyReddy.comhttps://www.instagram.com/nancy.o.reddy/ Sign up for her “Good Creatures” Newsletter about mothering history and culture here: https://goodcreatures.substack.com To download our FREE Mother Plus Permission Slip, click here:https://www.motherplusser.com/Permission-Slip  

For tonight's taste of terror, we present 1937s “Mad World” written by Arch Oboler for the radio series, Lights Out. Midnight Apocrypha's production of “Mad World” has been directed by Kirk Reichart.  Starring:Will Keenan as The LeaderJared Zimmerman as The OratorEmily Diskin as The Orderly and The Old WomanJared Bernatowicz as The Doctor and The PilotLuis Aguilar as Breyna Edited by Kirk Reichart Be sure to check out our social accounts for some photography accompanying the episode! Photos: @enoyuff If you like this audio drama, please follow us on social media:https://www.forgottenlore.org/https://www.facebook.com/lonebricktheatreco/https://www.buzzsprout.com/1042774https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx1XD_WqKnbDsAE_GzZF3Ug?app=desktop Stay tuned for our next story.Sound effects from: soundsnap.comMidnight Apocrypha is a podcast dedicated to the revival of classic radio through the Forgotten Lore and Lone Brick Theatre companies. This has been made possible in part by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/ Department of State, the National Endowment for the Arts, and The Cape May County Board of County Commissioners through the Division of Culture and Heritage. This has also been made possible through StBabs and Cape May Radio.Follow Us:https://www.facebook.com/lonebrickthe...https://www.buzzsprout.com/1042774https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx1X...https://www.capemayradio.org/?fbclid=...

Our biggest episode yet brings together the medical professionals in New York and Philadelphia who care for some of the biggest companies in the dance world. They give us insight on how they keep those performers on stage. We talk about what it's like to work in small, medium, and large-sized programs, how their dancers access care, and the challenges of pushing the boundaries of choreography without pushing physical boundaries. Brought to you by the American Medical Society of Sports Medicine. Our guests: From Philadelphia: Christine Cox, founder and artistic director of Ballet X (Instagram: @christineccox) Marc Harwood, MD: Rothman Orthopedic Institute and consultant Ballet X and Pennsylvania Ballet From New York: Melody Hrubes, MD: Rothman Orthopedic Institute and medical director Radio City Rockettes (Instagram: @melodyhrubes) Sheyi OjoFeitimi, PT, DPT: Director of Therapy Services, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. #drsheyipt #dancereadyproject For more information on Athletes and the Arts, go to https://www.athletesandthearts.com For American Medical Society of Sports Medicine, go to https://www.amssm.org For Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, go to https://www.alvinailey.org For Ballet X, go to https://www.balletx.org Bios: Christine Cox: Christine Cox co-founded BalletX, America's premier contemporary ballet company, with Matthew Neenan in 2005. The BalletX team has produced over 100 world premiere ballets by nearly 60 renowned and emerging choreographers to date, reaching more than 150,000 dance patrons. Under her leadership as Artistic & Executive Director, the company has performed at prestigious national stages including The Kennedy Center, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Vail International Dance Festival, and The Joyce Theater. In 2013, she and her team launched The X-Process, an engagement program that invites audience members to participate in pre-show conversations with choreographers, an interactive lecture series about contemporary ballet, and open rehearsals. Through the Dance eXchange education program, she has partnered with elementary schools from the Philadelphia School District to emphasize dance as a means to promote self-confidence and acquire valuable life skills, reaching more than 2,000 local students in its first six years. Cox also led a TEDx talk at the George School about innovation in the field of contemporary ballet, from the art form's historical traditions to today's world of evolving definitions and globalization. As an arts leader, she has served on review panels for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and currently sits on the Advisory Board of the Philadelphia Arts & Business Council. Christine has been recognized with two Rocky Awards for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts, as well as fellowships from the Independence Foundation and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Cox was a full-time company member with the Pennsylvania Ballet from 1993 until her retirement from the stage in 2006. Some of her featured roles included Rum and Coca Cola in Paul Taylor's Company B, Vortex in Alvin Ailey's The River; Choleric in George Balanchine's The Four Temperaments, Eve in Margo Sappington's Rodin, Mis En Vie the Cowgirl in Agnes DeMille's Rodeo, and principal female roles in Jerome Robbins' Fancy Free and The Concert. During this time, Cox served for ten years as the rehearsal assistant of the children's corps for Pennsylvania Ballet's annual production of Balanchine's The Nutcracker. Prior to joining the Pennsylvania Ballet, she danced with BalletMet (Columbus, OH), as a guest artist with Ballet Hispanico (New York, NY), and with the American Repertory Ballet (Princeton, NJ). Cox is the proud mother of two young boys, Warren and Wesley. Marc Harwood, MD: Dr. Harwood is a board certified non-operative sports medicine physician and serves as the Service Chief of the Non-Operative

Title professional and attorney John Friedman, joins Jason to discuss if the title to your house can really be stolen. Buying a property can be the biggest investment you make. It is therefore only natural that you would want to make sure that your title to your house is fully protected.  John Friedman is a New Jersey State Council at First American Title.  Tune in until the end to learn:  Why it is not easy (but possible) for someone to steal the title to your house.  What happens to you if someone steals the title to your house.  What you can do to fully protect yourself from having the title to your house stolen.   Timestamps [00:30] Who is John Friedman, Esq.?   [00:53] Have you heard the ads about the title of your house getting stolen? [01:33] The protections in place that prevent people from stealing the title to your property.  [02:33] Can your property get stolen despite the protections in place?  [03:39] What happens if someone actually gets a mortgage on your property?  [05:48] Is standard title insurance enough to protect your title?  [09:54] Who is eligible for enhanced title insurance and how much is it?  [10:27] How can you get in touch with First American Title?  3 Key Takeaways There are many protections in place preventing people from stealing the title to your property. Title insurance companies evaluate real estate transactions carefully and determine who the owner of the property is. Buyers also need notaries to be involved when buying property, and it is a notary's job to verify that each person in the transaction is who they say they are.  Sometimes, it does indeed happen that the title to your property gets stolen. Sometimes, the lender doesn't require title insurance and/or the notary is on it (the perfect storm).  If someone buys the title to your property in an invalid way, they won't be able to put you on the street. The issue now is that you would have a cloud on the title that you would have to clean up. The question is, who pays for it? Buying enhance title insurance can cover your back in such scenarios.  Useful Links Connect with John Friedman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-friedman-esq-42b70829/ (LinkedIn )| https://www.firstam.com/ (First American Title Website) Connect with Jason Gabrieli: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasongabrieli (LinkedIn) | Email Like what you've heard… Learn more about HFM https://hfmadvisors.com/working-with-hfm (HERE) Schedule time to speak with us https://calendly.com/hfminquirycall/360 (HERE) Open an HFM Ignite account https://hfmadvisors.com/ignite (HERE)

141 Report: Summer Fun, Fundraising, and Politics Dave Lehive was at the Local 1487 Golf Outing last week, where the sold-out event attracted 144 golfers on a beautiful summer day. This was the Chicago local's biggest fundraising event of the year to benefit Guide Dogs of America and Tender Loving Canines. The organizing committee, led by Local 1487 President Tony Licciardi, spent six months planning the event, which received the support of many of the local's friends and allies in the community. Union members, their families, and friends enjoyed a great course, fellowship, and fresh air while raising much-needed funds for the Machinists Union's favorite charity. GDA President Russ Gitlin attended the event accompanied by McCoy, a 2 ½-year-old Labrador Retriever who is ready to be placed with a blind person. Sponsors of the event included National Group Protection and District 141. Friends of the late District 141 AGC Rich Pascarella, who was a prominent supporter of Guide Dogs of America, sponsored a golf hole to raise money for the pups in his memory. Dave flew from Illinois to New Jersey for the New Jersey State Council of Machinists Conference, which took place at Liberty State Park in Jersey City. Ines Garcia-Keim, a Communications Rep at District 141 and Dave's colleague, presided over the council's meeting for the last time, as they elected a new Executive Board. Cristino Vilorio, a Business Representative from Local 447, and Michael Buonpastore, a Safety Rep from Local 1776, were elected President and Secretary-Treasurer, respectively. Brother Buonpastore is a New Jersey resident who previously served as the State Council's Education Director. Bill Gula, President of Local 914, and Rich Howell, former president of Local 1776, were elected Vice Presidents, and Rich Creighton from District 141 and Obie O'Brien from Local 1776 were elected Trustees. Ines explains how the State Council serves as the political arm of the union, building relationships and solidarity with elected officials and allies in labor. The council works to ensure that union members and all working people influence legislation that affects our work and communities. After a year hiatus because of the pandemic, Ines leaves the council in excellent hands, as she moves into her new role as an Education Representative at the William W. Winpisinger Center.

Chase Twichell (born August 20, 1950)[1] is an American poet, professor, publisher, and, in 1999, the founder of Ausable Press. Her most recent poetry collection is Things as It Is (Copper Canyon Press, 2018). Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been [2] (Copper Canyon Press, 2010) earned her Claremont Graduate University's prestigious $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.[3][2] She is the winner of several awards in writing from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the American Academy of Arts and Letters and The Artists Foundation. Additionally, she has received fellowships from both the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The New Yorker, Field, Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Nation, and The Yale Review.[4]-bio via Wikipedia See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On Sunday, February 7, 2021, Art House Productions hosted a panel discussion to accompany our radio play: Black Tom Island. This podcast will include excerpts from the Zoom panel, which explored the actual events of the historic Black Tom Explosion in 1916, as well as behind-the-scenes stories from the radio play’s production. The panel featured Dr. Libby O'Connell of The History Channel and World War I Centennial Commission, Janet Akhtarshenas of Liberty State Park, John Beekman of the Jersey City Public Library, Dr. Timothy R. White of New Jersey City University, Black Tom Island playwright Martin Casella, and radio play director Darren Lee. The panel was moderated by Jim Peskin, of the Art House Board of Trustees and an educator at Save the Ellis Island Foundation. The Black Tom Island radio play and historical panel were made possible in part by the Hudson County History Partnership Program grant. Art House Productions is supported by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Art House Productions is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit arts organization committed to the development and presentation of the performing and visual arts in Jersey City, NJ. Art House Productions produces and presents original theater, events, visual arts, adult and youth arts education classes, festivals including Your Move: New Jersey’s Modern Dance Festival, the Jersey City Comedy Festival, and JC Fridays.

In this fifth episode, Matt has a conversation with Jeriel Johnson, the Executive Director of the Recording Academy™ Washington, D.C. Chapter, responsible for overseeing Membership & Industry Relations for D.C., Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. Jeriel is also Executive Sponsor of the Recording Academy’s Black Music Collective, an advisory group of esteemed artists and industry executives dedicated to the inclusion, recognition and advancement of Black Music and its creators and professionals within the Academy and music industry at-large. A native of Philadelphia and an accomplished drummer, Jeriel received a scholarship to attend Berklee College of Music, and after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in Music Business & Management he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in the music business. Prior to assuming the role of ED of the D.C. Chapter, Jeriel served as Head of Urban Music at the Recording Academy, where he oversaw the awards process for the R&B, Rap, and Reggae categories for the GRAMMY Awards®. Prior to the Academy, Jeriel held leadership roles at NBCUniversal, Warner Bros. Records and The Walt Disney Company. A 2018 Prince George’s County, Maryland 40 Under 40 honoree, Jeriel has also been featured in Billboard Magazine, Berklee Today Magazine and Music Industry Quarterly. He has served as a guest lecturer at the American Dramatic School for the Arts in Los Angeles, University of Maryland, and has produced and/or moderated panels at Essence Festival, SXSW, BET Week, Roots Picnic, Urban Network Conference, The Worship & Arts Summit, The NSO, and The GRAMMY Museum on topics ranging from the state of Hip Hop & R&B to Mental Health & Addiction in those music communities. Jeriel is a servant leader, sharp administrator and skilled relationship builder with a knack for curating innovative programs at the intersection of art and life, while his advancedmusicianship has earned him high praise and trust from artists and executives. Jeriel believes we must “lift as we climb” and is committed to supporting the next generation of musicians and industry leaders. Grant funding has been provided by the Middlesex County Board of Chosen Freeholders through a grant award from the Middlesex County Cultural and Arts Trust Fund.Program funded by Middlesex County, a partner of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

In this fourth episode of "Meet the Musicians" Podcast, host Matthew LaPine has a conversation with the superb JoAnn Falletta. Grammy-winning conductor JoAnn Falletta serves as Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Connie and Marc Jacobson Music Director Laureate of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Principal Guest Conductor of the Brevard Music Center and Artistic Adviser to the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra and the Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra. She is hailed for her work as a conductor, recording artist, audience builder and champion of American composers.Grant funding has been provided by the Middlesex County Board of Chosen Freeholders through a grant award from the Middlesex County Cultural and Arts Trust Fund.Program funded by Middlesex County, a partner of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

In this episode of the Meet the Musicians Podcast, host Matthew LaPine interviews Dr. Gillian Velmer, a licensed speech-language pathologist working in public schools in central New Jersey. She enjoys using music with her young students to facilitate language.learning and growth. She is the founder and director of Sing Aphasia, a community-based choir for adults with aphasia, which is a language disorder that may occur after a stroke or other brain injury. Her latest project is a collaboration with Neuro Music Therapy, LLC on the first international aphasia choir video, which premiered in November, 2020.Grant funding has been provided by the Middlesex County Board of Chosen Freeholders through a grant award from the Middlesex County Cultural and Arts Trust Fund.Program funded by Middlesex County, a partner of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

In this episode of the Meet the Musicians Podcast, host Matthew LaPine interviews special guest, Dr. Gerald "Jerry" Custer. Jerry is a multi-faceted choral musician, active as conductor, composer, author, and teacher. A graduate of Westminster Choir College, where he studied with Dr. Joseph Flummerfelt and later with Robert Shaw, he is Minister of Music at First Presbyterian Church in Farmington, MI and on the music faculty at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI.Grant funding has been provided by the Middlesex County Board of Chosen Freeholders through a grant award from the Middlesex County Cultural and Arts Trust Fund.Program funded by Middlesex County, a partner of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

In episode 130 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed marking the passing of Chris Killip, reflecting on the relationship between photography and travel, and encouraging photographers to network for creative and mental wellbeing. Plus this week photographer Robin Schwartz takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in which she answer's the question ‘What Does Photography Mean to You?' Robin Schwartz is a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow in photography with her work being held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum and the Bibliothéque Nationale, France, among others. Schwartz was a short-listed finalist at the Hyeres Festival de Photographie 2010, France, a two-time recipient of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Grant, and a Ford Foundation Individual Artist Grant as a graduate student at Pratt Institute. Her work has been published in a number of monographs including  LIKE US: Primate Portraits, 1993, Dog Watching, 1995, Amelia's World, 2008, and Amelia and the Animals, 2014. Schwartz's photographs have been published in the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Stern, The Telegraph and The  Guardian. She is a Professor in Photography at William Paterson University of New Jersey and has taught at The International Center for Photography, New York City. www.robinschwartz.net Grant Scott is the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, a working photographer, and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Routledge 2014), The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Taylor Francis 2015), New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography (Taylor Francis 2019). His next book What Does Photography Mean to You? will be published in late 2020. © Grant Scott 2020

Acclaimed jazz guitarist Vic Juris died on December 31, 2019, at Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston at the age of 66 after a six-month battle with liver cancer. This Sunday, September 20, from 4-5 p.m., fellow West Orange guitarist Dave Stryker (they lived on the same street) will give a nod to his late friend while also performing some of his own material at the New Jersey Jazz Society’s Virtual Social, which can be viewed on the NJJS Facebook page (NJJS). Stryker spoke with WBGO News Director Doug Doyle about the Sunday's virtual event that's made passible in part by Morris Arts through the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Born in Jersey City, Juris lived most of his life in North Jersey. When he wasn’t on the road, he could be found playing somewhere in the region. “I always have gigs,” he said in 2017. “I always make sure that I’m playing, and that there’s a challenge for me.” Stryker told Doyle he's looking forward to the event in honor of his neighbor. "None of us

​Michael T. Young's third full-length collection, The Infinite Doctrine of Water, was published by Terrapin Books. His chapbook, Living in the Counterpoint (Finishing Line Press), received the 2014 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award from the New England Poetry Club. His other collections include The Beautiful Moment of Being Lost (Poets Wear Prada), Transcriptions of Daylight (Rattapallax Press), and Because the Wind Has Questions (Somers Rocks Press). He received a fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Chaffin Poetry Award. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous print and online journals including The Cimarron Review, The Cortland Review, Edison Literary Review, Lunch Ticket, The Potomac Review, and Valparaiso Poetry Review. His work is also in the anthologies Phoenix Rising, Chance of a Ghost, In the Black/In the Red, and Rabbit Ears: TV Poems. He lives with his wife and children in Jersey City, New Jersey. For more information, visit: http://www.michaeltyoung.com/ Warm-up Poem: "Jane's Heartbreak Yard Sale" by Lytton Bell https://www.rattle.com/janes-heartbreak-yard-sale-by-lytton-bell/ Next Week’s Prompt: The stuntman walks home from work. Must reference a Shakespearean work, either within the poem or in an epigraph.

Nature warns us of what is yet to come. Daniel Anderson is the author of three collections of poetry his most recent is Night Guard at the Wilberforce Hotel and is the editor of Howard Nemerov’s Selected Poems. His many awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts as well as a Bogliasco fellowship. He has received a Pushcart Prize and the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize. Anderson frequently serves as a faculty member at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Oregon.  

A lovely afternoon transforms into an actuarial accounting of time left on the planet. Daniel Anderson is the author of three collections of poetry his most recent is Night Guard at the Wilberforce Hotel and he is also the editor of Howard Nemerov’s Selected Poems. His many awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts as well as a Bogliasco fellowship. He has received a Pushcart Prize and the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize. Anderson frequently serves as a faculty member at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Oregon.

Peter E. Murphy was born in Wales and grew up in New York City where he operated heavy equipment, managed a nightclub and drove a taxi. He is the author of eleven books and chapbooks including most recently, Mean Time and The Man Who Never Was. His poems, essays and photographs have been published in hundreds of journals including The Amsterdam Quarterly, The Beloit Poetry Journal, The Cortland Review, Diode, Guernica, Hippocampus, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The New York Times, The New Welsh Review, Rattle, The Shakespeare Quarterly and elsewhere. Looking for Thelma, an excerpt from his memoir-in-progress, won the 2018 Wilt Nonfiction Chapbook Prize sponsored by St. Leo University. He has received awards and fellowships for teaching and for writing from numerous organizations including The Folger Shakespeare Library, The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, The National Endowment for the Humanities, The New Jersey State Council on the Arts, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The White House Commission on Presidential Scholars and Yaddo. The founder of Murphy Writing of Stockton University, Peter has led hundreds of workshops for writers and teachers. For more on Peter E. Murphy: http://www.peteremurphy.com/ Prologue featuring Abby E. Murray: https://www.abbyemurray.com/

This week, we are bringing you an extra special podcast! That’s right, we recorded LIVE for the first time ever at Philly’s PodFest in the National Liberty Museum. Well...most of us. Marion joined us via Zoom from chilly Cork, Ireland, instead of her usual home base of Abu Dhabi. However, everyone else was on stage in front of old, and new, Slushies! Jason Sneiderman traded up his yellow Parsons table in New York for a yellow Honda, to join us in the flesh. On the other hand, poet and professor Laura McCullough joined us by way of a blue Honda. (And no, Honda did not sponsor this podcast. Unfortunately…) Lastly, present were: Kathleen Volk Miller, Tim Fitts and Joseph Zang (who for once, had the opportunity to just sit back instead of pulling all the strings behind the scenes). Okay, now onto the incoherent babbling and “sweaty festivities.” Jason reminisced on how he came to join PBQ, back in the dinosaur ages of the early 2000s, when he was a graphic designer finding his way in the world. Next, we discussed how online publications were looked down on back in the day. In fact, Jason pointed out a huge contrast to publications today, from online posts being as good as sticking flyers on a bulletin board, to “if it didn’t happen online, it didn’t happen.” Now, podcasting has caught on with just as much speed as online journals. That is why Slush pile has become one of our most prized platforms, as it’s given us the opportunity to broadcast our democratic process that takes place behind the scenes. Joe expressed hopes that our podcast has made submitters realize that we strive to be gate-openers, rather than gatekeepers. In fact, we encourage all writers out there to do what they want with their personal work, first and foremost, and then let people appreciate their ideas. See, we might be more open-minded than you think! We went on to deliberate over the “Iowa Method.” This technique is practiced in “brutal workshops” in which peers talk and give their opinions, while the writer stays silent and bares the heat. Do you, Slushies, believe this method is outdated? Or necessary for growth? Laura went on to give those who may have received a rejection letter from us, or other publications, some encouragement. She told us a story about how editors messaged her saying they cried over a piece she had written, but funny enough, this came in the form of a rejection letter. The point is that some pieces may need some further revision, but it does not mean they are not worthy of being published, one day. Also, just because your piece does not fit the theme of what one publication is looking for, does not mean another will not fall head over heels in love with it. Laura joined us from an extremely unique position: She had her own poetry discussed on an early episode of Slush Pile. Jason had the audience rolling in laughter when he told us the story of a friend who received a rejection letter for a children’s book. This mother of 2 was told that she clearly had no experience with children. To conclude our babbling, we encourage writers and readers to visit our “naked meetings,” in which you could meet our editors in a relaxed environment. In fact, we have a public reading coming up September 9th, 2019! All upcoming events can be found on our Facebook page (@painted.quarterly). ON TO THE POEM! BJ Ward was so brave that he allowed us to read his poem, “Madagascar” in front of a live audience. Tim Fitts described this piece as being “so close to being stupid that it’s not stupid” and “sentimental without being cheesy.”  We praised the film allusions to Citizen Kane and Solaris. As a matter of fact, Marion said it best: The poem is like an “invitation to think cinematically.” (Side note: When Joe said, “Mad At Gascar,” did you find yourself laughing with him, or at him?) Tim pointed out a possible “Gen X image system” in reference to Van Morrison, Rosebud (Citizen Kane) and... duct tape? Can a generation really claim duct tape?? The popular joke of duct tape might have resurfaced a few years ago, as prom dresses and wallets, made from this magical-fixer-of-all-things, started popping up on social media. It seems the Millennials might have reclaimed it as their own as they’ve done with Polaroids, high-waisted jeans and anything else to make themselves look more “hipster.” Our podcast came to an end with a vote from not only the usual panel, but the entire audience. Imagine that, a wave--no, a TSUNAMI--of thumb flippin’! Well Slushies, if you missed this event, your loss. Just kidding! Look out for another live podcast next year. In the meantime, we’ll be back in our regular recording studio every other week. Until then, read on!     BJ Ward is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Jackleg Opera: Collected Poems 1990-2013 (North Atlantic Books), which received the Paterson Award for Literary Excellence. His poems have appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, TriQuarterly, The New York Times, and The Sun, among others, and have been featured on NPR’s “The Writer’s Almanac,” NJTV’s “State of the Arts,” and the website Poetry Daily. He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and two Distinguished Artist Fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. He co-founded the creative writing degree program at Warren County Community College in NJ, where he teaches full-time.   

Painted Bride Quarterly presents another especially excellent episode of Slush Pile. This is of course because we are joined by Pushcart Prize winner and newly annointed #PeopleOfThePile BJ Ward! BJ Ward is an American poet. Ward is a recipient of the Pushcart Prize (Anthology XXVIII, 2004) for poetry and two Distinguished Artist Fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. He has published three full books of poetry and has been featured in many journals including: Cerebellum, Edison Literary Review, Journal of Jersey Poets, Kimera, Lips, Long Shot, Maelstrom, Mid-American Review, Natural Bridge, Painted Bride Quarterly, Poetry, Puerto del Sol, Prairie Winds, Spitball, and TriQuarterly. His poem "For the Children of the World Trade Center Victims," is cast in bronze and featured at Grounds for Sculpture, an outdoor sculpture museum in Hamilton, New Jersey. Ward is an Assistant Professor of English at Warren County Community College and has served as University Distinguished Fellow at Syracuse University. BJ Ward is an active educator in a number of realms. He teaches writing workshops in the public school system throughout New Jersey, and his work there earns him yearly residencies in many school districts. After introductions, and Kathleen teasing a potential tale regarding flea killing solution, we dive into two pieces by James Arthur, On a Marble Portrait Bust in Worcester, Massachusetts and Study. James Arthur was born in Connecticut and grew up in Toronto. He is the author of The Suicide’s Son (Véhicule Press 2019) and Charms Against Lightning (Copper Canyon Press, 2012.) His poems have also appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The New York Review of Books, and The London Review of Books. He has received the Amy Lowell Travelling Poetry Scholarship, a Hodder Fellowship, a Stegner Fellowship, a Discovery/The Nation Prize, and a Fulbright Scholarship. Arthur lives in Baltimore, where he teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. In 2019, he is Visiting Fellow at Exeter College, University of Oxford. Bj offers a masterful observation in his analysis of Study, which offers the reader a bit of an interesting existential question. After Marion is untimely raptured, and Tim’s emphatic urging for Ali to fight guests of the Podcast, the gang votes on the first piece before moving on to On a Marble Portrait Bust in Worcester, Massachusetts. The editors offer a gambit of opinions on the piece and eventually come to a final vote. After the poems are voted on Kathleen regales the listeners with a tale about CBD oil and Flea remover, in addition to praising the benefits of the substance. How did the poems do? Did they make the cut? Listen On and find out!

Yasmine Rana has a lot on her mind. A playwright, drama therapist and educator, her plays have been developed and produced in the U.S. and abroad. In 2014, Yasmine was one of 16 finalists for the Francesca Primus Prize for her play, "The War Zone is My Bed." A year later, she received a fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts for "Another Spring." Her plays and monologues have been published in numerous reviews. As a drama therapist, Yasmine has worked with refugees in Bosnia, The Republic of Georgia and Switzerland. You'll enjoy meeting and getting to know yet another creative woman.

Writer of the Year finalist Gwen Florio, interviewed by Natasha Watts, talks about her writing influences, the differences and similarities between journalism and writing fiction, her most recent mystery releases and her novel Silent Hearts, set to release in July. Gwen Florio grew up in 250-year-old brick farmhouse on a wildlife refuge in Delaware, with a sweeping view across a mile of tidemarsh to the waters of the Delaware Bay. She majored in English at the University of Delaware, largely as an excuse to read as many books as possible, until her father urged her to take a journalism course. A thirty-plus year career followed, taking her around the country and to more than a dozen countries, including several conflict zones. Florio has received prose grants from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and writing residencies in Wyoming, Washington state, and Mexico. Her first novel, Montana, won the inaugural Pinckley Prize for Crime Fiction, and a High Plains Book Award, both in the debut category. The fifth in the series, Under the Shadows, was released in March 2018. Florio lives in Montana with her partner, Scott, and an exuberant bird dog named Nell. She works a day job as city editor for the Missoulian newspaper. Gwen Florio's website Intro music by Moby Outro music by Dan-o-Songs

"Even for my students that naturally have a lot of enthusiasm and interest in the natural landscape, we talk about the natural landscape in political terms because there's no part of the world, no matter where you go, that hasn't been impacted by both the presence of humans but also the political decisions and impact that human beings make." Wendel White is the Distinguished Professor of Art at Stockton University in his life-long state of New Jersey. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and multiple New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowships. He had just finished his takeover of @SmithsonianMagazine IG account for his series called #redsummer, former sites of race riots in the U.S. Kai and Michael spoke to Wendel about his current show at the Fordham University Lipani Gallery entitled Schools for the Colored and his other projects that deal with African American and African lives and experience. We also spent some time speaking about art education and the diversity of our classrooms. Links: Website: http://wendelwhite.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wendel.white/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/cameraimages Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wendelwhite Visit www.thephotoshow.org We are realphotoshow on Twitter/IG/FB Follow us on Twitter twitter.com/realphotoshow and on Instagram instagram.com/realphotoshow/ Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/realphotoshow Music by @pataphysics-1 on Soundcloud

14 The Arts as an Economic Driver Nick Paleologos, Executive Director, New Jersey State Council on the Arts; Chris Daggett, Executive Director, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation; Tom Carto, President & CEO, State Theatre, New Brunswick. ​Moderated by John Schreiber, President & CEO, New Jersey Performing Arts Center.    

Kathryn Reiss was born in Massachusetts, grew up in Ohio, and received B.A. degrees in English and German from Duke University, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan. After college, she lived in Bonn, Germany as a Fulbright Scholar, and during this time wrote the first draft of her first novel. Reiss been a Writer in Residence for the Princeton Arts Council, a recipient of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Grant for Writers, and a featured speaker with (among others) Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, The Northern California Library Association, The International Reading Association, Fresno County Office of Education, California Reading Association, The American Library Association, and the National Council of Teachers of English. Now she lives in Northern California, in a rambling old house, with her husband and kids. She has five children ranging in age from 27 to 16, plus assorted pets. When not at home with her family or working on a new book, Reiss teaches Creative Writing at Mills College, where she is an Associate Professor of English. Learn more about Kathryn Reiss at http://www.kathrynreiss.net/index.php Learn more about Host Simon Rose at Twitter - https://twitter.com/sorcerersletter YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/wordsmithman  Author website - http://www.simon-rose.com/school_programs.htm

Paul Lisicky is the author of a novel, Lawnboy, and Famous Builder, a collection of essays. His work has appeared in Ploughshares, Short Takes, Open House, Boulevard, Flash Fiction, and many other anthologies and magazines. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he’s the recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the James Michener/Copernicus Society, the Henfield Foundation, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, where he was twice a fellow. He lives in New York City, and has taught at Cornell University, NYU, Sarah Lawrence College, Antioch University-Los Angeles, The University of Houston, and The Bread Loaf Writers Conference. A new novel, Lumina Harbor, is forthcoming.Paul Lisicky read from his work on February 15th, 2008, at the Schwartz Auditorium of Cornell’s Rockefeller Hall. This interview took place two weeks later.

Leadership New Jersey's goal is to expand and improve the pool of the state's civic leaders. The program, founded in 1986, honors men and women who combine a successful career with leadership in serving their communities. As part of its programming, Leadership New Jersey sponsors the Forum on the Future of New Jersey, an annual conference devoted to dealing with the key issues facing New Jersey. This year, in conjunction with the Forum, Leadership New Jersey is pleased to introduce podcasts from the Forum. In this podcast, we present a panel discussion of "What We Spend Our Money On." The Panel Moderator: Michael Willmann, CEO of WMSH Marketing Communications Karen Alexander Executive Director, NJ Utilities Association A graduate of Brown University, Karen served as President of the New Jersey Cable Telecommunications Association from 1998 till assuming her present post. She has also worked at the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection in senior management positions such as Special Assistant to the Commissioner for Policy and Planning and Director of Legislation and Private Sector Liaison. Sharon A. Harrington Chair & Chief Administrative Officer, NJ Motor Vehicle Commission Sharon was first appointed Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission in 2004 and reappointed by Governor Corzine in 2006. She was also reappointed to serve on the State Ethics Commission, as well as being a council member and past chairperson of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Richard P. Miller President and CEO, Virtua Health Since the merger that created Virtua Health in 1998, Rich has been a leader in pursuing innovative directions by creating a values-based culture defined by the "Star Initiative." He is also a board member of the March of Dimes of Southern New Jersey, the New Jersey Hospital Association, and the Southern New Jersey Chamber of Commerce. Kenneth J. Parker, LNJ '99 President, Atlantic City Electric A life-long resident of Winslow Township, Ken has held various positions within Atlantic City Electric, including Director of Government Affairs for New Jersey and Vice President of the Atlantic Region. He is currently on the board of directors of many organizations throughout New Jersey, including the State Chamber of Commerce and the Special Olympics. Joseph J. Roberts Speaker, NJ General Assembly Speaker Roberts has been a New Jersey Assemblyman since 1987, was elected to serve as Assembly Speaker in 2006. A graduate of Rutgers University, the Speaker has spearheaded a comprehensive legislative package that has strengthened the state's campaign finance and ethic laws, as well as curbing medical malpractice costs. Lawrence P. Goldman President and CEO of NJPAC Larry has served as President and CEO since NJPAC opened in 1997. NJPAC has been hailed as one of region's finest performing arts facilities and has played a key role in the revitalization of Newark. Download the podcast here (58.0 mb mono MP3 file, 1:01:52 duration).