Book Reviews
Danusha Laméris’ Blade by Blade
Danielle Evans Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self audio
Dianne DiPrima’s Memoirs of a Beatnik– text (kusp.org; Homestead Review)
Grace Paley’s Fidelity – text; audio (bookotron.com)
Franz Wright’s God’s Silence – text; audio, (bookotron.com)
Selected Author Interviews
Donald Hall – audio, transcript (bookotron.com)
Jean Thompson (Throw Like a Girl)– audio (bookotron.com)
Helen Simpson (In the Driver’s Seat)– audio (bookotron.com)
Ann Cummins (Yellow Cake) – audio (bookotron.com)
Frank McCourt (Teacher Man) – audio (bookotron.com)
Isabel Allende (My Invented Country) –”Burying Freedom:” audio remix of interview edited by Rick Kleffel; full transcript (Homestead Review)
Other Interviews
Listen to fellow poet Julie Murphy interview me for Santa Cruz, California KSQD radio’s The Hive Poetry Collective.
Listen to my speech “A Chair of My Own” from the book Secrets of the Sisterhood, and Angela Lussier’s interview with me on its background and my participation in Speaker Sisterhood.
Sampling of Articles on the Arts I’ve Authored
“Seaside’s Jeff Nixon, an Ansel Adams protege, makes the immense intimate”
“Stage mom,” profile of the late actress & children’s drama teacher Marcia Hovick
“The Geography of Sound,” profile of hip-hop artist Savage Sun
“Two Legends,” interview with Hal Holbrook on his one-man show “Mark Twain Tonight!” (pdf)
Preview of book launch for writer, artist and musician Bill Minor’s memoir ”The Inherited Heart”
“Serious Fun,” Paula Poundstone interview
“Klezmer Fusion,” interview with the band The Klezmatics
Poetry-Related Articles I’ve Authored
“Art & Activism,” spoken word team Climbing PoeTree perform in Big Sur
“Write ’em Cowboy,” Annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Salinas, CA
“Poetic Licence,” translator of China’s most famous early poets
“Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Haas to Read at MPC”
“Award-winning Poet to Speak on Diversity as Art,” Nikki Giovanni
“At the Mic,” West Coast Poetry Slam Championship
“Journal Pushes Boundaries of Art,” launch of Henry Miller Library’s Ping Pong Literary Journal.
“High School Poets Read their Poetry, Receive Honors”
“Word and Deed,” poets Diana Garcia and Frances Payne Adler
“Word Play,” poetic theater ensemble Universes