Originally from South Africa, Ms. Tanell Pretorius moved to London where she enjoyed a successful career as a fashion model. She also worked for Wallpaper Magazine where she wrote on art, design, architecture and travel. She is currently working on the Dream Green Series with James Moore and Stuart Tanner.

Dr. Alan Hodder is a professor of literature and religion at Hampshire College. He is a leading authority on the American Transcendentalists and is the author of Thoreau's Ecstatic Witness as well as Emerson's Rhetoric of Revelation. https://hampedia.org/wiki/Alan_Hodder

Tune in to Writers' Voices this week for a live interview with former Iowan Steven Schneider and his wife Reefka, who will be reading and displaying original artwork from their new book, "Borderlines: Drawing Border Lives" at Revelations July 31, 8 pm. This joint project pairs Reefka's portraits of people who live and work along the U.S.-Mexico border with Steven's bilingual poems that have been inspired by each of the drawings.

Steven Schneider's poems and essays have been published in journals such as Critical Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Tikkun, and The Literary Review.  He is the author of two books of poetry and a scholarly treatise on A.R. Ammons, and an editor of another.  Reefka Schneider  is one of the foremost artists of "la frontera," the binational region of the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas

Vincent J. Bove, a nationally acclaimed leadership and security educator accomplished in assisting corporate, government, law enforcement and educational institutions achieve leadership enhancement, productivity improvement, and security management effectiveness.
www.vincentbove.com

Keelan Dimick is a jazz pianist who recently graduated from Arts West High School in Boise, ID.
Keelan has won numerous awards including first place in piano in both the junior and senior divisions at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival. He also took first place at the Gene Harris Festival.This fall he will be heading to New York City to attend the Manhattan School of Music, where he was offered one of only three piano positions handed out annually at the prestigious school. Keelan will performing a benefit concert for KRUU LP 100.1 FM at the Sondheim Center for the performing arts Monday
June 22 at 8 pm.

When internationally acclaimed photographer Chris Jordan appeared as a guest on The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert joked that Chris resembled Clark Kent. Indeed Chris Jordan has led an unusual path transforming his career from Lawyer to full-time artist and educator to become somewhat of an environmental hero. His photographic collages (see one example below & visit his website for more!) take sobering statistics of human consumption and presents them in a format that is both aesthetically pleasing and shockingly eye-opening. I had a chance to sit down with Chris last week to discuss his photographic roots and how the message of his work gets integrated into
his own home life and how he feels the weight and irony of the impact that producing his work has on the environment.

Just listen,

for Pete's sake

Mexico/Arizona
Palomas, Mexico
Street musicians in Mexico
Halloween ceremony in the desert
monkey chant
college graduation story
hitchhinking story by Iris
footsteps, chimes, metal cylinder
bix biederbecke
birds in Mexico
Thai Elephant Orchestra

 

It's that time of week again!!
 
What do you get when you cross vision with mission at the corner of thinkful wishin' and sacred transmission?
 
It's found artist Dain Daller in the great cross country epic No-Fi Field Guide. Sit back, set a spell, and listen to life as the wheel spokes, crickets, birdsongs and raindrops keep fallin' on your head.
 
It's a journey that explores.  Shouldn't you?

Mister Mississippi, Dain Daller, is preparing to set "sail" down the Ol' Muddy in an 80-foot raft with a bevy of Miss Rockaway sailors, then bike across the U.S. of A., all the while sending in his No-Fi field recordings for your listening pleasure.

Who said life isn't grand?

For some people, life is just an excuse to find art wherever they go, whether it's rain drumming on a tent, spokes spinning on a bicycle, thunder lashing out across the sky, goats, chickens, roosters, dogs, trains, violins, whispers, stories...

Yes, peeps du jour,

it's Dain Daller time.

Tune in, turn on,

and drop anchor.

where high art

flows thick as the Ol' Muddy.

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