Tiferet Talk
66 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 6 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsTiferet Talk is offered by TIFERET Journal. Our literary journal and monthly radio shows feature writers like Robert Pinsky, Charles Simic, Natalie Goldberg, Ed Hirsch, Jean Shinoda Bolen, Marie Howe, and many others. To subscribe, please visit http://tiferetjournal.com/the-journal/.
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Josip Novakovich | Tiferet Talk with host Melissa Studdard
December 19, 2011 00:00 - 33 minutes - 7.43 MBPlease join us for an interview with Croatian American writer Josip Novakovich. Novakovich is the author of three short story collections (Yolk, Salvation and Other Disasters, Infidelities: Stories of War and Lust), the novel April Fool's Day, two collections of narrative essays (Apricots from Chernobyl, Plum Brandy), and two textbooks (Writing Fiction Step by Step, Fiction Writer's Workshop). He is the recipient of the Whiting Writer's Award, a Guggenheim fellowship, two fellowships...
J.P. Dancing Bear | Tiferet Talk with Host Melissa Studdard
November 21, 2011 00:00 - 31 minutes - 7.06 MBJoin us for an interview with J.P. Dancing Bear. Bear is the author of three full length collections of poetry, as well as several chapbooks. His fourth collection, Family of Marsupial Centaurs, is due out later this year. He is the editor of American Poetry Journal, owner of Dream Horse Press, and publisher of the Orphic Prize, the APJ Book Prize Series, and the first animal rights poetry anthology, And We the Creatures. He is also the host of Out of Our Minds, a weekly radio show for pu...
Elizabeth Cunningham | Tiferet Talk with Melissa Studdard
October 17, 2011 23:00 - 33 minutes - 7.45 MBPlease join us for an interview with Elizabeth Cunningham,the novelist, poet, interfaith minister, and counselor. Cunningham is the direct descendant of nine generations of Episcopal priests and grew up hearing rich liturgical and biblical language, which, among other literary and personal influences, strongly informs her writing. She is the author of the series The Maeve Chronicles, as well as many individual books, such as The Wild Mother;The Return of the Goddess, a Divine Comedy; How to...
Adele Kenny & Deborah LaVeglia | Tiferet Talk
September 26, 2011 23:00 - 33 minutes - 7.41 MBPlease join us for a doubly special interview with the poets Adele Kenny and Deborah LaVeglia. Both are reading series directors: Kenny is the director of Carriage House Poetry Reading Series, and LaVeglia directs PoetsWednesday. Both also work for Tiferet, Kenny as a poetry editor and LaVeglia as a reading coordinator. Kenny is the award winning author of more than a dozen books of poetry and non-fiction. Her most recent collection of poems, What Matters, was released just this month. LaVeg...
Lois P. Jones | Tiferet Talk with host Melissa Studdard
July 24, 2011 23:00 - 35 minutes - 7.95 MBPlease join us as Melissa Studdard talks with Lois P. Jones about poetry, photography, publishing, and more. Jones's poetry and photographs have been published widely in print and on-line journals in the U.S. and abroad. She is co-founder of Word Walker Press and since 2008 has hosted KPFK's Poet's Cafe in Los Angeles(90.7 FM Pacifica Radio), which airs on 2nd, 4th and 5th Wednesdays at 8:30 p.m. Lois co-produces Moonday in the Village, a west side reading, and is co-host of Moonday's east...
Robert Pinsky | Tiferet Talk with host Melissa Studdard
June 20, 2011 23:00 - 34 minutes - 7.67 MBPlease join us as Melissa Studdard talks with Robert Pinsky about poetry, translation, editing, and more. Pinsky, who served three terms as United States Poet Laureate, is also an acclaimed literary critic and the best-selling translator of The Inferno of Dante. He has received numerous awards for his poetry and translations, including the Lenore Marshall Award, the Ambassador Book Award of the English Speaking Union, the PEN/Voelcker Award, the William Carlos Williams Prize, and the Theodo...
Marc Allen | Tiferet Talk with host Melissa Studdard
May 19, 2011 23:00 - 31 minutes - 6.94 MBPlease join us as Melissa Studdard talks with Marc Allen about success, personal fulfillment, music, and more. Allen is a musician, composer, internationally renowned author, and president and publisher of New World Library. His latest composition is a soaring, orchestral work called Awakening, and his first instrumental album, Breathe, has now sold nearly 100,000 copies and has been named a “New Age Golden Oldie” by NAPRA. His most recent book, The Greatest Secret of All, guides the reader ...
Arielle Ford | Tiferet Talk with host Melissa Studdard
April 18, 2011 23:00 - 30 minutes - 6.78 MBPlease join us as Melissa Studdard interviews Arielle Ford. Arielle is a nationally recognized publicist and marketing expert, producer, author, consultant. She has enormously facilitated the rapid growth of the self help and human potential movement in the US. and is a founding partner of the Spiritual Cinema Circle. She is the author of seven books, including the popular Hot Chocolate For The Mystical Soul series. Her latest book; The Soulmate Secret: How To Manifest The Love of Your Life...
Bernie Siegel | Tiferet Talk with host Melissa Studdard
March 18, 2011 17:00 - 36 minutes - 8.11 MBPlease join us as Melissa Studdard interviews Dr. Bernie Siegel. Siegel is retired from Yale New Haven Hospital, where he was a professor of general and pediatric surgery. He is the Academic Co-Director of the Experiential Health and Healing Program at The Graduate Institute, the founder of Exceptional Cancer Patients, and the author of numerous books, including How To Live Between Office Visits, Prescriptions for Living, and Love, Magic & Mud Pies. Wayne Dyer has stated, "Bernie is one of t...
Anthony Lawlor | Tiferet Talk with host Melissa Studdard
February 22, 2011 00:00 - 33 minutes - 7.34 MBPlease join us for an interview with architect Anthony Lawlor of The Foundation for Consciousness in Architecture. Lawlor is author of the blog Dwelling Here Now and the books The Temple in the House and A Home for the Soul. Jean Houston has stated that The Temple in the House "is a living temple in which the soul of architecture and the architecture of soul are brilliantly evoked. The reader is magically led through patterns and proportions that transform the ordinary house into a charged p...
Robin Rice | Tiferet Talk with host Melissa Studdard
January 28, 2011 00:00 - 33 minutes - 7.41 MBPlease join us for an interview with Robin Rice, author, mentor, contemporary shaman, and founder of both The Awesome Women Hub and Be Who You Are Productions. A client has recently said of Rice: "Robin is a weaver of contemporary and ancient soul knowledge. A woman with a big picture, and a true thinker who is excited about life. She amplifies the stories of the GOOD and important, and works toward an even greater good and a larger whole. She is a voice in the wilderness." Tiferet Journa...
Floyd Skloot | Tiferet Talk with host Melissa Studdard
December 10, 2010 00:00 - 1 hour - 14.6 MBPlease join us for an interview with Floyd Skloot, author of seventeen books, including works of poetry, fiction and non-fiction. Skloot is a three time winner of the Pushcart Prize, and has also been honored with a Pen USA Literary Award, two Pacific NW Book Awards, an Independent Publishers Book Award, and two Oregon Book Awards. The Harvard Review calls Skloot, "a poet of singular skill and subtle intelligence" and The Washington Post calls him, "a tribute to the creative spirit." Poets &...
Jeffrey Davis | Tiferet Talk with host Melissa Studdard
November 16, 2010 00:00 - 1 hour - 14.2 MBPlease join us for an interview with Jeffrey Davis, writing coach, editor, creativity consultant, and teacher. Davis is the author of the Psychology Today blog, Tracking Wonder and the books The Journey from the Center to the Page: Yoga Philosophies and Practices as Muse for Authentic Writing and City Reservoir: A Collection of Poems. Davis has stated: "Writing that reverberates with others’ deep imagination strikes me as authentic. It’s authentic because it comes from a source beyond the eg...
Edward Hirsch | Tiferet Talk with host Melissa Studdard
October 14, 2010 23:00 - 1 hour - 10.7 MBPlease join us for an interview with Edward Hirsch, poet, essayist, editor, professor, and Guggenheim Foundation president. Hirsch is the author of the bestselling book How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry, and his numerous awards include a National Book Critics Circle Award and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (genius grant). Hirsch has stated: "The poet wants justice. And the poet wants art. In poetry we can't have one without the other." Tiferet Journal has recently published ...
Jude Rittenhouse | Tiferet Talk with host Melissa Studdard
August 17, 2010 23:00 - 1 hour - 13.6 MBJoin us for an interview with Jude Rittenhouse, award winning writer, Integrated Kabbalistic Healer, editor, and featured Tiferet blogger. Rittenhouse, who lectures and teaches at a variety of schools, retreats, conferences and medical facilities, states that in all of her endeavors she strives to empower others as they explore their unique journeys towards wholeness. Rittenhouse’s first collection of poems, Living in Skin, was released as a chapbook in 2009. Tiferet Journal has recently pub...
Julia Cameron | Tiferet Talk with host Melissa Studdard
June 15, 2010 19:00 - 1 hour - 13.8 MBInterview with Julia Cameron, award-winning poet, playwright, and filmmaker, and author of over thirty books, ranging from novels to volumes of children's poems and prayers, to her hugely successful works on creativity. Cameron states, "Most of us have no idea of our real creative height. We are much more gifted than we know. My tools help to nurture those gifts." Tiferet Journal has recently published a compilation of twelve of our best transcribed interviews. To purchase The Tiferet Tal...