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Dante's New South Radio Show73 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (May 2025)May 2025 Dante’s New SouthAlice Hong: Named one of CBC’s 2018 “30 Hot Classical Musicians Under 30,” Alice is active globally as a violinist and a composer. She performs frequently with the Atlanta Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Naples Philharmonic, and more, and next weekend you can hear a premiere of Alice’s orchestral work Eden performed by the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra! Alice is passionate about revolutionizing the classical experience and making classical music more accessible and innovative. Classical Remix Music Festival is her biggest project yet, and she’d really love to see you at this inaugural season’s concerts!2025-06-121h 14Dante's New South Radio Show72 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (April 2025)April 2025 Dante’s Old SouthBuffalo Nichols: Texas based, Milwaukee raised, Buffalo Nichols is known as an acoustic blues guitarist and singer but that isn’t the whole story. Two albums into his career, Nichols has proven himself to be an innovative songwriter with lyrics address both personal and political themes with biting insight. His influences range from his time playing in Baptist churches to his many years playing guitar in West African music bands. His experimental and hip-hop influences are displayed as well on his 2023 album, The Fatalist’. Nichols’ self-titled debut, released in October 2021, ascended h...2025-04-1858 minDante's New South Radio Show71 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (March 2025)March 2025 Dante’s Old SouthDesmund Dangerfield is an entrepreneur, educator, and PhD candidate in Educational Leadership, dedicated to student success and community development.With experience in academic recruitment, leadership development, and entrepreneurship training, he has worked with institutions like Prairie View, A&M University and San Jacinto College to equip students with the tools for academic and professional growth. As a business owner, Desmun specializes in photography, brand strategy, and digital marketing.Additionally, he is a social media influencer with 200,000 followers on Instagram, using his platform to engage and inspire diverse audiences. Pa...2025-03-221h 39Dante's New South Radio Show70 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (February 2025)February 2025 Dante’s Old SouthDr. Fubbs: Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, master engineer, cinematographer, editor, actor, designer, recording engineer, Death Row Record-signed artist: linktr.ee/drfubbsKelly J Nelson Founder / Chief Creative Officer / Director:30+ Year entertainment and event industry veteran and award-winning live experience designer, conceptual artist, and theatrical marketing expert. Previous clients include AMC Network Coca-Cola, Accenture, Cartoon Network, CNN, The Atlanta Hawks, Ponce City Market, City of Atlanta. BA In Communications and Visual Art from Florida State University. Previous work: Jack Morton Worldwide then 3 of my own agencies: The Maveri...2025-02-1855 min
Dante's New South Radio Show70 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (February 2025)February 2025 Dante’s Old SouthDr. Fubbs: Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, master engineer, cinematographer, editor, actor, designer, recording engineer, Death Row Record-signed artist: linktr.ee/drfubbsKelly J Nelson Founder / Chief Creative Officer / Director:30+ Year entertainment and event industry veteran and award-winning live experience designer, conceptual artist, and theatrical marketing expert. Previous clients include AMC Network Coca-Cola, Accenture, Cartoon Network, CNN, The Atlanta Hawks, Ponce City Market, City of Atlanta. BA In Communications and Visual Art from Florida State University. Previous work: Jack Morton Worldwide then 3 of my own agencies: The Maveri...2025-02-1858 minDante's New South Radio Show70 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (February 2025)February 2025 Dante’s Old SouthDr. Fubbs: Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, master engineer, cinematographer, editor, actor, designer, recording engineer, Death Row Record-signed artistKelly J Nelson (Founder / Chief Creative Officer / Director)30+ Year entertainment and event industry veteran and award-winning live experience designer, conceptual artist, and theatrical marketing expert. Previous clients include AMC Network Coca-Cola, Accenture, Cartoon Network, CNN, The Atlanta Hawks, Ponce City Market, City of Atlanta. BA In Communications and Visual Art from Florida State University. Previous work: Jack Morton Worldwide then 3 of my own agencies: The Maverick Group (19 Years), LED Experience (15 ye...2025-02-1658 minDante's New South Radio Show69 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (January 2025)January 2025 Dante’s Old South
Steve Gillon is a Senior Fellow at the Miller Center at the University of Virginia, Scholar-in-Residence at HISTORY, and Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma. Gillon received his B.A. in History from Widener University where he graduated summa cum laude with honors in History. He was named the recipient of the Faculty Prize for maintaining the highest undergraduate GPA. He went on to earn his A.M. and Ph.D. in American Civilization from Brown University where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. After receiving his Ph.D., Dr.G...2025-01-2700 minDante's New South Radio Show69 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (January 2025)January 2025 Dante’s Old SouthSteve Gillon is a Senior Fellow at the Miller Center at the University of Virginia, Scholar-in-Residence at HISTORY, and Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma. Gillon received his B.A. in History from Widener University where he graduated summa cum laude with honors in History. He was named the recipient of the Faculty Prize for maintaining the highest undergraduate GPA. He went on to earn his A.M. and Ph.D. in American Civilization from Brown University where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. After receiving his Ph.D., Dr.G...2025-01-1855 minDante's New South Radio Show69 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (January 2025)January 2025 Dante’s Old SouthSteve Gillon is a Senior Fellow at the Miller Center at the University of Virginia, Scholar-in-Residence at HISTORY, and Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma. Gillon received his B.A. in History from Widener University where he graduated summa cum laude with honors in History. He was named the recipient of the Faculty Prize for maintaining the highest undergraduate GPA. He went on to earn his A.M. and Ph.D. in American Civilization from Brown University where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. After receiving his Ph.D., Dr.G...2025-01-1800 minDante's New South Radio Show68 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (December 2024)December 2024 Dante’s Old South
Prince Stash: Stanislas Klossowski de Rola is an author, entrepreneur, actor, singer, and music producer. He performed and worked with various bands including The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Vince Taylor & The Playboys, during the Swinging Sixties in London, Rome, Paris, and Los Angeles.
Made infamous for his arrest with The Rolling Stones founder, Brian Jones, his engagement to Italian superstar, Romina Power, and for being a fashion icon launching the New Romantic look that was all the rage in the ‘70s, Prince Stash comes from a line of scandalous and very...2024-12-301h 41Dante's New South Radio Show67 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (November 2024)November 2024 Dante’s Old South
Jenna Schroeder is a writer, mother of four, and the director of communications for Dolphin Hat Games. Additionally, she is the founder of Little Bird Press, and her creative projects include the inspiring children’s book “Are Enchanted Forests Real?” and “Tacoo Cat Goat Cheese Pizza and the Case of the Missing Hat.” Schroeder also contributed to the 2021 book “Peace in the Presence of God: Devotionals for Women with Anxiety” published by Michael Lacey. She earned a bachelor’s degree in interpersonal communications from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio.
For more information visit ...2024-11-1900 minDante's New South Radio Show66 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (October 2024)October 2024 Dante’s Old South
Major Jackson is the author of six books of poetry, including Razzle Dazzle: New & Selected Poems (2023) and The Absurd Man (2020). He is also the author of A Beat Beyond: The Selected Prose of Major Jackson .
A recipient of fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, The National Endowment for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Major Jackson has been awarded a Pushcart Prize and has been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congr...2024-10-241h 43Dante's New South Radio Show65 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (September 2024)September 2024 Dante’s Old South
Holly Haworth's essays appear in The New York Times Magazine, Orion, Oxford American, Sierra, Lapham's Quarterly, Terrain.org, Creative Nonfiction, The Bitter Southerner, and at the On Being radio program blog. They have been listed as notable in The Best American Travel Writing and included in The Best American Science and Nature Writing. Her forthcoming book This Resounding World: A Field Guide to Listening is a recipient of a Robert B. Silvers Foundation grant for Works in Progress. Her first collection of poetry, The Way the Moon, is out now.
www.hollyhawort...2024-10-071h 40Dante's New South Radio Show64 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (August 2024)August 2024 Dante’s Old South
Serene Hakim: Serene Hakim is an agent at Ayesha Pande Literary where she has been since 2015. She represents authors in a variety of genres, from MG fantasy to adult literary fiction to contemporary YA. Serene is interested in both YA and adult fiction that has international themes, highlights a variety of cultures, and focuses on underrepresented voices. Specifically, she's looking for writing that explores identity, home, and family and is currently prioritizing children's books. She loves books that are heartwarming as well those that are heart wrenching. Serene is a member of the...2024-08-271h 18Dante's New South Radio Show63 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (July 2024)July 2024 Dante’s Old South
Steven Dunn (a.k.a Pothole, cuz he’s deep in these streets) is a Whiting Award winner who was shortlisted for Granta Magazine’s Best of Young American Novelists. He’s the author of three novels: Potted Meat (Tarpaulin Sky, 2016), water & power (Tarpaulin Sky, 2018), and Tannery Bay (FC2/University of Alabama Press, 2024), which is co-authored with his homie Katie Jean Shinkle.
Mathieu Cailler is the author of seven books: one novel, two short story collections, two volumes of poetry, and two children’s titles. His stories, poems, and essays have appeared in o...2024-07-2900 minDante's New South Radio Show63 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (July 2024)July 2024 Dante’s Old South
Steven Dunn (a.k.a Pothole, cuz he’s deep in these streets) is a Whiting Award winner who was shortlisted for Granta Magazine’s Best of Young American Novelists. He’s the author of three novels: Potted Meat (Tarpaulin Sky, 2016), water & power (Tarpaulin Sky, 2018), and Tannery Bay (FC2/University of Alabama Press, 2024), which is co-authored with his homie Katie Jean Shinkle.
Mathieu Cailler is the author of seven books: one novel, two short story collections, two volumes of poetry, and two children’s titles. His stories, poems, and essays have appeared in o...2024-07-271h 17Dante's New South Radio Show62 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (June 2024)June 2024 Dante’s Old South
Marcella Prokop is a Colombian American writer and educator living in the northern Great Plains region of the US. Her work has appeared online or in print in the Brooklyn Review, Ploughshares, The Christian Science Monitor, PANK, and other publications.
Blog: marcellaprokop.com
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Nick Kelsh is an author, photographer, and teacher living in upsta...2024-07-0400 minDante's New South Radio Show61 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (May 2024)May 2024 Dante’s
Kristen Arnett is the queer author of With Teeth: A Novel (Riverhead Books, 2021) which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in fiction and the New York Times bestselling debut novel Mostly Dead Things (Tin House, 2019). Her next novel, STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE, will be published by Riverhead Books (March 2025).
www.kristenarnettwriter.com
Lane Marie is an indie pop artist born, raised, and based out of Athens, Georgia. Her music combines her roots as a classically trained musician, with honest songwriting and alternative pop production chops. Draw...2024-06-031h 11Dante's New South Radio Show60 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (April 2024)April 2024 Dante’s Old South
January Gill O’Neil is an associate professor at Salem State University, and the author of Glitter Road (2024), Rewilding (2018), Misery Islands (2014), and Underlife (2009), all published by CavanKerry Press. From 2019-2020, she served as the John and Renée Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi, Oxford. She lives in Beverly, Massachusetts.
And, my social media so you can tag me: TwitterX: @januaryoneil | Instagram: @januarygilloneil | Facebook: /january.oneil
Website: www.januarygilloneil.com
Robert Petrillo is a retired English teacher who’s currently on the e...2024-04-291h 12Dante's New South Radio Show59 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (March 2024)March 2024 Dante’s Old South
Chelsey Clammer is the award-winning author of the essay collections Human Heartbeat Detected (Red Hen Press, 2022), Circadian (Red Hen Press, 2017), and BodyHome (Hopewell Publications, 2015). Her work has appeared in Salon, The Rumpus, Brevity, and McSweeney’s, among many others. She teaches online writing classes with WOW! Women On Writing and is a freelance editor.
www.chelseyclammer.com
Dan Veach is the founding editor of Atlanta Review. A poet and translator of Chinese, Arabic, Spanish, and Anglo-Saxon, Dan has won the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize a...2024-03-221h 11Dante's New South Radio Show58 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (February 2024)February 2024 Dante’s Old South
Autumn Nicholas: (she/he/they/them) Autumn Nicholas is a gifted songwriter and performer who has amazed audiences around the country. Autumn is one of Music Forward Foundation's Emerging LGBTQ+ Artists for 2023 and one of Nashville Scene’s Country Music Almanac 2024 Artists to Watch.
www.autumnnicholas.com
Emily Strasser’s first book, Half-Life of a Secret, is a deeply researched memoir that traces her journey to reckon with the toxic legacies of secrecy of her grandfather’s work building nuclear weapons in the atomi...2024-02-261h 27Dante's New South Radio Show57 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (January 2024)January 2024 Dante’s Old South
Stuart Dischell is the author of Good Hope Road (Viking), a National Poetry Series Selection, Evenings & Avenues (Penguin), Dig Safe (Penguin), Backwards Days (Penguin), Standing on Z (Unicorn), Children with Enemies (Chicago), and The Lookout Man (Chicago).
His newest work is Andalusian Visions (Unicorn), a book of poetry, photography, and music with international collaborators Cyril Caine and Laurent Estoppey.
His poems have appeared in The Atlantic, Agni, The New Republic, Slate, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and numerous national and international anthologies, such as Best American Poetry, Good Poems, and the Pushcart Prize...2024-01-271h 09Dante's New South Radio Show56 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (December 2023)December 2023 Dante’s Old South
The Boxmasters (JD Andrew and Billy Bob Thornton): As a touring band, The Boxmasters have cultivated a rabid cult fanbase across the United States and Canada. Opening for the likes of ZZ Top, Steve Miller, George Thorogood and Kid Rock, The Boxmasters have proven to win over large audiences. As a headliner, frequent stops in Kansas City at “Knuckleheads”, Springfield, Illinois at “Boondocks” and “Merrimack Hall” in Huntsville, Alabama have shown dedicated yet still growing audiences. The Boxmasters performed on “The Grand Ole Opry” in 2015, another in a growing resume of must-play venues. https://th...2023-12-202h 16Dante's New South Radio Show55 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (November 2023)November 2023 Dante’s Old South
Richard Blanco
Selected by President Obama as the fifth Presidential Inaugural Poet in U.S. history, Richard Blanco was the youngest, the first Latinx, immigrant, and gay person to serve in that role. In 2023, Blanco was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Biden from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Born in Madrid to Cuban exile parents and raised in Miami in a working-class family, Blanco’s personal negotiation of cultural identity and the universal themes of place and belonging characterize Blanco’s many collections of poetry, including his most r...2023-11-201h 47Dante's New South Radio Show55 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (November 2023)November 2023 Dante’s Old South
Richard Blanco
Selected by President Obama as the fifth Presidential Inaugural Poet in U.S. history, Richard Blanco was the youngest, the first Latinx, immigrant, and gay person to serve in that role.
In 2023, Blanco was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Biden from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Born in Madrid to Cuban exile parents and raised in Miami in a working-class family, Blanco’s personal negotiation of cultural identity and the universal themes of place and belonging characterize Blanco’s many collections of poe...2023-11-201h 59Dante's New South Radio Show54 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (October 2023)October 2023 Dante’s Old South
Lizzie Thomas
"Thomas is a storyteller. Her interpretations cut to the heart of the lyric." Marilyn Lester, NYC Jazz Record
"She brings an interpretive depth to everything." Nic Jones, Jazz Journal UK
Lizzie Thomas is an inventive jazz vocalist known for her sultry vocal stylings and deep interpretations of the lyric. Thomas’ latest release, Duo Encounters on Dot Time Records cements her stature as one of New York’s top jazz singers. Alongside the “who’s who” of Jazz, Lizzie has had the privilege of collaborating with Ron Carter, Rus...2023-10-231h 06Dante's New South Radio Show53 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (September 2023)September 2023 Dante’s
Oliver de la Paz is the Poet Laureate of Worcester, MA for 2023-2025. He is the author and editor of seven books: Names Above Houses, Furious Lullaby, Requiem for the Orchard, Post Subject: A Fable, and The Boy in the Labyrinth, a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award in Poetry. His newest work, The Diaspora Sonnets, is published by Liveright Press (2023) and is longlisted for the National Book Award. With Stacey Lynn Brown he co-edited A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry.
Oliver serves as the co-chair of...2023-09-2154 minDante's New South Radio Show52 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (August 2023)August 2023 Dante’s Old South
Jeffrey Dale Lofton hails from Warm Springs, Georgia, best known as the home of Roosevelt’s Little White House but calls the nation’s capital home now. He is a senior advisor at the Library of Congress, surrounded by books and people who love books—in short, paradise. Red Clay Suzie is his first novel, a fictionalized memoir written through his personal lens growing up a queer, physically-misshapen outsider in a conservative family and community in the Deep South. It has won the Seven Hills Literary Prize for Fiction and was recen...2023-08-2354 minDante's New South Radio Show51 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (July 2023)N.A. Windsor is the Program Manager of the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program and the Co-Regional Advisor of the Los Angeles Region of SCBWI (Society for Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators). In both posts, she organizes and produces writing events and conferences. In 2010 she founded the Children’s Book Writers of Los Angeles (CBW-LA.org). Through her work with CBW-LA Publications, N.A. has co-created, co-produced, and co-written Story Sprouts and Story Sprouts: Voice.
You can learn more about her at: https://www.nawindsor.com/
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Annette Sisson lives in Nashville, TN, where she is...2023-08-101h 02Dante's New South Radio Show50 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (June 2023)June 2023 Dante’s Old South
Felix Charin was born in Neustrelitz as the son of a German mother and a Russian father. As a child and teenager, he performed at the Landestheater Neustrelitz and in a theater group in Bützow. During his school years, he lived temporarily in Russia and the United States. In 2012, he completed his degree at the HFF (University of Television and Film) in Munich.
His diploma film at the HFF Munich was "Leben Lassen" which he produced in collaboration with Arte and BR, wrote the screenplay for, and directed. The 29-mi...2023-06-2500 minDante's New South Radio Show48 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (April 2023)Edgar Kunz is the author of the poetry collections Fixer (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2023) and Tap Out (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2019), a New York Times New & Noteworthy pick.
He has been a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, a MacDowell Fellow, a Teaching Fellow at Vanderbilt University, and a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. New poems appear in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, POETRY, American Poetry Review, and Oxford American. He lives in Baltimore and teaches at Goucher College.
www.edgarkunz.com
Gregory Ariail grew up in Buford, Georgia. In 2019...2023-06-1458 minDante's New South Radio Show49 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (May 2023)Eric Akoto, FRSA, is a British-Ghanaian-American entrepreneur and the founder of Litro Media Inc, publishing platforms such as Litro Magazine and Crayon Magazine to spotlight emerging and established global talents. Akoto is also the founder of Gemini Productions, a production company committed to bringing inspiring narratives to life.
Akoto's initiatives reflect his commitment to international literature, arts, and digital innovation. Raised with roots in Britain, Ghana, and the U.S., Akoto's work disrupts traditional publishing gatekeeping, championing diversity, inclusivity, and creative empowerment.
www.litromagazine.com/usa/
www.litromagazine.com/masterclasses/
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Alicia Blue
It's difficult to pin down exact musical influences on Alicia Blue's Inner Child Work—and that's exactly how the California singer-songwriter likes it. Although her folk roots are never far from the surface, the album encompasses dreamy indie-rock ("Dog Days in L.A."), delicate pop meditations ("Saline Waters"), '90s alternative rock ("Dirty Hippie"), and even Tori Amos-esque introspection ("Fine"). Growing up in Los Angeles, Blue admired authors like Jack Kerouac and Joan Didion, as well as songwriter/poets like Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and Leonard Cohen.
Ins...2023-04-0259 min
Dante's New South Radio Show46 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (February 2023)Kendel Hippolyte was born in Castries, St. Lucia, in 1952. In the 1970s he studied and lived in Jamaica, receiving a BA from the University of the West Indies in 1976.
Hippolyte is the author of several books of poetry, including Fault Lines (Peepal Tree Press, 2012), Night Vision (Triquarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2005), and Birthright (Peepal Tree Press, 1997). Of his work, Kwame Dawes writes, “One gets the sense of a writer working in a laboratory patiently, waiting for the right image to come, and then placing it there only when it comes.”
Hippolyte, who is also a playwright a...2023-03-161h 00Dante's New South Radio Show45 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (January 2023) Kendel Hippolyte was born in Castries, St. Lucia, in 1952. In the 1970s he studied and lived in Jamaica, receiving a BA from the University of the West Indies in 1976.
Hippolyte is the author of several books of poetry, including Fault Lines (Peepal Tree Press, 2012), Night Vision (Triquarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2005), and Birthright (Peepal Tree Press, 1997). Of his work, Kwame Dawes writes, “One gets the sense of a writer working in a laboratory patiently, waiting for the right image to come, and then placing it there only when it comes.”
Hippolyte, who is also a playwright an...2023-02-161h 12Dante's New South Radio Show44 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (December 2022)December 2022’s Dante’s Old South
Jay Clifford, frontman of Jump Little Children:
Jump, Little Children is an American indie rock band that was formed in 1991 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States. Known for its unique sound, energetic live performances, and willingness to interact with fans, the band has a devoted following and is a fixture in the Charleston, South Carolina music scene.
Follow them here: https://www.jumplittlechildren.com/
The Writer’s Hotel:
Shanna McNair Founder of The Writer’s Hotel writers conferences and The New Guard literary review. She...2022-12-3000 minDante's New South Radio Show43 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (November 2022)November 2022’s Dante’s Old South:
Robert Pinsky is one of America’s foremost poet-critics. He earned his BA from Rutgers University in 1962 and his MA and PhD in philosophy from Stanford University in 1966, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in creative writing.
Elected Poet Laureate of the United States in 1997, his tenure was marked by ambitious efforts to prove the power of poetry—not just as an intellectual pursuit in the ivory tower, but as a meaningful and integral part of American life. “I think poetry is a vital part of our intelligence, our abilit...2022-12-021h 00Dante's New South Radio Show42 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (October 2022)October 2022’s Dante’s Old South
Dorothy Rompalske is the Director and Chairperson of the Screenwriting MFA program at the David Lynch Graduate School of Cinematic Arts at Maharishi International University. She is the author of both feature film and documentary screenplays, and her magazine articles and profiles have appeared in numerous publications. Originally from New York City, Rompalske graduated from the Journalism School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and went on to earn her MFA in production from the Graduate Film School at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
...2022-10-2943 minDante's New South Radio Show41 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (September 2022)Rising Appalachia is a folk band with southern roots, founded by sisters Leah and Chloe Smith. Rising Appalachia has toured all over the world, from Italy to South America, to San Francisco and Leah and Chloe’s hometown of Atlanta, Georgia.
These multi-talented sisters write their own songs, play several instruments including guitar, banjo, and fiddle, and have been releasing music since 2005.
They currently have 7 albums in their discography, their most recent album called “The Lost Mystique of Being in the Know” was released in 2021. Leah and Chloe are passionate about building bridges between cultures and st...2022-09-2856 minDante's New South Radio Show40 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (August 2022)Ellen Bass - A Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Ellen Bass’s most recent book is Indigo (Copper Canyon Press, 2020). Among her awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship, NEA Fellowship, four Pushcart Prizes, and The Lambda Literary Award. Bass founded workshops at Salinas Valley State Prison and teaches in at Pacific University’s MFA program.
A Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Ellen Bass’s most recent book is Indigo (Copper Canyon Press, 2020). Among her awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship, NEA Fellowship, four Pushcart Prizes, and The Lambda Literary Award. She coedited the first major anthol...2022-09-0957 minDante's New South Radio Show39 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (July 2022)July 2022 Dante’s Old South
Christopher Moore is the New York Times best-selling author of 18 novels, including Lamb, A Dirty Job, Noir, and Razzmatazz. You can find his web site at chrismoore.com and follow him on Twitter at @theauthorguy.
Lynne Kemen is a citizen of Upstate New York. Her chapbook, More Than a Handful, was published in 2020. She is published in Silver Birch Press, The Ravens Perch, Fresh Words Magazine, Spillwords, Topical Poetry, and Blue Mountain Review. Lynne stands on the Board of Bright Hill Press. She is an Editor for the Blue Mountain Review...2022-07-2758 min
Cliff's Notes Real Estate PodcastEpisode 119: LIVE ON CLIFF’S NOTES, Casanova BrooksCasanova Brooks is an award-winning entrepreneur, author, high-energy keynote speaker, and real estate professional. Through his battles with adversity in many stages of his life including stage four lymphoma cancer, to losing his mother, job, and home in a matter of a couple of weeks, even with having very limited resources Casanova learned to develop a bulletproof mindset to thrive and succeed in life and business. From producing 46 deals and $8 million in his first year in real estate to now owning multiple businesses, he has been an action-taker in every sense of the word. Casanova now focuses on empowering others...2022-07-1543 min
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Diane Seuss
Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
Winner of the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry
Winner of the 2022 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection
Winner of the 2021 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry
Finalist for the 2022 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
“The sonnet, like poverty, teaches you what you can do / without,” Diane Seuss writes in this brilliant, candid work, her most personal collection to date. These poems tell the story of a life at risk of spilling over the edge of th...2022-07-0558 minDante's New South Radio Show37 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (May 2022)May 2022 Dante’s Old South
Todd Boss is a poet, lyricist, and inventor, who sold all his possessions in 2018 to become a nomad. His most recent book of poems is Someday the Plan of a Town, published by W. W. Norton & Co. https://www.toddbossoriginals.com/
Someday the Plan of a Town: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B098LT8TVP/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0
Hans Rueffert Chef, author, speaker, advocate and survivor, Hans Rueffert is known by many titles, but his favorite title is perhaps “teacher.” A natura...2022-06-0859 minDante's New South Radio Show36 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (April 2022)April 2022’s Dante’s Old South
In this episode we interview the winners of the Southern Collective Experience’s Asian American chapbook contest:
1st Place: Monica Kim is a queer writer and organizer. Born in South Korea, she now lives in Brooklyn, New York. She won the inaugural Jane Kenyon Chapbook Prize Award for her series of multiverse poems and her writing has been published in A Velvet Giant, Pollux Journal, The Account, and others. You can find her on Twitter at @kimmonjoo.
2nd Place: Kailee Pedersen is the author of essays, poetry, and sp...2022-05-2756 minDante's New South Radio Show35 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (March 2022)Louis Bayard: In the words of the New York Times, Louis Bayard “reinvigorates historical fiction,” rendering the past “as if he’d witnessed it firsthand.”
His acclaimed novels include The Pale Blue Eye, soon to be a Netflix motion picture starring Christian Bale, the national bestseller Courting Mr. Lincoln, Roosevelt's Beast, The School of Night, The Black Tower, and Mr. Timothy, as well as the highly praised young-adult novel, Lucky Strikes.
A New York Times Notable author, he has been nominated for both the Edgar and Dagger awards, and his story, “Banana Triangle Six,” was chosen for The...2022-03-2158 minDante's New South Radio Show34 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (February 2022)Ashley M. Jones is Poet Laureate of the state of Alabama (2022-2026). She holds an MFA in Poetry from Florida International University, and she is the author of Magic City Gospel (Hub City Press 2017), dark / / thing (Pleiades Press 2019), and REPARATIONS NOW! (Hub City Press 2021). Her poetry has earned several awards, including the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award, the Silver Medal in the Independent Publishers Book Awards, the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize for Poetry, a Literature Fellowship from the Alabama State Council on the Arts, the Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize, and the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award. She was a finalist f...2022-03-0359 minDante's New South Radio Show33 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (January 2022)January 2022 Dante’s Old South
Skye Jackson was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. She has served as a poetry editor for Bayou Magazine, French Quarter Journal & Tilted House. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Electric Literature, Green Mountains Review, RATTLE and elsewhere. Her debut chapbook, A Faster Grave, won the 2019 Antenna Prize.
She was a finalist for the 2020 RATTLE Poetry Prize. In 2021, she won the AWP Intro Journals Award and was twice nominated for Best New Poets. In 2021, she was twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Poets & Writers has recognized her as a New Orleans...2022-01-2059 minDante's New South Radio Show32 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (December 2021)December 2021’s Dante’s Old South
Alina Stefanescu
Alina Stefanescu was born in Romania and lives in Birmingham, Alabama with her partner and several intense mammals. Recent books include a creative nonfiction chapbook, Ribald (Bull City Press Inch Series, Nov. 2020) and Dor, which won the Wandering Aengus Press Prize (September 2021).
Her debut fiction collection, Every Mask I Tried On, won the Brighthorse Books Prize (April 2018). Alina's poems, essays, and fiction can be found in Prairie Schooner, North American Review, World Literature Today, Pleiades, Poetry, BOMB, Crab Creek Review, and others. She serves as poetry...2021-12-2959 minDante's New South Radio Show31 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (November 2021)November 2021’s Dante’s Old South:
In this episode, we hear from experts speaking across the earth of art. Please tune in to a great show with the music of Otis Redding and John Coltrane.
Our guests include:
Charles Jensen (he/him) is the author of the poetry collection Nanopedia and six chapbooks of poems. His third collection, Instructions Between Takeoff and Landing, will be published by the University of Akron Press in 2022. The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs designated him a Cultural Trailblazer, and he is the recipient of the Zóc...2021-12-0958 minDante's New South Radio Show30 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (October 2021)Jasper Fforde:
Jasper began his career in the film industry, and for nineteen years held a variety of posts on such movies as Goldeneye, The Mask of Zorro and Entrapment. Secretly harbouring a desire to tell his own stories rather than help other people tell their's, Jasper started writing in 1988, and spent eleven years secretly writing novel after novel as he strove to find a style of his own that was a no-mans-land somewhere between the warring factions of Literary and Absurd.
After receiving 76 rejection letters from publishers, Jasper's first novel The Eyre Affair was taken on...2021-11-0358 minDante's New South Radio Show29 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (September 2021)Catherine Mayer is a bestselling author, journalist, and activist. She is the co-founder and President of the Women’s Equality Party.
Her books include Amortality: The Pleasures and Perils of Living Agelessly; Charles: The Heart of a King, and Attack of the Fifty Foot Women: How Gender Equality Can Save the World! Her recent memoir, Good Grief: Embracing Life at a Time of Death, contains letters written by her mother after both women were widowed at the start of the pandemic.
Catherine has worked at The Economist, held deputy editorships at Business Traveler and International Mana...2021-09-2259 minDante's New South Radio Show28 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (August 2021)August 2021 Dante’s Old South
Chen Chen: Chen Chen is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency (BOA Editions, 2022) and the forthcoming book of essays, In Cahoots with the Rabbit God (Noemi Press, 2023). His debut book of poems, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, 2017), was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the Thom Gunn Award, among other honors. He teaches at Brandeis University.
Vince Zangaro: (https://dementiaspotlightfoundation.org/) Zangaro’s Alzheimer’s journey began over a decade ago at...2021-08-2059 minDante's New South Radio Show27 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (July 2021)July 2021 Dante’s Old South
David Shaw: Acclaimed singer, songwriter, musician, and producer David Shaw’s first-ever solo album (Yokoko Records/C3 Records) finds The Revivalists frontman following the direction of his own internal compass, riling up his raw rock ‘n’ roll impulses as he opens up like never before as a lyricist, poet, and storyteller. The journey of David’s solo artistry began as he placed a renewed focus on self-care and personal growth, noticing something within himself that, as he says, he “needed to water.”
Natalia Anciso: (Weslaco, TX, 1985). Chicana-Tejana visual artist, educator, and Rio Grande...2021-07-1958 minDante's New South Radio Show26 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (June 2021)Lyrics Born (Tom Shimura)
As the first Asian-American solo rapper to perform at Lollapalooza and Coachella and to release a greatest hits record, LYRICS BORN has broken through countless barriers to cement his illustrious career. In addition to establishing himself among the upper echelon of indie Hip Hop artists, LB has expanded his empire into film, including roles in Boots Riley’s critically acclaimed Sorry To Bother You and the Netflix film Always Be My Maybe starring comedian Ali Wong, Randall Park, and Keanu Reeves. Lyrics Born is currently working on his forthcoming collaborative compilation Lyrics Born presents: Mobile...2021-06-181h 01Dante's New South Radio Show25 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (May 2021)May 2021 Dante’s Old South Extended Cut
In this episode, I break my usual format and interview one guest instead of several. British novelist Jasper Fforde is a longstanding hero of mine. I’ve been a fan for over a decade. After an hour hearing his methods and thoughts on life, I’m sure you will be too.
Jasper Fforde:
Jasper began his career in the film industry, and for nineteen years held a variety of posts on such movies as Goldeneye, The Mask of Zorro and Entrapment. Secretly harbouring a desire to tell his o...2021-06-0556 minDante's New South Radio Show24- Dante's Old South Radio Show (April 2021)April 2021 Dante’s Old South
In this episode we interview winners of the Southern Collective Experience’s LBGTQ poetry chapbook contest.
3rd Place: Ian Spencer Bell
Ian Spencer Bell is a dancer and poet in New York City.
2nd Place Andrea Deeken
Andrea Deeken was born in rural Missouri and has lived in the Pacific Northwest for most of her adult life. She has a BA from Drake University and an MS in Writing and Publishing from Portland State University. Her writing has appeared in journals such as Periphery, The...2021-04-2259 minCliff's Notes Real Estate PodcastEpisode 74: Real Estate Professional & Award-winning Entrepreneur, Casanova BrooksCasanova Brooks is an award-winning entrepreneur, author, high-energy keynote speaker, and real estate professional.Through his battles with adversity in many stages of his life including stage four lymphoma cancer, to losing his mother, job, and home in a matter of a couple of weeks, even with having very limited resources Casanova learned to develop a bulletproof mindset to thrive and succeed in life and business. From producing 46 deals and $8 million in his first year in real estate to now owning multiple businesses, he has been an action-taker in every sense of the word. Casanova now focuses on...2021-04-0847 minDante's New South Radio Show23 - Dantes Old SouthDante's Old South is the official radio show of The Southern Collective Experience, featuring poets, prose writers, musicians - and more!
(First broadcast on WUTC in Chattanooga, TN.)
Call Me Spinster is anything but ordinary. The closer you look at this trio of sisters from Chattanooga, Tennessee, the harder it is to locate something about their sound, background, or energy that delivers predictable results. From their arrangements that employ both pristine vocal harmonies and unorthodox instruments to the streaks of self-aware humor that sneak into their videos and social media presence, Call...2021-03-2959 minDante's New South Radio Show22.5 - Dante's Old South (February 2021)Neal Francis: “I just wanted to be honest about everything, from my musical influences to my story,” muses Neal Francis. After years of dishonest living—consumed by drugs, alcohol, and addiction—such sincerity is jarring from the 32-year-old Chicago-based musician. Liberated from a self-destructive past and born anew in sobriety, Francis has captured an inspired collection of songs steeped in New Orleans rhythms and early 70s rock n’ roll.
His music evokes a bygone era of R&B’s heyday while simultaneously forging a new path on the musical landscape. Ohio-based Karma Chief Records (a subsidiary of rising soul l...2021-03-0458 minDante's New South Radio Show21 - Dantes Old South Radio ShowKelli Russell Agodon was born in Seattle, Washington, in 1969. She received a bachelor's degree from the University of Washington and an M.F.A. from the Rainier Writers Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. She is the author of Small Knots, finalist for the 2004 Cherry Grove Poetry Prize and Geography, winner of the Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award.
She is the recipient of two Washington State Artist Trust GAP grants, a Puffin Foundation grant, The James Hearst Poetry Prize, the William Stafford Award, the Lohmann Prize, and the Carlin Aden Award for formal verse. Agodon edited the Poetry...2021-02-0559 minDante's New South Radio Show20 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (November)November’s Dante’s Old South is Coming in Full Force with Guests:
Lee Herrick (www.leeherrick.com) is a poet and professor, born in South Korea, adopted to the United States, now living in Fresno, California. He is the author of three books of poems (This Many Miles from Desire, Gardening Secrets of the Dead, and Scar and Flower) and co-editor of a poetry anthology, The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit, all of which you can find anywhere books are sold online.
Dr. Cecilia Aragon (www.ceciliaaragonauthor.com) is an a...2020-11-3059 minDante's New South Radio Show20 - Dante's Old South (November 2020)November’s Dante’s Old South is Coming in Full Force with Guests:
Lee Herrick (www.leeherrick.com) is a poet and professor, born in South Korea, adopted to the United States, now living in Fresno, California. He is the author of three books of poems (This Many Miles from Desire, Gardening Secrets of the Dead, and Scar and Flower) and co-editor of a poetry anthology, The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit, all of which you can find anywhere books are sold online.
Dr. Cecilia Aragon (www...2020-11-2500 min
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Clifford BrooksBill welcomes poet and editor Clifford Brooks back to the show. Clifford is the founder of the Southern Collective Experience and Editor-in-Chief of the Blue Mountain Review. He hosts Dante's Old South on NPR/WUTC and This Business of Music & Poetry. He has three books of poetry: The Draw of Broken Eyes & Whirling Metaphysics, Athena Departs, and Exiles of Eden. He currently bounces around Georgia writing his new collection, The Book of Old Gods. His poetry/fiction hybrid, The Salvation of Cowboy Blue Crawford, is due out in the spring of 2022. We started this conversation a few weeks ago, and...2020-11-0430 minDante's New South Radio Show19 - Dante's Old South Radio ShowIn this episode you'll hear about creativity in the time of COVID from poets Melissa Studdard and RJ Jeffreys. In the middle sits Ms. Rebecca Evans, a mother, veteran, author, and advocate who talks about writing as a means of therapy. Putting a bow on the show is podcaster and life coach, Bill Kenower. To ease your transition between these incredible folks is music by DL Yancey II, Angel Snow, and Nubya Garcia.2020-10-2159 min
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Clifford BrooksBill welcomes poet, publisher and editor Clifford Brooks to the show. Clifford is the founder of the Southern Collective Experience and Editor-in-Chief of the Blue Mountain Review. He hosts Dante's Old South on NPR/WUTC and This Business of Music & Poetry. He has three books of poetry: The Draw of Broken Eyes & Whirling Metaphysics, Athena Departs, and Exiles of Eden. He currently bounces around Georgia writing his new collection, The Book of Old Gods. His poetry/fiction hybrid, The Salvation of Cowboy Blue Crawford, is due out in the spring of 2022. Don't miss it!2020-10-1318 minDante's New South Radio Show18 - Dante's Old South Radio ShowDante's Old South is the official radio show of The Southern Collective Experience's radio show, Dante's Old South, featuring poets, prose writers, musicians - and more!
(First broadcast on WUTC in Chattanooga, TN.)2020-09-2159 min
This Business Of Music & Poetry PodcastThe Pursuit Of Craft (Interview with Angel Snow)In this episode, Clifford Brooks and Michael Amidei interview musician and songwriter Angel Snow.
Angel Snow (www.angelsnow.net) is a talented and inspiring musician and songwriter living in Nashville, TN. Her albums include "Magnetic", "Arrows" and "Stripped". 2020-09-0541 minThis Business Of Music & Poetry PodcastSongs Of Creative Dedication & How Fires End (Interview with Marco Rafalà)In this episode, Michael Amidei and Clifford Brooks interview author Marco Rafalà.
Marco Rafalà (https://www.marcorafala.com/) is a first-generation Sicilian American novelist, musician, and writer for award-winning tabletop role-playing games. He earned his MFA in Fiction from The New School and is a co-curator of the Guerrilla Lit Reading Series in New York City. Born in Middletown, Connecticut, he now lives in Brooklyn, New York. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in the Bellevue Literary Review and LitHub. How Fires End is his debut novel.2020-07-3151 minThis Business Of Music & Poetry PodcastThe Passion & Wit Of R.J. JeffreysIn this episode, Clifford Brooks and Michael Amidei interview R.J. Jeffreys.
R.J. Jeffreys is a poet, writer, novelist, writing coach and mentor, celebrity ghostwriter, playwright, Executive Producer Digital Media for VIDA Voices & Views, and contributing editor and Senior Producer Radio Interviews Media for Tiferet Journal.
He is the host of The Write Step with RJ Jeffreys radio interview show. Jeffreys’ poetry, prose and dramatic works have appeared in numerous publications, media outlets and websites such as Mass Poetry.org, 100 Thousand Poets for Change, Tiferet Journal, Saint Julian Press, Bareback Alchemy and the anthologies, The D...2020-07-0239 minDante's New South Radio Show17 - Dante's Old South Radio ShowDante's Old South is the official radio show of The Southern Collective Experience's radio show, Dante's Old South, featuring poets, prose writers, musicians - and more!
(First broadcast on WUTC in Chattanooga, TN.)2020-04-2050 minDante's New South Radio Show16 - Dante's Old South Radio ShowDante's Old South is the official radio show of The Southern Collective Experience's radio show, Dante's Old South, featuring poets, prose writers, musicians - and more!
(First broadcast on WUTC in Chattanooga, TN.)2020-03-3156 minThis Business Of Music & Poetry PodcastRhythm Hymns (Interview with Tyree Daye)In this episode, Clifford Brooks and Michael Amidei interview poet Tyree Daye.
Tyree Daye (http://www.tyree.work/) a poet from Youngsville, North Carolina, and a Teaching Assistant Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is the author of two poetry collections River Hymns 2017 APR/Honickman First Book Prize winner and Cardinal forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press 2020. Daye is a Cave Canem fellow. Daye’s work has been published in Prairie Schooner, New York Times, Nashville Review. Daye won the 2019 Palm Beach Poetry Festival Langston Hughes Fellowship, 2019 Diana and Simon Raab Writer-In-Residence at UC Santa Barbara, and is a 2019 Kate Tufts...2020-03-2642 minDante's New South Radio Show15 - Dante's Old South Radio ShowDante's Old South is the official radio show of The Southern Collective Experience's radio show, Dante's Old South, featuring poets, prose writers, musicians - and more!
(First broadcast on WUTC in Chattanooga, TN.)2020-02-2349 minThis Business Of Music & Poetry PodcastThe Tender Words Of Zoe FishmanIn this episode, Clifford Brooks and Michael Amidei interview author Zoe Fishman.
Zoe Fishman (https://www.zoefishman.net/) the critically acclaimed author of Invisible As Air (Morrow, September '19), the bestselling Inheriting Edith, (Morrow, October ’16), Driving Lessons (Morrow, April ’14), Saving Ruth (Morrow, May ’12) and Balancing Acts (Harper, March ’10). Her books have been translated into Hebrew, German, Italian, Dutch and Polish and are also available in Audio and Large Print editions. She’s the recipient of a myriad of awards, including an AJC "10 Southern Books We Loved in 2019" selection, an IndieNext Pick, Target’s Breakout and Emerging Author Picks, a NY P...2020-02-1348 minDante's New South Radio Show14 - Dante's Old South Radio ShowDante's Old South is the official radio show of The Southern Collective Experience's radio show, Dante's Old South, featuring poets, prose writers, musicians - and more!
(First broadcast on WUTC in Chattanooga, TN.)2020-01-2758 minDante's New South Radio Show12 - Dante's Old South Radio ShowDante's Old South is the official radio show of The Southern Collective Experience's radio show, Dante's Old South, featuring poets, prose writers, musicians - and more!
(First broadcast on WUTC in Chattanooga, TN.)2020-01-2259 minDante's New South Radio Show11 - Dante's Old South Radio ShowDante's Old South is the official radio show of The Southern Collective Experience's radio show, Dante's Old South, featuring poets, prose writers, musicians - and more!
(First broadcast on WUTC in Chattanooga, TN.)2020-01-0459 minThis Business Of Music & Poetry PodcastA New York Literary Agent Speaks...In this episode, Clifford Brooks and Michael Amidei interview literary agent and editor, Alicia Brooks.
Alicia Brooks ( http://www.jvnla.com/) began her career over twenty years ago in book publishing as an editorial assistant at Penguin USA. She worked her way up to an assistant editor position at Nan A. Talese/Doubleday where she worked with noteworthy authors, including Margaret Atwood, Pat Conroy, and Ian McEwan. Alicia then became an editor at Picador/St. Martin's Press where she edited over 39 hardcover titles and several trade paper original titles, including Noelle Howey's Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods--My M...2019-11-271h 01Dante's New South Radio Show10 - Dante's Old South Radio ShowDante's Old South is the official radio show of The Southern Collective Experience's radio show, Dante's Old South, featuring poets, prose writers, musicians - and more!
(First broadcast on WUTC in Chattanooga, TN.)2019-11-2058 minThis Business Of Music & Poetry PodcastThe Dance Of Poetry (Interview with Melissa Studdard)In this episode, Clifford Brooks and Michael Amidei interview poet and author Melissa Studdard.
https://melissastuddard.com/
Melissa Studdard is the author of four books, including the poetry collection I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast and the young adult novel Six Weeks to Yehidah. Her short writings have appeared in a wide variety of journals, magazines, blogs, and anthologies, such as The New York Times, Poetry, Psychology Today, The Guardian, New Ohio Review, Harvard Review, Bettering American Poetry, and Poets & Writers.
A short film of the title poem from Studdard’s I Ate the Cosmos f...2019-11-141h 05Dante's New South Radio Show09 - Dante's Old South Radio ShowDante's Old South is the official radio show of The Southern Collective Experience's radio show, Dante's Old South, featuring poets, prose writers, musicians - and more!
(First broadcast on WUTC in Chattanooga, TN.)2019-10-2359 minDante's New South Radio Show08 - Dante's Old South Radio ShowDante's Old South is the official radio show of The Southern Collective Experience's radio show, Dante's Old South, featuring poets, prose writers, musicians - and more!
(First broadcast on WUTC in Chattanooga, TN.)2019-09-2259 minThis Business Of Music & Poetry PodcastWest Coast Country (Interview with Debbie Hennessey)In this episode, Clifford Brooks and Michael Amidei interview musician Debbie Hennessey.
Debbie Hennessey was named AC40 Female Artist of the Year by New Music Weekly as well as charting a Top 20 Hit on NMW’s AC40 Charts. Her songs and music videos have aired on USA and UHD Networks, and TV shows Extra, The Next GAC Star, and The Moment. She has been named a multiple Finalist in the Great American Song Contest and multi-Semi-Finalist in the Song of the Year Contest, as well as multiple Honorable Mentions from the Billboard World Song Contest and West Coast Songwriters...2019-09-191h 15Dante's New South Radio Show007 - Dante's Old South Radio ShowDante's Old South is the official radio show of The Southern Collective Experience's radio show, Dante's Old South, featuring poets, prose writers, musicians - and more!
(First broadcast on WUTC in Chattanooga, TN.)2019-08-261h 00This Business Of Music & Poetry PodcastThe Rough Magic Of Cornelius EadyIn this episode, Clifford Brooks and Michael Amidei interview poet, playwright, musician, and professor Cornelius Eady.
Music featured in this episode:
"The Pickle King" by The Cornelius Eady Trio
"Bree" by The Cornelius Eady Trio
Cornelius Eady is the author of several books of poetry, including the critically acclaimed Hardheaded Weather, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award, Victims of the Latest Dance Craze,winner of the 1985 Lamont Prize from the Academy of American Poets, The Gathering of My Name,which was nominated for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize, and his most r...2019-08-221h 06This Business Of Music & Poetry PodcastAutism Speaks (Interview w/ Kimberly Dick)In this episode, Clifford Brooks and Michael Amidei interview Executive Director of Autism Speaks Georgia and Tennessee, Kimberly Dick.
Kimberly Dick, Executive Director of Autism Speaks Georgia and Tennessee has been involved with the organization for over 10 years. Kimberly became involved shortly after her son, Caleb’s diagnosis as a walk volunteer eventually as the Walk Now For Autism Speaks Chair in 2011. Since then, Kimberly has helped the state of Georgia & Tennessee through corporate relationships, awareness, resources, and assistance in passing state & federal legislation. She has also developed a strong local board of directors making Autism Speaks Geor...2019-08-0249 minDante's New South Radio Show006 - Dante's Old South Radio Show Dante's Old South is the official radio show of The Southern Collective Experience's radio show, Dante's Old South, featuring poets, prose writers, musicians - and more!
(First broadcast on WUTC in Chattanooga, TN.)2019-07-2656 minDante's New South Radio Show005 - Dante's Old South Radio Show Dante's Old South is the official radio show of The Southern Collective Experience's radio show, Dante's Old South, featuring poets, prose writers, musicians - and more!
(First broadcast on WUTC in Chattanooga, TN.)2019-07-2359 minDante's New South Radio Show004 - Dante's Old South Radio ShowDante's Old South is the official radio show of The Southern Collective Experience's radio show, Dante's Old South, featuring poets, prose writers, musicians - and more!
(First broadcast on WUTC in Chattanooga, TN.)2019-07-141h 00Dante's New South Radio Show003 - Dante's Old South Radio Show The official radio show of The Southern Collective Experience's radio show, Dante's Old South, featuring poets, prose writers, musicians - and more!
(First broadcast on WUTC Chattanooga, TN.)2019-07-1459 minDante's New South Radio Show002 - Dante's Old South Radio Show The official radio show of The Southern Collective Experience's radio show, Dante's Old South, featuring poets, prose writers, musicians - and more!
(First broadcast on WUTC Chattanooga, TN.)2019-07-1439 minDante's New South Radio Show001 - Dante's Old South Radio Show The official radio show of The Southern Collective Experience's radio show, Dante's Old South, featuring poets, prose writers, musicians - and more!
(First broadcast on WUTC Chattanooga, TN.)2019-07-1459 minThis Business Of Music & Poetry PodcastBuilding A Business Around Your ArtIn this episode, Clifford Brooks & Michael Amidei discuss taking your creative work and building a business (aka money making) model around it.
Music by Justin Johnson( www.JustinJohnsonLive.com )
Michael Amidei ( www.MichaelAmidei.com & www.WorldPoetryOpenMic.net )
Clifford Brooks ( www.CliffBrooks.com & www.SouthernCollectiveExperience.com )2019-03-0459 minThis Business Of Music & Poetry PodcastMeet Brooks & AmideiThe introductory episode of "This Business Of Music & Poetry" featuring Michael Amidei (poet, author, musician, host of "The Michael Amidei Show" & "World Poetry Open Mic") and Clifford Brooks (poet, author, founder of The Southern Collective Experience) give a context and mission to the podcast; helping you take your creative passion and turn it into a real-world living.
Music by Justin Johnson ( www.JustinJohnsonLive.com )
Michael Amidei ( www.MichaelAmidei.com & www.WorldPoetryOpenMic.net )
Clifford Brooks ( www.CliffBrooks.com & www.SouthernCollectiveExperience.com )2019-03-0436 min
TalkWithMEClifford Brooks, Poet
Clifford Brooks was born in Athens, Georgia. His first collection of poetry, “The Draw of Broken Eyes & Whirling Metaphysics” was nominated for a Pulitzer and Georgia Author of the Year. His second poetry collection, “Athena Departs: Gospel of a Man Apart,” was nominated for Georgia Author of the Year. A chapbook of verse, “Exiles of Eden,” serves as a bridge between his two, larger volumes. You can find all his titles at: www.leafgardenpress.com.
Clifford is founder of the Southern Collective Experience which publishes The Blue Mountain Review. He is also the man behind the NPR show, Dante’s Old South.
Learn m...2018-09-071h 01
The Michael Amidei ShowEp.250 - The Master Poet Speaks (Charles Clifford Brooks III)Michael shares his interview with Charles Clifford Brooks III, discussing his life and his fierce dedication to poetic work.
Charles Clifford Brooks (www.SouthernCollectiveExperience.com) is the founder of The Southern Collective Experience, host of Dante's Old South on NPR, and the author of "The Draw Of Broken Eyes & Whirling Metaphysics", "Athena Departs: Gospel Of A Man Apart" and "Exiles Of Eden".
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The Michael Amidei ShowEp.250 - The Master Poet Speaks (Charles Clifford Brooks III)Michael shares his interview with Charles Clifford Brooks III, discussing his life and his fierce dedication to poetic work.
Charles Clifford Brooks (www.SouthernCollectiveExperience.com) is the founder of The Southern Collective Experience, host of Dante's Old South on NPR, and the author of "The Draw Of Broken Eyes & Whirling Metaphysics", "Athena Departs: Gospel Of A Man Apart" and "Exiles Of Eden".2018-08-3117 minTalkWithMECharles Clifford Brooks III, Poet & Southern Collective Experience founderCliff made a career out of telling the truth, but not outright. His first book of poetry, The Draw of Broken Eyes & Whirling Metaphysics, first published by Gosslee Books, was nominated for a Pulitzer and Georgia Author of the Year. In April 2017, his second collection of verse, Athena Departs: Gospel of a Man Apart, plus a re-release of The Draw of Broken Eyes & Whirling Metaphysics, both hit the shelves thanks to Backlash Press www.backlashpress.com In 2018, his epic poem, The Salvation of Cowboy Blue Crawford, will be available with special editions that include a CD of original songs...2017-04-111h 00
Charles Clifford Brooks on new books and inspirationsToday's guest, Charles Clifford Brooks III talks about his new book, his inspiration, and his life as a Southern gentleman. Hear him read his work and tell a few good stories along the way.2012-06-0128 min