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The Oscar Project Podcast3.23-Filmmaker Interview with Lucy DavidsonSend us a textIn today's episode, I interview Lucy Davidson, the director of the short film "Baggage," a touching look at the weight we all carry with us in our day to day lives.Listen to hear about the inspiration for the film, the importance of creating a sonic landscape that felt believable, and some of the fun little details you can look for as you watch the film.Books mentioned in this episode include:When Breath Becomes Air by Paul KalanithiThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot...2025-03-0712 min

The High LowAnti-Racism Resources & An Author Special with Candice BrathwaiteThis week’s episode is focused on the resources we can access to educate ourselves on racism. These lists are not exhaustive but may provide a starting point. We also interview the creator of Make Motherhood Diverse, Candice Brathwaite, about her searing new book I Am Not Your Baby Mother. thehighlowshow@gmail.com Non-FictionWhy I Am No Longer Talking To White People About Race by Reni Eddo-LodgeI Am Not Your Baby Mother by Candice BrathwaiteWhite Fragility by Robin Diangelo...2020-06-0200 min

Journey Daily with a Compelling PoemAt Last (for my brother)Sibling relationships are funny, amazing, and complicated Floyd Skloot's poetry and prose have won three Pushcart Prizes, the PEN USA Literary Award, and been included in Best American Essays, Best American Science Writing, Best Spiritual Writing, and Best Food Writing. Poets & Writers named him "One of 50 of the Most Inspiring Authors in the World." His books include the memoirs In the Shadow of Memory and The Wink of the Zenith: The Shaping of a Writer's Life (University of Nebraska Press); the poetry collections The End of Dreams, The Snow's Music, Approaching Winter, and Far West (all from LS...2020-02-1106 min

Journey Daily with a Compelling PoemO'Connor at AndalusiaA moving tribute to Flannery O'Connor. Floyd Skloot's poetry and prose have won three Pushcart Prizes, the PEN USA Literary Award, and been included in Best American Essays, Best American Science Writing, Best Spiritual Writing, and Best Food Writing. Poets & Writers named him "One of 50 of the Most Inspiring Authors in the World." His books include the memoirs In the Shadow of Memory and The Wink of the Zenith: The Shaping of a Writer's Life (University of Nebraska Press); the poetry collections The End of Dreams, The Snow's Music, Approaching Winter, and Far West (all from LSU P...2020-02-0708 min

Past ForwardRebecca SklootA live recording of our educational podcast The Grammar of Science and Technology with Rebecca Skloot.This special program, entitled Dialogue on Bioethics: A Conversation with Rebecca Skloot, will be moderated by Dr. Andrew Lyon.Rebecca Skloot, a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University, is the author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Her award winning science writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine; O, The Oprah Magazine; Discover; and many other publications. She specializes in narrative science writing and has explored a wide range of topics, including gold...2018-10-0257 min Tiferet Talk with Ronna Wineberg | Donna Baier SteinPlease Join Donna Baier Stein and Tiferet Journal on Wednesday, December 9th @ 7PM EST for an interview with Ronna Wineberg. Ronna Wineberg is the author of On Bittersweet Place, her first novel, and a debut collection, Second Language, which won the New Rivers Press Many Voices Project Literary Competition, and was the runner-up for the 2006 Reform Judaism Prize for Jewish Fiction. Her stories have appeared in American Way, Colorado Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, South Dakota Review and elsewhere, and been broadcast on National Public Radio. She is the recipient of a scholarship in fiction to the Bread Loaf Writers Conference...2015-12-1000 min Tiferet Talk with Dani Antman | Donna Baier SteinPlease join Donna Baier Stein and Tiferet Journal on Wednesday, November 18th @ 7PM EST for a conversation with Dani Antman. Dani Antman is a master energy healer with over 25 years experience working with the human energy field. She is a graduate of the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, The Non-Dual School of Healing and has a certification in Somatic Experiencing, to work with PTSD and Trauma. Dani is a student and teacher of Kabbalah and an Interfaith Minister. She has led workshops at Esalen and La Casa de Maria, and is currently on the staff of The Lionheart Institute for T...2015-11-1900 min

Black Mountain Institute PodcastBlack Mountain Institute (BMI) Podcast #130: Stroke of Genius: What Brain Injury Reveals about Creativity, Consciousness, and the Mind-Body Connection - 11/13/15In this episode, the Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute hosts a panel discussion entitled "Stroke of Genius: What Brain Injury Reveals about Creativity, Consciousness, and the Mind-Body Connection." Sience writers Sandra Blakeselee and George Johnson, neurologist Dr. Bruce Miller, and fiction writer and memoirist Floyd Skloot discuss the brain, specifically how the experience of brain injury or dysfunction allows a glimpse into the mysterious neurological components of creativity, empathy, personality, and the boundaries of the self. The event was held November 12, 2015 in the Salon Ballroom in the Stan Fulton Building at UNLV and was moderated by BMI...2015-11-1300 min Betsy Woodman | Tiferet Talk interview with Donna Baier SteinPlease join Donna Baier Stein and Tiferet Journal on October 28th @ 7PM EST for a conversation with Betsy Woodman. Betsy Woodman is the author of Jana Bibi’s Excellent Fortunes, Love Potion Number 10: A Jana Bibi Adventure, and Emeralds Included. Her novels are published in the U.S. by Henry Holt & Company and in India by Random House India. Betsy spent ten childhood years in India, studied in France, Zambia and the United States, and now lives in her native New Hampshire. She was a writer and editor for the award-winning documentary series, Experiencing War, produced for the Library of Co...2015-10-2900 min Robert Carnevale | Tiferet Talk with Donna Baier-SteinPlease join Donna Baier-Stein and Tiferet Journal on 9/23/15 at 7PM EST for a conversation with Robert Carnevale. Robert Carnevale was born in Italy and grew up in Paterson. He worked in several capacities on the Voices and Visions film series on American poets and was Assistant Coordinator of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Poetry Program for six years. He teaches in the graduate school at Drew University and in the college at Kean University. Aside from Tiferet, his poems have appeared in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, The Alaska Quarterly, The Literary Review, Sidereal Times and other magazines, and se...2015-09-2400 min Dorianne Laux | Tiferet Talk with Donna Baier-SteinPlease join Donna Baier-Stein and Tiferet Talk for a conversation with Dorianne Laux on April 29th, 2015 at 7PM EST. Laux’s most recent books of poems are The Book of Men, winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize, and Facts about the Moon, recipient of the Oregon Book Award and short-listed for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Laux is also author of Awake, and What We Carry, a finalist for the National Book Critic’s Circle Award, and Smoke. Her work has received three “Best American Poetry” Prizes, a Pushcart Prize, two fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, and a Guggenh...2015-04-3000 min Jessica Treadway | Tiferet Talk Interview With Donna Baier-SteinPlease join Donna Baier-Stein and Tiferet Talk for a conversation with Jessica Treadway on March 25th, 2015 at 7PM EST. Jessica Treadway’s novel Lacy Eye will be published by Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group in March 2015. Her story collection Please Come Back To Me received the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and was published by University of Georgia Press in 2010. Her previous books are Absent Without Leave and Other Stories and a novel, And Give You Peace. A professor at Emerson College, she has received grants fromthe National Endowment for the Arts andthe Massachusetts Cultural Foundation. To learn...2015-03-2600 min Martha Serpas | Tiferet Talk Interview with Melissa StuddardPlease join Melissa Studdard and Tiferet Journal on 10/28/14 at 7PM EST for a conversation with poet, editor, chaplain and creative writing professor Martha Serpas. Serpas is the author of two collections of poetry, Côte Blanche and The Dirty Side of the Storm. Her work has appeared in places such as The New Yorker, The Nation, and Southwest Review, as well as in a number of anthologies, including the Library of America’s American Religious Poems. She holds degrees in English and creative writing from Louisiana State, New York University, and the University of Houston, and a master of divinity fro...2014-12-0400 min Dan Millman & Sierra Prasada | Tiferet Talk with Donna Baier-SteinPlease join Donna Baier-Stein and Tiferet Journal on 09/24/14 at 7PM EST for a conversation withDan Millman and Sierra Prasada. Father-daughter team Dan Millman and Sierra Prasada offers a unique collaboration in The Creative Compass: Writing Your Way from Inspiration to Publication. The book revolves around their combined experience in fiction and nonfiction, along with journalism, theater, and film adaptation. Millman is the author of 17 books in 29 languages. Some of his most prominent works include his first book, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, which was adapted to a film, "Peaceful Warrior," The Life You Were Born to Live, Everyday Enlightenment, and T...2014-09-2500 min Chard deNiord | Tiferet Talk with Melissa StuddardPlease join Melissa Studdard and Tiferet Journal on 07/10/14 at 7PM EST for a conversation with fabulous poet, essayist and creative writing professor Chard deNiord. DeNiord’s poetry collections include Asleep in the Fire, Sharp Golden Thorn, Night Mowing, and The Double Truth, as well as a collaborative project, Speaking in Turn. DeNiord was the founder and director of the Spirit and Letter Workshop with Jacqueline Gens in Patzquaro, Mexico and the founder and director of the New England College MFA Program in Poetry. He currently teaches English and Creative Writing at Providence College. In addition to teaching writing, deNiord has al...2014-07-1100 min Molly Fisk | Tiferet Talk with Melissa StuddardPlease join Melissa Studdard and her new co-host and publisher of Tiferet Journal, Donna Baier Stein on 04/29/14 at 7PM EST for a conversation with author, poet, life coach and creative writing teacher Molly Fisk. Fisk’s books include the poetry collections The More Difficult Beauty and Listening to Winter, and a collection of radio essays, Blow-Drying a Chicken, Observations from a Working Poet. Fisk has appeared for Tedx Events and in the PBS documentary, “The Loss of Nameless Things,” and she is the recipient of many fellowships, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council and the...2014-04-3000 min Melissa Studdard & Donna Baier Stein | Guest Host R JeffreysPlease join us for a lively conversation as our fabulous guest host R Jeffreys, of The Write Step, interviews Tifereteditor and blogtalk host Melissa Studdard and Tiferet Journal publisher and producer Donna Baier Stein. The topic of discussion will be the just published The Tiferet TalkInterviews book, a collection of the first year of Tiferet Talk interviews. The Tiferet TalkInterviews book, introduced by Tiferet Journal publisher, Donna Baier Stein, contains interviews Studdard conducted with the following brilliant and eclectic bunch of writers: Robert Pinsky, Floyd Skloot, Lois P. Jones, Julia Cameron, Marc Allen, Edward Hirsch, Bernie Siegel, Arielle Ford, Jude Rit...2012-09-0700 min

Writers on CraftWriters on Craft: Floyd SklootPoet, creative non-fiction and fiction writer Floyd Skloot talks about his evolution as a writer, the line between fiction and non-fiction and writing as a process of discovery. For more information about his work, visit www.floydskloot.com 2011-09-2900 min Floyd Skloot | Tiferet Talk with host Melissa StuddardPlease 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 & Writers Magazine recently named him "one of fifty of the most inspiring authors in the world." Tiferet Journal...2010-12-1000 min