Belinda Subraman Presents / Gypsy Art Show

Peter Buffett: Composer, Singer, Activist speaks about his life and new release, IMAGINARY KINGDOM

noreply@blogger.com (Belinda Subraman Presents / Gypsy Art Show) — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:08:00 +0000

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Peter Buffett, a well-established composer/producer, has released his third vocal album, IMAGINARY KINGDOM.

Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Buffett began his career in San Francisco writing music for commercials. He has eight released albums on Narada, Epic and Hollywood labels as well as six releases on his own label - including the EMMY award winning CD, Ojibwe.

Buffett also composed and produced the score for the Duncan Group production of WISCONSIN – AN AMERICAN PORTRAIT, a regional EMMY award winner. Highlights of his film and television work include the Fire Dance scene in the Oscar winning film Dances With Wolves, and the score for 500 Nations, the eight-hour miniseries for CBS produced by Kevin Costner.

Buffett's theatrical production, Spirit – The Seventh Fire, originally launched as a successful PBS pledge event, was located on the National Mall for the Smithsonian's opening of the National Museum of the American Indian. As co-chairman of the NoVo Foundation, Buffett helps guide the strategic plan that he and his wife Jennifer will implement with a small dedicated staff over the coming years.

Blue Rooms, Black Holes, White Light

noreply@blogger.com (Belinda Subraman Presents / Gypsy Art Show) — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 01:13:00 +0000

A video presentation from Unlikely Books on Belinda Subraman's book, BLUE ROOMS, BLACK HOLES, WHITE LIGHTS,edited by Jonathan Penton with words and vocal performance by Belinda, music by Ken Clinger and art by Cesar Ivan.

New features

noreply@blogger.com (Belinda Subraman Presents / Gypsy Art Show) — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:30:00 +0000

Six Sentences: http://sixsentences.blogspot.com/2009/01/six-sixes-by-belinda-subraman.html

New art videos by Belinda: Seeing the Forest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_3EZH9LPiE

Weird Gifts of the Night:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VmcHUnL0hM

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More audio interviews coming up.

Didi Menendez: Poet, Artist, Publisher

noreply@blogger.com (Belinda Subraman Presents / Gypsy Art Show) — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:59:00 +0000

Didi Menendez is a Cuban-born American artist and author. She is also the publisher for MiPoesias, http://www.mipoesias.com ,OCHO and Oranges & Sardines. Her series The American Poet Portraits is gaining momentum. http://americanpoets.blogspot.com/
Her latest book of poetry is WHEN I SAID GOODBYE released by BLAZEVOX.

Jill Mattson: Composer and Author of TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF SOUND

noreply@blogger.com (Belinda Subraman Presents / Gypsy Art Show) — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:43:00 +0000

Jill wrote Transformative Power In Sound: Intelligence, Health and Energy Through the Magic of Music, and lectures throughout the U.S. on this topic. She has numerous CDs out, with healing and transforming energy. Also, visit Jill's cyber gallery of art, fluid and evoking paintings and prints. www.jillswingsoflight.com http://myspace.com/jillswingsoflight http://newagehealingmusic.blogspot.com

The URL for the episode is:

http://belinda_subraman.podomatic.com/entry/eg/2008-12-18T12_31_00-08_00

India: Finding Reality In Myth

noreply@blogger.com (Belinda Subraman Presents / Gypsy Art Show) — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:51:00 +0000

Excerpts from the 1995 prize winning book from Chiron Review. This book deals with observations and unique interpretations of Belinda's first visit to India and seeing her Indian in-laws in their home environment for the first time.
The URL for this episode is:

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Celia: Folk Singer and Actress

noreply@blogger.com (Belinda Subraman Presents / Gypsy Art Show) — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:28:00 +0000

Celia is a singer, songwriter, actress, and storyteller who dishes up the most delicious concoction of the silly and the sacred. She is an amazing multi-faceted artist. From powerful, heart-felt vocals to wacky comedic improvisations, you honestly never know what will happen with Celia on stage. Think Enya meets Tori Amos meets Gilda Radner.
Celia has opened for notable authors: Neale Donald Walsch, Marianne Williamson, Dr. Masaru Emoto, and Sonia Choquette, provided live music for the Off-Broadway production of “Rum and Vodka”, received a “Best Storytelling CD” nomination for “Irish Tales” by the International Just Plain Folks Awards (The Grassroots of Grammies). Her “Symbol” song as been named the “Anthem for the Veteran Pentacle Quest” in support of Religious tolerance and acceptance.
Celia is currently on tour with her 5th album; “Red, Alabaster and Blue”. Other releases include “Fire in the Head”, “Irish Tales”, “Breathe”, and “Live at the Rock N Soul Café”. No matter how many times you think you’ve seen Celia, you can never predict what she will do and how deeply she can reach into the soul of an audience.

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Mark Yakich and The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine

noreply@blogger.com (Belinda Subraman Presents / Gypsy Art Show) — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:42:00 +0000

Mark Yakich is an author and professor in the Department of English at Loyola University. His collection of poems Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross was one of five winners of The National Poetry Series in 2003. Another collection, The Making of Collateral Beauty, won the Snowbound Chapbook Award and was published by Tupelo Press in 2006. His most recent collection is The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine (Penguin Poets, 2008).

The url for this episode is: http://belinda_subraman.podomatic.com/entry/eg/2008-11-25T10_40_42-08_00

Brad Listi: Attention. Deficit. Disorder.

noreply@blogger.com (Belinda Subraman Presents / Gypsy Art Show) — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:07:00 +0000

ATTENTION. DEFICIT. DISORDER. is a book.
It's a novel.
It's a story about how difficult it is to find meaning in the Information Age.
It's a contemporary rendition of the classic coming of age novel.
It features a man who wants to shave his head for reasons he can't explain.
It features a really old man and a really young prostitute.
It features a big desert, a charming mentally disabled man, and some hardcore spelunking.
If you so desire, you can order it online at:
amazon.com
Barnes & Noble
Powell's
Borders
BookSense
....Or at any other online bookseller.
Otherwise you can pick it up at your local bookstore.
Or you can steal it.

The url for this podcast is http://belinda_subraman.podomatic.com/entry/eg/2008-11-11T17_46_13-08_00

Check out new blog: Buns and Barbs

noreply@blogger.com (Belinda Subraman Presents / Gypsy Art Show) — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 06:59:00 +0000

Bunny and Barbara became good friends in the 7th grade when they were they only students not willing to pay a dime to see a 7th grade softball game at recess. They were were made to stay in an empty classroom. They wrote poems and talked about "psychotic sensations" which were really feelings of being seperate from their bodies..or something like that. They have lived in seperate states both physically and psychologically for years but have always reconnected by phone and now by blog. They thought their musings might be worth sharing.

C. J. Sage: Poet and Editor

noreply@blogger.com (Belinda Subraman Presents / Gypsy Art Show) — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:36:00 +0000

C.J. Sage edits The National Poetry Review (www.nationalpoetryreview.com). Her poems appear in Antioch Review, Black Warrior Review, Ploughshares, POOL, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, Threepenny Review, et cetera. Previous books include Let's Not Sleep, And We The Creatures, Field Notes on Contemporary Literature, and Odyssea. CJ is a Realtor specializing in beach homes.

The url for this episode is http://belinda_subraman.podomatic.com/entry/eg/2008-09-26T19_50_59-07_00

J. P. Dancing Bear Poet, Editor of APJ and Dream Horse Prerss

noreply@blogger.com (Belinda Subraman Presents / Gypsy Art Show) — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:54:00 +0000

J. P. Dancing Bear is the author of Conflicted Light (SalmonPoetry, 2008), Gacela of Narcissus City (Main Street Rag, 2006), Billy Last Crow (Turning Point, 2004) and What Language (Slipstream, 2002). His poems have been published in Shenandoah, Poetry International, New Orleans Review, National Poetry Review, Marlboro Review, Mississippi Review, diode, Natural Bridge, Verse Daily and many others. His translations of Nicaraguan poet, Blanca Castellón, have been published in Malboro Review, International Poetry Review and the upcoming issue of Bitter Oleander (Fall, 2008). He is the editor of the American Poetry Journal, the owner/editor of Dream Horse Press, and the host of "Out of Our Minds" a weekly poetry program on public radio station KKUP.

The url for this episode is http://belinda_subraman.podomatic.com/entry/eg/2008-09-24T15_04_32-07_00

Ravi Shankar: Poet and Professor

noreply@blogger.com (Belinda Subraman Presents / Gypsy Art Show) — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:43:00 +0000

Ravi Shankar is Associate Professor and Poet-in-Residence at Central Connecticut State University and founding editor of the international online journal of the arts, Drunken Boat <http://www.drunkenboat.com>. He has published a book of poems, Instrumentality (Cherry Grove, 2004), named a finalist for the 2005 Connecticut Book Awards, and along with Reb Livingston, a collaborative chapbook, Wanton Textiles (No Tell Books, 2006). His creative and critical work has previously appeared in such publications as The Paris Review, Fulcrum, McSweeney's, the AWP Writer's Chronicle, Scribner’s Best American Erotic Poems from 1800 to the Present, among many others. He has taught at Queens College, University of New Haven, and Columbia University, where he received his MFA in Poetry. He has appeared as a commentator on NPR and Wesleyan Radio and read his work in many places, including the Asia Society, St. Mark's Poetry Project and the National Arts Club. He currently serves on the Advisory Council for the Connecticut Center for the Book, reviews poetry for the Contemporary Poetry Review and along with Tina Chang and Nathalie Handal, is the co-editor of Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from Asia, the Middle East and Beyond (W.W. Norton & Co.) <http://www.wwnorton.co.uk/book.html?id=1184

The url for this episode is: http://belinda_subraman.podomatic.com/entry/eg/2008-09-23T16_19_14-07_00

Cliff Kindy: Peacemaker and Educator on the Dangers of Depleted Uranium Weapons

noreply@blogger.com (Belinda Subraman Presents / Gypsy Art Show) — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:15:00 +0000

Cliff Kindy has spent parts of several years on peacemaking trips to Iraq. He is a member of CPT which places violence-reduction teams in crisis situations and militarized areas around the world at the invitation of local peace and human rights workers. CPT embraces the vision of unarmed intervention waged by committed peacemakers ready to risk injury and death in bold attempts to transform lethal conflict through the nonviolent power of truth and love.

The url for this episode is http://belinda_subraman.podomatic.com/entry/eg/2008-10-11T09_11_50-07_00

Sylvia Thompson: Terminally ill Poet and Wholistic Practitioner

noreply@blogger.com (Belinda Subraman Presents / Gypsy Art Show) — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:26:00 +0000

Diagnosed with advanced colon cancer on her birthday in 2005, Sylvia Thompson discovered the healing power of creative writing through her illness. She teaches meditation, Reiki, Chakra and Color Therapy and takes part in a women's Kabbalah study group in her community. Her book "In the Garden of Illness I sit by the Well of Hope" is available through SHADOW POETRY or you may have a special expanded version printed just for you through LULU. For more samples of Sylvia's poetry go to Author's Den. Her book is also available at Barnes and Noble.com and Amazon.com Check out her web site at http://myspace.com/thompsonpoetry

The url for this episode is: http://belinda_subraman.podomatic.com/entry/eg/2008-10-03T16_20_34-07_00

Connie Day: Nurse Practitioner in Afghanistan

noreply@blogger.com (Belinda Subraman Presents / Gypsy Art Show) — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 02:51:00 +0000

Connie Day, Nurse Practitioner, has just returned from one of her nine month stays in Afghanistan. She tells about her experiences in the medical clinic in war torn Kabul. Connie's notes: Worked in refugee camps in Pakistan Led mobile clinic in Afghanistan during the war with the (Russian) now Soviet Union. Worked in Angola, Africa during the civil war providing health care for the displaced Returned to Afghanistan twice since 9-11 As an NP, my specialty is women's health. I last worked in a women's hospital in Kabul where I set in place a curriculum and taught Afghan midwives. Also provided a study guide to prepare midwives for their National Certification Exam administered by the Ministry of Health.

The url for this episode is: http://belinda_subraman.podomatic.com/entry/eg/2006-09-01T15_36_38-07_00 or you may listen from the Player on the right.

David Hernandez: Poet and Author

noreply@blogger.com (Belinda Subraman Presents / Gypsy Art Show) — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:25:00 +0000

David Hernandez's poetry collections include Always Danger (Southern Illinois University Press, 2006), winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry, and A House Waiting for Music (Tupelo Press, 2003). Earlier this year, HarperCollins published his first YA novel Suckerpunch, and will follow it up next year with No More Us For You. His poems have appeared in FIELD, Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, The Kenyon Review, TriQuarterly, AGNI, and The Southern Review. His drawings have also appeared in literary magazines, including a feature in Indiana Review. David lives in Long Beach, California and is married to writer Lisa Glatt.

The url for this episode is: http://belinda_subraman.podomatic.com/entry/eg/2008-09-20T08_15_42-07_00

Robert Lee Brewer: Editor of Writer's Market

noreply@blogger.com (Belinda Subraman Presents / Gypsy Art Show) — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:10:00 +0000

Robert Lee Brewer is the editor of Writer's Market and will be the editor of Poet's Market (beginning with the 2010 edition). He is the sole contributor to the Poetic Asides blog at http://blog.writersdigest.com/poeticasides, and beginning this fall will be teaching online poetry courses at http://www.writersonlineworkshops.com/. Brewer's poetry has been published in several print and online journals, including MEAT, Words Dance, Otoliths, and MiPOesias (Cafe Cafe Edition). He recently married the poet formerly known as Tammy F. Trendle, has 2 sons, 1 stepson, and another boy on the way. He splits his time between Dayton, Ohio, and Atlanta, Georgia.

The url for this podcast is: http://belinda_subraman.podomatic.com/entry/eg/2008-09-13T08_02_04-07_00 You may also listen from the Player on the right side of this page.

Tony Barnstone: Prize Winning Poet with a Ph.D

noreply@blogger.com (Belinda Subraman Presents / Gypsy Art Show) — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:47:00 +0000

Tony Barnstone is Associate Professor of creative writing at Whittier College. His first book of poetry, Impure, a finalist for the Walt Whitman Prize, the National Poetry Series Prize, and the White Pine Prize, appeared with the UP of Florida in June 1999. His chapbook of poems, Naked Magic, appeared in 2002 with Main Street Rag Press. Other books include Out of the Howling Storm: The New Chinese Poetry (Middletown: Wesleyan UP, 1993), Laughing Lost in the Mountains: Selected Poems of Wang Wei (Hanover: UP of New England, 1991), The Art of Writing: Teachings of Chinese Masters (Boston: Shambhala, 1996), and a number of textbooks, most recently The Literatures of Asia and The Literatures of the Middle East (Prentice Hall). His poetry, translations, essays on poetics, and fiction have appeared in dozens of American literary journals, from APR to Agni. He has won an Artists Fellowship from the California Arts Council, as well as many national poetry awards. A few of his other books are The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry (Anchor, 2003) and a number of textbooks for Prentice Hall, including The Pleasures of Poetry: An Introduction (2005), World Literature (two volumes, 2003), and Modern Poetry: An Anthology with Contexts (2004).

The url for this episode is: http://belinda_subraman.podomatic.com/entry/eg/2008-09-05T15_45_18-07_00

Frances Mai Ling: Poet and Alternative Classical Composer

noreply@blogger.com (Belinda Subraman Presents / Gypsy Art Show) — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:49:00 +0000

Frances Mai-Ling is pioneering the genre of Alternative-Classical music; taking classical piano to new level giving it a fresh sound of the traditional and the current trend of rock, pop, alternative. Creating a new genre that is powerful, for people of all ages can enjoy. Since 2001, she has taken her creation of Alternative-Classical merging the sparkling qualities of classical music with the emotional melodic style of many generes, all within an intimate setting of Mai-Ling and her music.

The url for this episode it: http://belinda_subraman.podomatic.com/entry/eg/2008-08-30T08_50_20-07_00

John Amen: Poet, Musician/Songwriter, Editor

noreply@blogger.com (Belinda Subraman Presents / Gypsy Art Show) — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 17:34:00 +0000

John Amen is the author of two collections of poetry: Christening the Dancer (Uccelli Press 2003) and More of Me Disappears (Cross-Cultural Communications 2005), and has released one folk/folk rock CD, All I’ll Never Need (Cool Midget 2004). His poetry has appeared in various journals and anthologies, including, most recently, Rattle, The New York Quarterly, The International Poetry Review, Gargoyle, and Blood to Remember. He is also an artist, working primarily with acrylics on canvas. His second CD, Ridiculous Empire, was just released (Spring 2008) and is now available for purchase. Amen travels widely giving readings, doing musical performances, and conducting workshops. He founded and continues to edit the award-winning literary bimonthly, The Pedestal Magazine (www.thepedestalmagazine.com).

Iris Brossard: Poet, Writer and Neurologist

noreply@blogger.com (Belinda Subraman Presents / Gypsy Art Show) — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:33:00 +0000

Yes, and she's good at all three.

URL for this episode:

http://belinda_subraman.podomatic.com/entry/eg/2008-08-16T06_28_13-07_00

David Francis: His poetry, music and Interview

noreply@blogger.com (Belinda Subraman Presents / Gypsy Art Show) — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 03:25:00 +0000

From "New Grey Whistle Test" (nugreywhistletest.co.uk) by David Hudson

All the way from New York this guy oozes credibility and coolness, he has a new album out now called 'Poems'...
All the lyrics and poems on his new album were written entirely in the UK, a collection of inspirations and thoughts that our country had on an 'American in London'....and beyond

URL for this podcast: http://belinda_subraman.podomatic.com/entry/eg/2008-08-08T20_22_01-07_00

Joe Martin: Playwright, Novelist, Theatre Director

noreply@blogger.com (Belinda Subraman Presents / Gypsy Art Show) — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:37:00 +0000

Playwright, novelist and theatre director, Joe Martin's works comprise an international, searching, formal exploration into the border regions between the spiritual cosmos and the political world.

He is the recipient of various grants and awards as a writer and director--including a Fulbright Senior Fellowship in Theatre, and grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Scandinavian Foundation, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, among others. In 2002 Martin was selected as a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Theatre.

Also active as a translator of drama from Swedish, Norwegian and Spanish, he has translated many works of August Strindberg, as well as Jens Bjorneboe, and Juan Tovar.
A director and dramaturg of over fifty stage productions in the US, Canada and Europe, his choices have included both originals and classic works: The Ghost Sonata (Washington 1988), Parabola: Tales of the Wise and the Idiots (Washington, 1990), Anatole's Lover (Washington 1991), Woyzeck (1993), The Match Girl's SNOW QUEEN (Washington 1995), Three Plays by Brecht: The Wedding/The Chalk Cross/The Beggar (with Zeljko Djukic, 1997), Rumi's MATHNAVI (Washington and New York, 1998-2001), and Jose Rivera's Marisol (Bucharest, 2002).

He is a Lecturer in the Department of Theatre Arts and Studies, Johns Hopkins University; & Creative Writing at George Washington University.

URL for this episode is http://belinda_subraman.podomatic.com/entry/eg/2008-08-02T16_31_00-07_00 You may also listen from the Player on the right.

Judy Kronenfeld: Author, Poet, Scholar

noreply@blogger.com (Belinda Subraman Presents / Gypsy Art Show) — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:46:00 +0000

Dr. Kronenfeld is both a scholar and a poet (as well as a more occasional writer of fiction, memoir, essays and reviews). She has taught English Literature at the University of California, Irvine, the University of California, Riverside and Purdue University. She has published over a dozen articles on Renaissance and other literary topics in various journals. Her in-depth historical-cultural-linguistic study, King Lear and the Naked Truth: Rethinking the Language of Religion and Resistance was published by Duke University Press in 1998. Because of it, Dr. Kronenfeld was named one of the two recipients of the University of California, Riverside, 1996-97 non-Senate Distinguished Researcher Award.

In midlife, Judy Kronenfeld turned back to her childhood love of writing poetry. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous magazines such as Natural Bridge, The Portland Review, Passages North, Poetry International, Chariton Review, Kansas Quarterly, The Manhattan Poetry Review, The Evansville Review, The Mississippi Valley Review, The Louisville Review, The MacGuffin, Hiram Poetry Review, Snake Nation Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, The Pedestal, Barnwood, The Women's Review of Books, Calyx and Cimarron Review.. She is the author of two chapbooks, Disappeared Down Dark Wells and Still Falling (Inevitable Press, 2000), and Ghost Nurseries (Finishing Line, 2005), and two full-length collections, Shadow of Wings (Bellflower, 1991) and Light Lowering in Diminished Sevenths, which won the 2007 Annual Litchfield Review Book Award in the poetry category, and will be published in 2008 by the Litchfield Review Press.