March 22, 2009 by Victor Volkman.

Aurthors Airwaves is proud to feature a special podcast “Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Poetry and Music” by Janet Riehl on our live station and through the PODCAST link below. Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary is Janet’s family love story, a remembrance narrated in story poems that traverses the boundaries of life and death. In the words of one reviewer, the collection offers “village wisdom for the 21st century.”Janet’s writing has also been published in numerous literary venues including the Harvard Review, Cream City Review, and the International Poetry Review. Hot Flashes: More Sexy Little Poems and Stories is one of three publications where her work has been anthologized. She was twice selected as finalist for Poet Laureate of Lake County, California.

JANET GRACE RIEHL calls herself a country girl who roamed the world, then followed her heart back home.A seasoned writer, artist, musician, and storyteller, Janet defies the stereotype of a down-home, heartland gal. Her travels have taken her across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, where she initiated and directed development projects, provided training, and taught. Her cross-cultural focus continued upon her return to the U.S. in her work with Native American pueblos, inner-city African Americans, Latinos, and—perhaps most foreign of all—the California computer industry. Janet was also the recipient of a three-year leadership fellowship in international development from the Kellogg Foundation.

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March 13, 2009 by Victor Volkman.

I am very pleased to announce a new quarterly journal which follows the interests of our authors in the areas of personal growth, relationships, trauma recovery, living with disabilities, the struggle for identity, and bereavement in adults, children and elders.  Karim Khan (a.k.a. Ernest Dempsey) who has been at the helm of a successful literary quarterly The Audience Review (http://www.worldaudience.org/pubs_aud_rev_issues.html )
has accepted the post of Senior Editor for this project, ensuring it will come to fruition.

As such, we are soliciting articles including essays, memoirs, poetry, and art in all areas.  Articles should be 1,000 to 4,000 words and submitted in plain text format.  All though we aren’t really interested in reprinting material from existing printed books or journals, you can of course mine your own blog posts or other electronic media writings you have done in the past. You can direct ALL submissions to Karim directly at dempsey87 “at” yahoo.com

Once we get off the ground, we hope to have specific “themed” issues, but first things first

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September 25, 2008 by Victor Volkman.

On September 17th, 2008 Sherry Quan Lee gave a reading from her new book How to Write A Suicide Note: serial essays that saved a woman’s life as well as excerpts from other pieces of her work at the University of Minnesota Bookstore. We hope you will enjoy this rare chance to listen to the author read her own work on Authors Airwaves.

How to Write a Suicide Note examines the life of a Chinese/Black woman who grew up passing for white, who grew up poor, who loves women but has always married white men. Writing has saved her life. It has allowed her to name the historical trauma–the racist, sexist, classist experiences that have kept her from being fully alive, that have screamed at her loudly and consistently that she was no good, and would never be any good-and that no one could love her. Writing has given her the creative power to name the experiences that dictated who she was, even before she was born, and write notes to them, suicide notes.Sherry Quan Lee believes writing saves lives; writing has saved her life.

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