
THE ART OF SLOW WRITING
Leslie Tate I’m a slow author. It took three years to write my latest book Ways To Be Equally Human. That’s an average of 40 words per day. So, if you were reading my book you’d have reached my daily

LISA DART – SURVIVAL POETRY AND THE VOICES OF EXPERIENCE
I interviewed Lisa Dart, finalist in the Grolier, Aesthetica and Troubadour Poetry Prizes and author of The Linguistics of Light (poems, Salt, 2008), Fathom (prose memoir, Free Association Press, 2019), and This Thing of Darkness, an experimental, illustrated book (IPBooks,

NIGERIAN POET SPEAKS
I interviewed Nigerian poet Samuel A. Adeyemi, who is a poetry editor at Afro Literary Magazine and the winner of The Yellow House Library Prize

STITCHING TOGETHER ART AND NEUROSCIENCE
I interviewed Laura Bundesen whose artwork is focused on the wonders of the human brain. Laura describes her fascination with neuroscience, her materials and methods,

HOW CAN WE LIVE GREENER?
I interviewed Tamara Evans Braun about her efforts to limit her impact on the planet, which she discusses on her website ASPIRING GREENER. Tamara, who

BLIND MARTIAL ARTIST, WORLDBUILDER & DAREDEVIL
I interviewed Anneliese M. Knop who was born with a degenerative retinal condition, but whose REAL story is about achieving a B.A. in Communication Arts

MOURNING DOLLS AND MEDITATIVE STITCH Part 2
In Part 2 of my interview with mixed-media and stitch artist Cheryl Hewitt she talks about memory and ‘Personal Effects’, her work habits as an

MOURNING DOLLS AND MEDITATIVE STITCH Part 1
I interviewed Cheryl Hewitt about her mixed-media and stitch art inspired by nature and the discarded objects she collects. In Part 1 Cheryl talks about