Episodes
Friday Dec 22, 2017
2017 Season Finale: ME & The Transformational Jennie Washburn
Friday Dec 22, 2017
Friday Dec 22, 2017
Jennie Washburn & Talk With ME host Marcia Epstein share their conversation about Gratitude, Planning Goodness, Female Impersonators, the Intersection of Art & Mental Health, Connections, Intentions for 2018, & Love. Jennie is a Licensed Esthetician who hosts The Goddess Within women’s circle in Lawrence, KS www.facebook.com/The-Goddess-Within-252751568549725/ Jennie also enjoys being onstage, including as a two-time contestant in Transformations, a charity gala. Host ME is a social worker specializing in suicide prevention, as well as support for trans and gender nonconforming people. Learn more at https://MarciaEpstein.biz
Tuesday Dec 12, 2017
James Decay, Poet
Tuesday Dec 12, 2017
Tuesday Dec 12, 2017
James grew up in Sweetwater, Illinois. He left home at the age of 13 and quickly learned how to survive on the streets under the guidance of thieves, prostitutes, junkies, con men, drug dealers, murderers and other characters. At the age of 14, he began hopping freight trains across the United States, Canada and Mexico. Soon after he joined a gang and began walking the circle of the revolving door we call the system. It was there he was introduced to literature and poetry by his cell mate who also encouraged him to start writing. Upon his release, six years ago, he began to take writing seriously. He attended open mic’s and met other like minded individuals who shared his passion for the written word. His work can be found online and in print in such places as The blood machine, gutter eloquence, five 2 one, Midnight Lane Gallery, Spokane shorties, Railtown Almanac and most recently Brenton Booth’s Asylum Floor. James also has a chapbook “A city under siege” which is no longer in print. If you would like to contact James Decay, you can do so via Facebook.
Monday Dec 11, 2017
Johnny Longfellow, Poet-Editor
Monday Dec 11, 2017
Monday Dec 11, 2017
Johnny Longfellow is the editor of the online poetry sites, BAD ACID LABORATORIES, INC, https://badacidlaboratories.wordpress.com/ and Midnight Lane Boutique https://midnightlanegalleryii.wordpress.com/. His own poetry has appeared in a variety of small press journals, including The Barefoot Muse, The Blue Mountain Review, The Five Two, The Literary Hatchet, The Road Not Taken, The Rotary Dial, and other venues. For over twenty years he has served as a mentor to Newburyport, MA high school students through the Poetry Soup reading program, and has also been a featured poet at The Newburyport Literary Festival, The Powow River Poets’ Reading Series, and The Hyla Brook Poets’ Reading Series, as held at the Robert Frost Farm in Derry, NH.
You can find links to some of his published poetry at Heeeeeere’s Johnny . . . Longfellow, That Is https://midnightlanegalleryii.wordpress.com/heeeeeeres-johnny-longfellow-that-is/ and follow him on Twitter @BAD_ACID_LABS.
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Julie Struck, Artist-Activist-Educator
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Julie is a mixed media artist, creative writer, creative activist and veteran arts educator based near Berea, KY. She has decades of experience teaching college level studio art and graphic design, as well as many local, regional and national exhibitions to her credit. She earned BFA and MFA degrees in traditional studio art at Northern Illinois University, but her professional and creative work has always touched upon and explored anything that illustrates her interest in dissolving boundaries and celebrating connections between art and other disciplines. In 2013 her career path changed dramatically when she became a teaching artist, bringing visual art as an engagement and empowerment tool to marginalized individuals including elders, at-risk youth and the homeless via innovative, collaborative, economic empowerment and public art projects that build awareness of and connections between the under-served and their communities. In September 2017, Julie was instrumental in EKU’s Art Vention community art project for healing for people affected by suicide.
Follow Julie Struck at www.facebook.com/ArtSpeakArtForEmpowerment & http://WarriorWoman-Productions.com
Friday Dec 01, 2017
Rob Plath, Poet-Painter-Photographer
Friday Dec 01, 2017
Friday Dec 01, 2017
Rob Plath has saturated the underground literary.scene with his writing for the past 25 years. He is the author of A Bellyful of Anarchy, There’s A Fist Dunked In Blood Beating In My Chest, Death Is Dead, Hearts For Brains, An Ax For The Frozen Sea, The Skeleton Sutras & In Rot We Trust, Swallowtude & many more. Find much Rob Plath writing thanks to Wolfgang Carstens of Epic Rites Press, and much powerful illustration of Rob’s words thanks to Janne Karlsson of Svensk Apache. Rob continues his literary onslaught with his forthcoming monster poetry collection My Soul Is A Broken Down Valise due out in 2018. Follow Rob Plath at www.RobPlath.com & www.facebook.com/rob.plath.54 & Twitter @rob_plath
Thursday Nov 30, 2017
Trina Schartz, Motivator & Writer
Thursday Nov 30, 2017
Thursday Nov 30, 2017
Trina is a Certified Yoga instructor, Lifestyle Coach, Sign Language Interpreter, Motivational Speaker, Workshop Leader and Author. In 2010, she started her coaching business: Your Life in Balance. She coaches individuals to live fully awake, aware, and alive using an integrative practice of mindfulness. And, she’s thrilled to announce that her first book, “When The Shoe Doesn’t Fit.” is scheduled for release as e-book in December 2017, in print January 2018.
Follow Trina @TrinaSchartzWhenTheShoeDoesntFit on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram