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Tiferet Talk, the blogtalk radio show for TIFERET: A Journal of Spiritual Literature, seeks to aid the journal’s mission of promoting peace in the individual and in the world through writing.

Our monthly program interviews writers and religious and spiritual leaders about topics relevant to these goals. Your host for this program is Melissa Studdard, our contributing editor.

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The first Tiferet Talk interview of 2013 is tonight at 7 PM and we’re excited to also share the schedule for the year: Judith Hanson Lasater 1/28, 7 – 7:30 pm EST Julie Maloney 2/25, 7 – 7:30 pm EST Natalie Goldberg 3/18, 7 – 7:30 pm EST Helene Cardona and John FitzGerald 4/28, 7 – 7:30 pm EST Molly Peacock 5/20, 7 – 7:30 pm EST Jane Hirshfield 6/17, 7 – 7:30 pm EST Doug Anderson 7/29, 7 – 7:30 pm EST Ann Hood 8/19, 7 – 7:30 pm EST Andrea Polard 9/30, 7 – 7:30 pm EST Alfred Corn 10/21, 1:-1:30 PM EST Jim Hanson 11/25, 7 – 7:30 pm EST Kanta Bosniak 12/16/13, 7 – 7:30 pm EST You can also listen to any of our past episodes on-demand.

Please join us live at 7:00 p.m. EST on Monday, December 16th as Melissa Studdard interviews Kanta Bosniak. More information to follow soon.

Please join us live at 7:00 p.m. EST on Monday, November 25th as Melissa Studdard interviews Jim Hanson. More information to follow soon.

Please join us live at 1:00 p.m. EST on Monday, October 21st as Melissa Studdard interviews Alfred Corn. More information to follow soon.

Please join us live at 7:00 p.m. EST on Monday, Septemeber 30th for an interview with Andrea Polard. More information to follow soon!

Please join us live  on Monday, August 19th at 7:00 PM EST for an interview with Ann Hood. More information to follow soon!

Please join us live on Monday, July 29th at 7:00 PM EST for an interview with Doug Anderson. More information to follow soon!

Please join us live at 7:00 p.m. EST on Monday, June 17th for an interview with Jane Hirshfield. More information to follow soon!

Tiferet Talk Host Melissa Studdard speaks with fabulous poet and creative nonfiction writer Molly Peacock about a variety of topics, including her newly released book, Former Poet-in-Residence at the American Poets’ Corner and former President of the Poetry Society of America, Peacock is one of the creators of Poetry in Motion on subways and buses throughout North America. As well, for ten years Peacock conducted quarterly poetry circles on Wisconsin Public Radio. She is the author of numerous books in the genres of poetry, memoir, creative non-fiction, and craft, as well as a one-woman staged monologue in poems, which she performed in theatres throughout North America. She is also the editor of collections of both creative non-fiction and poetry. Among her awards are Danforth Foundation, Ingram Merrill Foundation, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and New York State Council on the Arts Fellowships. Currently Peacock is on the faculty of the Spalding University Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts program and serves as Series Editor of The Best Canadian Poetry in English, published each year by Tightrope Books in Toronto. In a starred review, Booklist says of  The Paper Garden, “Peacock does with words what Delany did with scissors Read the Rest…