Archived Blog Talk Radio Show

Tiferet Host Melissa Studdard, and Guest Co-Host, Tiferet Associate Editor, R Jeffreys, speak with the fabulous literary duo, poets Hélène Cardona and John FitzGerald. In addition to writing poetry, Cardona is an actor, translator, teacher, children’s story writer,...

Melissa Studdard has an insightful conversation with prize-winning poet, translator, and essayist, Jane Hirshfield. We focus on Hirshfield’s most recent collection, Come, Thief: Poems and discuss her other works as well. Hirshfield is the author of seven collections of...

Join Melissa Studdard and Tiferet Journal for a conversation with neuropsychologist and author, Rick Hanson, Ph.D. We will discuss Hanson’s most recent book, the New York Times bestseller Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of...

Guest host R Jeffreys, of The Write Step, interviews Tiferet editor and blogtalk host Melissa Studdard and Tiferet publisher and producer Donna Baier Stein. Donna Baier Stein explains why she founded the magazine and...

Join Melissa Studdard and Tiferet Journal for a conversation with author, journalist, producer, and talk show host Krista Tippett about her non-fiction works Speaking of Faith and Einsteins God, and her radio program, On Being. Speaking...

Rasoul Shams is a translator of Rumi: The Art of Loving.We're delighted to announce, as well, that Rasoul will be reading  from the poetry in both English and Persian. Rasoul first learned of Rumi’s poems in...

Melissa Studdard and Tiferet Journal interviews poet, author, artist, coach and interfaith minister, Kanta Bosniak. Bosniak is a nationally recognized expert on what she calls  “Abundance Triggers,” the practice of using art, interior design and other...

Melissa Studdard interviews Julie Maloney. Maloney’s first poetry collection, Private Landscape, was published in 2007, and in 2003 she founded Women Reading Aloud, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting women writers through special events and workshops....

Melissa Studdard, host of Tiferet Talk, speaks with writer and psychologist Jacqueline Sheehan. They'll be discussing Sheehan’s emotionally-riveting work, with a focus on the novel Picture This released just this past May as a sequel...