Archived Blog Talk Radio Show

Episode 24: Interview with Ron Starbuck

Ron Starbuck has been a contributing writer for Parabola Magazine, has had poetry published in Tiferet Journal and other journals and anthologies, and is the author of Wheels Turning Inward, a rich collection of...

Episode 23: Interview with Melissa Studdard and Donna Baier-Stein

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...

Episode 22: Interview with Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an award-winning author, poet, and teacher, whose works have been translated into 29 languages, including Dutch, Hebrew, Russian and Japanese. She writes for both adults and children and covers many themes,...

Episode 21: Interview with Rasoul Shams

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...

Episode 20: Interview with John E. Welshons

Welshons is a prolific author as well as founder and president of Open Heart Seminars, an organization whose aim is to increase spiritual awareness and education. Click the continue button below to read the rest of the post and to access the replay and download links.

Episode 19: Interview with Richard Jeffrey Newman

Newman is the author of the poetry collection; the translator of two masterpieces of 13th century Iranian poetry, Selections from Saadi’s Gulistan and Selections from Saadi’s Bustan, and translator of The Teller of Tales, a portion of the Shahnameh,the Persian national epic. He is also co-translator, with Professor John Moyne, of A Bird in the Garden of Angels, a selection of work by Rumi. Click the continue button below to read the rest of the post and to access the replay and download links.

Episode 18: Interview with Tony Barnstone

Barnstone is the recipient of many awards, including a Pushcart Prize, the Paumanok Poetry Award, the Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize, and the Pablo Neruda Prize in Poetry. Click the continue button below to read the rest of the post and to access the replay and download links.

Episode 17: Interview with Jason Shulman

Jason Shulman, is the founder of A Society of Souls training in Integrated Kabbalistic Healing, IM/personal Movement and the Work of Return. Click the continue button below to read the rest of the post and to access the replay and download links.
Josip Novakovich

Episode 16: Interview with Josip Novakovich

Novakovich is the author of three short story collections, the novel April Fool's Day, two collections of narrative essays, and two textbooks. Click the continue button below to read the rest of the post and to access the replay and download links.
JP Dancing Bear

Episode 15: Interview with J.P. Dancing Bear

Bear is the author of three full length collections of poetry, as well as several chapbooks. His fourth collection, Family of Marsupial Centaurs, is due out later this year. Click the continue button below to read the rest of the post and to access the replay and download links.