s2e9 REPLAY Shizue Seigel Speaks on Craft
Featuring author Vanessa Miller and A story about Queen Bodeicea by Martha Cinader
SHOW NOTES
s2e9 REPLAY January 2, 2025
Originallly Aired March 20, 2024
Tony Robles speaks with Shizue Seigel (Founder/Director of Write Now! SF Bay) and author Vanessa Miller (The American Queen). We hear some thoughts on banning books and preview an interview with author Joan Gelfand (Outside Voices, A Memoir of the Berkeley Revolution). Martha Cinader tells a story about Queen Boedicea.
HOSTS: Martha Cinader, Tony Robles. GUESTS: Shizue Seigel, James Cruell, Vanessa Miller, Joan Gelfand. ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: DJ Jeannie Hopper. EDITING: Jeremiah Cothren. MUSIC: Jay Rodriguez Sierra. Banned Book Theme by DJ Jeannie Hopper with the voice and words of Yvette Murray. Living It! is from the CD, Living It!, Martha Cinader’s Po’azz Yo’azz.
GUESTS
-
Shizue Seigel – Founder and Director of Write Now! SF Bay
Read more: Shizue Seigel – Founder and Director of Write Now! SF BayShizue Seigel is a third-generation Japanese American writer, visual artist and community activist who explores complex intersections of history, culture and spirituality through prose, poetry and visual art.
-
Vanessa Miller – Author, Playwright, Motivational Speaker
Read more: Vanessa Miller – Author, Playwright, Motivational SpeakerVanessa Miller is a best-selling author, playwright, and motivational speaker. She started writing as a child, spending countless hours either reading or writing poetry, short stories, stage plays and novels. Vanessa’s creative endeavors took on new meaning in1994 when she became a Christian. Since then, her writing has been centered on themes of redemption, often…
FEATURED SPOKEN WORD
Martha Cinader
“Queen Boedicea”
FEATURED BOOKS
-
Dreamscape, Real Dreams Really Make a Difference
Read more: Dreamscape, Real Dreams Really Make a DifferenceA collection of biographical stories and poems about fascinating people in history whose real dreams made a real difference. Developed in performance, these stories bring old tales to life for contemporary readers in a way that is both entertaining and informative.
-
Joan Gelfand – Outside Voices
Read more: Joan Gelfand – Outside VoicesSecond-wave feminism, inspired by Gloria Steinem, Bella Abzug, and Betty Friedan is swelling into a tsunami. Women are joining together to change power dynamics in politics, the home, and the workplace. On election day, Joan Gelfand casts her vote for George McGovern and boards a plane from New York to California. With one introduction to…
-
The American Queen
Read more: The American QueenIn 1869 a kingdom rose in the South. And Louella was its queen. Over the twenty-four years she’s been enslaved on the Montgomery Plantation, Louella learned to feel one thing: hate. Hate for the man who sold her mother. Hate for the overseer who left her daddy to hang from a noose. Hate so powerful…
-
Uncommon Ground
Read more: Uncommon GroundWhat does it take to develop and sustain a career in creative arts. Twenty-two San Francisco Bay Area writers and artists of color trace their journeys as creative activists. They draw from legacies and challenges of roots in Native America, Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Muslim world. Their lived experience as creative…
-
VILLAGE
Read more: VILLAGEIn propulsive and formally inventive verse, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs examines how trauma reshapes lineage, language, and choice, disrupting attempts at reconciliation across generations. Questioning who is deemed worthy of public memorialization, Diggs raises new monuments, tears down classist tropes, offers detailed instructions for her own international funeral celebrations, and makes visible the hidden labors…
VIDEOS
SUBMISSIONS
Do you want to be heard in the garden? Please consider contributing your audio content. We grow together when we nurture our network. Click here for more information.
BANNED BOOKS
We invite you to share your voice
on the banning of books
in schools and libraries in the USA.
PEN America reported ‘While the movement to ban books is driven by a vocal minority demanding censorship, a 2022 poll conducted by The American Library Association found that over 70% of parents oppose book banning leaving many public school districts in a bind. We invite you to share your voice on the banning of books in schools and libraries in the USA.
Learn more
Please participate. Say something about this and be heard.