
In the 1970s he studied and lived in Jamaica, receiving a BA from the University of the West Indies in 1976. To find them all, please reach out to him at: out his Teachable courses on thriving with autism and creative writing as a profession here: Kendel Hippolyte was born in Castries, St. His chapbook, Exiles of Eden, is only available through my website. Mercer University Press: Woodbridge Inn: Autism Speaks: Mostly Mutts: The Red Phone Booth: Liberty Trust Hotel: https: The host, Clifford Brooks’, The Draw of Broken Eyes & Whirling Metaphysics and Athena Departs are available everywhere books are sold. Instagram: Facebook: Special Thanks Goes to: He is the leader of the world-famous Flying W Wranglers, an author of books such as "The Fall", "The Adventure Chooses You", and "The Path" and is the host of "The Michael Amidei Show" and co-host of "This Business Of Music & Poetry". Michael Amidei is a musician, author, and podcaster based out of Denver, Colorado. Others skew closer to honky-tonk and western swing, influenced by larger-than-life Texans like Bob Wills and Willie Nelson. Some songs nod to the band's longtime appreciation for mellow, melancholic Americana music. Many of Surrender Hill's songs respond to the modern moment - songs about division, struggle, survival, and redemption, anchored by melodic hooks and diverse arrangements. They aren't just an Americana duo they are full-time world travelers, too, funneling their experiences into the story-driven songs and autobiographical anthems that fill albums like A Whole Lot of Freedom and their latest, Just Another Honky Tonk in a Quiet Western Town. Inner Child Work is caught right at the point of in-between, which I would call healing."Īs the songwriters behind Surrender Hill, Robin and Afton Salmon play more than 200 shows annually, sharpening their blend of soul, country, and rock & roll one gig at a time. But I can also feel this softening happening. "My artistry and the album have this wildness to them.

"This album and my existence as an artist come from a need to connect and develop relationships-yet simultaneously I've always felt like this lone candle in a dark room," she says. Inner Child Work is an album that finds Blue examining who she was-and setting her sights on where she wants to be. Her songs grapple with long-overdue emotional reckonings, facing mortality and taking control of the turmoil in your life. Inspired by music mentors such as the late Malcolm Clark Hayes, Jr., who had recorded for Liberty Records and toured with Little Richard in his youth, Blue found her identity as an insightful, poetic lyricist who isn't afraid to get deeply personal. Growing up in Los Angeles, Blue admired authors like Jack Kerouac and Joan Didion, as well as songwriter/poets like Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and Leonard Cohen. Although her folk roots are never far from the surface, the album encompasses dreamy indie-rock ("Dog Days in L.A."), delicate pop meditations ("Saline Waters"), '90s alternative rock ("Dirty Hippie"), and even Tori Amos-esque introspection ("Fine"). It's difficult to pin down exact musical influences on Alicia Blue's Inner Child Work-and that's exactly how the California singer-songwriter likes it. To find them all, please reach out to him at: out his Teachable courses on thriving with autism and creative writing as a profession here: March 2023 Dante’s Old South Mercer University Press: Woodbridge Inn: Autism Speaks: Mostly Mutts: The Red Phone Booth: Liberty Trust Hotel: The host, Clifford Brooks’, The Draw of Broken Eyes & Whirling Metaphysics and Athena Departs are available everywhere books are sold. You might love cats as much as me, but you don't love them more. I've earned degrees from Oxford University and the University of Michigan and recently completed my MFA at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. In 2019, I thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail. Gregory Ariail grew up in Buford, Georgia. He lives in Baltimore and teaches at Goucher College.

New poems appear in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, POETRY, American Poetry Review, and Oxford American. He has been a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, a MacDowell Fellow, a Teaching Fellow at Vanderbilt University, and a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Edgar Kunz is the author of the poetry collections Fixer (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2023) and Tap Out (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2019), a New York Times New & Noteworthy pick.
