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John E. WordSlinger is a Poet, Musician, Author, Screen Writer, Poetry & Railroad Historian/Promoter. He is currently writing Poetry Train Africa which is the third book series to make up the Poetry Train Trilogy: A colorful combination of storytelling, poets, poetry, and railways. 3 men who travel Africa in the year of 2015 and &c to write a written documentary on Poets and Railway history in Africa. What is your Internet writing life motto? What made you have one? Keep it Poetry and Poetry Will Keep You. It's if you want the life style you must live the life style. In 2008 when I looked for a place to share my poetry I read many websites. Poets had short biographies, and I did not have any, but I posted anyway without having one. I was self taught, and as time came by I reflected on things I learned so I came up with one, and it's about changing and growing, furthermore listening and observing life, the arts of literature and the histories of it all. ...

Tara Lynn Hawk is a poet and writer whose work has appeared in Occulum, Spelk, Anti-Heroin Chic, Uut, Midnight Lane Gallery, Idle Ink, Spilling Cocoa, Social Justice Poetry, Poems & Poetry and more. Her work focuses on the human condition: the unspoken, the forgotten and the marginalization of the consumer culture. Born in northern California, she has traveled extensively and lived and worked in the UK and Europe. You address many aspects of the human condition in your book The Dead. Which was the most challenging for you? It is all easy, and all difficult for me. I continue to be alternately amazed and appalled with what I see and experience in my day to day life: isolation, loneliness, the willful ignorance, the pain, the lack of humility. I write free verse in a confessionalist manner and all my work has meaning, often deep and intense, for me. Tone, atmosphere, the desired level of intensity - I calculate and re-craft it till it just settles, till it feels right. ...

Tony Nesca was born in Torino, Italy in 1965 and moved to Canada at the age of three. He was raised in Winnipeg but relocated back to Italy several times until finally settling in Winnipeg in 1980. He taught himself how to play guitar and formed an original rock band playing the local bars for several years. At the age of twenty-seven he traded his guitar for a Commodore 64 and started writing seriously. He has published six chapbooks of stories and poems (which he used to sell straight out of his knapsack at local dives and bookstores), six novels, five books of poetry and stories and has been an active contributor to the underground lit scene for fifteen years, being published in innumerable magazines both online and in print. Where did your 16th book 'Junkyard Lucy' come from? I had an intense desire to write a group of short stories that stand on their own, but when you read the entire book, all have very subtle connections to each other. Minor characters in one...

Jamell Crouthers is a poet, writer, and author of 5 books with the 6th book coming soon. He started writing poetry at the age of 13. It wasn't until his 30s where he realized he had a true talent for writing and in poetry format. He began formulating ideas to write books and he thought of bringing together poetry and societal issues into one and from there, the ideas materialized. We have conducted an interview with him. How different are these two books that you have written: "America Under Mind Control and Code Blue: An Oath to the Badge and Gun"? These books are very different in the approach and how it was written. America Under Mind Control tackles all of the issues going on in this country and how our minds are controlled on an everyday basis. Some of the subjects I tackle are the education system, our money spending habits, credit cards, student loans and how this country is operated. There are no characters in this book, it's just a broad perspecti...

Ralph Watley is a 61 year-old poet, songwriter, and podcaster. He also is the author of Pop Goes The Poetry available at Amazon.com . We have conducted an interview with him. What kind of music do you play on your show? Why did you choose this music? I play most genres of music with the exception being the use of foul or abusive lyrics. I get most of my music from Airplay Direct a service used by stations to get new music. What inspires you the most in songwriting? My biggest inspiration in songwriting is failure. Because failure makes the world so real and to escape that reality I will write more songs. How long have you been making the podcast? I have been playing new Independent music for 7 years at www.blogtalkradio.com/xtrasound Why did you want to write about emotions we go through in "Pop Goes The Poetry"? Pop Goes The Poetry is revealing look at my life and thought. It's available at Amazon.com Which do you prefer the most: writing s...