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Arzoo Zaheer is a creative writer and a poetess; she is also a certified Technical Writer and a certified Event Planner. Arzoo runs the blog Dot's Writing Dojo  where she shares many things including her best memories, poetry, lucid dreams, essays, and writing tips. We have conducted an interview with her. What are some critical relevant concepts within the topic of abuse? Since I am an ENFP, I like teamwork, genuine and warm interactions, long-lasting relationships, and influencing without gross manipulation. Our current world is going through chaos that includes wars, illegal governments, and weather disturbances. During such harsh times, addressing the concept of abuse as it takes place in households, communities, and societies has become very important. I intend to use my writing and event planning activities to address the following topics: • Racism and White Saviour Complex • Workplace harassment as it takes place in Canada • Narcissism which is on rise...

Ghairo is a Reiki and Seichem Master Healer. She also studied several other Healing Arts including Crystal Healing and Kundalini Yoga. Professionally she worked in the fields of Information Management, Organisational Development and was a highly respected political activist in South Africa during the Anti-Apartheid struggle. For her political activities in student, youth, women and community organisation, Ghairo was imprisoned and tortured in Solitary Confinement by the Apartheid Government. She currently uses her extensive experience with people management combined with deep intuition to aid human evolution, specifically Inner Transformation, on a one on one basis as well as with small groups. Ghairo has written numerous poems both channelled by Spirit, as well as based on intuitive insights into human drama. She believes her poems are tools to aid the release of that which needs to leave the unconscious realms. Since Ghairo believes music is a crucial soul language, she intends put...

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. ...

‘The Colored Sketches Collection’ or ‘Le Recueil d’Esquisses Colorées’ in its original French title, is a Collection of Colored Drawings about the reality of an authentic inner life. It also contains 7 Poetic Texts on the same subjects, and others. We have conducted an interview with the author AKA Louis. How does your name 'AKA Louis' differentiate and affects you as a writer, poet, and illustrator? ‘AKA Louis’ is not a name I have chosen, it’s a name that was given or proposed to me After I’ve asked some ideas about a pen name… Progressively, I’ve found other references than the basic ones which were proposed with the name. ‘AKA Louis’ is a reference to the Japanese words ‘AKA’ and ‘AKARUI’ which mean ‘red’ and ‘lightness’ or ‘brightness’… In a way, it can mean ‘shinning red’… Through history, language, and culture of original people, ‘AKA’ is linked to the idea of what is original, essential, vital, but also to the reality of what is rejected or marginal. In old Turk...

TOLU A Akinyemi is a new author to the published scene – although he has over 10 years of writing experience, Dead Lion’s Don’t Roar is his first book in print. Dead Lions Don’t Roar   is a collection of inspiring and motivating modern day verses. Addressing many issues close to home and also many taboo subjects, the poetry is reflecting of today’s struggles and lights the way to a positive future Originally from Nigeria, Tolu now resides in Wallsend. He felt it important that any success he had would positively benefit a community in the region that has been so welcoming to him and his young family. What inspired you publish this book "Dead Lions Don't Roar”? I have a love for writing and for poetry and believe that reading powerful verses release the mind and spirit to encourage and inspire you. I had written lots of separate verses and friends, family and colleagues all encouraged me to put them together. Being the author of a book is something I had dreamed o...

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. ...

Our guest today is Rasputina from Scotland. She works in various areas of creative industry, photography, upcycling, poetry, music & lyrics & recently impression art. We have conducted an interview with her. What is your impression art mostly about? Which are your recent collections? Impressionism art is a relatively new medium for me to be working in. It began as an offset from my upcycling and I began messing about with spray paints on glass. Unlike the other areas of my creative work, I don't set out to create a specific image. I enjoy simply seeing what image comes to light when I finished the piece. My recent collections are entitled Love, Lost Kids, Liar's Chair, Corruption and Armageddon. They total around 50 photographic images. The themes themselves are self-explanatory, however, the images have a darker edge than some of the titles suggest. My favorite image if Hem Stigmata from Liar's Chair collection. Through photography, upcycling,...

Preeta Chandran and Pankaj Kumar Saxena are fusion experts based out of New Delhi, India. Preeta is a writer/poet, who has been published in several International and Indian anthologies and is the author of ' The Painted Verse ', a fusion of poetry and painting. Pankaj is an artist and painter who has been featured in several International and Indian exhibitions and is co-author of ' The Painted Verse '. We have conducted an interview with them. What are your backgrounds? Tell us a little bit about yourselves. Preeta: I live in New Delhi, India and work as an Assistant Vice President with a reputed global organization. I have dabbled in multiple things, graduating with Honours in Chemistry, studying Management for post-graduation, and am currently doing a Ph.D in Management. Writing is a passion that I discovered as a little kid, at the age of nine. It is my way of expressing myself, as well my hobby. I write poetry, micropoetry like haiku, and stories. I have...