The Courage to Create
In the early 1980s when I studied choreography with Dr. Alma Hawkins at Santa Monica Community College, The Courage to Create by Rollo May was on the reading list for…
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Leilani Squire
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Leilani Squire is home when she is swimming in the waters of the island of her birth, O`ahu. She is a writer, published poet and author, teacher and CCA Certified Creativity Coach, and facilitates creative writing workshops for veterans and military families. She produces Returning Soldiers Speak, an annual event where active duty and veterans tell their stories through prose and poetry to the community. She is a practicing Buddhist, and also loves traditional sweat lodges. Every morning when Leilani goes to her desk she hopes that as she writes her truth, her words and stories will somehow move society toward balance and the world toward peace.
How Storytelling Can Guide Us: On Toni Morrison’s “God Help the Child”
What impresses me most about the storytelling and the writing of God Help the Child is how carefully Ms. Morrison chooses when to reveal what needs to be revealed so we can begin to understand the inner motivation of the characters’ journeys.
Hugh Martin on writing, war, and the power of poetry
Hugh Martin is a veteran of the Iraq War and the author of The Stick Soldiers (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2013). As he notes, poetry is "the most precise and powerful form of expression..."
The Stick Soldiers
This collection of poems is not light reading but it is necessary reading if we are to heal the wounds of war and shorten the divide in our country.
Glenn Schiffman on his novel “The Way I Was Taught” and the depth of Writing
"The way I was taught, there are no beginnings and endings. There is only open and close." Glenn Schiffman is the author of the highly acclaimed novel The Way I Was Taught and co-founder of the non-profit Roots and Wings. In this profound and in-depth interview with author Leilani Squire, Glenn Schiffman reveals much about his writing, his reading, and his life.