Catherine Mayer is a bestselling author, journalist, and activist. She is the co-founder and President of the Women’s Equality Party.  Her books include Amortality: The Pleasures and Perils of Living Agelessly; Charles: The Heart of a King, and Attack of the Fifty Foot Women: How Gender Equality Can Save the World! Her recent memoir, Good Grief: Embracing Life at a Time of Death, contains letters written by her mother after both women were widowed at the start of the pandemic.  Catherine has worked at The Economist, held deputy editorships at Business Traveler and International Management magazines and spent 11 years as a foreign correspondent for the German news weekly, FOCUS. In 2004, she joined TIME as a senior editor, later became London Bureau Chief, TIME Europe Editor and, finally, Editor at Large. She was the founding executive director of the think tank Datum Future and also consults on the opportunities and challenges of data technology. She is on the advisory board of Noon, the new media platform for women in midlife and beyond. Catherine was commissioned by the Globe Theatre to write and perform an original piece for its 2020 Voices in the Dark series, Notes to the Forgotten She-Wolves.  She performed Hello Boys with Grayson Perry at the Bridge Theatre in 2018. Her one-woman show Catherine Mayer: FFS toured the UK and Ireland in 2019.  She was the lead candidate for the Women’s Equality Party in London in the 2019 European elections. She served as the elected President of the Foreign Press Association in London from 2003- 2005. She is on the founding committee of WOW—the Women of the World festival. She was a judge for the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction.  The winner of the FPA Story of the Year in 2010 and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize the following year, she has also been named in Total Politics’ Top Political Journalists, WIE Women in Excellence 2013, Progress 1000 Evening Standard Equality Champion 2016, Oxford University Suffrage Champion 2018, Gender Equality Top 100: Most Influential People in Global Policy 2018 and, with Sandi Toksvig, NatWest Spirit of Everywoman Award 2018.  After the February 2020 death of her husband, the musician Andy Gill, she took on his unfinished projects, releasing two EPs by his band Gang of Four, and acting as executive producer for a tribute album, The Problem of Leisure: A celebration of Andy Gill and Gang of Four featuring globally famous musicians. K. Iver is a nonbinary poet from Mississippi. They have a Ph.D. in Poetry at Florida State University. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in Boston Review, BOAAT, Gulf Coast, TriQuarterly, Puerto del Sol, Salt Hill, and elsewhere. They are the 2021-2022 Ronald Wallace Poetry Fellow for the University of Wisconsin Creative Writing Institute.  Music: “Dance with Me” Nile Rodgers “The Dying Rays” Gang of Four “Chaconne” Johann Sebastian Bach  Supported by: Autism Speaks - www.autismspeaks.org Mostly Mutts - https://mostlymutts.org/ Red Phone Booth – www.redphonebooth.com Linden Row Inn- www.lindenrowinn.com Office Evolution of Roswell, Georgia - www.officeevolution.com/locations/roswell To purchase books written by the show’s host, Clifford Brooks, please visit www.cliffbrooks.com for more details. His major collections of poetry are available anywhere books are sold. You can contact him directly at: cliffordbrooks@southerncollectieexperience.com  

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August 2021 Dante’s Old South Chen Chen: Chen Chen is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency (BOA Editions, 2022) and the forthcoming book of essays, In Cahoots with the Rabbit God (Noemi Press, 2023). His debut book of poems, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, 2017), was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the Thom Gunn Award, among other honors. He teaches at Brandeis University. Vince Zangaro: (https://dementiaspotlightfoundation.org/) Zangaro’s Alzheimer’s journey began over a decade ago at the age of 29 after his father’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis. At 68 years old, the elder Zangaro’s health rapidly declined, leaving him unable to care for himself – and that’s where his son, Vincent stepped up. Driven by the challenges he faced navigating the ups and downs of his father’s disorder and health, a fire was lit in Zangaro to offer help to those living and affected by Alzheimer’s and dementia-related illness. Combining his expertise within the music industry, a decade-long career as a regional staffing director at mega-brand Hot Topic and years of Alzheimer’s caregiving experience for his father, Zangaro flexed his creativity, leadership, love, and passion for music by founding the Alzheimer’s Music Fest in 2013, with the goal to raise awareness and funds to help families care for loved ones.  Zangaro supports DSF by overseeing outreach initiatives and actions, serving as the Director of Development and Special Events. As a full-time advocate for Alzheimer’s and dementia families, Zangaro plans events and secures much-needed grants and sponsorships. He also oversees the Atlanta and Tampa Alzheimer’s Music Fests. The Alzheimer’s Music Fest has since become an annual rock ‘n’ roll event, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars and helping hundreds of families care for loved ones. In 2020, Zangaro expanded the Alzheimer’s Music Fest with a Live Nation Tabernacle partnership and by leveraging relationships with many well-known performers who have also been impacted by dementia-related issues. Zangaro currently resides in Canton, Georgia with his wife Amy and can be found playing an occasional nightly gig, writing songs about his experiences, walking his dog Jupiter or in his home kitchen playing gin rummy, a favorite pastime. Note: Due to Covid the Alzheimer’s Music Festival is postponed until early 2022. Music:  Donnie: “Beautiful Me” Arrested Development: “People Everyday” Johann Sebastian Bach: “Chaconne” Special Thanks: Autism Speaks - www.autismspeaks.org Mostly Mutts - https://mostlymutts.org/ Red Phone Booth – www.redphonebooth.com Linden Row Inn- www.lindenrowinn.com Office Evolution of Roswell, Georgia - www.officeevolution.com/locations/roswell To purchase books written by the show’s host, Clifford Brooks, please visit www.cliffbrooks.com for more details. His major collections of poetry are available anywhere books are sold. You can contact him directly at: cliffordbrooks@southerncollectieexperience.com

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July 2021 Dante’s Old South David Shaw: Acclaimed singer, songwriter, musician, and producer David Shaw’s first-ever solo album (Yokoko Records/C3 Records) finds The Revivalists frontman following the direction of his own internal compass, riling up his raw rock ‘n’ roll impulses as he opens up like never before as a lyricist, poet, and storyteller. The journey of David’s solo artistry began as he placed a renewed focus on self-care and personal growth, noticing something within himself that, as he says, he “needed to water.” Natalia Anciso: (Weslaco, TX, 1985). Chicana-Tejana visual artist, educator, and Rio Grande Valley native. Anciso earned her BA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin, her MFA from the California College of the Arts, and her MA in Education from the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Education. Anciso has exhibited her work throughout the United States and internationally, including the San Jose Museum of Art, the Oakland Museum of California, and the National Museum of Mexican Art.  Her work focuses primarily on Identity, as well as human rights, race, class and education. Arts integration and social justice are paramount to her work as an urban educator. Her contributions as an artist have been acknowledged by The Huffington Post, Latina Magazine, Elle Magazine, and TVyNovelas, as well as by former United States Secretary of Education, John King, Jr. She is based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Robert Gwaltney: A graduate of Florida State University, Robert Gwaltney resides in Atlanta Georgia. By day, he serves as Vice President of Easter Seals North Georgia, Inc., a non-profit organization strengthening children and their families at the most critical times in their development. Through his non-profit work, he is a champion for early childhood literacy. In all the hours between, he writes and works as Fiction Editor for The Blue Mountain Review. His work has appeared in the The Signal Mountain Review, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, and The Blue Mountain Review. His debut novel, The Cicada Tree, will be released January 21, 2022 and has been selected by the International Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club as its selection for February 2022. Music: “Disrepair” David Shaw “On the Run” Turkuaz "Esala Rien" Rey Sapienz Special Thanks: Autism Speaks - www.autismspeaks.org Red Phone Booth – www.redphonebooth.com Linden Row Inn- www.lindenrowinn.com Office Evolution of Roswell, Georgia - www.officeevolution.com/locations/roswell To purchase books written by the show’s host, please visit www.cliffbrooks.com for more details. His major collections of poetry are available anywhere books are sold.

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First up on this episode of Dante’s Old South, we have Lyrics Born and Cutso talking about their new track “ANTI”. In the middle, we hear from Dave Brandwein, frontman of the band Turkuaz. Rounding us out of the hour is poet Jose Hernandez Diaz. It’s another spell of fantastic talk and great music. Music: “Don’t Call Me No More” Neal Francis “ANTI” by Lyrics Born & Cutso "Ophiliophobia" by Turkuaz "Cycles of Existential Rhyme" Chicano Batman A special thanks goes out to WUTC/NPR, The Red Phone Booth, Linden Row Inn, Office Evolution of Roswell, and Autism Speaks. The poetry I read on this show is from my existing books of poetry. Two are available anywhere books are sold. To get a great deal on all three, please contact me at cliffordbrooks@southerncollectiveexperience.com

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May 2021 Dante’s Old South Extended Cut In this episode, I break my usual format and interview one guest instead of several. British novelist Jasper Fforde is a longstanding hero of mine. I’ve been a fan for over a decade. After an hour hearing his methods and thoughts on life, I’m sure you will be too. Jasper Fforde: Jasper began his career in the film industry, and for nineteen years held a variety of posts on such movies as Goldeneye, The Mask of Zorro and Entrapment. Secretly harbouring a desire to tell his own stories rather than help other people tell their's, Jasper started writing in 1988, and spent eleven years secretly writing novel after novel as he strove to find a style of his own that was a no-mans-land somewhere between the warring factions of Literary and Absurd.  After receiving 76 rejection letters from publishers, Jasper's first novel The Eyre Affair was taken on by Hodder & Stoughton and published in July 2001. Set in 1985 in a world that is similar to our own, but with a few crucial - and bizarre - differences (Wales is a socialist republic, the Crimean War is still ongoing, and the most popular pets are home-cloned dodos), The Eyre Affair introduces literary detective named 'Thursday Next'. Thursday's job includes spotting forgeries of Shakespeare's lost plays, mending holes in narrative plot lines, and rescuing characters who have been kidnapped from literary masterpieces.  Luckily for Jasper, the novel garnered dozens of effusive reviews, and received high praise from the press, from booksellers and readers throughout the UK. In the US The Eyre Affair was also an instant hit, entering the New York Times Bestseller List in its first week of publication.  Since then, Jasper has added another six to the Thursday Next series and has also begun a second series that he calls 'Nursery Crime', featuring Jack Spratt of The Nursery Crime Division. In the first book, 'The Big Over Easy', Humpty Dumpty is the victim in a whodunnit, and in the second, 'The Fourth Bear', the Three Bear's connection to Goldilocks disappearance can finally be revealed.  In January 2010 Fforde published 'Shades of Grey', in which a fragmented society struggle to survive in a colour-obsessed post-apocalyptic landscape.  His latest series is for Young Adults and include 'The Last Dragonslayer' (2010), 'Song of the Quarkbeast' (2011) and 'The Eye of Zoltar' (2013). All the books centre around Jennifer Strange, who manages a company of magicians named 'Kazam', and her attempts to keep the noble arts from the clutches of big business and property tycoons.  Jasper's 14th Book, 'Early Riser' is a thriller set in a world in which humans have always hibernated, and his next novel, 'The Constant Rabbit' about anthropomorphised rabbits becoming the underclass in a post-Brexit Britain, will be published in the UK in 2020.  Fforde failed his Welsh Nationality Test by erroneously identifying Gavin Henson as a TV chef but continues to live and work in his adopted nation despite this setback. He has a Welsh wife, two welsh daughters and a welsh dog, who is mad (but not because he's Welsh). He has a passion for movies, photographs, and aviation. Songs: Angel Snow “Get Me Out” Lyrics Born/Cutso “Anti” Please show support for some of our favorite people: Autism Speaks: www.autismspeaks.org Mostly Mutts: www.mostlymutts.org Linden Row Inn: www.lindenrowinn.com The Red Phone Booth: www.redphonebooth.com My books, The Draw of Broken Eyes & Whirling Metaphysics and Athena Departs are available everywhere books are sold. My chapbook, Exiles of Eden, is only available through my website. To find them all, please visit: www.cliffbrooks.com 

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In this first edition of Dante's Old South (Extended Cut), Clifford Brooks interviews novelist Jasper Fforde.  Jasper began his career in the film industry, and for nineteen years held a variety of posts on such movies as Goldeneye, The Mask of Zorro and Entrapment. Secretly harbouring a desire to tell his own stories rather than help other people tell their's, Jasper started writing in 1988, and spent eleven years secretly writing novel after novel as he strove to find a style of his own that was a no-mans-land somewhere between the warring factions of Literary and Absurd. After receiving 76 rejection letters from publishers, Jasper's first novel The Eyre Affair was taken on by Hodder & Stoughton and published in July 2001. Set in 1985 in a world that is similar to our own, but with a few crucial - and bizarre - differences (Wales is a socialist republic, the Crimean War is still ongoing and the most popular pets are home-cloned dodos), The Eyre Affair introduces literary detective named 'Thursday Next'. Thursday's job includes spotting forgeries of Shakespeare's lost plays, mending holes in narrative plot lines, and rescuing characters who have been kidnapped from literary masterpieces. Luckily for Jasper, the novel garnered dozens of effusive reviews, and received high praise from the press, from booksellers and readers throughout the UK. In the US The Eyre Affair was also an instant hit, entering the New York Times Bestseller List in its first week of publication. Since then, Jasper has added another six to the Thursday Next series and has also begun a second series that he calls 'Nursery Crime', featuring Jack Spratt of The Nursery Crime Division. In the first book, 'The Big Over Easy', Humpty Dumpty is the victim in a whodunnit, and in the second, 'The Fourth Bear', the Three Bear's connection to Goldilocks disappearance can finally be revealed. In January 2010 Fforde published 'Shades of Grey', in which a fragmented society struggle to survive in a colour-obsessed post-apocalyptic landscape. His latest series is for Young Adults and include 'The Last Dragonslayer' (2010), 'Song of the Quarkbeast' (2011) and 'The Eye of Zoltar' (2013). All the books centre around Jennifer Strange, who manages a company of magicians named 'Kazam', and her attempts to keep the noble arts from the clutches of big business and property tycoons. Jasper's 14th Book, 'Early Riser' is a thriller set in a world in which humans have always hibernated, and his next novel, 'The Constant Rabbit' about anthropomorphised rabbits becoming the underclass in a post-Brexit Britain, will be published in the UK in 2020. Fforde failed his Welsh Nationality Test by erroneously identifying Gavin Henson as a TV chef, but continues to live and work in his adopted nation despite this setback. He has a Welsh wife, two welsh daughters and a welsh dog, who is mad (but not because he's Welsh). He has a passion for movies, photographs, and aviation.

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April 2021 Dante’s Old South In this episode we interview winners of the Southern Collective Experience’s LBGTQ poetry chapbook contest. 3rd Place: Ian Spencer Bell Ian Spencer Bell is a dancer and poet in New York City. 2nd Place Andrea Deeken Andrea Deeken was born in rural Missouri and has lived in the Pacific Northwest for most of her adult life. She has a BA from Drake University and an MS in Writing and Publishing from Portland State University. Her writing has appeared in journals such as Periphery, The Bear Deluxe, and Spoon River Poetry Review. Awards include an Arts and Letters Creative Nonfiction Finalist, and an Honorable Mention in the 2019 Spoon River Poetry Review Editors’ Prize Contest, among others. A former book editor, she has worked at the public library for nearly fifteen years. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her wife and daughter. You can find her on Twitter @drelo and on Instagram @hands.n.hearts, where she makes diary comics about her family 1st Place Steve Bellin-Oka Steve Bellin-Oka’s first book of poems, Instructions for Seeing a Ghost, won the 2019 Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry and was published by the University of North Texas Press in 2020. He is also the winner of the Antenna Chapbook Award for Proviso, forthcoming from Paper Machine Press in 2021, a text/visual art collaboration with the painter Kristen Tomecek. His two previous chapbooks are Dead Letter Office at North Atlantic Station (Seven Kitchens Press, 2017) and Out of the Frame (Walls Divide Press, 2019). He earned his M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Virginia and his Ph.D. from the University of Southern Mississippi’s Center for Writers. He has taught writing, film, and literature at the University of Mississippi, St. Norbert College, and Eastern New Mexico University. He is currently a Tulsa Artist Fellow and Research Fellow at the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities. His other honors include the Eli Cantor Fellowship from Yaddo and fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. He was the 2019 recipient of the Poets-in-the-Parks fellowship from the National Parks Arts Foundation. He lives in Tulsa with his husband, their dog, and three cats. Music by: “Actor” by Angel Snow "Closer Love" by DL Yancey "Love on the Streets" Kalliope "Morning" by Call Me Spinster "Why" by Eleven Thanks to Our Supporters: Autism Speaks: www.autismspeaks.org Linden Row Inn: www.lindenrowinn.com Mostly Mutts: www.mostlymutts.org The Red Phone Booth: redphonebooth.com

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Dante's Old South is the official radio show of The Southern Collective Experience, featuring poets, prose writers, musicians - and more! (First broadcast on WUTC in Chattanooga, TN.) Call Me Spinster is anything but ordinary. The closer you look at this trio of sisters from Chattanooga, Tennessee, the harder it is to locate something about their sound, background, or energy that delivers predictable results. From their arrangements that employ both pristine vocal harmonies and unorthodox instruments to the streaks of self-aware humor that sneak into their videos and social media presence, Call Me Spinster blurs old-timey traditions with modernized pop fun without ever landing in expected territory. After a few years incubating in Chattanooga’s supportive local music scene and mostly playing covers, the band began applying their distinctive left-of-center arrangements to songs of their own. On their first EP of original material, Call Me Spinster manages to illuminate various keystones of their sound as they explore new impulses, the songs cohering around their steadfast musical vision, intricate personalities, and the type of telepathic musical connection that only siblings can share. It’s a brief introduction to their wide-reaching but somehow singular sound, and a stellar starting point for becoming acquainted with a band that’s truly unlike any other. Michael Flohr is a professional fine artist, who resides in San Diego, California. He specializes in contemporary impressionistic oil paintings of street scenes, bar scenes and moments shared among friends. He is motivated by color and the commonality of the human condition. His works depict ordinary moments in extraordinary ways. He holds a BFA degree and is Winner of the Herman Lambert scholarship award bestowed by the New York Society of Illustrators. He has a large following of devoted and treasured collectors. His newest works can be found on Instagram @michaelflohr or @michaelflohr_artistofficial Songs: “She’s a Winner” by Neal Francis “Here You Are” by Call Me Spinster "Nobody's Fault But Mine." by Nina Simone Closing tune is Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and Max Roach. The tune, by Duke, is called "Caravan." The bass solo is Charles Mingus. The tune is Duke's "Sophisticated Lady." Please check out and show support for: Autism Speaks: www.autismspeaks.org Mostly Mutts: www.mostlymutts.org Huntington Learning Center: www.huntingtonfranchise.com If you’re in the Richmond, Virginia area and need a beautifully historic location to lay your head, look into Linden Row Inn: www.lindenrowinn.com

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Neal Francis: “I just wanted to be honest about everything, from my musical influences to my story,” muses Neal Francis. After years of dishonest living—consumed by drugs, alcohol, and addiction—such sincerity is jarring from the 32-year-old Chicago-based musician. Liberated from a self-destructive past and born anew in sobriety, Francis has captured an inspired collection of songs steeped in New Orleans rhythms and early 70s rock n’ roll.  His music evokes a bygone era of R&B’s heyday while simultaneously forging a new path on the musical landscape. Ohio-based Karma Chief Records (a subsidiary of rising soul label Colemine Records) released his debut LP Changes in September 2019. The album received praise on several notable radio outlets including KEXP, KCRW’s The Morning Becomes Eclectic, and BBC Radio 6. Francis and his four-piece band performed during the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, sharing the stage with The Meters and other legends. In 2019 alone he hit the road with Black Pumas, Steel Pulse, Lee Fields & The Expressions, Dumpstaphunk and others. Francis pledges to tour relentlessly to promote his own music. “I’m doing this to fulfill a drive within myself, but also to pay tribute to the gifts I’ve been given. And it comes from a place of immense gratitude." STORE: https://www.nealfrancis.com/ Nicole Tallman is a ghostwriter and poet. Her professional writing has appeared in The New York Times, Miami Herald, Los Angeles Business Journal, and Al Jazeera, and her poetry is featured or forthcoming in the Train River COVID-19 Anthology, The Blue Mountain Review, Wrongdoing Magazine, and others. Born and raised in Michigan, she currently lives in Miami, works in the office of the Mayor of Miami-Dade County, and serves as an Associate Editor for South Florida Poetry Journal and a Contributing Editor for The Blue Mountain Review. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram @natallman and at www.nicoletallman.com. Songs featured: “Long, Hard Day” by Call Me Spinster “Changes” by Neal Francis “Workaround” by Beatrice Dillon titled Please don’t forget to show love and support to: Autism Speaks: www.autismspeaks.org Mostly Mutts: www.mostlymutts.org And if you’re in the Richmond, Virginia area you can’t go wrong spending the night, or an extended vacation, with Linden Row Inn: www.lindenrowinn.com

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Kelli Russell Agodon was born in Seattle, Washington, in 1969. She received a bachelor's degree from the University of Washington and an M.F.A. from the Rainier Writers Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. She is the author of Small Knots, finalist for the 2004 Cherry Grove Poetry Prize and Geography, winner of the Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award. She is the recipient of two Washington State Artist Trust GAP grants, a Puffin Foundation grant, The James Hearst Poetry Prize, the William Stafford Award, the Lohmann Prize, and the Carlin Aden Award for formal verse. Agodon edited the Poetry Broadside Series: The Making of Peace, which was displayed internationally throughout National Poetry Month in 2006. She also worked as the Regional Coordinator for Poets for Peace organizing the Poets for Peace: Mission 911 readings for Washington State raising money for the American Red Cross after the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. Her work has been featured on NPR's "The Writer's Almanac" with Garrison Keillor and in numerous literary journals and anthologies including Poets Against the War edited by Sam Hamill and Good Poems for Hard Times edited by Garrison Keillor. She lives in a small seaside community with her husband and daughter in the Northwest. Her website is: www.agodon.com Marco Rafalà is a first-generation Sicilian American novelist, musician, and writer for award-winning tabletop role-playing games. He earned his MFA in Fiction from The New School and is a co-curator of the Guerrilla Lit Reading Series in New York City. Born in Middletown, Connecticut, he now lives in Brooklyn, New York. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in the Bellevue Literary Review and Literary Hub. His debut novel, How Fires End, won the honorable mention in fiction for the 2020 Connecticut Book Awards. Justin Johnson has been hailed by Guitar World as a "must-see act", dubbed "The Wizard" for his mastery of stringed instruments, and recognized as Slidestock International Slide Guitar Champion. In 2014, Justin Johnson recorded his debut double album, "Smoke & Mirrors," a celebration of the art, history, and traditions behind handmade roots instruments. Along with 18 modern-built roots instruments representing builders from all over the world, the album resurrects the voices of 8 of the oldest cigar box guitars and banjos known to exist. Having never previously been recorded, these fragile relics emanate voices on the album that would otherwise have been lost to time. "Smoke & Mirrors" saw it's official release in March of 2014, as Johnson took the stage to present his "2014/2015 Smoke & Mirrors World Tour," which spanned mainland Australia and Tasmania, North America, Europe, and the United Kingdom. In response to worldwide demand for his educational offerings, Justin Johnson founded "Roots Music School" in Nashville, TN. Under this umbrella, he has released an Instructional Series consisting of DVDs and books on Roots Music technique and theory. As Roots Music School founder, Justin Johnson has partnered with educators across the country to develop Roots Music curriculum for schools. Please show your support to: Autism Speaks: https://www.autismspeaks.org/ Mostly Mutts: https://www.mostlymutts.org/ If you're in the Richmond, Virginia area, please check out Linden Row Inn for a history stay that's nothing short of epic: https://www.lindenrowinn.com/ 

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November’s Dante’s Old South is Coming in Full Force with Guests: Lee Herrick (www.leeherrick.com) is a poet and professor, born in South Korea, adopted to the United States, now living in Fresno, California. He is the author of three books of poems (This Many Miles from Desire, Gardening Secrets of the Dead, and Scar and Flower) and co-editor of a poetry anthology, The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit, all of which you can find anywhere books are sold online. Dr. Cecilia Aragon (www.ceciliaaragonauthor.com) is an author, airshow pilot, and professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. But she grew up a timid daughter of immigrants with major phobias. Her new memoir, Flying Free: My Victory over Fear to Become the First Latina Pilot on the US Aerobatic Team, tells how she used math to go from fearful child to champion pilot. The Music in this Episode: Radiolucent “All I Want is You” Derrick “Abyss” Graham “Acid Gospel” Django Reinhardt "Blues Clair" Nubya Garcia "The Message Continues" Please remember to check and hopefully support both Mostly Mutts (www.mostlymutts.org) and Autism Speaks (www.autismspeaks.org). As always, I want to thank WUTC and NPR for this honor of a monthly program.

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November’s Dante’s Old South is Coming in Full Force with Guests: Lee Herrick (www.leeherrick.com) is a poet and professor, born in South Korea, adopted to the United States, now living in Fresno, California. He is the author of three books of poems (This Many Miles from Desire, Gardening Secrets of the Dead, and Scar and Flower) and co-editor of a poetry anthology, The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit, all of which you can find anywhere books are sold online. Dr. Cecilia Aragon (www.ceciliaaragonauthor.com) is an author, airshow pilot, and professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. But she grew up a timid daughter of immigrants with major phobias. Her new memoir, Flying Free: My Victory over Fear to Become the First Latina Pilot on the US Aerobatic Team, tells how she used math to go from fearful child to champion pilot. Marco Rafalà (www.marcorafala.com) is a first-generation Sicilian American novelist living in Brooklyn, NY. His debut, How Fires End, is inspired by his immigrant father's stories of life in Sicily during and after the Second World War. It won the honorable mention in fiction for the 2020 Connecticut Book Awards. How Fires End is available at your local bookstore and at online retailers. The Music in this Episode: Radiolucent “All I Want is You” Derrick “Abyss” Graham “Acid Gospel” Django Reinhardt "Blues Clair" Nubya Garcia "The Message Continues" Please remember to check and hopefully support both Mostly Mutts (www.mostlymutts.org) and Autism Speaks (www.autismspeaks.org). As always, I want to thank WUTC and NPR for this honor of a monthly program.

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In this episode you'll hear about creativity in the time of COVID from poets Melissa Studdard and RJ Jeffreys. In the middle sits Ms. Rebecca Evans, a mother, veteran, author, and advocate who talks about writing as a means of therapy. Putting a bow on the show is podcaster and life coach, Bill Kenower. To ease your transition between these incredible folks is music by DL Yancey II, Angel Snow, and Nubya Garcia.

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Dante's Old South is the official radio show of The Southern Collective Experience's radio show, Dante's Old South, featuring poets, prose writers, musicians - and more! (First broadcast on WUTC in Chattanooga, TN.)

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"Stories, songs, stanzas, and their real applications." The Southern Collective Experience's radio show, Dante's Old South, featuring poets, prose writers, musicians - and more!