Today's introduction to poet, memoirist, playwright, nonfiction writer, and musician Joy Harjo includes a video of her performance of her famous 'Eagle Song':

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/05/monday-muse-joy-harjo-performs-eagle.html

Today I'm presenting Angella Kassube's animation of poet Bridget Lowe's "The Pilgrim Is Bridled and Bespectacled", part of the wonderful MotionPoems collection.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/05/kassube-animates-lowe.html

A quote from poet Mark Strand's "Keeping Things Whole" is the Thought for the Day:

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/05/thought-for-day_12.html

The Thought for the Day, about confessionalism, is from Maryland Poet Laureate Stanley Plumly.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/04/thought-for-day_28.html

Monday Muse looks at "Speleology", a film by photographer Scott Rank and poet and sound artist Duriel Harris, who reads her poem "Speleology":

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/04/monday-muse-poet-sound-artist-duriel.html

I've posted Thought for the Day, a quote from Richard Jackson's poem "Living On":

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/04/thought-for-day_14.html

A quote from Cecile Inglessis Margellos's interview with Greek poet Kiki Dimoula is the Thought for the Day.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/04/thought-for-day.html

“Instructions for living a life: 

Pay attention. 

Be astonished. 

Tell about it.”

 Everything, in three simple steps. Thank you, Mary Oliver.  

Today I'm featuring a wonderful Bill Moyers interview with poet Martin Espada:

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/04/monday-muse-espada-talks-about-poetry.html

I've posted Sunday's Thought for the Day, a William Stafford quote from  the poetry collection "A Scripture of Leaves":

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/03/thought-for-day_31.html

I've posted Thought for the Day, a quote from Walt Whitman's "To Think of Time" in "Leaves of Grass".

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/03/thought-for-day_17.html

I'm featuring today a fascinating 14-minute audio recording of a 1962 interview of Sylvia Plath by Peter Orr of The British Council. During the interview, Plath talks about her poetry writing, sources of inspiration and influence, novel writing, even an interest in medicine. I also provide the link to a dark and compelling film "Lady Lazarus: Sylvia Plath" by the late experimental filmmaker and radical feminist Sandra Lahire.…

I've posted an excellent Bill Moyers interview with award-winning writer Louise Erdrich. Be sure to give yourself a half-hour to enjoy the interview.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/02/bill-moyers-interviews-louise-erdrich.html

Monday Muse profiles Frank X Walker, Kentucky's new Poet Laureate, who will be inducted formally on April 24.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/02/monday-muse-kentuckys-new-poet-laureate.html

Posted a quote by Anna Kamienska:

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/02/thought-for-day_24.html

Monday Muse profiles new Oklahoma Poet Laureate Nathan Brown:

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/02/monday-muse-new-oklahoma-poet-laureate.html