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Poets and Dreamers was founded in 2001, after executive editor-in-chief Anne Tammel returned from a transformative journey through the Mediterranean. What began as a series of literary salons, writing workshops, and spoken word performances has expanded into a worldwide circle of literary & fine artists who believe that words, art, and music act as a transcendent bridge, and allow us to create the
lives we have imagined. Poets and Dreamers Press and the Poets and Dreamers Journal of Literary & Fine Arts exist as opportunities for authors and artists to actualize themselves and their works through the collaboration and circulation of literary and fine arts.
19/08/2024
Europe’s oldest known road lies on the island of Crete, a remarkable engineering feat over 3,500 years old. This Minoan road spans roughly 50 kilometers, connecting the ancient city of Knossos with Gortyn and Lebena.
What makes this road so extraordinary is its advanced construction. It features side drains to manage water runoff, which helped preserve the road over millennia. The roadbed is composed of a 20-centimeter-thick pavement of sandstone blocks, tightly fitted and bound with a durable clay-gypsum mortar.
On top of this foundation, a layer of basaltic flagstones was laid to provide a smooth, hard-wearing surface. The inclusion of separate shoulders, which were uncommon for the time, demonstrates a sophisticated understanding of road design, ensuring safe and efficient travel.
09/08/2024
A day without writing tastes of ashes….
—Simone de Beauvoir, from Letters To Jean-Paul Sartre
08/08/2024
Honored to share in this enlightening conversation with the legendary chef Pascal Olhats who brought French cooking and fine dining to OC on The Raad Life with OC Talk Radio
07/08/2024
Shine like the whole universe is yours….
Rumi
16/07/2024
The dreamers of the day
are dangerous people.
For they dream their
dreams with open
eyes and make
them come true…
D.H. Lawrence
05/07/2024
Until 1974 in the USA women were unable to open a bank account or acquire a line of credit without a man co-signing.
The financial services industry was led by (usually white) men. So eight women came together to turn everything around by opening their own Women's Bank.
Carol Green, Judi Wagner, LaRae Orullian, Gail Schoettler, Wendy Davis, Joy Burns, Beverly Martinez, and Edna Mosely founded the bank's board by each pitching in $1,000.
On 14 July 1978 The Women's Bank opened for business. People stood in line down the street in downtown Denver to deposit their money. The first day's deposits exceeded $1 million
04/07/2024
“No one leaves here alive.
So please stop treating yourself as an afterthought….
Eat delicious food. Walk in the sun. Jump into the sea. Speak the truth that you carry in your heart like a hidden treasure.
Be silly. Be good….
There is no time for anything else.”
Anthony Hopkins
31/05/2024
Whatever you can do,
or dream you can do,
begin it.
Boldness has genius,
power and magic in it….
~ Goethe
31/05/2024
A lire à voix haute 📣
30/05/2024
Ernest Hemingway’s 7 Tips for Writing:
1: To get started, write one true sentence.
“Sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made. I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, ‘Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.’”
2: Always stop for the day while you still know what will happen next.
“The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck.”
3: Never think about the story when you’re not working.
“I had learned already never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.”
4: When it’s time to work again, always start by reading what you’ve written so far.
“When it gets so long that you can’t do this every day read back two or three chapters each day; then each week read it all from the start.”
5: Don’t describe an emotion—make it.
“In writing for a newspaper you told what happened and, with one trick and another, you communicated the emotion aided by the element of timeliness which gives a certain emotion to any account of something that has happened on that day; but the real thing, the sequence of motion and fact which made the emotion and which would be as valid in a year or in ten years or, with luck and if you stated it purely enough, always, was beyond me...”
6: Use a pencil.
“If you write with a pencil you get three different sights at it to see if the reader is getting what you want him to. First when you read it over; then when it is typed you get another chance to improve it, and again in the proof.”
7: Be Brief.
“It wasn’t by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.”
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Poets and Dreamers was created in 2001, after executive editor-in-chief Anne Tammel returned from a transformative journey through the Mediterranean. What began as a series of literary salons and writing workshops is now a worldwide circle of literary & fine artists who believe that words, art, and music act as a transcendent bridge, and allow us to create the lives we have imagined.
Poets and Dreamers Literary Circle and the Poets and Dreamers Literary & Fine Arts Journal exist as opportunities for authors and artists to actualize themselves through collaboration and the circulation of literary and fine arts.
"So we travel on earth seeking the terrain of Poetry, walking through wilderness and empty landscape or visiting those ancient sites like Dholavira in far-western Gujarat, or Mykenai in the Greek Peloponnese, or the Arawak campsite on eastern Carriacou in the Grenadine Windward Isles, pursuing that authenticity of experience in a form of antique material reality...
These are places, strange and vague situations where death is manifold and thoroughly extant to the careful eye. There are women’s bangles made of shell to be picked up from the saline dust or small copper beads and thin chert blades, or tiny obsidian arrow-heads that can be unhidden and disclosed beneath those bloody grey walls about the Lion Gate, or beautiful indented potsherds and ceramic fragments at the waterline where the Atlantic rolls out its long blue visceral waves..."
~ Kevin McGrath 🐚Yoga of Poetry
“Dare to live the life you have dreamed."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Remember...the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you."
The image above of ballerina Nan Venderbush, Numinous, was taken in her NYC garden by artist and designer Simon Alcantara. Please contact the artist for permission to share.
