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Leslie Tripathy
Poet,Rotarian
Blog
http://leslietripathyculturaltouchstone.blogspot.com/
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ARTISTS EMBASSY INTERNATIONAL DANCING FESTIVAL

I am pleased that I won third prize in this year's ARTISTS EMBASSY INTERNATIONAL DANCING POETRY FESTIVAL. I will be reading it at the Festival on September 26, 2009 in the neoclassical Florence Gould Theater at the California Paalace of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park, San Francisco. The web site is www.dancingpoetry.com

HARLOT'S SAUCE

I would like to recommend an excellent book to you. It is by Patricia Volonakis Davis and it is called HARLOT'S SAUCE; A Memoir of Food, Family, Love, Loss and Greece. I couldn't put it down. It is Patricia's story of idolizing Greece as a child, and then falling in love with a handsome Greek. However she finds out he is a macho man with an impossible family. It is remarkable the humor she portrays in the difficulties that she endures with this husband and his relatives. When he claims he can only be happy in Greece, she moves there with him and their son. It is in Greece that she developes her self-confidence and builds a sucessful career. She realizes that she can never be a fully devloped human under her husband's domination and leaves him to go onto a better life. This book is beautifully written and a rare gem.

I have a 90 minute radio interview at janecrown.com
Scroll to the end of the site and click on archives, and then my name, Ruth Wildes Schuler.

It is tragic that our president did not speak out against the atrocities in Iran immediately. He didn't have to take sides, but he could have condemed the murders and violence committed on the young demonstrators. Also he refuses to say if he has withdrawn the invitations to the party in power for our 4th of July celebraton, which is our celebration of freedom day. How can he think of entertaining those who are brutally repressing freedom in Iran?

To Dr. Arthur Foff

(San Francisco State University)

You could have easily stepped
out of a Sam Spade detective novel,
cigarette dangling from the corner
of your mouth and wind tossed hair,
a hard-nosed reporter
who wrote deep and dramatic prose.
Eudora Welty proclaimed
you the darkest artist
in American literature.

Turning to teaching, you became
mentor to a new generation
of emerging writers,
paring down Henry James eloquence
to the bare-boned craftsmanship
of a modern Hemingway.
The faint-hearted
did not survive your tutorage.

Your death diminished a part of me,
but your wisdom still winds itself
around my pen as I continue to struggle,
not letting agents, publishers or critics
silence my words, for you taught me
that “perseverance prevails,”
and your motto has become my motto.

Ruth Wildes Schuler

Published on American Asian Poetry Site
A wonderful array of poems published here.

ON LOOKING BACK AT THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS

Sarah Good smoked
a pipe when she could,
a nasty habit
which lead to no Good.