Brigitte Bardot honored Global Goodwill Ambassador by Richard DiPilla, Founder Global Goodwill Ambassadors. Brigitte Bardot was nominated by Marc Moravia. He works for the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation.
Hello from Canada! My name is John Duncan Hood. Great to meet you here! Why should I tell my story? To all those who know what goes on in life: run after your goals! To all those who are searching for their way: maybe my way will give you some inspiration! When I was 6 … Read more
I have to constantly remind myself that each day, month, and year, are specks of time in the evolution of humanity. As I remind myself I ask each of you. Are you doing things in your life that are an example to others? Are you leaving behind your own personal legacy beyond what you do … Read more
Spiritual Veda contributed a wonderful text to the March Newsletter of Global Goodwill Ambassadors (GGA): Dear Richard, Thank you for sharing the kindness, until human learn to drop I, Me or Mine, and wear Our, Us or We, the world will always face challenges to sustain humanity. Like rose, which even being surrounded by thorns … Read more
In March 2018 Jaya Kamlani was honored Global Goodwill Ambassador by Richard DiPilla – Founder of Global Goodwill Ambassadors (GGA). Who is Jaya Kamlani? Jaya Kamlani is an award-winning Indian-American author and poet. She is a former Silicon Valley technology consultant and a graduate of St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai and has been living in America … Read more
Interviewer: Hans-Jürgen John Interviewee: Jaya Kamlani Date: April 19, 2016 Photos placed at disposal by Jaya Kamlani Interview with Jaya Kamlani, author and activist. Interview with Jaya Kamlani about Donald Trump, her book «To India, with Tough Love» and the situation for children and women in India. Jaya Kamlani receives the NRI Institute’s Bharat Samman … Read more
Interview with Douglas Linares Flinto about Ethics, Whistleblowers and his Brazilian Business Ethics Institute. On March 17th of 2016, Andrea Greco and Giuseppe Oddo launched the book «The Parallel State: The first investigation on Eni». Andrea Greco is an economics journalist for the Italian journal La Repubblica (The Republic). Part of the book is the … Read more
Nixon Issangya: Tell The Nations : My autobiography of 580 pages : The book I worked on for over 15 years, came off the press last July. Looking back, I wonder how the dream of completing the book came true. However, it is true. Here, I write of my background, my World view, in my village … Read more
In Febuary 2014 we introduced Shweta Kesari as new Johntext Author for Madhya Pradesh / India. 20 months later we reached 261 published reviews. Assumed an average of 200 pages for a book sums up to 52200 pages altogether for 261 reviews. So every month there are 2610 pages to read. Wow. And this part-time … Read more
www.johntext.de/guestauthors This new platform on Johntext starts with authors from Mongolia, India, Africa … Sendoo Hadaa is a multi-award winning poet and professor from Mongolia … Gaurav Sharma from India is popular for his books Rapescars and Love @ Air Force … Mr. Ben is the penname of Ihekuna Chimezie Benedict from Lagos, Nigeria. He … Read more
We want to live in a world of peace. One precondition is to accept others – other religions, other opinions … . On 01 September we will introduce – among others – Perry Brass as new Johntext Author. He writes for The Huffington Post. He is the author of 19 books and he is a … Read more
Happy to share that Fingerprint Publishing / ‘Prakash Books’ are also rolling out into shops my earlier titles “Millennium City” and “Superstar” along with my new novel “Chief Minister’s Mistress”. In a few days, book purchasers will get to see all these three crime fiction novels of mine displayed on the shelves of several bookstores. … Read more
– For the german translation of this article please go to Johntext Switzerland. Thank you – Willi Melliger presented the Concours Neuendorf 2015 this weekend. Every year some of the best showjumpers and their horses join the competitions in Neuendorf / Switzerland. Kai Melliger, Martin Fuchs and Kevin Melliger were part of the competition today … Read more
Cutthroat 10th Anniversary A Tribute to Joy Harjo and Linda Hogan is one of the most wondrous and beautiful things that came home from Minnesota with me last week. Link to the book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0979563488/ It’s a special tribute issue to Joy Harjo and Linda Hogan and contains a terrific review by Doug Anderson of ‘I … Read more
Interviewed in this month’s ‘Wedding Vows’ magazine on the ingredients of a successful relationship. Love is the frontrunner if I may say so.
A pleasant surprise. Searching for something else (isn’t that always the case?) I found these manuscripts and chapbooks of mine: The Waterfalls of the Broken Sky 1966 (Poem on a page torn out of a notebook) The Jupiter Connection 1966 (My first Novel — long thought lost — wrote it as a school assignment when … Read more
Remember Lisa-Marie Fischer? The singer who is known for her music videos “On my own”, “Done is Done”, “You’ve got a way with that”… got the German Country Award ! Congratulations! Special Thanks to all Johntext Authors who agreed and helped to support her on their websites: Melissa Studdard, Ethel Morgan Smith, Faraaz Kazi, John … Read more
“Poems give us permission to be unsure, in ways we must be if we are ever to learn anything not already known. If you look with open eyes at your actual life, it’s always going to be the kind of long division problem that doesn’t work out perfectly evenly. Poems let you accept the multiplicity and complexity of the actual, they let us navigate the unnavigable, insoluble parts of our individual fates and shared existence.”
See the link below for more of my conversation with Jane Hirshfield at American Microreviews and Interviews.
https://www.americanmicroreviews.com/interview-with-jane-hirshfield
So happy to have three new poems published at Spork Press! And for the literary obsolescence of forks and spoons… And to appear alongside Amy King & David Tomas Martinez… Thanks, Richard Siken!
