Creative Energy In You! ~ The Women Of Wonders

Join Cheri to celebrate National Poetry Month, as she shares poems of her own, and some that have inspired her! And CALL IN to SHARE YOUR WORK!  You'll hear the voices of many poets and maybe, you'll even write one of your own!  www.blushingskywrite.com www.thejoyfulwriters.com 

Join Cheri as she invites listeners and special guests to share what they are currently creating! Seeing and hearing about the creations of others is inspiring! Creative energy begets creative energy! Cheri will brag about her awesome client's creations (she's so proud!) and talk about what she is currently creating herself!  Look for special guest appearances by some Creative Energy in YOU favorite guests like Sherina Rodrigues Sharp, who is creating something very special in the D this week!  Call in, or share your creations in the chat room to hear Cheri announce them on the air!   Cheri@blushingksywrite.com www.blushingskywrite.com  http://www.kresgeartsindetroit.org/fellowships/2014-fellows/sherina-rodriguez-sharpe/

Join Cheri and her partner T. Andrew Caddick as they discuss those moments when we choose to go down the rabbit hole of  the "insecurities, the I can'ts, and the it's not fair" of it all. Recently, Cheri and Andrew have chosen to seek some physical changes for their bodies. Their journey has offered them some interesting challenges, including some rabbit hole dives! Join in as they discuss what it's like to refuse the rabbit hole, and tap into the creative energy of life and choice instead. www.blushingskywrite.com www.thejoyfulwriters.com

Did you know that the written word is so powerful, it can actually be used to change people's lives in a therapeutic setting? Join Cheri as she talks with Poetry Therapy Practioner Nessa McCasey, to explore the amazing world of Poetry Therapy and how it is being used to assist people every day! Nessa McCasey Nessa is a Poetry Therapy Practitioner and a mentor for others training as a PTP. She is the Director of the International Academy for Poetry Therapy (iaPOETRY). Previously she has earned awards from the National Association for Poetry Therapy (NAPT) for service as Membership Vice-President. She has extensive experience working in hospice settings, with domestic violence survivors, and with people having developmental disabilities, including autism spectrum disorder. She works using poetry therapy locally in Michigan, as well as travelling domestically and internationally, and via online outlets. Nessa weaves creativity into life via spirituality, music, crafts, art, and her beloved writing and editing in

The Anniversary Show   Join Cheri as she reflects back on Creative Energy in You, and the shows first year on the air! Call in with a poem, or share something you heard on the show that touched you!  Have you been encouraged, or had your energy sparked by Creative Energy In YOU?  Call in, join in the chatroom, and be a part of the show!   www.blushingskywrite.com www.thejoyfulwriters.com  

Join Cheri on Creative Energy in You, as we explore those talents that we know we have, but rarely share. Cheri will share one of her lesser shared talents live on the air, and she invites you to share yours! Are you ready to step into everything that you know you are TRULY brilliant at?  It's going to be a vulnerable show!  Join us! Let's step up! Are you ready? 

The PJ Party is back! By popular demand, join Cheri and a cast of characters as she invites all to call in and share their poetry and prose live on the air! Cheri will share some sections of her upcoming novel, Falling Down Girl, and some poetry and prose that inspires her! Tune in, call in, and come in to the chat room to play! Get your PJ’s on, grab a glass of wine, it’s gonna’ get all literary up in here!!!

Join Cheri as she discusses a dilemma that many writers face!  To tell the truth of our lives or not to tell the truth?  Is it better to obscure when writing, or to speak your truth in the words you write?  What if people judge me?  What if it makes someone mad?  What if my MOTHER sees it?!?

Join Cheri and her spontaneous guests as they talk about unplanned creations and the joy of creating in the moment! You’ll be invited to play along in spontaneous creative exercises, share by phone or in the chat room and add your comments and questions!    Ever wanted to add more spontaneous fun and creation to your life? Join us!  Make it a spontaneous choice!

Join Cheri as she talks about how writing and other creative pursuits can bring you closer to knowing yourself, your goals and targets and for discovering what you would really like to create in your life, your business, your relationships and more!  Joining Cheri will be some wonderful writers who attended Cheri’s Day of Joyful Writing Workshop, where this theme and many more were explored! Would you like to write your way into a more meaningful and enjoyable life? Don’t miss this show!  Ready to write your way in?

A writing coach, really?! It seems like there’s a coach for everything these days, doesn’t it? Life coaches, Birth coaches, Sports coaches, Weight loss coaches…. the list is pretty endless. So, why get a writing coach? Does it really help? Can it change your writing? If you are looking for one, what should you look for and why? Is all writing coaching created equal? What questions should you ask yourself before you go looking for a coach? Join Cheri L. R. Taylor, writing and creativity coach, on Creative Energy in YOU, this week as she answers these questions and more about writing coaching and whether or not it might be a good idea for you! She will also take your comments and questions, and talk about some of the most common things that keep projects stalled and writers from hitting the page with lots of joy and fun!

Recently, Cheri and her partner Andrew experienced a flood which wiped out a third of their living space. This has precipitated a ‘flood’ of change in their lives. What do you do when sudden change shows up in your life? How can creative energy benefit you during these moments? Join Cheri as she talks about the changes she’s been through over the last three months and the ways in which she used (and is using) creative energy to move through them. Also, tune in for exciting news of future change to come for Creative Energy in YOU and how YOU can be a part of it all!

Join Cheri as she discusses innovative, and smart ways to market your book, with literary and film marketing specialist, Mike Monaco. Often writers are left to their own devices to market, even when a publishing house accepts and publishes their books! Join Cheri and Mike and ask questions live on the air or in the chat room! Mike Monaco is Managing Partner of Author’s Marketing Pro, and holds a BA from University of Pittsburgh and an MBA from the University of Southern California. His background is talent representation having started his career in the motion picture literary department of the William Morris Agency. He specializes in helping authors, screenwriters, producers, studios and talent find their audience. Mike: www.authorsmarketingpro.com

Join Cheri as she discusses what it takes to create compelling story lines that keep a reader lost in your work! Cheri L. R. Taylor Biographical Notes: Cheri L. R. Taylor holds a Masters of Fine Arts in Writing from Vermont College and is currently a writing instructor at Macomb College. She is the Founder/Director of Blushing Sky Writing, a company which provides written words for companies, individuals, and services for writers. For 5 years she served as a Writer in Residence with the Inside Out Literary Arts Project conducting writin g workshops in the Detroit Public Schools. She recently released her first novel, Leaving Walloon, to positive reviews on Amazon and is the host of her own internet radio program, entitled, Creative Energy in YOU on the network. Cheri has four chapbooks of poetry and has been published in Ellipsis, Awakenings Review, The Café Review, Reintigration Today, Clean Sheets, Current Magazine, Rattle, Third Wednesday, Strange Michigan, Love Notes, an Anthology, Siren Mag and others. H

Join Cheri and Creative Energy in YOU favorite, Hank Edwards for the first ever School for Writers Episode, all about creating characters that spark the imagination, heart and attention of your readers. Hank and Cheri will discuss their own process for character development and offer tips and tricks for writers! Call in or join in the chat room with your questions and comments! Hank Edwards is a curious mix of practical realist and feral dreamer. He is a fan of absurd comedy, and has incorporated this in the sizzling and hilarious Charlie Heggensford Fluffers, Inc. series, as well as Plus Ones, his wacky rom-com revolving around the passing of gay marriage in the state of Michigan. He also loves a good mystery and suspense story, which inspired his Up to Trouble series, featuring FBI Agent Aaron Pearce and his lover Mark Beecher who met during one case and have gone on to solve others. His love of chills and thrills prompted him to create the Venom Valley series, which combines vampires and zombies with Old W

Join Cheri as she talks with chameleon actor, Allen Merritt about acting, creating characters and what it's like to move through the world as a creative being! Allen Merritt: Community, regional, stock & touring theater companies. Stage Shows include Pajama Game, Pippin, Pirates of Penzance, Westside Story, Working, Oklahoma, Carousel, Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Romeo & Juliet & Music Man among many. Allen has worked as an Assistant to General Manager & Company Manager for several off Broadway/Broadway workshops & productions such as Club 12, Hello Mudduh-Hello Fadduh (Tovah Feldshuh), Shakespeare for my Father (Lynn Redgrave), Party, Advice from a Caterpillar (Ally Sheedy & Dennis Christopher) & High Rollers Social & Pleasure Club (Alan Toussaint). Television: FOX NFL Sunday, None of the Above, Hotel Secrets & Legends, Guilty or Innocent & Interstate Batteries. Tours: ABC Family Fun Fair, Dinosaurs Go To School, Slim Goodbody's Musical Health S

Call in to share your poems LIVE on the air with Cheri L. R. Taylor! Cheri will read some of her own work, and some from poets she admires! Chat about poetry and craft and what it takes to be a writer, all while snuggled up in your jammies with your favorite fall toddy!

Are you stuck in the same routine with your cooking? Would you like to spice it up, switch it up, do something new in the kitchen? Join Cheri as she chats with callers about her own kitchen creative journey and join in for her new game, "Ingredients Challenge" where Cheri will come up with recipes made from lists of ingredients called in or suggested in the chat room!

Join Cheri as she talks with poets Christopher Stewart and Quraysh Ali Lansana about their new collection of poems The Walmart Republic. You'll hear poems from this new and experiential collection, they'll discuss creative process, the politics of poetry and the magic of collaboration! ABOUT THE POETS Quraysh Ali Lansana is author of seven poetry books, three textbooks, a children's book, editor of eight anthologies, and coauthor of a book of pedagogy. He is Associate Professor of English/Creative Writing at Chicago State University, where he served as Director of the Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing from 2002-2011. Our Difficult Sunlight: A Guide to Poetry, Literacy & Socia l Justice in Classroom & Community (with Georgia A. Popoff) was published in March 2011 by Teachers & Writers Collaborative and was a 2012 NAACP Image Award nominee. Lansana’s poetry collection mystic turf was released in October 2012 by Willow Books; his most recent collection of poems, reluctant minivan,

Tune in this Wednesday night for a show full of surprises! You never know what Cheri might have up her sleeve! Surprise guests? Poetry readings? Project Ideas? Motivation? Maybe even all of the above! Join in, and take the magical tour!