by Cynthia Kahn | Nov 7, 2013 | Authors, Musicians
When my good friend and previously featured artist, KeV Atomic from Atomic Honey, told me about his project to record five songs from Duke Sherman’s poetry collection A Soldier’s Thoughts and donate proceeds to United States war veterans, I jumped at the chance to...
by Cynthia Kahn | Oct 28, 2013 | Authors, Broadcasters
I met acclaimed author Jeff Lane through another Amused Now Featured Artist, filmmaker Aaron Thomas. Jeff and Aaron are working on a film project based on Jeff’s best-selling book This Paper World, the story of how 18-year-old Jim Hunt confronts his destiny. When I...
by Cynthia Kahn | Oct 16, 2013 | Authors
The first poem I wrote was for my mom for Mother’s Day. That was in the third grade. I would always write little personal notes in birthday cards for family and friends. I think this was the foundation of my becoming a poet. My mom always told me “boy, you need to do...
by Cynthia Kahn | Oct 10, 2013 | Authors
When I was younger, writing was a form of escapism I used to process the personal struggles in my life. Growing up, I was very outgoing and, to the untrained eye, appeared not to have a care in the world. But internally, I held in a lot of emotions. I was afraid to...
by Cynthia Kahn | Oct 7, 2013 | Authors, Publishers
Like I have with so many Amused Now Featured Artists, I met James Gordon aka The Greatest Poet Alive aka G.P.A. on Twitter. He has a fascinating outlook about his pursuit of poetry. When I asked James what inspired him to write his first book of poetry The...
by Cynthia Kahn | Oct 3, 2013 | Authors
I’ve been writing poetry since the 8th grade, but I started honing my love for it in my senior year of high school (1993). I always wanted to be published and even submitted requests to some of the larger publishing companies. After either not hearing back...
