raintreepoet
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Teacher/poet/author |
| Location | Spokane, , Washington, United States |
| Introduction | I am passionate about leveling the playing field in the world, witnessing students differences for many years in classrooms. I like fairness and helping those less fortunate. I think homelessness and hunger are a national shame! I believe we need to treat causes, not symptoms of our social ills. Poets have traditionally been as important for spreading the word as journalists. I am both..(Graduate of the Edward R. Murrow School of Communication, Washington State University, Pullman, WA) |
| Interests | In addition to poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction writing, journalism, hiking, bicycling, picnics in eclectic places, year round, documentaries, history, art movies, really good food, conversations with characters |
| Favorite movies | Gone With The Wind, Tombstone, When Harry Met Sally, Flash Dance, The Fisher King, All the Indiana Jones series, and so much more... |
| Favorite music | Folk, Bob Dylan, Pete Seegar, Woodie Guthrie, Blue Grass, the Dixie Chicks, Dolly Parton, Classical, soft jazz and classical rock & roll, the stones, Beatles, Dave Clark Five and most early 80s rock. |
| Favorite books | GRANT by Ron Chernow, Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, Last Bus to Wisdom by Ivan Doig, most John Steinbeck books, Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitgerald, the Lewis & Clark journals, books about Sacajawea, Civil War history, Old West history...so many more. Oh, by the way Sacajawea's Song and The Legend of Brady Madden, Bigfoot Hunter by RM Knight. Both available on Amazon. (my latest work) Go to: rmknightbooks.com (my website) Love Roulette, about love gone awry, available soon! |
Your pajamas have duckies on them. Why did you switch from choo-choos?
What would you do to help make this world a better place to be? Get rid of Lobbyists in Washington DC! That's not democracy!