Women of Achievement Honored

on THE MARTHA SHOW

as Martha Stewart Gives Dreamer to Doer Awards,
and Hosts Poet Maya Angelou.

A Comment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I just viewed your show with Maya Angelou. I'd like to comment on the Dreamer to Doer element so elegantly displayed about you, Dr. Angelou, and the other women of achievement.

You mentioned you'd like women to submit their valued thoughts and poetic inclinations to you. I would love to see a forum developed for sharing of such word and thought. The spoken art is a craft, a lifestyle after all. It belongs included within your many mediums! It would also open doors for those of us who are artisans within that arena.

My life as a writer, studying with poet Cora Brooks and Boston Globe Arts Editor Robert Taylor, working aside families of Ernest Hemmingway, Dr.William A. McCall and wife Gretchen Schweitzer in Coral Gables, then friend of Virginia Woolf, author May Sarton, has left me stymied, up against this new society. . . . . . . . . . I stand stuck on the cement of every sidewalk -- with a text messenger around my neck that won't respond to any word greater than 'DUR.'

Additionally, with all due respect to many blogs, I find that to say more than 'Hi Ho' is too much talk and the moderator swiftly files you to the floor.

Is artful writing a dead business?


WORD ARTISTS

Those who treat the word as their dance are those who create the goosebumps, win the elections and become the Maya Angelous of society.

I would appreciate your effort to unshovel thoughtful writers, to allow the occasional connotative word a home, and to support that finely spun language be a guest of honor at every table.


Please create us a forum. It belongs with all of the other 'good things' upon your table.

-----Andrea Spencer