The Power of Words: A Transformative Language Arts Reader

This book should be on every writer, storyteller, performing artist's shelf as well as serving as a guide to energize the growing movement in community toward energizing the arts and performance arena. We need books like this, now more than ever. This book is absolutely transformative. Read it and you will see how remarkable the opportunity is to engage one's self and one's community in healing, identifying and promoting the spoken, written and sung word. The book was produced by a remarkable network of individuals at TLA Network. TLA Network is a gathering place, a healing ground, a place of greater vision and wider perspective that supports individuals and organizations in promoting all forms of the spoken, written and sung word as a tool for personal and community transformation. As a longtime writer and journalist, I cannot endorse this book highly enough. Every single non-profit arts based group should have a copy of it as they identify how best to support themselves and the community in continuing the transformation of our society. The book has some powerful similarities to Steven Pressfield's "The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles", in that it challenges you to find the place for you to tell your story and make it happen. The essays in The Power of Words are an amazing and powerful collective of writers and performers who share their secrets with the reader.