Philip Schultz

[Steven]

Hi,

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, founder and director of The Writers Studio, and author of the memoir
My Dyslexia, Philip Schultz will be an interview guest on a radio show on Friday, April 6, 2012 at
approximately 3:00 p.m. ET. The interview will be broadcast live in Pennsylvania and will stream over
the internet from: http://www.wche1520.com/entertainmentandculture.htm.

[Steven]

Hi,

That radio interview is currently on podcast:
http://wche.podomatic.com/player/web/20 ... 8_43-07_00.

[Diane]

Thanks for this, Steven. I was barely aware of Philip Schultz before, and enjoyed his poetry, and his story.

The holistic, image-based cognitive strategy of (most) dyslexics can bestow unusual creative ability (I thought he was going to say more about that), and the apparent irony of a poet being dyslexic is quite satisfying. FG Lorca, WB Yeats and Dylan Thomas were each thought to have been dyslexic.

Quite possibly, his father, the "failure" about whom he wrote the poem, is the parent from whom he inherited the dyslexia; his father may have unwittingly passed to his son the potential to be a Pulitzer prize-winning poet.

[Steven]

Hi Diane,

I like what you said. The word redemption comes to mind in regards to the potential having
been actualized.