Presented by the Long Island Poetry & Literature Repository Hosted by the 2024 LIP&LR’s Literature Ambassador to Long Island Professor Mindy Kronenberg, Poet & Editor 1st Lecture: November 13, 2024 @ 7pm Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) Languages and Consciousness: Tools for Enhancing Your Writing and Lifestyle 1650 Sycamore Avenue, Suite 46 Bohemia, NY 11716 Long Island Poetry and Literature Repository (Please RSVP, Seating is Limited) The languages we grow up with reflect the culture we come from and the consciousness with which we experience the world around us; the way we speak and write reflects all of that. Mankh will share examples from different cultures past and present, including Indigenous languages which often have no word for time, thus, the past and future are present. Other examples include Chinese is a picture-language and the A-to-Z hierarchical alphabet derives from pictures, yet with modern English we have lost touch with what is actually being said, for example, Alphabet means " Ox House." Along with the bigger picture, Mankh will share tips for enhancing writing techniques with emotion, rhythm, and word/phrase choices. Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) – author-editor of 17 books ranging from poetry to essays to poetic nonfiction – is also a small press publisher and has helped produce more than 100 books. He has written more than 135 essays and doesn't keep track of poems. Mankh travels a holistic mystic Kabbalah-rooted pathway staying in touch with Turtle Island and the cycles of seasons. He enjoys music, meditation, munchies, and more. He teaches haiku, brush calligraphy, and the creative writing process. Mankh’s overall writings are typically a blend of reverence for/with Nature and various spiritual traditions; a disdain for the machinations of greedy belligerent geo-political egotisms manifesting en masse as empires. He aims to calm, shock, enlighten, and entertain the reader/listener into a deeper place of consciousness, a greater sense of life-purpose, and a caring for all beings and the evolutionary journey..... His Substack page is "Musings from Between the Lines" and his website:www.allbook-books.com