Kiler Davenport Live with Host Kiler Davenport: Set of 5 Powerful Interviews #4

 The interviews in this blog are as follows: Paco Despacio / Paul Levinson / Sophia DiGonis / Eric Crow Draven / Author June Bugg

Interview with Paco Despacio with Kiler Davenport


Artist Paco Despacio has been making buttons for over 40 years, first as a sideline to support his blacksmith journeyman-ship and as a primary occupation for the past 35 years. He has been selling buttons to Manuel Cuevas (http://manuelcouture.com/ ) for almost 40 years. He has made buttons for Fiber Artists, Leather Artists, Premier Button Stores, Leather supplies, and collectors. His buttons are in some of the world’s best buttons collections and a single button recently sold for $500 at an auction. Paco Despacio works with a large variety of materials, copper, silver, brass, not gold, bone, antler, fossilized ivory, found objects, ancient and modern coins, ancient and exotic objects such as oosik. Most of his buttons are fabricated by hand using stamping, forming, engraving, soldering. Some of his fabricated buttons were reproduced by casting.

Kiler Davenport Live: Interview with Paul Levinson

Paul Levinson, PhD, is Professor of Communication & Media Studies at Fordham University in NYC. His science fiction novels include The Silk Code (winner of Locus Award for Best First Science Fiction Novel of 1999), Borrowed Tides (2001), The Consciousness Plague (2002), The Pixel Eye (2003), The Plot To Save Socrates (2006), Unburning Alexandria (2013), and Chronica (2014) - the last three of which are also known as the Sierra Waters trilogy, and are historical fiction as well as science fiction. His stories and novels have been nominated for Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, Edgar, Prometheus, and Audie Awards. His Nebula-nominated novelette, "The Chronology Protection Case," was made into a low-budget short film, now on Amazon Prime Video. His nonfiction books, including The Soft Edge (1997), Digital McLuhan (1999), Realspace (2003), Cellphone (2004), New New Media (2009; 2nd edition, 2012), McLuhan in an Age of Social Media (2015), Fake News in Real Context (2016), and Cyber War and Peace (2017), have been translated into fifteen languages. He co-edited Touching the Face of the Cosmos: On the Intersection of Space Travel and Religion in 2016. He appears on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, the Discovery Channel, National Geographic, the History Channel, NPR, and numerous TV and radio programs. His 1972 LP, Twice Upon a Rhyme, was re-issued in 2010. Welcome Up: Songs of Space and Time was released by Old Bear Records and Light In the Attic Records in 2020. Levinson was President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, 1998-2001. He reviews television in his InfiniteRegress.TV blog, and was listed in The Chronicle of Higher Education's "Top 10 Academic Twitterers" in 2009. He began his column "The Other Reel" for Future SF Magazine in June 2020, where he reviews new science fiction movies and TV series in non-English languages.

Kiler Davenport Live: Interview with Sophia DiGonis

Sophia E. DiGonis is a self-published poet and author and has been featured in numerous places on the

web such as: New Age Venus at http://newagevenus.com The Write Place At The Write Time on

Http://thewriteplaceatthewritetime.org and in an online interview at http://loreelough.com/newsletter.html.


She has also been published in the popular Texas magazine, Voices De La Luna in both print and web.

(Http://Voicesdelaluna.com) as well as The Brooklyn Voice. (http://brooklynvoice.com) Ambriel Revolution (Http://ambrielrev.com)

She is a contributing writer to the ever-popular magazine, Punk Globe, (Http://punkglobe.com)writing as

"The Gypsy Poet" Between 2013-2015.

Her first book, A Voice Over Time is her first volume of published poetry. Her other two volumes are

Mysterium, written and published in 2012 and now, Shine: The San Antonio Mysteries

in 2016, which is dedicated to her late father, Andreas Leoneidas Digonis.

She is an accomplished musician as well as a Radio DJ on several shows on the internet,

such as Gypsy Poet Radio on http://blogtalkradio.com/Gypsypoet and known widely as

The Gypsy Poet and/or Le Poete Gitane.

Currently, she has released her 2nd book of poetry Mysterium and is working on more releases and

other arts-related projects.

She also has her Bachelor's Degree in musical composition from the University Of Texas

at San Antonio. DiGonis is currently working on her Master of Arts in English as well as research for the University of Texas at San Antonio.

She also does graphic design, plays, and writes music and poetry and teaches music in San Antonio, Texas.


Kiler Davenport Live: Interview with Eric Crow Draven - writer / author / poet




* 4x published author * Performed poetry on ESPN during the NBA All-Star game in Atlanta. * Named one of the top sexiest 50 male poets of 2013 * Winner of the 2014 Poetry Author of the Year via National Poetry Awards ( NPA ) * Nominee of the 2017 Erotic Poet of the Year Male via GANSPA awards * Produces poetry events in NYC

Kiler Davenport Live: Interview with Author June Bugg

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