Judith Valente
Journalist, Poet, Producer
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"Twenty Poems to Nourish Your Soul"
Is 2008 'Eric Hoffer Award' Runner Up
"Twenty Poems to Nourish Your Soul" is the 2008 First Runner Up Award winner in the poetry category of the Eric Hoffer Award for books. The Eric Hoffer Awards recognize excellence in independent publishing. Entries come from a variety of fields, including fiction, memoir, children's, poetry and art. To view the press release on this year's winners and runners up, please click on www.hofferaward.com. To read Loyola Press' announcement of this honor, please go to www.loyolapress.com
Comstock Review Honors Judith Valente Poem
With 2008 Muriel Craft Bailey Merit Award
Comstock Review, a distinguished literary journal in Syracuse, NY, selected Judith Valente's poem, "Mother of God Monastery, Watertown, South Dakota" as one of four winners of this years Muriel Craft Bailey Poetry Award. The poem appears in the January 2009 issue of Comstock Review. The contest judge this year was Marie Howe. Please visit Comstock Review's website at www.comstockreview.org.
Read the poem on the books and programs page of www.judithvalente.com.
Judith Valente Poem Selected
for Anthology of New Jersey Poets
Judith Valente's poem, "After Dabney's Barbershop," was included in the 2008 anthology "The Final Lilt of Songs," an anthology of poems by New Jersey residents and natives. Valente was born in Bayonne, NJ and attended St. Aloysius Academy (now Caritas Academy) and St. Peter's College in Jersey City, NJ.
To order the anthology, please contact southmountainpoets@gmail.com.
Read the poem on the Books and Programs page of www.judithvalente.com.
Judith Valente Wins Broadcast Award
From Religion NewsWriters Association
Monday, September 14, 2009
See and Hear Interviews with Judith Valente
Hear Judith Valente's latest commentary on Chicago Public Radio, about her experiences at Mount St. Scholastica Monastery in Atchison, KS, the subject of her next book. This commentary aired February 17, 2010.
http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/Content.aspx?audioID=40099
Hear Judith Valente interviewed on Chicago Public Radio's 848 Show by Book List editor Donna Seaman about Judith's latest collection of poems, Discovering Moons, and hear her read excerpts from the poems at the following link:http://www.wbez.org/Content.aspx?audioID=35835
See a video of Judith Valente's piece detailing the impact of Hispanics on the American Catholic Church, winner of a 2009 Religion News Writers Association Broadcast Award (segment first aired on PBS-TV in November 2007):
www.americamagazine.org
Read what America magazine poetry editor James Torrens, S.J. had to say about "Twenty Poems to Nourish Your Soul" in his Dec. 15, 2008 column "Do You Good Anthologies: Some Poetry for the Soul."
www.bostonglobe.com/news/local/articles/2008/05/10jurist_finds_the_sacred_in_daily_life.
Read about how Charles Reynard connects his life as a Circuit Court Judge to his poetry writing in this May 10, 2008 column entitled Jurist Finds the Sacred in the Everyday."
www.ReadtheSpirit.com.
Read an interview with Judith Valente and Charles Reynard conducted by David Crumm. Nov. 14, 2007. Click on "A Conversation with the Spirit of Poetry" (Story Item 039].
Is 2008 'Eric Hoffer Award' Runner Up
"Twenty Poems to Nourish Your Soul" is the 2008 First Runner Up Award winner in the poetry category of the Eric Hoffer Award for books. The Eric Hoffer Awards recognize excellence in independent publishing. Entries come from a variety of fields, including fiction, memoir, children's, poetry and art. To view the press release on this year's winners and runners up, please click on www.hofferaward.com. To read Loyola Press' announcement of this honor, please go to www.loyolapress.com
Comstock Review Honors Judith Valente Poem
With 2008 Muriel Craft Bailey Merit Award
Comstock Review, a distinguished literary journal in Syracuse, NY, selected Judith Valente's poem, "Mother of God Monastery, Watertown, South Dakota" as one of four winners of this years Muriel Craft Bailey Poetry Award. The poem appears in the January 2009 issue of Comstock Review. The contest judge this year was Marie Howe. Please visit Comstock Review's website at www.comstockreview.org.
Read the poem on the books and programs page of www.judithvalente.com.
Judith Valente Poem Selected
for Anthology of New Jersey Poets
Judith Valente's poem, "After Dabney's Barbershop," was included in the 2008 anthology "The Final Lilt of Songs," an anthology of poems by New Jersey residents and natives. Valente was born in Bayonne, NJ and attended St. Aloysius Academy (now Caritas Academy) and St. Peter's College in Jersey City, NJ.
To order the anthology, please contact southmountainpoets@gmail.com.
Read the poem on the Books and Programs page of www.judithvalente.com.
Judith Valente Wins Broadcast Award
From Religion NewsWriters Association
Monday, September 14, 2009
 Roberta Lee Senior Publicist WNET.ORG/Channel THIRTEEN phone: 212.560.3134 email: LeeR@WNET.ORG www.WNET.ORG WNET.ORG's Religion & Ethics Newsweekly Wins Best Television Reporting Award at RNA's Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, the PBS newsmagazine series produced by WNET.ORG, won first and second places in the television category of the 2009 Religion Newswriters Association award contest for excellence in religion reporting in the mainstream media. The banquet was held on Saturday night, September 12. Kim Lawton, Religion & Ethics Newsweekly managing editor/correspondent, was awarded first place in the Best Television Reporting category for her report "Continuing King's Legacy," which was originally broadcast on March 28, 2008. Lawton also won first place in the Best Television Reporting category last year. The story was produced by R&E's Patti Jette Hanley. The report looked at the very different ways African-American ministers are claiming King's mantle and trying to carry on his work forty years after the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. To view the winning segment go to: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week1130/feature.html Additionally, Religion & Ethics Newsweekly took home second place for Best Television Reporting Category. Contributing correspondent Judy Valente won for her story "US Hispanic Catholics." Produced by R&E's Phil O'Connor and broadcast on January 11, 2008, the story examined how America's burgeoning Latino community is changing the Catholic Church. To view the winning segment go to: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week1119/cover.html The awards were presented on September 12, 2009 at a banquet during RNA's 60th annual conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota. RNA is a non-profit trade association founded in 1949 to advance the professional standards of religion reporting in the general press as well as to create a support network for religion reporters. Its national awards competition rewards excellence in religion reporting in the secular media. For more than a decade, Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, anchored by veteran journalist Bob Abernethy, has been providing distinctive, exhaustive, one-of-a-kind coverage of religion's role in American life, international news, and major ethical issues. Since 1997, an award-winning team of correspondents have traveled around the country and the globe to cover stories on such topics such as Middle East peace prospects, the ethics of privatized genetic testing, the split in the Episcopal Church over homosexuality, religion's role in American politics and in helping people cope with the recession. Studio discussions featuring newsmakers, scholars and policy analysts have also offered insightful perspectives on subjects ranging from bioethics to Vatican policies to Wall Street and faith. Viewers can visit www.pbs.org/religionandethics to view the program. |
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See and Hear Interviews with Judith Valente
Hear Judith Valente's latest commentary on Chicago Public Radio, about her experiences at Mount St. Scholastica Monastery in Atchison, KS, the subject of her next book. This commentary aired February 17, 2010.
http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/Content.aspx?audioID=40099
Hear Judith Valente interviewed on Chicago Public Radio's 848 Show by Book List editor Donna Seaman about Judith's latest collection of poems, Discovering Moons, and hear her read excerpts from the poems at the following link:http://www.wbez.org/Content.aspx?audioID=35835
See a video of Judith Valente's piece detailing the impact of Hispanics on the American Catholic Church, winner of a 2009 Religion News Writers Association Broadcast Award (segment first aired on PBS-TV in November 2007):
www.americamagazine.org
Read what America magazine poetry editor James Torrens, S.J. had to say about "Twenty Poems to Nourish Your Soul" in his Dec. 15, 2008 column "Do You Good Anthologies: Some Poetry for the Soul."
www.bostonglobe.com/news/local/articles/2008/05/10jurist_finds_the_sacred_in_daily_life.
Read about how Charles Reynard connects his life as a Circuit Court Judge to his poetry writing in this May 10, 2008 column entitled Jurist Finds the Sacred in the Everyday."
www.ReadtheSpirit.com.
Read an interview with Judith Valente and Charles Reynard conducted by David Crumm. Nov. 14, 2007. Click on "A Conversation with the Spirit of Poetry" (Story Item 039].
www.extension720.com.
Hear a two-hour interview with Judith Valente and Charles Reynard on "Twenty Poems to Nourish Your Soul" recorded live Dec. 14, 2006 on "Extension 720 with Milt Rosenberg," WGN-Radio, 720-AM.
Hear a two-hour interview with Judith Valente and Charles Reynard on "Twenty Poems to Nourish Your Soul" recorded live Dec. 14, 2006 on "Extension 720 with Milt Rosenberg," WGN-Radio, 720-AM.
www.chicagopublicradio.org.
Hear Judith Valente and Charles Reynard talk about their love for poetry and reading poems from their anthology "Twenty Poems to Nourish Your Soul." Nov. 30, 2005 on the 848 Morning Magazine Show. WBEZ-Radio, 91.5 FM.
Hear Judith Valente and Charles Reynard talk about their love for poetry and reading poems from their anthology "Twenty Poems to Nourish Your Soul." Nov. 30, 2005 on the 848 Morning Magazine Show. WBEZ-Radio, 91.5 FM.
www.chicagopublicradio.org.
Hear Judith Valente talk about love poetry on this Valentine's Day Special of "Hello Beautiful" hosted by Edward Lifson. Feb. 11, 2007.
Hear Judith Valente talk about love poetry on this Valentine's Day Special of "Hello Beautiful" hosted by Edward Lifson. Feb. 11, 2007.
WBEZ-Radio, 91.5 FM.
www.Beliefsnet.com.
Read Judith Valente's chapter on the spirituality of work, "For That I Came" from "Twenty Poems to Nourish Your Soul."
Read Judith Valente's chapter on the spirituality of work, "For That I Came" from "Twenty Poems to Nourish Your Soul."
www.pbs.org/religion.
Watch stories Judith Valente has covered on important religious developments and fascinating religious figures in contemporary America. Click on to "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly" and type Judy Valente.
Watch stories Judith Valente has covered on important religious developments and fascinating religious figures in contemporary America. Click on to "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly" and type Judy Valente.
www.chicagopublicradio.org.
Hear Judy Valente's interviews with poets and authors as well as her coverage of spiritual life in Chicago. Click on to the 848 Morning Magazine Show, keyword: Judy Valente.
Hear Judy Valente's interviews with poets and authors as well as her coverage of spiritual life in Chicago. Click on to the 848 Morning Magazine Show, keyword: Judy Valente.
www.npr.org.
Hear Judith Valente's interviews with such poets as Lucille Clifton, Natasha Trethewey, Tracy K. Smith, Elizabeth Alexander, Philip Levine, Kevin Stein, David Bottoms and Samuel Menashe as well as former Poetry magazine editor Joseph Parisi and Poetry Foundation executive director John Barr on programs such as "Weekend Edition" and "Weekend All Things Considered." Keyword: Judy Valente
http://spiritualityandchristianity.com/is-the-monastic-life
In this podcast, Judith Valente discusses with spiritual teacher and healer Shirley Paulson how busy professionals can use monastic values of attentiveness, listening, simplicity, stability and prayer in daily life to build a "monastery within."
Hear Judith Valente's interviews with such poets as Lucille Clifton, Natasha Trethewey, Tracy K. Smith, Elizabeth Alexander, Philip Levine, Kevin Stein, David Bottoms and Samuel Menashe as well as former Poetry magazine editor Joseph Parisi and Poetry Foundation executive director John Barr on programs such as "Weekend Edition" and "Weekend All Things Considered." Keyword: Judy Valente
http://spiritualityandchristianity.com/is-the-monastic-life
In this podcast, Judith Valente discusses with spiritual teacher and healer Shirley Paulson how busy professionals can use monastic values of attentiveness, listening, simplicity, stability and prayer in daily life to build a "monastery within."
www.30GoodMinutes.org
See a video on Judith Valente's spiritual journey from journalist to poet. Click on Spiritual Journeys, then look for Judith Valente in the alphabetical listing
Go to www.30GoodMinutes.org to also see Part One of Judith Valente's Five Part Series of Reflections on Monastic Life, based on her book in progress about Mount St. Scholastica Monastery in Atchison, KS. Key in the words: Judy Valente. (Below is another rather lengthy link to the same video).
http://vimeo.com/6964838">Judy Valente, "Praise & Prayer" - Reflection</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user1974695">30goodminutes</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
See a video on Judith Valente's spiritual journey from journalist to poet. Click on Spiritual Journeys, then look for Judith Valente in the alphabetical listing
Go to www.30GoodMinutes.org to also see Part One of Judith Valente's Five Part Series of Reflections on Monastic Life, based on her book in progress about Mount St. Scholastica Monastery in Atchison, KS. Key in the words: Judy Valente. (Below is another rather lengthy link to the same video).
http://vimeo.com/6964838">Judy Valente, "Praise & Prayer" - Reflection</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user1974695">30goodminutes</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
