James Navé

Twice 5 Miles Radio with James Navé

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Twice 5 Miles Radio is a podcast devoted to candid, often surprising conversations with artists, thinkers, and cultural instigators who have something to say. Each episode explores the stories, tensions, and questions that shape how we live, create, and pay attention. I’m James Navé—poet, storyteller, educator, and longtime host of Twice 5 Miles Radio. I hold an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and have spent decades teaching and working with writers and performers worldwide. I’m the co-developer of the Imaginative Storm Writing method with Allegra Huston, helping people access authentic...

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Hollywood Movie Making with screenwriter Kieran Fitzgerald 12.03.2021 58:49

In this insightful conversation, Kieran explores the idea of how he uses healthy internal creative pressure to write winning screenplays for the Hollywood movie-making community. Kieran's screenwriting credits include Snowden, The Homesman, Wormwood (Netflix), and The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez. In preparation, I re-watched Snowden, and viewed Wormwood for the first time. If youre curious about...

Priceless Poetics with poet mOody bLaCk 27.02.2021 58:56

Hi, James Navé here (www.jamesnave.com) welcoming poet and spoken-word artist mOody bLaCK to the Twice 5 miles microphone (www.iammoodyblack.com). Aside from creating a terrific branded logo, mOody bLaCk, from his name mOody bLaCk Mr. bLaCK offers us a kaleidoscope of artistic perspectives in this lively and humorous hour-long poetic conversation between two talkative poets, Mr. bLaCK and me. What...

Collaborating and Ghostwriting with Maya Christobel 05.02.2021 1:00:04

Twice 5 Miles Radio welcomes Maya Christobel to the microphone. Maya is a filmmaker, screenwriter, ghostwriter, and entrepreneur. In this lively conversation, Maya talks about how masks have changed our identities. She discusses the value of collaboration and what it means to ghost- write. By golly she should know! Maya is a Harvard Psychotherapist having done her Masters and Doctoral work at Harv...

The Poetics of Doing the Work with Roger Bonair Agard 03.02.2021 1:00:09

Twice 5 Miles Radio welcomes Rober Bonair-Agard to the microphone. Poet and spoken-word artist Roger Bonair-Agard was born in Trinidad and Tobago and moved to the United States in 1987. His collections of poetry include Tarnish and Masquerade (2006); Gully (2010); and Bury My Clothes (2013), which was a long-list finalist for a National Book Award. He contributed to the collection Burning Down the...

Rowing Oceans Solo and Sowing Seeds Together with author, ocean rower, and activists Roz Savage 03.04.2020 58:36

James Navé here. It’s my pleasure to welcome ocean rower and environmental activist Roz Savage to the Twice 5 Miles Radio microphone. In 2007, when Roz Savage stepped on the Sheridan Opera House stage 8,750 feet above sea level at the Telluride Mountain Film festival, I had never considered that you could row solo across the Atlantic Ocean. I soon learned that you could indeed row solo across the...