An Army of Spiritual Teachers.

Walker, Alice, 1944-; African American authors; African American women authors; Revolutionary Petunias & Other Poems (Book); Environmental degradation; Meditation

An interview with Alice Walker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning, African-American novelist and poet, is presented. Topics covered incldue how she balances grief and hope in her poetry collection "Revolutionary Petunias," the need to awaken to address the destruction of planet Earth, love of the land as indigenous, relationship between poetry and meditation and why her poetry is very straightforward.