Mark Nepo

The Gilmore Piano Festival returns this year with more than 100 concerts and events featuring appearances by many of the world’s preeminent classical and jazz pianists and artists, from Wednesday, April 24 to Sunday, May 12, 2024. 

Music Theater Works' annual gala will feature Broadway’s longest-running “Christine Daaé,” Sandra Joseph with Broadway's “The Phantom,” Ron Bohmer from Phantom of the Opera in performance. See how to purchase tickets!

Sandra Joseph, longest-running leading lady on Broadway, spent a decade as Christine Daae' in THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. She has gone on to be a keynote speaker/singer, and has authored the #1 international bestselling book on Amazon, 'Unmasking What Matters: 10 Life Lessons from 10 Years on Broadway.'

'The Phantom of the Opera' has delighted audiences for 30 years, playing to over 140 million people in 35 countries around the world. Now, its longest-running leading lady Sandra Joseph has written a new book to carry the spirit of inspiration forward.

Oprah Winfrey hosted over 100 faith and spiritual leaders for a special advance screening of the upcoming landmark television series 'Belief,' which explores faith and spirituality around the world

On Saturday, September 13, Oprah Winfrey continued her eight-city U.S. arena tour 'Oprah's the Life You Want Weekend' at The Palace of Auburn Hills' in Auburn Hills, MI. Below are photos for from the event.

Mark Nepo, bestselling author of Reduced to Joy (Viva Editions), will be interviewed by Oprah Winfrey on Super Soul Sunday this week at 11am EST.

Oprah Winfrey's 'Oprah's The Life You Want Weekend,' an eight-city arena tour and transformational weekend powered by WME Live, announced today that Amy Purdy will join the tour's lineup.

Mark Nepo, spiritual teacher, philosopher, and author of Reduced to Joy, appeared on back to back episodes of Super Soul Sunday with Oprah Winfrey. Nepo said that poetry is the 'unexpected utterance of the soul,' and that everyone has the capacity to be a poet. The poet-philosopher discusses with Oprah the true nature of poetry, and how self-expression can help everyone 'find our way to the sacred.' Mark Nepo's poetry in Reduced to Joy cuts to the core of human experience, of beauty and pain and raw emotion. Nepo will share his poetry and his story with the Bay Area this week, at Books Inc San Francisco, Book Passage Marin, and Pegasus Books in Berkeley (see below for details).

At Oprah's home in Hawaii, best-selling author and poet Mark Nepo opens up about how battling cancer led to a profound spiritual awakening. He will be appearing on two consecutive episodes of Super Soul Sunday beginning today, November 10th, and commencing next Sunday, November 17th.

At Oprah's home in Hawaii, best-selling author and poet Mark Nepo opens up about how battling cancer led to a profound spiritual awakening. He will be appearing on two consecutive episodes of Super Soul Sunday beginning this Sunday, November 10th, and commencing next Sunday, November 17th. Tune in Sunday at 11 a.m. ET/PT on OWN, or join our worldwide simulcast on Oprah.com, Facebook.com/owntv or Facebook.com/supersoulsunday.

Oprah Winfrey's Super Soul Sunday premiers with two episodes featuring best-selling author and poet Mark Nepo, author of Reduced to Joy. The first episode, airing today, October 13, will explore how Nepo's cancer diagnosis led him on a spiritual journey that inspired his later work. The next episode focuses on how listening with a full heart can strengthen and deepen relationships. Nepo will draw on his forty years of spiritual and poetic teaching in these intimate conversations with Oprah Winfrey on living a meaningful life.

Oprah Winfrey's new season of Super Soul Sunday premiers September 22nd, with two episodes featuring best-selling author and poet Mark Nepo, author of Reduced to Joy. The first episode, airing October 13, will explore how Nepo's cancer diagnosis led him on a spiritual journey that inspired his later work. The next episode focuses on how listening with a full heart can strengthen and deepen relationships. Nepo will draw on his forty years of spiritual and poetic teaching in these intimate conversations with Oprah Winfrey on living a meaningful life.

Mark Nepo, the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Awakening, has been called 'one of the finest spiritual guides of our time,' 'a consummate storyteller' and 'an eloquent spiritual teacher.' Now in his sixties, he has written Reduced to Joy, a book of seventy-three poems about the nature of working with what we're given till it wears us through to joy. Nepo says, 'Poetry is the well from which all my books rise. It's where I always go to listen, always stunned by what arrives. I bring these poems back from the deep like shells from the sea that we can look at together.' Profound and accessible, Nepo's poems are tools for staying close to what matters.

OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network announced today programming premieres including new summer episodes of 'Oprah's Next Chapter.'

In the first of a special two-part event, Oprah Winfrey sits down with her beloved mentor and internationally acclaimed writer, author and poet Dr. Maya Angelou on the Emmy(R) Award-winning series 'Super Soul Sunday' premiering Mother's Day, today, May 12 from 11 a.m.- 12:00 p.m. ET/PT on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network.

Felice Newman, CFO, Co-Founder and Co-Publisher of Cleis Press, based in Berkeley, CA, has announced that effective immediately, former Associate Publisher and Founder of Viva Editions, Brenda Knight, has been named Publisher of Cleis Press and Viva Editions. Both imprints are distributed by Publishers Group West. Newman will continue as CFO and Frederique Delacoste Cleis Co-Founder/Co-Publisher will remain President of Cleis Press and Publisher of Midnight Editions. Newman explained, "This is a new beginning for Cleis, a handing of the baton from two dedicated lifelong publishers to a talented and equally dedicated woman of exceptional integrity."