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Hello, and good morning, everybody.

How's everybody doing?

Hello, is this row calling?

That would be me.

How are you doing?

It's a synthetic shoe maker.

I was asked to call you at 930.

Well, I'm so glad that you listen to your parents

and you do, as you say, or they say.

Ha, ha, ha, ha.

Man, I'm so proud of you in the way of sharing a book

like this because I spent my entire life trying

to get poetry out there.

And I've had to learn how to disguise it

because most people aren't drawn to it.

And then I'm inspired by you, Cynthia,

because you've taken that step.

You've created a new path on how to get those words out there

so that people accept them.

Yes, thank you.

But it hasn't been an easy journey.

It just doesn't feel like that.

It's just been handed to you.

You've really busted some serious tail.

Well, what happened was I began writing poetry

when I was in high school without any training for several.

I just went and made Dickinson and other American poets.

Later I studied British, you know,

the British literature in many years before.

And I learned all these things

by reading other people's poetry.

And then I thought I had a teacher

who encouraged me to just experiment.

And I wound up writing it all the way

through my teaching career,

all the way through to my retirement.

And then I thought,

I haven't had a publishing in this.

No, I'm not doing it for over how I do this.

So that's what I started doing independent publishing.

And of course, that was back in the days before

independent publishing was very famous.

And now that I've done it,

I've got these four books that will never be on line

because I miss that old thing.

So and three others that are poetry.

There are online now and I can sell books without carrying

them around with me in my hands.

I can take go to this.

Well, you're sliding.

You have to buy them.

You seem to be the type of person that allows the understanding

of that when you release it,

then, then it's like, okay,

this is what I,

it was meant for.

It's not for me.

It's for them and how they receive it

is, is so important because I love that feeling

when I get word that somebody has purchased your book.

Oh my God.

What a great feeling that is.

And it's not about making money.

It's about reaching people.

How do you feel about that?

Oh, that's exactly the same.

You don't, you know,

you have to pay to have the book published.

And then you think,

but all these people are saying,

oh, this is a real book.

Can we buy it?

And then you're very excited about it.

You've got stories in here that are 60 years old.

Now I got, because I've been a daily writer since 1994

and I've got all of my writing.

Where did you store this?

Because I mean, I, I'm at that point where I'm going.

Where am I going to put it?

I think I just put it in folders in different places

and then forgot about them.

Yeah.

And the stories,

the stories were written way back,

not many years ago.

And when I got ready to publish them,

I asked someone about it and I said,

do people still read stories?

I mean,

if they were written for the days of cell phones,

are they going to enjoy these?

And they said,

well,

if they're good stories,

they're going to be good stories regardless.

So that's why I wouldn't have published them.

And I thought later,

well,

these are going to appeal to anybody,

but they do to certain people who are of certain age

because they've experienced similar things.

And that's what I love about writing is the fact that you can jot down thoughts

and it's for a future reader.

And that's what I think is so fascinating about this is that somewhere along the line,

you, you must have known in your heart.

It's going to reach people.

But right now,

we're just going to preserve it because there are so many writers at home

that will hide their writing and it's like,

all you have to do is release it.

You don't even have to watch them read the book.

Just release it because it belongs to them.

That's correct.

But what a scary walk, huh?

Yeah, you have to wonder.

And you particularly wonder when you've been writing poetry a long, long time.

People know that.

And then suddenly there are these stories in your thinking,

oh, my goodness.

This is going to be so different.

Are the people reading a life piece because that was them.

Long ago,

but it turned out to be a good experience.

How did you craft the art of short stories?

And the reason why bring that up is because we are living in this generation

where the attention span is so short.

And that to me is the perfect ripe atmosphere for short stories.

And look at you coming in here with pros pizza.

Have you read any of them?

Of course I have.

And we're going to dive into that.

Because I just love the way that you break it up.

And then and the thing is is that the way you break up the story,

is of course I'm going to get the idea of a pizza because that's because that's

what the title is.

But the thing about it is though is that you bring in several different concepts

and levels of stories.

It's not the same one drawn all the way through 350 pages.

I'm glad you could give that out.

That's very true.

And that's what I love about this because of the attention span

because I can finish a story and go, dang, I accomplished something today.

My God, Cynthia,

thank you so much for putting this in this book.

I can't and readers do that.

They read to accomplish.

Right.

That's wonderful.

So when writing the book, what was the urge to bring it forward?

What did you feel?

Because I know you were talking about being a teacher.

I understand that language because my wife is a teacher.

I'm just not seeing her right yet.

Well, I have I have for a long time since I retired after I started publishing things.

I started having some kind of prayer, I'm living now, which is in Steven Florida, where I look up and

at least for teaching for a long time.

But when I moved to see Brand, of course, I was retired.

And I was still publishing what every poetry I had and I was still writing as usual.

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But when I was thinking about the stories, wasn't it a law you talked to people?

And they say, do you know when you were a child, what it was how different it was from your weightiest with children today?

And I said, yes.

And they said, well, you never knew anything in a place where you went out to play after a separate time or before a separate time.

And they said, now, don't go too far.

When there was no whistle, it was time for everybody to come home.

And you were running around in the neighborhood with all these neighboring kids and doing things and growing up.

And they never knew what you were doing out there.

And I had a story about a child who was told by the parents.

I said, yeah, I'm sure you've heard it.

They want to call second half of the girl.

So you cannot play football anymore with these neighborhood boys.

Yes.

And of course, she is rebellious.

But children, at those days, you couldn't be too rebellious.

You did what your parents told you.

So she's thinking, well, what else can I do?

So she thinks of a game.

And of course, as I was thinking about that, I was thinking, how did I feel when I was a young person?

And I was told, don't do this.

But you can do this.

And no, you can't do this.

I don't want to know where you are and all the things.

And I was, I can't mention the story to somebody that I had written it.

They said, you know, I lived in New York City.

That's what we did in our neighborhoods.

And my father would throw a whistle and we'd all run back to our houses because it was getting there.

But as I wrote the story, I had written it.

I remembered it.

There's a time when you go from childhood to more like adulthood.

Yes.

And suddenly, all these people that you're running around with, you say, why have I been wasting my time with these children?

So when I wrote that particular story,

where the girl is reading a very famous novel, very old-fashioned, a famous novel.

And her thinking is changing.

And she's beginning to think about what and they don't.

This game is not important.

I left this book on reading.

So that is, that's when you begin to kind of move upward.

And you're going into adulthood and you don't even realize

that the world is going to be different now, but you're interested in it.

So I thought that when I would tell that story to people, they would say, that happened to me.

Yes.

Did you ever write down the things you remember when you were worried about?

Why is this not happening?

Why am I different now, whatever?

And I said, they said, yes.

But we never wrote anything.

And then Judy Boone started writing all these books about what is like the 12 years over there.

And I said, well, that's delightful.

Then I have written one story that I think you would enjoy.

And when I would mention that,

then I would think about this other article, this article I wrote about the cockroaches,

that time that I went off to the program in a university and I lived in a motel or somewhere during the week.

And there were all these cockroaches everywhere.

Everybody was talking about how you can't kill them there everywhere.

So I wrote this amusing article.

And that's really what I put it together.

I put everything together, even if they were all different things.

And I thought about pizza and how you order pizza in different ways.

We'd different people in the family.

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The name of the book is pros pizza.

We are back with poet and author Cynthia Schumacher.

Is there a side of your creative personality that wishes that you could have shared that with one of the classes that you were with?

Because you just shared one of the most brilliant life stories in the way of trusting your writing and understanding that life changes,

especially when you were talking about the transition between a younger life into an older life.

Because that to me is the stuff that I wish I could stay in front of my class.

But it's like, I know you're not listening right now to students.

But I'm telling you, this is going to be valuable information for you.

What did you feel when you had that class?

But now you've got basically the world with your writing.

Well, when I was teaching elementary and high school, I always taught writing.

But I tried to introduce it as something to have fun with.

I would say to them, do you realize you have all these ideas in your head and you never put many of them down?

What if you were an old person and you died and you had written a book and your grandchildren discovered this book and thought about?

We never knew this lady.

But she wrote a book and maybe it's a children's story. Maybe it's a story she told you one time and then she really wrote it.

And I thought about all the times in my life that I regretted.

I had never talked to somebody who was older and thought, why did this happen when I was a child?

What was that all about?

And I didn't really follow up on it.

And so I was telling them, I would say to the kids that they, did you have a pet?

Yes.

Had you ever written a story about a cat or a dog?

No.

Well, I said, suppose you researched cats.

And you found out that it had been and it was lived a long, long time.

And there were sometimes buried in the pyramids with the kings.

And all this gold and silver, many cobras, cobras gliding around.

And I was, I said, talk about the history of cats because the cats are so independent.

Your ancestry makes them mysterious.

And I said, I wrote a poem once about a cat and I drew a picture of a cat and put it inside the cat.

And I said, maybe we could draw pictures of dogs or snakes or birds and you could go home and really think about all the attributes of this particular animal.

Close the history, go back and study history of the animal.

How did it develop over the years and come up with something?

And I would have given them assignments like this and pretty soon they'd be hooked.

But how do we write about haunted houses or how do we do this?

And I had this greatest that could write quite effectively, even when there were 10 years old.

And then I would go up to high school and I would say you are never going to be bored in this class.

I will not talk to you all through all kinds of things together.

And I would do things to remote writing.

And I think in that way, I didn't really be talking about my own writing so much.

But I was talking about ways you could get interested in writing.

And there they worked. It worked.

Well, Cynthia, it was teachers that knocked on my door when I was in the 11th grade.

They knew that I was out of school for four weeks because of a knee injury and that they felt I wasn't coming back.

So they came into me and said, come to class.

In every one of my classes, we will let you write your stories.

You do not have to pay attention. Just come and write your stories.

And do you realize that I'm able to do what I do today?

Because those teachers believed in me in the 11th grade just write your stories.

I think that's a very important thing to remember.

Usually somebody gets you interested.

I had a teacher in it.

I think in the 12th grade who said to me the class, this is a, I think it was a poem of Brooklyn, Brooklyn Bridges and Dawn or something.

I can't even remember.

And she said, I want you to understand poetry by rewriting a paraphrasing it.

She gave us that assignment.

And the next day she read by her in class without saying my name.

And I'm dying, you know, because I don't want anybody to know that.

But later she said to me, you know that your paragraph, which was a paraphrase, was as good as the poem.

I said, well, I just dig what I thought.

And she said, you should be writing for her.

And of course, that's what I did.

I did it the rest of my life.

Wow.

But I think it's, I think it's, but I would, I'm not having me cover all that is saying.

I've been doing some little plans to have a little talk with neighborhoods sometimes about why writing is important.

And I thought, what is the greatest fear of older people, particularly senior citizens, other than death?

And of course, it's Alzheimer's.

Yes, yeah.

So when I write it, when I'm getting ready to do this, I'm trying to say them, do you realize that when you can't go anywhere, you're just stuck in your house and you're so old, you can't do anything hardly.

That all you need to be able to do is to write something.

Write a memoir, write something about people in your, in your home, people you remember.

I said, you can write poetry, you can learn how to do high school and make a scrapbook for your grandchildren, all these photographs in it.

You know, I'm born there.

I said, and someday when you are not around, and they're going to wonder, what is it like?

When my grandmother or my great grandmother was alive, they would learn who you are and you are now immoral.

Now immoral and your writing is immoral.

And people like me who read Emily Dickinson, you know, you say this woman, so back in the 1800s, and they didn't even like her poetry, but it's in this book.

How did they get in here?

Yeah.

And I said, it can be so rewarding to write and it won't keep you from, they may help you keep, you keep having any kind of a danger with your memory.

But if you have to keep thinking about words to get in a poem, you're going to have to be pretty busy thinking about that.

You're not going to be worried you have been mixed up.

Wow.

So I use, I use to talk to you like that when I talk to people because I say, would you like to learn how to read poetry?

Oh, I don't read modern poetry. I don't understand it.

You're going to, you're going to read my poetry and you're going to like it because it needs to understand.

But I said, my, my characteristic way of looking at a poem that I put in my books, I would say, if I was a hundred years old and I read this poem, and it was way back a hundred years before me, this poem existed.

Would this poem really appeal to me?

Well, if it appealed to me a hundred years later or to someone else, I'm going to put it in the book because I wanted to be in here.

I think that's a good standard to have.

Wow.

You truly are shedding light on the hidden.

Where can people go to find out more about your writing?

You talked about four different books and we need to start with number one all the way through because we need to show you some love on this path.

Well, I have anything on line now.

If you go to anything that's been published very recently, I have three poetry books.

I think the first, I have seven poetry collections that I have three online and the one that came first has just gotten online because I rediscovered it in the archive of some place that printed it.

I gave it to my publisher and I think can we reproduce this book and just reprint it and put it in a copyright?

And that's one called

Firefly Encounters. I think it just came out.

Wow.

But it's by really my fifth poetry book.

Then I have the sixth one called Polish Stones and another one called Soul Flowers.

They have been published at that time and they are all on either Amazon or you can go to Barnes and Noble.

And I think they're listed in those places.

But I just look at my name and say looks like some tissue and usually they'll go ship up in some form.

And then I have this book. Of course, the post piece of book is missing to come out.

So it's available now online. I have two children's books, one for children who are going to read and understanding the alphabet.

And one of them is more multiple intermediate grades that I wrote when I used to do the North Carolina vacation.

And I wrote about Smoky Mountain Troll.

And I put it in the book of clue.

There's a reason why we have movie minds in North Carolina in a certain place in North Carolina.

Because this troll was living in the woods and discovered them.

So I made up some story about Smoky Mountain Troll.

It started out in a huge monster's troll.

It changed over the years as they were married and they married in the places.

They got to be little short people and people would say to me,

all the trolls were about in the woods.

I said, why don't you have movie minds here?

Well, they discovered movies in some of the streams.

I thought, look at how those movies got into the climate of the story.

And I wrote the story.

It's called Willing Brown and the Grey Lumpy.

And it's about this little troll.

And what happens when this strange visitor appears and they take the visitor to their house?

Anyway, I'm not going to tell you the story.

It's just a good story.

Wow.

It's a fun story.

And I found a man who could illustrate things.

Who for instance are so different here.

And I hired him to do the illustrations.

He said, oh, I always wanted to make pictures of that troll.

I wanted to do this.

You have the opportunity.

You said, you said North Carolina and you're using trolls.

You know what's going on in North Carolina right now with that artist that's building those trolls all the way through the state.

In fact, we have people with big feet here in Charlotte.

He put one of those, oh my God, they're trolls all over the state.

And people are traveling all over the state to make sure they see all the trolls.

It's it's spread from Oh my God, it's amazing.

Charlotte Asheville, Greenville, Greensboro.

These trolls are showing up in parks and stuff.

And so when you're talking about trolls in North Carolina, I'm going, oh my God, Cynthia, you are spot on.

Well, that's great.

I didn't know anything about that.

I have stopped going there, of course.

I owned a house there for a long time that I would my parents could stay and if they went up there and I would go up there and

then we had a group of people that you probably read about me.

We had a little artist group that got together.

I was writing poetry and they were writing music and we were having a lot of fun.

And that's when I wrote this particular book.

A little bit later and published it and had this another artist who worked for me.

And as it turned out, I would tell people when I moved out of what I had to sell that house

and not really go up there anymore.

I said, oh, I have a story about this place in North Carolina

where they sold smokey mountain trolls.

Oh, what is it?

I said, well, it's all mine.

If you have anybody in your family that's old enough to read it or you would read it to you.

And I said, it's a fun story.

So I didn't know anything about that.

I got what you're talking about.

Why did you hear that?

Wow.

That's great.

Well, you're going to have to come back to this show anytime in the future.

So we can break out a game of playing the trolls and maybe see some pictures of it and talking about it.

Because I would love for you to see like Pete with big feet here in Charlotte

and experience that troll moment because I can't shake it, Cynthia.

It is with me.

And now I want to go read pro's pizza while sitting next to Pete with big feet.

Okay.

Well, once you have to read, it's going on in the Great London to read the story of the troll.

Well, then that's what I got to do because I mean, you have really sparked up my imagination by bringing this up.

And I, I am going to do that.

And then I would love to figure out some way to talk to you about that while I'm sitting with Pete with big feet.

Okay.

I'll be glad to come back anytime you want me.

Excellent.

Will you be brilliant today?

Okay.

And thank you so much for being so creative and sharing it with readers around the world.

Thank you very much for inviting me.

Thank you.

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