Gypsy Art Show #5 Featuring Janice Hale-Hobby From El Paso, Texas

Belinda Janice Interview - Spoken Word, Interview- Visit Janice Hale Hobby's Official Website

With poetry published in "Woodrider," "Wordart," "Florida Arts Gazette," "Chimera Connections," "Florida State Poets Association," and other small presses, associations, and specialty magazines, "Flicker," my second-international contest winner, was read on National Public Radio. My children's book, "Staying Back," was released in 1982. I had the distinct honor of being featured to read on stage for and with my mentor, Pulitzer-Prize-winning, Library of Congress and New Hampshire Poet Laureate, Richard Eberhart. I earned a MEd. and hours towards a PhD in Special Education Administration from the University of Florida and taught 33 years in the gifted program and special education in both Florida and Texas until my retirement this year due to multi-level spinal fusion. I was a writing consultant to the Florida Teacher Education Center, liaisons to Shands Teaching Hospital Nerology Dept., wrote grants, ESOL, Science Tech., and Gifted curricula in Florida and Texas, and taught students of all ages in private, public, and laboratory settings. Nominated five times by former students for Who's Who Among American Teachers, I loved it when they came back to visit and update me about their lives. Some claim that I made a difference. Little do they know how much I learn from them! A tenured insructor at the University of Florida Yonge Laboratory School, I moved to El Paso in 1987 with my former-husband, a keyboardist for the 62nd Army Band, an Army nurse, and veteran of Desert Storm. Raised as an Air Force brat, I have lived in all four corners of the USA and the Far East, have two artistic sons, use to breed, train, and show Irish Setters, shoot bow and muzzle-loaders, play Harmony Patrician Recurve guitar, raise bonsais, hike, camp, and newly retired commune daily with The Muse.

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