Martin Shaw leads a bustling schedule of lectures and workshops across Britain and the United States, and is principal teacher at Robert Bly's Great Mother Conference in Maine, and a contributor to the Dark Mountain Project in the U.K. Shaw has worked extensively and often collaboratively with Robert Bly, Coleman Barks, David Abram, Caroline Casey, and Malidoma Some. He is regarded internationally as one of most exciting new teachers of the mythic imagination. Bly describes him as "a true master -- one of the very greatest storytellers we have." He lives in Devonshire, U.K. Coleman Barks is a renowned poet and the bestselling author of The Essential Rumi. He was prominently featured in both of Bill Moyers's PBS television series on poetry, "The Language of Life and Fooling with Words." He taught English and poetry at the University of Georgia for thirty years, and he now focuses on writing, readings, and performances.