Archive for July, 2008
After Beckmann I
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Each moment fills with every other. A notion in the lining of our cells. A big world is fast, getting bigger. A draft from the open window electrifies the sensitive coleus roots already abloat with nitrogen & water. I surge with goose pimples & caffeine. A picture of health. To see a dancer within music stretching both her awareness & the audience’s, practicing precognition…
No commentsRadio Open Mic Time
I’ve been talking about it. Now it’s happening. Listen & Be Heard Poetry Cafe will host its first open mic internet radio show on August 19, at 8pm Pacific Standard Time. If you have a computer with a built in microphone, and some earphones (to avoid feedback) then you can call in to the radio show without paying a telephone bill. If you don’t have a microphone in your computer, or even if you don’t have a computer, you can still call in to the radio show at (718) 506-1481 between 8 pm and 9:30 pm Pacific Standard Time, and read your poem. You will hear the show on the line while you are waiting… Read more
No comments08/19 - Blog Talk Radio Show - USA - Open Mic Radio Show
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 from 8-9:30pm PST. Three rounds of open mic. The lightning round (30 seconds) and spotlight round (five minutes) will feature several designated poets who signed the open mic list ahead of time at Listen & Be Heard Poetry Cafe. The third round will be for poets who are listening to call in and share one poem. Hosted by Martha Cinader Mims.
Already scheduled to be featured on the 19th are Alicia Jones, Don Hagelberg, Adam Gottschalk and DDE. Please read our blog for more information. Others interested in being featured can still sign up for the show on August 26.
No commentsHELIANTHUS
Starburst design radiating projectile spears
Visible signal flare wavering illumination
Massive source of solar energy
First magnitude heat primeval light
No commentsOcean Blue
“Ocean Blue” was previously published in the book “When the Body Calls“, Writers and Readers, 1999.
My mother gave birth
in her blue depths
and cradled me
next to the undulating rhythms
of her heart.
No comments08/26 - Blog Talk Radio Show - USA - Open Mic Radio Show
Open Mic Radio Show |
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| When |
08/26
8:00pm
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All Ages
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| Where |
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/listenandbeheard
USA |
| Other Info | Tuesday, August 26, 2008 from 8-9:30pm PST.Three rounds of open mic. The lightning round (30 seconds) and spotlight round (five minutes) will feature several designated poets who signed the open mic list ahead of time at Listen & Be Heard Poetry Cafe. The third round will be for poets who are listening to call in and share one poem. Hosted by Martha Cinader Mims. |
DELICATE BALANCE
FLUX ßà STASIS
Listen carefully try to hear
What I’m not actually saying
Telling everything about virtually nothing
Turned on ears mouthing off
No commentsINSIGHT
TENSION à ATTENTION
Pure consciousness freedom from thought
Divine inspiration curious awesome wonder
Intuitive awareness overwhelming perceptual senses
There is nothing to understand
No commentsThis Subject
How’d we get on this subject
anyway? One minute we’re talking movies
& the next you’re telling me
your views on murder. I don’t want to know Read more
No commentsNo Matter What You Do
Someone won’t like you.
Someone will spread lies.
Someone will be jealous.
Someone won’t understand.
Someone will block you.
Someone will wait and see.
Someone will find you wanting. Read more
Barack to the Future
Of all the gods vexed
Nature is most powerful almighty
Paths of destruction wreaking havoc
Catastrophic damage all shook up
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Please use the new Listen & Be Heard Network Bulletin Board
Please listen and be heard at the new Listen & Be Heard Network Bulletin Board
http://www.listenandbeheard.net/bbpress/
That Four Letter Word
You know, some people have “middle names”
Especially when it comes to dating
They may be called “Pimp” or “Mac Daddy”
But not me, oh no
I am the Ingenious
Ever-experienced
All-knowing One
That can be summed up in two words
“Cranial Rectitus”
But this title did not come easy
It took years of failure
Foolish mistakes Read more
Petaluma, CA - 09/21 - Phoenix Theatre - United States - Petaluma Poetry Walk
Petaluma Poetry Walk |
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| When |
09/21
4:00pm
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All Ages
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| Where |
Phoenix Theatre (map)
201 Washington St. corner of Keller St.
Petaluma, CA, United States |
| Other Info | An annual event taking place in several locations throughout Petaluma, CA, organized by Geri DiGiorno. Martha Cinader Mims and Tony Mims will be featured as part of the Poetry Walk at 4pm at the Phoenix Theatre, accompanied by Paul Neal on the upright bass and CarlTrent on percussion. |
ode to today
the sky is grey
the sky is blue
there is you
i can see
i can’t see
it is today
never yesterday Read more
No commentsMYSTICISM
MYSTICISM
Flattering fragile id superhuman ego
Soothing unsatisfied psyche primitive urges
Indifferent borderline neurotic faking passion
Blissfully oblivious to painful pleasure
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No commentsCrazy Mary
“Crazy Mary” was previously published in the book “When the Body Calls“, Writers and Readers, 1999.
“Mary tell me your symptoms.”
“Yes Doctor”
My veins are running
with plagues of the century
injected into me when I was born
in the middle of a secret experiment.
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