I AM ALIVE IN LOS ANGELES!!

Jan 28 2012 ∞

Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts @ the Talking Stick in Venice..

Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts
returns to Southern California
for a Spar at the Talking Stick in Venice —
1411 Lincoln Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
January 28, 2012 at 7 p.m.
 
Hosted/produced
by Mike The Poet. Featuring: Steve Abee, Iris Berry,
Lisa Cherry, Ordell Cordova, Cheryl Fidelman, MichaeL C. Ford,
Ellyn… Maybe, Chuck Rosenthal, Elena Secota, Gail Wronsky,
V. LAzaro Zamora, Annisa, DJ Noj and Mystery Poet.
 
This is Round 32 (32nd show)
of the popular
Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts poetry series.

For more info check this link:

Sparring

Jan 27 2012 ∞

L.A. Letters #1: Lionel Rolfe & Johnny Otis

The link connects

to my new column

for KCET titled,

“L.A. Letters.”

This edition covers

Lionel Rolfe & Johnny Otis.

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Jan 23 2012 ∞

Pop Up Poetry — “Love is Living Large in Los Angeles.”

The Studio for Southern California History hosts a “pop up” gallery

to celebrate 2012’s Chinese New Year of the Dragon at a weekend

gallery space at

818 N. Hill Street
in the commercial lobby
of the Best Western Hotel.
This “pop up” gallery celebrates “Love is Living LARG…E in Los Angeles,”
the Studio’s online exhibit dedicated to those who have made our community
a better place at www.lahistoryarchive.org/ resources/ Love_Is_Living_Large/.

To celebrate the year of the dragon, the Studio will hold a open mike poetry reading, hosted by MtP on Friday night 1/27/2012 from 7 - 10 pm.
 
Featured poets include some of the city’s best poets
including Busstop Prophet & Traci Kato-kiriyama.
More news to follow.. 
 

Jan 21 2012 ∞

LAnguage with Mike the PoeT: 1/22/2012

Hosted by Mike the PoeT..

Open Reading before the feature.

Statement Magazine is Cal State LA’s
… Award Winning Literary Journal. Come
see some seven of the city’s best young poets
reading their work along with
celebrated author Eric Priestley.

Priestley will be reading
from his latest work
FOR KEEPS.
Published by
Otis Books: Seismicity.


A founding member of the Watts Writer’s workshop, John Eric Priestley is the author of works of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, among them the novel Raw Dog (1985), the poetry collection In Eagle’s Beak (1988), and the account of the 1965 Watts Riots Flame and Smoke (1974). He has also written several screenplays, including Amazing Grace, about the Neville Brothers. Priestley has taught literature at CSUN, UCLA, UCSD, and Antioch.



Mike the PoeT’s LAnguage Events
at THE LAST BOOKSTORE
unite the underground with the academic
featuring a collection of eclectic potent poets.
Three generations on the same stage,
all the ancestors on the same page.

453 South Spring Street
(5th & Spring)
Enter on 5th..
Los Angeles, CA 90013

3PM…

Jan 20 2012 ∞
Emi also sculpts. These are a bunch of figures she created recently for our daughter.. emim: For a minute, I really got into making small character toys for Eka.  Super Sculpey is so fun to work with. 

Emi also sculpts. These are a bunch

of figures she

created recently for our daughter..

emim:

For a minute, I really got into making small character toys for Eka.  Super Sculpey is so fun to work with. 

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Jan 17 2012 ∞
My Wife’s dolls were recently featured in the Japanese-American National Museum & Barnsdall Art PArk.. She originally made four foot versions & now she is making these smaller 8 inch versions.. They are available on her website, the Flock Shop in Chinatown & Reform School at the Sunset Junction.. emim: The new 8” smaller krokeshi dolls for 2012 available at the FLOCKSHOP in Chinatown Los Angeles.  $25 retail.

My Wife’s dolls were recently featured in the Japanese-American National Museum & Barnsdall Art PArk.. She originally made four foot versions & now she is making these smaller 8 inch versions.. They are available on her website, the Flock Shop in Chinatown & Reform School at the Sunset Junction..

emim:

The new 8” smaller krokeshi dolls for 2012 available at the FLOCKSHOP in Chinatown Los Angeles.  $25 retail.

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Jan 13 2012 ∞

The Santa Cruz Poetry Festival

is February 12, 2012

at the Cocoanut Grove,

check this video clip for more!

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Jan 07 2012 ∞

LAndscapes of Memory

 

Landscapes of memory

Overlap geographies.

Narrative lives within the landmarks;

Sacred sites hold pieces of the heart.

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Link to LAst Bookstore event on January 22.

Jan 04 2012 ∞
Two zany characters on my tour had an extra pair of sunglasses…

Two zany characters on my tour

had an extra pair of sunglasses…

Jan 03 2012 ∞
One of Mear One’s newest works… mearone: The revolution as experienced by women and children. I will be finishing this up in the next few days. It is a 10 color 36x52” silkscreen on 100% cotton rag paper. Modern multiples studios is publishing this beauty so stay tuned for sale updates.

One of Mear One’s

newest works…

mearone:

The revolution as experienced by women and children. I will be finishing this up in the next few days. It is a 10 color 36x52” silkscreen on 100% cotton rag paper. Modern multiples studios is publishing this beauty so stay tuned for sale updates.

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Dec 30 2011 ∞

Occupy This — A Live Streamed Poetry Event

This Saturday,

January 7, 2012  

from 7:00pm until 11:30pm…
 
“We declare ourselves to be free. There is no debt, no cage, no jail cell that can contain us because we are already free.” –Josefina Lopez

Casa 0101 and The Roots and Wings Project unite forces for Occupy This! a Poetry Event organized and hosted by artists and activis…ts Jesse Bliss and Josefina Lopez.

The evening is an uprising of artists coming together to speak out against corporatocracy and economic injustice and lend their voices to the global revolution. Inspired by the Occupy Movement, 99 Artists have created new pieces for this event and will speak their individual truth as part of the 99%.

The evening will be live-streamed on the Internet from The New Casa 0101 Theater & Cultural Center in Boyle Heights. Join us as we harness the electric energy and strength of our community and use our undeniable Freedom of Speech that is the birthright of the people of the United States.

Tickets: $5 donation

www.casa0101.org * (323) 263-7684 * www.therootsandwingsprojec t.com
 

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Dec 27 2011 ∞

My Column about City Lights Publishing..

In December 2011 I wrote 4 columns

for Poets & Writers Magazine’s website..

There are brief reviews of the new books

by David Meltzer, Will Alexander & Ry Cooder..

Dec 22 2011 ∞

Districts…

Downtown Los Angeles holds districts within districts. The area is large enough to have several small neighborhoods but small enough to be a tight-knit community. Though the districts have some outlined boundaries, the districts of downtown are smaller sub-districts of the bigger downtown. For instance, the Old Bank District is completely within the Historic Core. The Broadway Theater District is within the Historic Core. Gallery Row is a block east of Broadway and also within the Historic Core adjacent to the Fashion District. The Civic Center area is just west of Little Tokyo, south of the Historic Core. The Fashion District is south of the Historic Core and east of South Park. The South Park district used to be a bunch of parking lots. Staples Center was built in 1999, now we have LA Live. The Arts District is on Downtown’s Eastside near the Los Angeles River across from Boyle Heights.

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Dec 21 2011 ∞

Dada Notes

Notes on Dada

After Tristan Tzara

Sound Poems

New Art

Cabaret Voltaire

Peoples Art Under

The Bridges of Paris

In the shadow of

Architectural Ribs.

Discrete detectives

set sixteen suicides

into the Russian night.

Recite French rites

Geographic Futurist Map Poems:

Marinetti’s Backbone,

Apollinaire’s Little Car.

Thank You Tristan Tzara.

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