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May 21 2013 ∞

The Sub-Processes of Composing

Vanguard of the profession, the real achievement of advocates, engaging

in inquiry constructed with the sub-processes of composing:

planning, translating & reviewing. The Sociology of Science

the workings of the imagination, Spontaneity, organic growth,

the quest for psychic redemption the use of the unconscious

in composing: Music, incantation, habit & ritual, the web of meaning,

the provision of stimuli, Intellectual potency, active reflection on experience,

specific & nonspecific transfer. The establishment of parameters,

the institutional lines of authority, academic hierarchies,

a technology of power, the engineer, the doctor, the extension of options..

May 20 2013 ∞

Sparring With Lewis MacAdams

Round 50 of Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts

http://www.sparringwithbeatnikghosts.com/

is brought to you

by the Mystic Boxing Commission

and takes place

Sunday, May 26th

at 5 p.m. at The Last Bookstore

(453 S. Spring St.)

Downtown Los Angeles, CA.

This will be a colossal poetry

event featuring some

of the City Of Angels

best mystic boxing poet champions…

Featuring: Lewis MacAdams.

Host: Mike The Poet

Lewis MacAdams is a poet, journalist, filmmaker, political activist and one of the Los Angeles River’s most influential advocates. He is co-founder of the Friends of the Los Angeles River (FoLAR), which was born from a piece of performance art in 1985. FoLAR is now a non-profit organization whose mission is to revitalize and restore the L.A. River. The organization leads the annual river clean up, also known as La Gran Limpieza, and has been a vital player in efforts to reclaim the river and develop more open, green space. MacAdams is the current president of FoLAR and served as Chair of the Board of Directors for over twenty years. He calls his work for the river a “40 Year Art Work” to bring the river “back to life” through revitalization and education.

Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts started in the catacombs of a former opium den in the basement, AKA “Chinatown Dungeon” of Li Po Lounge in San Francisco (August 2008). The upstairs bar at 916 Grant Street was an old stomping ground for iconic Beats Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Philip Lamantia and Philip Whalen in the late 50s.

This first installment of Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts lasted almost six hours with no intermission (with exception of frequent dashes to the bar upstairs to replenish empty drink glasses) — there were no breaks in the show itself. It was a marathon of poetry and music hosted by Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts founder Daniel Yaryan. The idea was to channel the spirits of the deceased Beats through back-to-back poems and songs that seemed to flow continuously and colorfully like the spontaneous thoughts of Jack Kerouac being typed upon his scroll of teletype paper.

Now in it’s 50th Round, The Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts series is expanding its reach to Los Angeles, Berkeley and is rumored to be taking the show to Portland, Austin and New York in the near future.

May 18 2013 ∞

Tongue & Groove on Sunday May 19, 2013

I will be one

of the featured writers at

Tongue & Groove at the HoteL Café

early Sunday evening..

Here’s more info:

Sunday May 19^th

6:00-7:30 pm

“Tongue & Groove”

The Hotel Café

www.hotelcafe.com

1623 1/2 N. Cahuenga Blvd.

Hollywood, Ca 90028

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Just arrived on the #LA River,
La Gran Limpieza!! Hundreds
Of volunteers are here to clean
The concrete channel

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Arroyo Culture: In the Shadow of the San Gabriels | LA Letters | Land of Sunshine | KCET

This week L.A. Letters covers the picturesque communities of Altadena, Pasadena and the Arroyo Seco.

Nestled below Mt. Wilson, in the shadow of the San Gabriel Mountains, Altadena, Pasadena and the Arroyo Seco are the birthplace of Southern California arts and crafts culture.

Sycamores in the chaparral and orange groves defined the early years over a century ago.

The thriving literary and culinary culture occurring now in Altadena and Pasadena has always been here.

Altadena native, singer-songwriter Damon Aaron, says, “We’ve always had gardens, architecture and scientists, everyone else is just now catching up.”

It’s a well-known fact that scholars, artists, booksellers, collectors, craftsmen and publishers worked and lived along the wooded edges of the Arroyo Seco around the turn of the 20th Century.

Gathering around Charles Fletcher Lummis and later figures like Ward Ritchie, Lawrence Clark Powell, and at nearby Occidental College where Robinson Jeffers attended.

The mythical bohemian neighborhood along the banks of the Arroyo Seco was finally disrupted when the Pasadena Freeway was built through its heart during the Depression.

May 16 2013 ∞

From last saturday here are Two shots from Lit Fest Pasadena,
Shout out to my fellow poets XochitL Julisa-Bermejo, Douglas Kearney, Nicky Schildkraut & Tim Stiles. Also a big shout to Jervey Tervalon & Roz Helfand!

May 13 2013 ∞

The summer season is kicking off! I gave a walking tour for a large group of Aussies this morning from Contiki. We go from Little Tokyo to the Music Center and back. This was at Angels Flight & Disney Concert hall obviously for all you Anglenos that already know.

May 12 2013 ∞

nativealter:

Happy Mother’s Day
To the best mom on the planet
Even living in the clouds
I know your still here watching over me, and helping me through all the stress and crazy mess in this world
That you were able to strive through
With a smile on your face no matter what, since you last stepped foot on god greens earth you never let anything stop you. I will always love you mom R.I.P

Blessings out to the great up and coming poet Trevon Kelley. His mom passed earlier this year. Trevon is extremely talented &
Always came through for his mom
Even taking care of her when she was sick. Trevon is a class act &
Wise beyond his years.

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lifethroughinstagram:

I love you mom!!! (at Dodger Stadium)

Much Respect to one of my longest friends Victor Castelo! Check him chilling with his mom today at Dodger Stadium. Vic & I grew up on The same street & were kicking it before Kindergarten.

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May 11 2013 ∞

Asian American Literary Pioneers | LA Letters | Land of Sunshine | KCET

May 11, 2013

This week in LA Letters..

May is Asian American History Month. As a recent U.S. Census report revealed, Asian Americans are the largest group immigrating to America in the last decade.

It goes without saying that Los Angeles and Southern California is central to this, like it is with the Latino population.

L.A. Letters celebrates all histories every month but nonetheless this week will focus on a few forgotten early Asian American pioneering poets that paved the way for the stellar contemporary writers mentioned previously in this column, like Sesshu Foster, Amy Uyematsu, Chiwan Choi, Traci Kato-Kiriyama, Edren Sumagaysay, Cathy Park Hong, and musicians and artists like Tracy Wannomae, Alan Nakagawa, DJ Rhettmatic, Prach Ly, and Yayoi Kusama, among countless others.

“Asian American” is an umbrella term for descendants from several countries and the large expanse of geography stretching from Siberia to the Philippines.

Author Ronald Takaki adds, “Asian Americans are diverse, their roots dating back to China, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, India, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Many of them live in Chinatowns, the colorful streets filled with sidewalk vegetable stands and crowds of people carrying shopping bags; their communities are also called Little Tokyo, Koreatown, and Little Saigon.”

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May 08 2013 ∞

A few of the books appearing this Saturday at Lit Fest Pasadena
Including mine on the bottom row

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nativealter:

Check It!

Listen to Trevon Kelley’s new song

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Mike The Poet LA - Mixed Reality Cabaret

It’s been such a whirlwind of activity lately

that I haven’t had time to reflect or keep track

of all the different events.

April & National Poetry Month

were nonstop..

Here’s a short video clip

from the LA Times Festival

of Books back on April 21, 2013.

Big Thanks to filmmaker/mixed media impresario

Glenn Zucman

for his Mixed Reality Caberet..

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My walking tour in Chinatown
Last Saturday for the Craft & Folk Art Museum. Thank you to Sonny Abegaze for the photo & booking
Me to lead the tour. Shout out to Michael Tiger next to me also

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In the Shadow
of the San Gabriel’s
At LitFest Pasadena
this Saturday
1.30pm

I AM ALIVE IN LOS ANGELES!!

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