This week’s Cartwheels on the Sky features the poems and process of poet Marylyn Motherbear Scott, who writes memoir, poems, poetic narration, and theatre review. A founding member & editor for the online journal Coreopsis, she is published by Cauldron Press; Bantam Press, Skinner Press, Coreopsis, Green Egg, and WMC Anthologies and regularly features in readings…

Tune into KZYX&Z’s Be More Now program at 7pm on Thursday, January 21 when host Blake More will interview award wining author and university professor Valerie Miner. A longtime visitor and now resident of Mendocino County, Valerie will be reading from and discussing her fifteenth book, Bread and Salt: Stories. This conversation was recorded in early January…

This week’s Cartwheels on the Sky features a mix of poetry, words and music. A blend of past and present, the next 30 minutes is my way of ushering in the long-anticipated 2021. We made it, and I hope you find this selection inspiring and fills you with the kind of hope we need to gather our courage, strength, and heart so we can ride off into the new new now…

Created for the 21st Annual Dragons’ Breath Theater 

Every once and a while, a poem makes me uncomfortable. It comes to me in the middle of the night and I speak it into my phone. Then the next morning, I read it and think, what did I accidentally eat a pot cookie?  But no, I just had a very stimulating dinner with Sue and Karl, and well, this is the end result…

Only in the darkness can you see the stars. There are times, when it seems that light will never come. It is the center of winter and its cold and raining (or snowing) and it seems like the light will never return. It can also seem like this inside, that we are thrust into the deep shadows of ourselves, lurking around in negativity and bumping into feelings we did not know existed. Yet, even in the darkness…

Only in the darkness can you see the stars. There are times, when it seems that light will never come. It is the center of winter and its cold and raining (or snowing) and it seems like the light will never return. It can also seem like this inside, that we are thrust into the deep shadows of ourselves, lurking around in negativity and bumping into feelings we did not know existed. Yet, even in the darkness…

Tune into KZYX&Z’s Be More Now program at 7pm on Thursday, December 3 when host Blake More will interview poet Lucinda Watson. Watson’s new book, “The Favorite” comes with great praise from the former Presidential Poet (under Obama) as well as other luminaries. A now retired professor at the Hass Business School at UC Berkeley, Watson’s diverse perspective…

Trees are our friends. They talk to me, and maybe they talk to you too. They are transformers: They breathe in what our lungs exhale (carbon dioxide, or CO2), and breathe out what our lungs need (oxygen, or O2). In essence, trees are the lungs of earth, and we owe our biological existence to them.  Life as we know is impossible on a planet with no oxygen. Remember, carbon dioxide…

Tune into KZYX&Z’s Be More Now program at 7pm on Thursday, November 19 when host Blake More will interview Ayurvedic Doctor and co-founder of Pacific Coast Ayurveda Madison Madden. In honor of the season, this month’s show focuses on gratitude, the kind of gratitude that starts with self and then extends out into the world because it has no choice…

This week’s Cartwheels on the Sky features the poems and process of poet Jasper Henderson. Jasper Henderson grew up all up and down the Mendocino Coast. He went to school at Harvard College and later at Antioch University. He is a writer, teacher, and designer, and currently he works as the Storyteller / Writer for Antioch University, as well as…

I think poetry is necessary, especially in times of struggle and crises. Pardon the mixed metaphors, but poetry trumps political discourse. We live in a time when political language is deliberately misused and manipulated – frequently for malicious purposes – to serve and support those in power. This is nothing new…

This week’s Cartwheels on the Sky features the poems and process of Michelle Peñaloza. Peñaloza is the author of Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire, winner of the 2018 Hillary Gravendyk National Poetry Prize (Inlandia Books, 2019). She is also the author of two chapbooks…

This week’s Cartwheels on the Sky features a recording of the Mendocino Coast High School Poetry Slam from April 2011. I figured it would be nice to hear how different and the same life was in 2011, and to remind youth that they have strong voices, voices that must be exercised and heard — you are our freedom and you deserve a platform of expression…

This week’s Cartwheels on the Sky feature the poems and process of Ukiah poet Michael Riedell. Micheal Riedell was born and raised in San Diego. For more than two decades he has lived in inland Mendocino with his wife, Kate, and worked at Ukiah High School as a teacher of English and Creative Writing. He also “coaches” the…

This week’s Cartwheels on the Sky feature the poems and process of Ukiah poet Daniel Barth works at home mornings as writer and editor. Afternoons he teaches and does library work at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas. After that he saws, splits, mows, waters, rides his bike, walks and pokes at things with a bamboo hiking stick, just like Gandhi.