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…
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.
This week’s Cartwheels on the Sky feature the poems and process of Willits poet Dan Roberts. Dan Roberts is a poet, artist, and radio producer living in the redwood forest of Mendocino County for 45 years. He was born in Oakland, went to high school in Berkeley, and graduated from UC Davis in 1970 in Creative Writing and Modern European Literature…
Tune into KZYX&Z’s Be More Now program at 7pm on Thursday, Oct 1 when host Blake More will interview author, filmmaker, and “Phoenix Lights†experiencer Dr. Lynne Kitei. They will be discussing her first hand account of the mysterious “V†shaped orbs that flew over the state of Arizona on March 13, 1997 and …
This week’s Cartwheels on the Sky feature the poems and process of Albion poet Karen Lewis. Karen Lewis lives between Salmon Creek and the Navarro River on unceded ancestral land of the Pomo people. Her work navigates themes of migration, war, peace, love, loss, ecology, and motherhood. Her new chapbook …
This week’s Cartwheels on the Sky feature is features the poems and process of Ukiah poet Theresa Whitehill. California poet, letterpress printer, and graphic designer Theresa Whitehill served as Poet Laureate for the city of Ukiah from 2009 through 2011 and has been involved her entire career in the production of poetry readings and literary events…
This week’s Cartwheels on the Sky feature is Kirk Lumpkin — poet, spoken word & performance artist, lyricist, and environmentalist. Since moving to Mendocino County in 2016 he has become a California state certified Naturalist; a singer in a community choir, the Emandal Chorale; and a Board member of the Willits Environmental Center…
Tune into KZYX&Z’s Be More Now program at 7pm on Thursday, September 3 when host Blake More will interview the 2020 Berkeley Lifetime Achievement Awardee, SF Poet Michael Warr. The will be discussing his work as a poet, his latest book Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin…
This week’s Cartwheels on the Sky feature’s Jabez W. Churchill — some call him Bill, others Jabez — he says he has two names, matching his bilingual nature. Former Poet Laureate of Ukiah, Jabez W., Bill, Churchill first started submitting poetry for publication in 1979, became a member of the Ina Coolbrith Poertry Circle in Berkekey, maintaining this affiliation to date…
This week’s Cartwheels on the Sky feature’s the reigning Ukiah Poet Laureate Roberta Werndinger. Roberta Werdinger is a Zen priestess, poet, writer and editor. From 1995 to 2006 she studied Zen Buddhism at Green Gulch Farm and Tassajara Mountain Center. In 2006 she was head student, and left the monastery to pursue the path of writing. She has a long-term professional …
This interview feature’s the fantastic fort bragg poet Toni Bernbaum. Toni declares herself “a bandit of a poet†— Steeling the right to claim herself worthy of giving readings, accepting the blessing of being born with a poet’s soul, she embraces Mary Oliver as she proclaims her self to just let the *“soft fur of her body love what it loves.†Without a writing degree or teaching credit…
This interview features award-winning Ukiah poet Armand Brint. Holding an MFA in creative writing and English, Armand has devoted his life to teaching and writing poetry. Widely published in literary journals, he is also the author of four, soon to be five, volumes of poetry, as well as a book on writing poetry called, “Bringing Poems to Life: 16 Keys to Make Your Poems Sing.â€