Mendocino Poets in the Schools and the Arts Council of Mendocino County seek applications for the position of Mendocino County Youth Poet Laureate. The person selected will strive to advance awareness of and appreciation for literary arts and humanities within Mendocino county…
On Saturday, August 8, from 7-7:30, Cartwheels on the Sky (always the first Saturday of the month) features the poems and process of Chico poet Susan Wooldridge. Susan has held workshops on creative language and process with thousands of adults and children. Her book poemcrazy: freeing your life with words is now in a 32nd printing…
Tune into KZYX&Z’s Be More Now program at 7pm on Thursday, June 3 when host Blake More will interview Sound Healing author, teacher, researcher and practitioner David Gibson. They will be discussing vibrational healing and its connection to science, healing, consciousness, nature and the Universe – now and in the future! David Gibson is the founder…
Tune into KZYX&Z’s Be More Now program at 7pm on Thursday, May 6, when host Blake More will interview author, philanthropist and spiritual teacher J. Jaye Gold, who founded the Center for Cultural & Naturalist Studies, a California non-profit organization that offers disaster relief in the US and works with underprivileged children worldwide. They will be discussing his work…
Created just because. This poem pretty much came to me in a single sitting, just as is, at 2am on the night before my featured reading at Sacred Grounds in SF. I always want a new poem when I feature, just so I don’t get bored with myself. Obviously, these thoughts had been brewing for a while, and when I mentioned “Big Daddy Patriarchy” to a friend earlier in the day, we both were like, “this has to be a poem title”, and the rest, shall I say, is history…
A hangout for most of today’s youth, social media is a mixed bag, especially when it comes to the effect of social media on teenagers, those pros and cons are particularly significant. On the plus side, platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat can be lifesavers for teens who feel isolated or marginalized. These groups include LGBTQ teens and teenagers struggling with mental health issues. In addition, researchers have found…
On Saturday, March 6, from 7-7:30, Cartwheels on the Sky features the poems and process of Mendocino county poet Peter Lit. Peter was born in 1944, and eventually graduating from UC Berkeley as a political science major in the midst of the Free Speech Movement. He says he missed graduation since…
Tune into KZYX&Z’s Be More Now program at 7pm on Thursday, March 18 when host Blake More will interview host Blake More will interview author, animal rights advocate and veterinary homeopath Jan Allegretti. They will be discussing holistic health care for animals, as well as animal/human wellness and how it relates to…
This week’s Cartwheels on the Sky features the poems and process of Mendocino county poet and current Ukiah Poet Laureate Melissa Eleftherion. Melissa Eleftherion (she/they) is a cis queer human, a writer, a librarian, and a visual artist. She is the author of field guide to autobiography (The Operating System, 2018), & ten chapbooks, including little ditch…
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 TheaterÂ
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…
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…