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.
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…
More from Dragons’ Breath Theater. Making her debut on the virtual dragons’ stage, Biget Papel is new to the Mendocino Coast, but since she arrived during Covid, nobody has met her yet. She pretty much holes up in her perty shack and hunts for spare rolls in her spare time, which these days, she has a lot of…
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…
Fred and Cheryl Mitouer of Transformational Bodywork Associates and Somatic Agency, and their co-producer Blake More, present the 21st Annual Dragons’ Breath Theatre Variety Show & Art Walk — Virtually via Zoom! The online show will start at 6:30 with a special glimpse through the dragons’ gate and promises many of your favorite faces from past shows…