KZYX: Be More Now with Blake More: Recent Episodes
Blake More
Join host Blake More once a month as she interviews people who create. With topics ranging from arts, health, culture, spirituality, feminism and whatever else stirs curiosity, you will hear engaging conversations between real people. Tune in. Stay here. And Be More Now.
Airing once a mont on the 1st or 3rd Thursday Night from 7-8pm PST on KZYX&Z, 88.1FM, 90.7FM & 91.5FM, Mendocino County’s public broadcasting, listener-supported radio station. All shows stream live on kzyx.org and are also archived here.
Host Blake More interviews Sonoma County author and poet Steve Trenam. They are discussing Trenam’s life as professor, his literary leadership and his latest book, as this fine poet weaves his quirky, intelligent poetry into the conversation. Trenam is able to transform empty and blank spaces into places of awe that entice the reader to leave “the dark corners of our rooms” to experience not only the world he creates through these poems, but also the ways in which art, music, dance, and poetry are rooted “at the heart of things.”
The show originally aired on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits, as well as streams on the web www.kzyx.org.
KZYX&Z’s Be More Now Features Mendocino Youth Poets reading their Poetry
Tune into KZYX&Z’s Be More Now program at 7pm on Thursday, June 1 when host Blake More celebrates the successful end of the 2022-23 school year with a show featuring the literary voices of K-12 students in Mendocino County. Voices you will hear include 3-8 students Manchester Elementary School, 3-8 students from Pacific Community Charter School, as well as some poems from the Mendocino County Youth Poet Laureate Sidney Regelbrugge. Tune in and hear the kids read their poems!
Be More Now features the bi-coastal NYC/SF Jazz performance poet and longtime Town Crier Raymond Nat Turner discussing the placement of poetry in community, finding one’s voice and fearless expression with host Blake More.
“The Town Crier,” Raymond Nat Turner, is a NYC poet privileged to have read at the Harriet Tubman Centennial Symposium. He is Artistic Director of the stalwart JazzPoetry Ensemble UpSurge!NYC and has appeared at numerous festivals and venues including the Monterey Jazz Festival and Panafest in Ghana West Africa. He currently is Poet-in-Residence at Black Agenda Report and former Co-Chair of the New York Chapter of the National Writers Union (NWU). Turner has opened for such people as James Baldwin, People’s Advocate Cynthia, sportswriter Dave Zirin and CA Congresswoman Barbara Lee following her lone vote against attacking Afghanistan.
Originally aired 7-7:30pm, Thursday, on KZYX&Z FM, Mendocino Public Broadcasting. Also streams live at https://kzyx.org
Dana is fourth-generation Californian, who has lived on the southern Mendocino Coast for nearly three years. She currently serves as the 2021-2022 Poet-in-Residence at the Gualala Arts Center.
The daughter of a painter and a builder, Lomax began writing poetry as a child and remembers melting crayons in her bedroom and drawing poems around the swirls of color as a way of dealing with her parents’ divorce. Early on, she knew that language had the ability to help people understand experience, help us sort, uncover, and/or complicate how we see the world. In high school, she borrowed a copy of e.e. cumming’s selected poems at the local library, and the possibilities on the page shifted tremendously for her. Lomax began to see poetry as a deep conversation with form, with the reader, with ways of directing experience and connecting with others in intimate ways.
A lecturer at San Francisco State University for over two decades, Lomax has taught writing in schools, prisons, libraries, hospitals, pubs, and farmers’ markets. She served as the Director of Small Press Traffic, the Human Rights and Equity Chair for her teacher’s union, and as a traveling poet-teacher with the Performing Arts Workshop, the William James Association, and California Poets in the Schools.
To date, Lomax has published three large scale editorial projects and three books of poetry as well as numerous other chapbooks, broadsides, and discreet poems. Her most recent anthology includes work from every US state, district, territory, and commonwealth and is entitled THE BEAUTIFUL: Poets Reimagine a Nation, published by Gualala Arts Center. Lomax also edited Kindergarde: Poems, Plays, Stories, and Songs for Children which received a Creative Work Fund Grant as well as the Lion and Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Literature from John Hopkins University Press. High points in Lomax’s career include when her book, Disclosure, was chosen by the Guerilla Girls as one of their favorite poetry books of the year, and the broadside printing of her poem “Lullaby” by Arion Press in San Francisco.
Her current project, -unnamed-relation-, considers the links and jumps between ideas, people, and ourselves in the world. Poems from this manuscript have been published in the American Poetry Review, The Elderly, and The Pi Review, among others. She is also working on completing a graphic novel with a former middle school student, Peyton Alexander, making poem-films, writing a musical with her identical twin sister, and completing a short documentary about inequity in California’s education system.
Find out more about Lomax’s work at danateenlomax.com
This show originally aired at 7pm Thursday July2, 2022 on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits. www.kzyx.org.
Host Blake More celebrates the successful end of the 2021-22 school year with a show featuring the literary voices of K-8 students at Manchester Elementary School in Manchester, CA. The last school year has not been without its ups and downs, so 5th grader Max and his fellow students suggested the idea of ending the school year on an especially high note with this very special fundraiser.
This year Manchester Elementary School participated in Student Led Projects (SLED,) as part of Prosolve's Nationwide education program. SLED is a national network of student chapters focused on identifying civic issues in their community and implementing sustainable solutions for improvement. With support from national Trail Guides and their classroom SLED Advisor, students in grades 3rd through 8th formed leadership teams and designed projects for school improvement.
The Sled team projects included replacing a playground structure that had broken, creating a school leadership and spirit team, rehabilitating our woodland that has been devastated by tree die off, and recruiting volunteers to lead enrichment workshops. The teams have held fundraisers throughout the year to finance the play-structure and woodland project. Many thanks to the community for amazing support at the student’s tamale sale, bake sale and lap-a-thon!
Currently the students have been preparing for a "Read-a-thon Fundraiser." The Manchester school students wrote poems and were recorded reading them. Proceeds from the fundraiser will fund Student Led Projects (SLED.) To donate to the fundraiser drop off or mail your contribution. Manchester Elementary School, 19550 Highway 1. Manchester, CA. 95459, or mail to P.O. Box 98 Manchester, CA. 95459. For tax deductible receipt include Name and address.
This show originally aired at 7pm Thursday June 2, 2022 on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits, as well as streams on the web www.kzyx.org.
Host Blake More celebrates National Poetry month with some poems from wide and far – featuring mostly youth voices reciting classic poems from the NEA’s National Youth Poetry Out Loud program and from the Canadian program “Poetry In Voice”. Plus whatever else inspires me as we go along. Hopefully you will enjoy a bit of this, some more of that, a little music punctuated with inspiration, contemplation and joy along the way.
Tune into KZYX&Z’s Be More Now program at 7pm on Thursday, March 3 when host Blake More will interview Mendocino County’s very own Jazz scholar and producer Fred Adler. They will be discussing his lifelong love of Jazz and specifically the peace and presence of John Coltrane with a special tribute to his musical legacy.
A resident of the Gualala coast since 1995, Fred Adler has been a friend and mentor for me since we first met in the late 90s. For the past 18 years, he has coordinated the Redwood Whale and Jazz Festival on the South Coast of Mendocino. He also hosted “Sunday Evening Jazz” once a month for 25 years on kzyx and now he hosts the Music of Page and Screen from 1-3 on the first sat of the month here on KZYX. He also hosted a popular jazz show called Wednesday Night Jazz, plus Sunday Musical Journey and a weekly Coastal Interviews show for over 20 yaers on KTDE FM Gualala. Needless to say, Fred knows a lot about Jazz. I hope you enjoy and learn from this conversation as much as I did.
Tune into KZYX&Z’s Be More Now program as Blake More interviews vibrational science pioneer Don Estes. They discuss his lifelong quest to develop methods and practices to use sound, light and vibration technologies rather than psychedelics to access non-ordinary states of mind.
Don Estes currently serves a CEO and Director of InnerSense Inc., and Psiometric Science, Inc. He is a certified medical technologist, laboratory director and neuroscientist. He has lectured worldwide on sensory science and vibrational medicine, appearing on CNN, NBC, ABC, Entertainment Tonight, Science Frontiers, the Discovery Channel and Next Step, which won an Emmy award in 1994.
His work has been featured in Wired, Computer Design, Los Angeles Magazine and in national and international media. Estes’ book Harmonic Law: The Science of Vibration, illustrated by a large wall chart entitled the Absolute Scale of Relative Cosmic Reality, is one of the most complete compendiums of scientific and philosophical knowledge assembled.
Estes is the inventor of VibraSound® Sensory Resonance™ technologies, used by both professionals and nonprofessionals for music, sound therapy, relaxation, entertainment and expanded states of mind. His theories include proprietary knowledge and patents in the fields of light, color, sound, music and algorithmic automata.
In addition to being a consultant to rejuvenation retreats, day spas, mind spas, medical professionals and entertainment facilities worldwide, Estes designed, built and operated three award-winning facilities: InnerSpace™, MindWave™ and the Aha! Spa™.
Since 2001 his company, InnerSense, has partnered with Psiometrics in Glastonbury, England. Together they have pioneered a new science of universal automata, which defines the physical and mental mechanisms behind the manifestation of intention. They have also designed and constructed a world-class supercomputer that can render a model of any reality in a formal mathematical language. Their work is patent pending.
Don currently lives the Aha! experience on a daily basis with his wife and two children in the Santa Monica Mountains of Los Angeles.
Links
- vibrasound.com
- realitymanagement.com
- innersense-inc.com
This show originally aired at 7pm Thursday February 3, 2022 on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits, and on the web www.kzyx.org.
Tune into Be More Now and catch host Blake More interviewing author Shugri Said Salh about her recently published memoir “The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert”.
Honest and tender, The Last Nomad is a riveting coming-of-age story of resilience, survival, and the shifting definitions of home. Topics for discussion include Salh’s personal history of trauma, civil strife, asylum and ultimately triumph as she speaks of a youth divided between opposing worlds. Salh’s poetric prose radiates with deep empathy and sensitivity, a reflection of the gift for storytelling she inherited from her Grandmother.
Currently working on a documentary about pianist Professor Longhair, Tom Roche will share some insight into the life and motivations of this NOLA treasure, and why his wildly creative contributions have had such a lasting impact on the way New Olreans music has developed today.
Tom Roche is an accomplished film and video editor, documentary director and producer, and published author and photographer. He began his career in 1980 while a student at Florida State dropping out to direct TV newscasts full time, and later he got into his own creative pursuits; Notable projects include the earliest R.E.M. videos, festival-selected documentaries, ad agency work and Broadcast/cable clients such as CNN, TBS, NFL, CCTV-Beijing, Al Jazeera, ABC, CBS, and NBC Olympics.
In the late 1990’s he was co-editor on 66 episodes of the pioneering Cartoon Network series Space Ghost Coast-To-Coast, the boundary-breaking program which led to the creation of Adult Swim. Another specialty: multi-camera concert editing, with videos for musicians as diverse as Kirk Franklin, Norah Jones, Melt-Banana and even Spinal Tap Unplugged.
His self-produced/directed documentary about R&B Radio in the 1960s, Alley Pat: The Music Is Recorded landed First Place the 2010 Atlanta Film Festival. He was Associate Producer on a trio of Civil Rights documentaries: Dare Not Walk Alone, Sacco & Vanzetti, and Spelman College Foot Soldiers. In 2011, he edited the landmark Katrina documentary for Harry Shearer, The Big Uneasy.
He was a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Board Of Governors 2005-2009, has chaired various Grammy panels over the last 25 years, and is now involved with NARAS lifetime achievement awards. He is presently a blues/jazz/world host on WWOZ-FM, and just completed editing a comprehensive documentary on a local legend: Professor Longhair: Rugged and Funky.
This show originally aired at 7pm Thursday October 7, 2021 on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits, as well as streamed on the web www.kzyx.org.
A true renaissance human, Randy Masters has, BA in Music/Film, Masters and PhD in Divinity and is a multi disciplined alchemist, an award winning composer, a professional musician and multi-instrumentalist, a former university music teacher at UCSC and San Jose State Univ. and the designer of sacred geometry and sound products.
He is a wellness facilitator for sound healing, spiritual counseling, Regenesis, and Universal White Time. He combines his expertise as a composer( several record albums and feature music scores), harmonic mathematician and background in esoteric and exoteric sciences to reveal the precise harmonics of our universal life field. He is an international lecturer, author, and well-known specialist in his field often sought out for his expertise in many projects. Randy is an in-depth researcher on the pyramids, sacred sites, and the mathematical language of light and the harmonics of sacred numbers.
His “Not So Mystery School” in Aptos, California, features weekend intensives in Sacred Geometry, (phiometry), Tuning Forks, Sound and Music and Ancient Esoteric Studies.
A gifted speaker, his students and colleagues are inspired to study and grow and he is a devoted spiritual and academic mentor to all in his world. He tells us his Universal Song/ Resonant Connections classes help connect the dots of a far more loving and intelligent universe leading to more respect for our, and other worlds.
Resonant Living, his company, produces products that are tuned to the universal harmonics and the world of geometry, sacred sites, and ancient musical traditions. His specialty products include Tuning Forks, Desktop and Windchimes, CDs, calibrated to specific natural frequencies. His Sacred Geometry jewelry is made with harmonically balanced stones.
This show originally airs at 7pm Thursday September 2, 2021 on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits, as well as streams on the web www.kzyx.org.
LINKS MENTIONED IN THE BROADCAST:
- Personal Effects New and Selected Poems by Dan Langton
- Fog and Light on bookshop.org
Tune into KZYX&Z’s Be More Now program at 7pm on Thursday, August 5 when host Blake More will interview Diane Frank, editor Fog and Light: San Francisco through the Eyes of the Poets Who Live Here. The show will be a mix of poetry and discussion, with a few of the poet contributors reading their poems. Poets include, Dan Langton, Angie Minkin, Kathryn Goldman, Gail Neuman, Alejandro Murguia and Marianne Betterly – all reading about their love for SF and its wonderful sense of place.
This show originally airs at 7pm Thursday August 5, 2021 on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits, as well as streams on the web www.kzyx.org.
Listen to a replay here when it is available.
LINKS MENTIONED IN THE BROADCAST:
- Personal Effects New and Selected Poems by Dan Langton
- Fog and Light on bookshop.org
Tune into KZYX&Z’s Be More Now program that originally aired on Thursday, July 1, 2021 when host Blake More interviews composer, lyricist, musician Daniel Savio, the musical director of the San Francisco Mime Troupe. They will be talking about the Mime Troupe’s upcoming 62nd seasonal offering, their second radio play Tales of the Resistance, Vol 2: Persistence, which will debut here on KZYX FM on Radiogram Wed, July 7 at 8pm.
Daniel Savio (Composer/Lyricist, Musician, SFMT Collective) started his professional theater career playing for the SF Mime Troupe, participating in the tours for GodFellas (’06) and Making a Killing (’07), and returned for Freedomland (’15), Schooled (’16), WALLS (’17), and Seeing Red (’18). In 2018 he joined the Collective and has since become the Troupe’s resident lyricist, writing lyrics for Treasure Island (’19), and serving as composer/lyricist for the Troupe’s first ever radio play Tales of the Resistance (’20). Daniel was co-composer/lyricist, with SFMT vet Bruce Barthol, of the play FSM (’14, Stagebridge Senior Theater), written by fellow SFMT vet Joan Holden. Daniel also composed the scores of four musicals for young audiences at Stagebridge, all with book and lyrics by Josiah Polhemus. He composed original music for an early production of Lauren Yee’s A Man, His Wife, and his Hat (’11, AlterTheater). Daniel plays keyboards for The 808 Band, winner of the 2011 North Bay Bohemian Award for Best Hip Hop Band, which has backed many hip hop and reggae performers including KRS-ONE, MC Radioactive, and Robert Herrera. He has performed as an improv pianist with the Perennials, the Antic Witties, the Un-Scripted Theater Company, 6th Street Improv!, and the Midnight Matinee. Daniel has a BA in Music from the UC Santa Cruz and has studied with Bay Area composer Michael Kaulkin.
This show originally aired at 7pm Thursday July 1, 2021 on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits, as well as streamed on the web www.kzyx.org.
KZYX&Z’s Be More Now with Author, Vibrational Sound Healer and Teacher David Gibson
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 and director of the Globe Sound Healing Institute in the San Francisco Bay Area (and online), offering Individual Classes and State approved Certificate Programs in Sound Healing and Therapy and also Audio Recording (www.SoundHealingCenter.com).
David has written the #1 selling books in both the fields of Audio Recording, “The Art of Mixing,” “The Art of Producing,” and Sound Healing, “The Complete Guide to Sound Healing”.
He is also a top selling producer of Sound Healing music (www.SoundHealingCenter.com/store/music/). His music is in many hospitals around the country including Boston General and U.C. Medical Center.
He also runs the Sound Therapy Center at the Institute (and online) offering 15 types of sound healing treatments www.SoundTherapyCenter.com.
David has produced 9 International Sound Healing Conference and is also the founder of the Sound Healing Research Foundation (www.SoundHealingResearchFoundation.org), which is researching sound for Pain, Sleep, PTSD, Autism, ADD/ADHD, Dementia, Anxiety, Depression and Grief.
He has now setup the Medical Sound Association (www.MedicalSoundAssociation.com) with a group of doctors and Sound Therapists to figure how to cure every disease in the world with sound, music and vibration.
David has also setup the Sound Education Center for children and has created over 2500 exercises for children based on all of the books on brain development for children at every age level (www.SoundEducationCenter.com).
This show originally airs at 7pm Thursday June 4, 2021 on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits, as well as streams on the web www.kzyx.org.
Listen to a replay here when it is available.
LINKS MENTIONED IN THE BROADCAST:
- TEDx Talk: Shattering Cancer with Resonant Frequencies by Anthony Holland, Associate Professor, Skidmore College President, Novobiotronics Inc.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXrZSajlZhw
- Sound waves for Brain Tumor Treatments: https://www.insightec.com/us
- Colorado First Responder Trauma Counselors Ed and Joanne Rupert: https://911overwatch.org/
KZYX&Z’s Be More Now with Author, Philanthropist and Spiritual Teacher J. Jaye Gold
This show features 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, his lifelong studies & world travels, as well as his insights on how subtlety, humor, perspective, and an understanding of group dynamics can help us come to terms with today’s fast-paced, technology-filled culture. This show originally aired at 7pm Thursday May 6, 2021 on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits; archive can also be found at www.kzyx.org
This interview features 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 personal growth, environmental sustainability and spiritual curiosity.
For more than thirty years, Jan Allegretti has been a consultant in holistic health care for animals and a passionate advocate for animal rights and welfare. She holds a Diploma in Veterinary Homeopathy, and offers private consultation and group workshops in animal health care and advocacy.
Since the mid-1980s Jan has written and worked toward a better relationship between humans and other species. In 2007 co-founded the Mendocino County, California, animal advocacy organization CARE: Compassion for Animals, Respect for the Earth. In 2009 she was nominated for the American Red Cross (Sonoma and Mendocino Counties) Real Heroes Award in the Animal Category.
Ms. Allegretti is the author of The Complete Holistic Dog Book: Home Health Care for Our Canine Companions (Ten Speed Press 2003; 2nd edition Tenacity Press 2018) and Listen to the Silence: Lessons from Trees and Other Masters (Tenacity Press 2007). She has also written extensively for print and online publications, including the column Beyond Body, Mind, and Spirit in the In Defense of Animals e-newsletter.
Jan combines her work as an animal advocate and animal health care consultant in her classes and workshops; she lives in the hills of northern California, in a mountaintop home with the resident deer, ravens, coyotes, rattlesnakes, bears, and countless other wise and wild ones.
This show originally airs at 7pm Thursday March 18, 2021 on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits, as well as streams on the web www.kzyx.org.
For this edition of Be More Now, host Blake More dives into Mendocino poetry, and poets, sharing a couple of interviews with valley poets Bill Churchill and Michelle Peñaloza. You will hear a mix of poetry, process and lots of discovery as these two fine Mendocino County poets discuss what makes them write!
Valerie Miner is the award-winning author of fifteen books. Bread and Salt is her fourth collection of stories. Her latest novel is Traveling with Spirits. Other novels include After Eden, Range of Light, A Walking Fire, Winter’s Edge, Blood Sisters, All Good Women, Movement: A Novel in Stories, and Murder in the English Department. Her short fiction books include Abundant Light, The Night Singers and Trespassing. Her collection of essays is Rumors from the Cauldron: Selected Essays, Reviews and Reportage. In 2002, The Low Road: A Scottish Family Memoir was a Finalist for the PEN USA Creative Non-Fiction Award. Her short fiction collections, Trespassing and Abundant Light were each Finalists for the Lambda Literary Awards (1990 and 2005).
Valerie Miner’s work has appeared in The Georgia Review, Triquarterly, Salmagundi, New Letters, Ploughshares, The Village Voice, Prairie Schooner, The Gettysburg Review, The T.L.S., The Women’s Review of Books, The Nation and other journals. Her stories and essays are published in more than sixty anthologies. A number of her pieces have been dramatized on BBC Radio 4. Her work has been translated into German, Turkish, Danish, Italian, Spanish, French, Swedish and Dutch. In addition to single-authored projects, she has collaborated on books, museum exhibits as well as theatre.
She has won fellowships and awards from The Rockefeller Foundation, Fondazione Bogliasco, The Brown Foundation, Fundación Valparaiso, The McKnight Foundation, The NEA, The Jerome Foundation, The Heinz Foundation, The Australia Council Literary Arts Board and numerous other sources. She has received Fulbright Fellowships to Tunisia, India and Indonesia.
Winner of a Distinguished Teaching Award, she has taught for over twenty-five years and is now a professor and artist in residence at Stanford University. She travels internationally giving readings, lectures, and workshops. She and her partner live in San Francisco and Mendocino County, California.
This show originally aired at 7pm Thursday January 21, 2021 on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits.
Host Blake More interviews 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 lends a hint of memoir to her striking collection of poems – poems that literally jump off the page and transport the reader on a narrative journey from childhood to senior citizenship. Listen in to their conversation as it uses poetry as a launching point for a wide pallet of topics, including the perils and perks of being among the few women in the wild west of finance. The show originally aired Dec 3, 2020 on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits.
This interview features 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, it simply overflows into all aspects of being, from personal health, to freedom, food choices, and the environment.
Maintaining safe distances by talking on the phone, they will discuss ways to cope with Covid-19, including some helpful tools to deal with anxiety, media overload, job uncertainty, financial stress, sleep deprivation, and most importantly, how to build a new reality in order to stay productive and healthy.
The show will also include poems by 6-8 grade students at Manchester Elementary School who wrote Covid-19 poems as part of my online “Viral Poetry Lesson”
In the words of Sartre: “Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.”
The show originally aired on April 30 from 7-8pm on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits.
More information about Alena Guest can be found at her website alenaguest.com.
This podcast features a lively mix of poetry, discussion and inspiration, traversing topics such as how writing poetry helps with healing, trauma, memory and serve as inspiration for altruism, courage and resilience.
The show also includes poems by 6-8 grade students at Manchester Elementary School who wrote Covid-19 poems during my online classes this spring,
You can find Gail’s award winning collection Blood Memory at Small Press Distributor.
This interview features award-winning author, trainer and public speaker Holly Stiel, who is renowned world wide for her trailblazing service philosophy. In this 45 minute conversation, we discussed Holly’s life, the basic tenets of kindness, silver linings, gratitude and fortitude, mixed with a healthy dose of levity and creative playfulness, which describes Holly to a T.
This show originally aired at 7pm Thursday August 6 on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits.
You can find out more about Holly Stiel and her offerings by visiting her website
This interview features the 2020 Berkeley Lifetime Achievement Awardee, SF Poet Michael Warr discussing his work as a poet, his latest book Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin, his literary career, his two languages/one community project, and so much more.
This show originally aired at 7pm Thursday September 3 on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits.
- You can find out more about Michael Warr by visiting https://michealwarr-creativework.tumblir.com for updates on poetry whereabouts.
- For bilingual writing and workshops and video of “To Your Assailant…” see: https://twolanguagesonecommunity.com/
- also FB pages for https://www.facebook.com/OfPoetryandProtest/
- and the page https://www.facebook.com/thearmageddonoffunk/ for poetry community posts.
- His book Of Poetry & Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin is now available online at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) by clicking this link: https://bit.ly/3fCZWkM.
This interview features author, filmmaker, and “Phoenix Lights” experiencer Dr. Lynne Kitei; she and host Blake More are discussing Dr. Lynne’s first hand account of the mysterious “V” shaped orbs that flew over the state of Arizona on March 13, 1997 and were witnessed by over 10,000 people, as well as the lasting impact it has had on her “healthy skeptic’s” life.
Show originally aired on Thursday October 1 on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits, as well as streamed on the web www.kzyx.org. You can find out more about Dr. Lynne Kitei and the Phoenix Lights by visiting thephoenixlights.net