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Hello. This is John Rhodes with his San Francisco Mystic Babylon Open Mic Poetry Podcast TV Show. Today we have on Edward Mycue.

San Francisco poet Edward Mycue was born in Niagara Falls, New York, and raised in Texas from age eleven. He has been a Teaching Fellow at North Texas State, a Lowell Fellow at Boston University, a WGBH-TV Boston intern, a Macdowell Colony Fellow, a Peace Corps teacher in Ghana; spent three wanderyears in Europe--a shipyard in Rotterdam, wine, vegetable, chestnut harvests in southern France, teaching about American literature in Denmark, delivering refrigerators and washing machines in the then West Berlin.

Edward now lives in the San Francisco Bay area.

Some of Ed’s books are: DAMAGE WITHIN THE COMMUNITY published by Panjandrum Press, San Francisco, 1973 and ROOT ROUTE & RANGE THE SONG RETURNS from Paper Castle in Melbourne, Australia . In the next decade came THE SINGING MAN MY FATHER GAVE ME from Menard Press in London, England and THE TORN STAR, EDWARD and the chapbooks NO ONE FOR FREE, GRATE COUNTRY , IDOLINO, NEXT YEARS' WORDS and THE SINGING SURGEON. in the 1990's came PINK GARDENS BROWN TREES and BECAUSE WE SPEAK THE SAME LANGUAGE (both of those from England) and the chapbook LIFE IS BUILT FROM THE INSIDE OUT. In 2000 came NIGHTBOATS and most recently MINDWALKING NEW & SELECTED POEMS 1937-2007.

Main Street Rag selected Janell Moon's latest book, Riding Free in the Blue Studebaker, for publication as a winner in its National Main Street Rag Poetry Contest. In 2006, RAW ArT PRESS, published her book, Beyond Midnight. Janell's other poetry books include The Mouth of Home, published by Arctos Press. Chestnut Hills Press awarded her The Stonewall Prize and published her fourth chapbook. She also won the Salt Hill National Prize from Syracuse University in New York. She is a reader with the Bay Area Poets for Peace Project and has been published in many literary journals including Americas, Runes, Calyz, and The Michigan Review.

"Janell Moon’s poetry unwraps the mysteries of the ordinary. It is at once familiar, and full of surprises.. She shows us, again and again, that indeed we can get there from here." -- Diane di Prima, author of Memoirs of a Beatnik and Loba

To purchase Riding Free in the Blue Studebaker, please email Janell at janellmoon@gmail.com. Her other books may be purchased at amazon.com.

http://janellmoon.com

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Hello. This is John Rhodes and this is a more compressed version of the video posted at: http://mysticbabylon.podomatic.com and is more viewable with a slower internet connection than there. Below is the show notes from the show.

Hello! This is Mystic Babylon Open Mike Poetry Podcast broadcasting from near the Haight in San Francisco. Welcome!
Today we have one poet besides me, John Rhodes. That person is a lady named Jan Steckel. I recorded her at the Gallery Café by the Cable Car Museum. That open mike is the first Mondays of the month. Jan Steckel, besides writing poetry writes short stories, has been nominated for a Pushcart Price.She has a poetry chapbook that was recently published called, “Underwater Hospital”, by Zeitgeist Press. She has a web site at: http://www.jansteckel.com , and Zeitgeist Press is at: http://www.zeitgeist-press.com . You can buy her book there. Also don't forget to buy my book: Spirits of Bondage and Inherent Transcendence. It is available at almost any online bookstore. My novel, "LIttle Bird Told Me" has a about 30 pages of minor rewrite left, which equates to not more than a month. I hope you find it interesting when it comes out and are loyal enough to buy a copy. I am very proud of it.

Hello again. This is again a video in lower resoltuion for streaming with slow DSL of my Mystic Babylon Open Mic Poetry Podcast TV show. Please also visit: http://littlebirdtoldme.podomatic.com , and http://www.rhodespoetry.com . Below are the regular show notes. The TV show will air a few hours after this is posted (6:30PM 2/23/08 ).

Hello. This is John Rhodes and this my fourth poetry TV special being broadcasted from San Francisco on various channels, the most well-known one, being channel 29 Comcast. This show is also podcasted from my Mystic Babylon open mic poetry podcast at: http://mysticbabylon.podomatic.com . Today we are fortunate to have with us Doreen Stock, a bay area poetess/writer. She has been exploring creative writing for 30 years plus .
Her first book of poetry was: “Politics of Splendor”, Alcatraz Editions, published in Santa Cruz in 1984. It contains some of her works, and translations she did of the works of Marina Tsvetaeva and Anna Akhmatova.
Recently she has been published in some Marin Poetry Center poetry anthologies, they being volume 5, 8, and 9, published in 2002, 2005, and 2006. She has been published in numerous magazines and has reviewed the poet Sharon Doubiago with Redwood Coast Review. Sharon Doubiago is a poet who was on one of my early audio podcasts. Some of Doreen’s works can also be found in “Tambourine”, from In-between Books, Sausalito, published in Sept. 2000. She has also published an Indian travel journal called “The Third Tiger”, available at: www.nomad-travels.com . A historical fiction is in the works entitled, “Three Tales from the Archives of Love”. She has numerous chapbooks that are also available in the open mics of San Francisco. I will read a few of my poems also. Please consider buying my poetry book: Spirits of Bondage and Inherent Transcendence. My new poetry book is nearing the end of editing. I only have to edit about 15 or 20 more poems, then I will just do 4 or 5 quick edits of the whole book and publish it. I hope to have it out by summer. I think I am going to call it Mystic Babylon, after my podcast. I hope you enjoy the show.

Carolyn Kleefeld reads: Hello. This is John Rhodes with my monthly Open Mic Poetry Special. Today we are going to have on a poet named Carolyn Kleefeld from Big Sur.

Carolyn, has been a close friend to Laura Huxley the late wife of Aldous Huxley who is most well known for his books, Brave New World, and also Doors of Perception.

Carolyn is a Big Sur artist, philosopher and evolutionary thinker whose innovative visual art and writing have been used for over twenty years in the fields of human consciousness and creativity.

Carolyn has at least 9 books out. Some of those are: Satan Sleeps with the Holy: Word Paintings, Soul Seeds: Revelations and Drawings, and Alchemy of Possibility: Reinventing your Mythology.

I will put Carolyn’s paintings in back of her as she reads. If you would like to find out more about Carolyn go to: http://www.carolynmarykleefeld.com .

Hello. This is my fifth poetry special on Channel 29/76 Comcast for the month of April. It will also be podcasted from my Mystic Babylon Open Mic Poetry Podcast located at: http://mysticbabylon.podomatic.com . Today we are lucky to have with us Bill Gainer, a one-man poet and runner of a small press, called R. L. Crow Publications.

Bill Gainer is known for the openness of his confessional poetry and is recognized as one of the founding contributors to the modern movement of "After Hours" poetry. Gainer says, "My poetry is written with an economy of words. I believe that the strongest way for poetry to achieve its goal, to express an emotion or feeling, is through the minimal poem." Gainer has contributed to the literary scene as a writer, editor, promoter, publicist and poet. He is a co-founder and current board member of the Nevada County Poetry Series. Gainer has read and worked with a wide range of poets and writers, including readings on KUSF with Punk-Rocker Patti Smith and a recent performance with California's Poet Laureate, Al Young. Gainer is nationally published and continues to be a sought after reader, he can be previewed on youtube.com – search Bill Gainer. If you would like to find out more about Bill Gainer, his books, and who he publishes, go to http://rlcrow.com . Before Bill reads I will ask Bill a few short questions which will come next, after this intro.