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Vince Storti on San Francisco Open Mic Poetry Podcast Public Access TV


This is the San Francisco Open Mic Poetry Podcast TV Show and this is the segment with host Clara Hsu. Vince Storti is her featured reader. Here is a short Bio of Vince: Editor publisher of Awaa-te and North Coast Literary Review, now completing various literary projects of long duration. Recent winner of first prize, medium length poem, Maggie Meyer Memorial Poetry Contest (2011) from Bay Area Poets Coalition. Published in a variety of small press printings including anthology: Beatitude Golden Anniversary 1959-2009, ed. Latif Harris, Neeli Cherkovski (2009).

Published 2 months ago

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Charles Entrekin on San Francisco Open Mic Poetry Podcast TV


This is the San Francisco Open Mic Poetry Podcast TV Show with John Rhodes and Clara Hsu. In host John Rhodes segment Charles Entrekin will be reading. Here is his bio: Charles Entrekin was born in 1941 in Birmingham, Alabama,. He took his BA in English from Birmingham Southern College, in 1964. He left Birmingham in 1965 and lived in various states (New York , Tennessee, Alabama, and Montana) while pursuing advanced degrees in philosophy and creative writing. Arriving in California in 1969, he fell in love with the West Coast scene and the Hotel California experience. He now lives in Berkeley with his wife, poet, Gail Rudd Entrekin. Charles has taught at almost every educational level. He taught pre-school language skills to six-year-olds with he Head Start program in Birmingham, Alabama; taught introduction to set theory to disadvantaged high school graduates with the Upward Bound Program in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; taught composition, English literature, creative writing, philosophy at the college level, and was the founder of the Creative Writing Program at John F. Kennedy University’s Orinda, California campus. For 24 years, Charles was the managing editor of The Berkeley Poets Cooperative and The Berkeley Poets Workshop & Press. The story of the Berkeley Poets Workshop & Press was written up as the cover story in the August 29, 1976 issue of the New York Times Magazine. The Managing Editor of Hip Pocket Press (http://www.hippocketpress.com), Charles is also the author of: In This Hour, a collection of poems, BPW&P, 1990; Casting For The Cutthroat & Other Poems, BPW&P, 1986; Casting For The Cutthroat, Thunder City Press, 1978, Birmingham, Alabama; All Pieces Of A Legacy, BPW&P, 1975, Berkeley, CA. Charles novel, Red Mountain, Birmingham, Alabama, 1965, was published in May of 2008, by El Leon Literary Arts http://www.elleonliteraryarts.org

Published 2 months ago

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Mel Thompson on San Francisco Open Mic Poetry Podcast TV


This is Clara Hsu&aposs segment of the San Francisco Open Mic Poetry Podcast TV Show. Clara&aposs feature is Mel Thompson. Mel is one of the most well-published poets I know and is also an avid student of Zen.

Published 3 months ago

By johnrhodes

Gail Mitchell on San Francisco Open Mic Poetry Podcast TV


This is Clara Hsu&aposs segment of the San Francisco Open Mic Poetry Podcast TV Show and Clara is having Gail Mitchell read. Gail Mitchell is a prolific local San Franciscan poet who works on Haight Street selling and making jewelry.

Published 3 months ago

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Kirk Lumpkin on San Francisco Open Mic Poetry Podcast TV


This is the San Francisco Open Mic Poetry Podcast TV Show with John Rhodes and Clara Hsu. In this segment we have Kirk Lumpkin. Kirk lives in the East Bay and works in Berkeley for the Farmer&aposs Market there. He is besides a poet a musician. His web site is: http://kirklumpkin.com

Published 4 months ago

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Dale Jensen on San Francisco Open Mic Poetry Podcast TV


This is John Rhodes&apos segment of the San Francisco Open Mic Poetry Podcasr TV Show. Dale Jensen is the featured reader. Here is his bio: Dale Jensen was born in Oakland, California, graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1971, and received a master’s degree in experimental psychology from the University of Toronto in 1973, with which he said goodbye to academia forever. In 1974, he embarked on a career with Social Security that lasted until 1999, when he took early retirement. He lives in Berkeley. Dale’s poetry, which is heavily influenced by the Surrealists and such cut-up writers as William Burroughs and Brion Gysin, has appeared in such magazines, journals, and anthologies as Talisman, Lost and Found Times, Ur-Vox, Poetry East, Inkblot, Convolvulus, Dirigible, and many others. He published and edited the experimental poetry magazine Malthus from 1986 through 1989 and continues to occasionally publish books through Malthus Press. He also has published five books and three chapbooks of poetry: Thebes (1991), Bar Room Ballads (1992), The Troubles (1993), Twisted History (1999), Purgatorial (2004), Cyclone Fence (2007), Oedipus’ First Lover (2009) and Auto Bio (2010).

Published 7 months ago

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Judy Wells read on San Francisco Open Mic Poetry Podcast TV Show


This is the San Francisco Open Mic Poetry Podcast TV Show and this is Clara Hsu&aposs segment.Judy Wells will read in this segment. Here is her bio: Judy Wells has published nine collections of poetry, including I Dream of Circus Characters: A Berkeley Chronicle (Beatitude Press), Little Lulu Talks with Vincent Van Gogh (Malthus Press), Call Home (Scarlet Tanager Books), and Everything Irish (Scarlet Tanager). She was a featured reader in the Berkeley Poetry Festival, 2006, 2009, and 2011. Judy is also co-editor of The Berkeley Literary Women’s Revolution (McFarland, 2005), a chronicle of the founding of Women’s Studies in the Comparative Literature Department at UC Berkeley in the 1970s. She received her B.A. in French from Stanford and her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley. She taught writing and literature at Bay Area colleges, then had a career as an Academic Counselor for adults at St. Mary’s College of California , and a second career teaching in the Graduate Liberal Studies Program at St. Mary’s. Now retired and devoted to writing!

Published 7 months ago

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Deirdre Evans on San Francisco open Mic Poetry Podcast TV Show


This is the San Francisco Open Mic Poetry Podcast TV Show. This is Clara Hsu&aposs segment and Deirdre Evans is reading. Deirdre has a book out called, "Mother Goose from the Crypt". You can get her book from, http://christophertrian.com .

Published 8 months ago

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Christopher Trian on San Francisco Public Access Poetry TV


This is the San Francisco Open Mic Poetry Podcast TV Show with John Rhodes and Clara Hsu. This is John Rhodes&apos segment with Christopher Trian. Chris is published through Zeitgeist Press and is also a painter. You can find out more about his at at: http://christophertrian.com

Published 8 months ago

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Marc Kockinos on San Francisco Open Mic Poetry Podcast TV


This is San Francisco Open Mic Poetry. This is Clara hsu&aposs segment and the featured poet is Marc Kockinos. Marc is the master MC and currently helps run Open Heart Poetry weekly at 233 14th St, San Francisco, CA http://openheartpoetry.com

Published 9 months ago

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Stephen Kopel on San Francisco Open Mic Poetry Podcast TV


This is John Rhodes segment of the San Francisco Open Mic Poetry Podcast TV Show. Today we have Stephen Kopel on. Here is his Bio: Stephen Kopel is a pick-a-pocket poet ... yep, verse is his vice which is carried on his person most everywhere. Was host of the live audio program Poetry Scene at SF Lighthouse for the Blind for five years (Greg Kehret, prod.). Author of chapbooks crax and crux (calliope press, North Beach, Kristine Brown, Armour Garland, editors), books Spritz (Regent Press) and Tender Absurdities (MeridienPressWorks, Jeanne Powell, editor). Creator of the poetry series Word Painters (since 2000) presented at SF branch libraries — especially every April at the North Beach Library (Robert Carison, mgr.). Kopel orchestrates the production of staged poets/musicians for Poetry Rocks The Randall...2011,2010(2009, Ana Elsner, co-producer). Solo performer with SFTheaterFestival in 2010, 2009...Poet With Props. Guest on TV show Creativity Explored(Eileen Malone, host). Member of Pocket Poets Salon (Nancy Wakeman, host) along with Marvin R. Hiemstra, Al Averbach, Jane Rades, Susan Swan. Nancy Wãkeman and Kopel perform together as Two Bandanas. Civic philanthropist on behalf of Main Library Building Campaign, De Young Museum Campaign and Eureka Valley/Harvey Milk Branch remodel. Member of Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. Kopel writes in whatever poetic genre suits his mood and is grateful to the many journal editors who, over the years, have published his work ... academic institutions and small press entities from around the world. He also wants to acknowledge the support and kindness of this show’s producers - John Rhodes and Clara Hsu. stephen.kopel at live.com

Published 9 months ago

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Jim LeCuyer on San Francisco Open Mic Poetry Podcast TV


This is John Rhodes with the San Francisco Open Mic Poetry Podcast Public Access TV Show. Today in my segment we will have Jim LeCuyer. Jim LeCuyer works helping http://poetryflash.org with numerous projects he also works with http://environmentalfutures.us with projects to help students. He works with the Hospitality House teaching poetry, and is a published author. h264

Published 10 months ago

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Kellyann Conway on San Francisco Public Access TV


This is the San Francisco Open Mic Poetry Podcast TV Show and this is the segment run by Clara Hsu. Clara Hsu is having on Kellyann Conway. Here is her bio: Kellyann Conway, a writer and Sound Healer, lives in Sacramento, California, with her beloved Butch and their three ill- mannered cats. She&aposs the author of Spooky Soup: A Novel and a selection of poetry called Crayola in Deep Gratitude. Her short stories have seen print in The Femme Mystique, Write from the Heart, Lesbian Short Fiction, and Herotica 5. She is the winner of the Isabel Maynard Award for writing.h264

Published 11 months ago

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Martin Hickel on San Francisco Open Mic Poetry Podcast TV


This is John Rhodes segment of the San Francisco Open Mic Poetry Podcast TV Show with John Rhodes and Clara Hsu. Martin Hickel will read in my segment. Here is his bio: Martin Hickel began writing poetry during high school, where he also took up journalism, eventually founding the Lassen County Times, a weekly newspaper in Northern California. He has also worked as a photographer at the Golden Gate Bridge and in desktop publishing in Bainbridge Island, Wash. After returning to the Bay Area, he studied database programming and began helping Sonoma poet Geri Digirono with poetry readings in Petaluma and Marin, including the Petaluma Poetry Walk. Currently he develops and maintains applications for egal services clients in California and an alternative-family reproductive facility in San Francisco.He lives in his native Marin with his wife, the painter, Margreta McKeown. They have two children. Chris Olander, well-known Grass Valley poet and one of the organizers of the annual Watershed Poetry Festival in Berkeley describes Hickel as a "poet of awareness." ;Martin Hickel runs the Marin poetry festivaL and Sunset By the Bay Reading series in Sausalito.h264

Published 11 months ago

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Alan Kaufman on San Francisco Open Mic Poetry Podcast TV


This is Clara Hsu&aposs segment of John Rhodes&apos San Francisco Open Mic Poetry podcast TV Show. Clara&aposs guest is Alan Kaufman, American novelist, memoirist and poet who was instrumental in the development of the Spoken Word movement in literature. Alan Kaufman&aposs Matches was published by Little, Brown and Company in the Fall of 2005, and was published in the United Kingdom by Constable and Robinson the following year.His memoir — Jew Boy — was published by Fromm International/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux and Foxrock Books, imprint of Grove Press publisher and founder Barney Rosset. David Mamet has called Kaufman&aposs r novel Matches "an extraordinary war novel," and Dave Eggers has written that "there is more passion here than you see in twenty other books combined". Ruth Prawer has praised Kaufman&aposs memoir, Jew Boy as "astonishing...a grand epic of a memoir", while the San Francisco Chronicle called it a "classic coming of age story." He is the editor of the bestselling &aposThe Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. He is also co-editor of The Outlaw Bible of American Literature, alongside Barney Rosset and Neil Ortenberg. His other books include The Outlaw Bible of American Essays and The New Generation: Fiction For Our Time From America&aposs Writing Programs. Kaufman has written for The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, and numerous other publications. Kaufman&aposs newest memoir, Drunken Angel, will be published in October of this year by Cleis Press.h264

Published 10 months ago

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