Listen & Be Heard Weekly Archives

Here at Listen & Be Heard Poetry Café we are preparing for our First Annual Summer Arts Festival on Saturday August 18, 2007. We will be having free entertainment most of the day inside the café. We will be featuring all in one day the performing artists who we have been featuring and cultivating throughout [...]

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I have heard discussions, offered some ideas, sometimes argued, probably been too opinionated (a family trait) mused about and imagined the future in downtown Vallejo. It’s a popular subject, because the Now is a place we’re all ready to move on from. Some of the whispers in the wind traveling up and down the quiet [...]

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You can fling your words, figments of fancy, debate team demons founded in your fear, force forgetfulness, but truth is flagrant as flowers, defies description, demands devotion, forbids false testimony.

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On May 23rd my letter from the editor was about the beginning concept of our first annual summer arts festival on Saturday, August 18, 2007. The main idea is to attract people to Marin Street in Downtown Vallejo and introduce them to the Vallejo arts community. Although the people who work here every day are [...]

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When I met my future husband, Tony Mims, he used to ask me if I “knew who I was talking to.” As time went on, it became apparent to me that there was much more to the man than I realized at first. Then I understood what he meant when he said to “use him [...]

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Tony and I, the creators of Listen & Be Heard Poetry Café, decided after some deliberation, that now is the time to start an annual Listen & Be Heard Summer Arts Festival. We designated Saturday, August 18 for the very first one. Our usual way of doing things is to start working with the materials [...]

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From point to point the web grows large sending signals to the center receiving and resending to furthest realms of the universe deepest depths of emotion, light of courage to face ignorance spirit world and back home where the heart does reside bides its own time.

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If you eat too much then you deserve to be fat. If you keep smoking those cigarettes then you deserve to get cancer. If you drink too much and act a fool then you deserve the fall-out behind your spree. If you make your job your life then you deserve to lose your family. If [...]

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We all make crucial decisions that, whether or not we know it at the time, alter the course of our lives and determine how much money we will make and the company we will keep, among other things. A long time ago I decided that I would write without prejudice, or put another way, without [...]

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This week we have launched a re-design of Listen & Be Heard Weekly. You may not notice that much difference graphically, but thanks in large part to the help given us by Allison Pilapil, we now have most of the site working with a back-end database. Many of the tasks which Allison and I have [...]

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The expression ?ÄòTime Will Tell?Äô holds a great lesson. If you?Äôre wondering about the veracity of a particular point of view, you can always apply the time test in retrospect and come up with an answer, instead of waiting around for more proof. Put another way, you can wait and see if the mountain lion [...]

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She takes knowledge wherever it comes from even magic and spins something for tomorrow, a place where everyone can use everything that has ever happened. Keys from the past appear in her dreams and become keys to the future, clues left in her more complicated daytime patterns and designs reflect the dreamcatcher hanging over her [...]

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Dear Readers, Listeners and Others, Here at Listen & Be Heard Weekly we are in a transitional phase between this website you are visiting now, and the transformed one you will be visiting as soon as Allison Pilapil and I can work it out between us. You will find many improvements, not the least of [...]

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she didn’t intend to sleep late she didn’t wake at sunrise victim of her own appetites the night the light the day went on without her she didn’t hurry to catch up just gave it up as lost time a rhyme she didn’t complete didn’t come out neat like she planned a man will do [...]

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The white spider hurries not wasting a minute or a second she scurries along well placed intersections. It’s not that she wants things quickly but that she must be quick because there’s so much needs attending to before the appointed hour when arriving at point b is a complexity of timing details and mirrored reflections [...]

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