Listen & Be Heard Weekly Archives

Friday April 13, 8-11pm $5 Listen & Be Heard Poetry Café 818 Marin Street, Downtown Vallejo, 94590 707-554-4540 Vallejo gets a bad rap when it comes to our youth. We hear plenty about the trouble some of them get in. What we don’t hear about are the young folks who have something intelligent to say, [...]

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Friday April 6, 8-11pm $5 Listen & Be Heard Poetry Café 818 Marin Street, Downtown Vallejo, 94590 707-554-4540 Some places and times are loaded with metaphysical meaning beyond the moment, extending into the memory and perception of the universe by each individual who particpates in that point and place in time. Tyriq’s Mom led the [...]

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Click here for Archived Articles about Kim Shuck Friday March 30, 8-11pm $5 Listen & Be Heard Poetry Café 818 Marin Street, Downtown Vallejo, 94590 707-554-4540 The relationship between me and Kim Shuck is also an informal relationship between Listen & Be Heard and the Native American Cultural Center in San Francisco. The relationship being [...]

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Dear Ms. M Here is the word on The Word. EMBED THIS TO YOUR WEBSITE OR BLOG WORDSLAGER POEM: ENDORSE THIS! VIDEO OF HARVEST OF PEACE @LA’PENA DEC, 2006 Wordslanger will be the featured poet for the Listen & be Heard Open Mic on Friday March 16 at 818 Marin Street in Downtown Vallejo, CA. [...]

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When I did a search on Jennifer Sweeney I found the following links which you might like to click on to discover more about this poet. Jennifer Sweeney’s Salt Memory…reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft Class by Jennifer Kochanek Sweeney Winner of the 2005 MSR Poetry Book Award Interspersed with references to Jennifer were listing for her [...]

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Some people are born great, carrying themselves with a natural ease and confidence that comes from ability to perform in the right place at the right time. Ileia Thomas walked into Listen & Be Heard Poetry Café for the first time with that kind of confidence. She signed the list and made herself comfortable. Some [...]

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Bonnie Weidel comes from the humble variety of poets who write but rarely seek an audience for their ruminations on paper. Not going to quite the lengths of Emily Dickinson, she has submitted her poetry from time-to-time to the Poem of the Day at Listen & Be Heard. That is in fact how I first [...]

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My version of Bill Vartnaw is that he is the powerful poet from Petaluma who publishes prophetic poets and appears at our open mic periodically with people of pride. This Friday, February 16, he will be our featured poet during the Open Mic at Listen & Be Heard Poetry Caf?. The caf? i slocated at [...]

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[tag]Reginald Lockett[/tag] is the author of four books of poetry: “Good Times & No Bread,” “Where the Birds Sing Bass,” for which he was awarded the 1996 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award for Literary Excellence, “The Party Crashers of Paradise,” and “Random History Lessons.” His work has appeared in over 60 periodicals, anthologies, and text books. [...]

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M.R. Merris was born in Illinois and lived there until he was 13. He started writing in the eighth grade where his first attempt at poetry earned an F. Since he was used to seeing the grade he kept on going. A blackout drinker by age 15, he shipped out as a merchant seaman for [...]

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Sixteen year-old Simone is a junior (11th grade) at Hogan High School in Vallejo. Her talents include writing as well as singing, both of which she has been doing from a very young age. Simone’s inspiration comes mostly from her family, her religion, and life experiences. Simone will be featured poet during the open mic [...]

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[tag]Milta Ortiz[/tag]: lover of words, collector of rejection letters. This modern day She-Ra doubles as an artist teacher by day teaching Spoken Word to middle and high school students; by night frequents the Bay Are Poetry/Theater scene. She has a BA in Creative Writing from SFSU and is currently working on a Spoken-Word-Movement-Theater piece currently [...]

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Karla Brundage Featured during the Open Mic at Listen & Be Heard Poetry Caf? on Friday, Nov. 17 is a poet, essayist, writer, activist, performer, and teacher of high school English. Her poetry has been published in Bamboo Ridge, Konch, Hip Mama, Oahu Review, Intersecting Circles: Voices of Hapa Women in Poetry and Prose, Adam [...]

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Oakland native Alison ?Chokwadi? Fletcher is often seen traveling with a small gaggle of saints called Tres Santos, a multi-cultural, multi-generational, multi-talented poetry ensemble that speaks Truth to Power. They also host the venue Poetry & Music Diversified. Chokwadi is a member of Fusion Theater, a company derived from Laney College?s top-notch students (www.laney.peralta.cc.ca.us) and [...]

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Milta Ortiz: lover of words, collector of rejection letters. This modern day She-Ra doubles as an artist teacher by day teaching Spoken Word to middle and high school students; by night frequents the Bay Are Poetry/Theater scene. She has a BA in Creative Writing from SFSU and is currently working on a Spoken-Word-Movement-Theater piece currently [...]

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