Listen & Be Heard Weekly Archives

The alphabet soup that flows from a writer?s veins, through the pen and out on paper is as magical a process as the delivery of a really good joke. Prime Time Apparitions is really just that?a collection of journalistic prose and poetry with great delivery which offers readers a delightful joyride on the bouncy road [...]

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I get visited by The Ghost Of Jack Kerouac in my dreams. He pops in from time to time to see how things are going in the world he left in 1969, brag about the museum tour of his manuscript for On The Road, and ask me about new music. ?I?m getting SO tired of [...]

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by hadi reinhertz Once a month, sometimes twice, I walk through the visitor’s gate at San Quentin, submit my body and clothes to a search, then walk 600 yards through another checkpoint, a double bulletproof door, and another. Once “there” I put about eight dollars into vending machines for unpalatable coffee, quickly melting ice cream [...]

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Look & Be Scene Arts Benicia Open Studios 2006 Group Exhibition May 6-June 4 Gina Gabriell Eating Clay I was born, like everyone else, to imperfect parents. Mine just happened to be creative. I believe that art is genetic, and not a bad trait to receive, considering you could end up with a sixth digit, [...]

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About forty poetry enthusiasts gathered in the Joseph Room of the John F. Kennedy Library on April 21 for a magnificent mental and spiritual breakfast. California Poet Laureate Al Young made a stop to speak in Vallejo on his way to the 2006 Poetry Out Loud student poetry contest in Sacramento. In his introduction, Benicia [...]

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The Jazz Oasis Back and forth, in and out, bending, pulling, carrying, hauling, with strained looks of expectancy on each of the three musicians seemingly harried and handsome faces; forms draped in coats, jackets, and a forth in a Fedora. It is 8:50PM. Little and large valises, big, fat, round cases, and long shiny pieces [...]

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Society has a strange existence of its own that extends beyond any human life-span. Each of us is inextricably bound to the place and time in which we?re born. First we must learn about the infrastructure of our daily lives. We must learn the rules within the context of survival. We find out what the [...]

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April 29, 2006 Last year Listen & Be Heard held its annual poetry marathon in February, right after we moved into our new location at 818 Marin Street in Downtown Vallejo. Before we could even make a cappuccino, the poets came, spoke, listened and left their words with us. They came from around the Bay [...]

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