Listen & Be Heard Weekly Archives

photos by s.n. jacobson
This was the first time, in the three years since I joined the Vallejo Artists’ Guild, that I have not had a place to show my work. I was to show at Tiki Tattoo parlor but they were in the middle of a move (and I thought they just didn’t like may [...]

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The Friday open mic wasn’t crowded last Friday but it was Soulful. You had to be there to understand. This Friday, we’ll be featuring Opal Palmer Adisa, which you won’t want to miss if you are indeed a poetry afficianado.

On Saturday morning the kids were moved to dance when a GREAT blues singer walked in [...]

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6th Street Playhouse production of The Grapes of Wrath Photo by Eric Chazankin.
Packed with poignant moments, the 6th Street Playhouse production of The Grapes of Wrath, adapted by Frank Galati from Steinbeck’s historically detailed novel, embedded a long lasting visual impression. There were scenes/monologues when one could hear a pin drop. The [...]

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I would like to welcome you to another week of self-discovery and universal understanding. Your forecast week of major transits will begin Wednesday night at 10:01, when the Moon at 17¬∫ Libra, will conjunct the Sun, creating this month’s New Moon. This month’s New Moon will focus her light on the balance of energy exchange [...]

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What’s Art Got to Do With It?” forum sponsored by Listen & Be Heard, October 4, 2007 at the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum. Photos by S.N. Jacobson.
Listen & Be Heard wants to thank Jim Kern at the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum for allowing us to hold a forum entitled “What’s Art Got to [...]

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As sure as church bells
Sunday morning, ringing
on Halsted and State Street,
Chicago,
these memories will
be soon forgotten.
I stumble in my life with these words
like broken sentences.
I hear and denounce myself in the distance,
mumbling chatter off my lips.
Fragments and chips.
Swearing at the parts of me I can’t see;
walking away rapidly from the spiritual thoughts of you.
I am disjointed, [...]

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Borderline fantasy or sheer insanity
    Wavy bent curves separate imagination
       From uncontrolled surreal wild hallucinations
          Whimsical passion yielding outlandish weirdness
          Indulging in quirky nightmarish visions
       Where does sound reason end
    And disorderly madness take over
Bizarre unconventional wisdom oddly far-fetched
Art compensates for life’s imperfections
    Mixing eclectic sensibilities moods styles
       Dipping brush into wellspring fountainhead
          Painting nature in own self-image
          Probing ever more deeply unexposed
       Recesses mindful confusion [...]

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I am so frustrated
I want to chew
the dandruff
out of the internet hair implant
and dislodge it,
for a lost love affair I never cared
about and hardly knew.
Don’t tell me about my sentence structure,
I am human in these simple words.
I swear to you I curse.
Then the ram of my affair falls short
frustrating my approach to the world
at my [...]

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TIN silvery coating resists corrosion
    Label attached to smooth curves
       Rim butterfly opened lid unwinds
          Packed sardines evacuate air-tight
             CANCANCAN
TINTIN absent-minded Professor Calculus adventures
    Shark submarine treasure hunt search
       Secretly sentimental innocent dreamy allusions
          Destination moon repeat deaf
             EAREAREAR
TINHORN petty braggart mathematically exact
    Connecting one line to another
       Melodic voices become harmonic unity
          One plus one equals
             ONEONEONE
TINKLE drowned by reverberant gong
    Enchanting slow tempo oddly restful
       White light [...]

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Where are My Dreams? by cyndi combs

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60 Years Later / After the Internment Camps by adelle foley

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Rondelet for TV by george stratton

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THE MARX BROTHERS RUN THE COUNTRY by jack foley

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YOU by tony mims

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Italian Cooking Tuscany by Elizabeth Cornish is a relatively small (96 Pages) book published by a company that calls itself, “International Gourmet.” It’s a great little book filled with the traditional dishes of that area of Italy that borders on a section of Italy called Tuscany. Tuscany is an area of Northwest central [...]

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