Listen & Be Heard Weekly Archives

I would like to welcome you to another week of self-discovery and universal understanding. You start this week’s forecast of major transit early Thursday morning when Mars, the planet of personal drive and ego energy, at 12¬∫ cancer will turn retrograde, and will stay retrograde until January the 29th of 2008. Mars only goes retrograde [...]

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?ÄúGod of Luck?Äù by Ruthanne Lum McCunn It can be difficult sometimes to read a book so well-written that it quantum leaps its reader on board a packed 19th century slave ship amidst the muck of brutality on the high seas, the putrid smell of rotten meat, and the queasiness and suffocation of a tumultuous [...]

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Unfortunately less than 10% of Vallejo’s population voted in the recent local elections. Now I know that Listen & Be Heard readers take their freedom seriously and most of you voted. Right? I’m glad I did, because this mayor’s race will most likely be decided by less than 100 votes. But if you didn’t vote, [...]

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Wordslanger will be the featured poet this Friday, November 16, 2007 at L&BH Poetry Café Walk with me by the water while I tell you where poems come from I love the ocean it calms me I have fished it for poems Poems of burning lung and silent screams bubble to the surface to be [...]

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From the unpublished collection : FlatLandz, exclusively for Listen and Be Heard Wordslanger will be the featured poet this Friday, November 16, 2007 at L&BH Poetry Café this is blk art performed w voodoo intention in the eye of the whirlwind where time is all time at one time standing still we move in jazz [...]

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Winter is tapping on the hollow willow tree’s trunk– a four month visitor is about to move in and unload his messy clothing and be windy about it– bark is grayish white as coming night with snow fragments the seasons. The chill of frost lies a deceitful blanket over the courtyard greens and coats a [...]

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The gods move easy in this place riding the sounds of traffic Zeus hangs ten on the waves of a hook & ladder siren Brother Hades prefers an ambulance scream in crisis as does Persephone when she isn?Äôt rumbling & screeching with her mother above a muni-bus Ares rides police cars but wishes they drove [...]

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for Paula Gunn Allen in the beginning, the word allowed her a mystery the wind entered Gabriel blew his horn the Goddess was still alive a fugitive from fearful kings but he was a fugitive too born from this wedlock II he denied her when she called she ever virgin & mother ?Äúa prophet is [...]

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matter of courage by cyndi combs

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Summer at the Cabin by cyndi combs

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Help Me by marguerite p. antoine

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You may remember the recipes I gave some time ago for Portuguese soups. So here is a [tag]Portuguese bread recipe[/tag] that will go well with them. It?s relatively easy and simple to make. 1 Tbsp. active dry yeast 1 tsp sugar 1/4 cup warm water 1 1/2 cups corn meal 1 tsp salt 1/4 cup [...]

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Welcome to another week of self exploration and universal understanding. Your forecast week begins on Friday the 15th when Mercury, the planet of communication at 4? Libra will conjunct Mars, the planet of ego drive and personal energy. The energy expressed from this conjunction of Mercury with Mars in Libra will make you feel intellectually [...]

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[tag]Townhouse[/tag] 5862 Doyle St., Emeryville 510-652-6151 The Townhouse is one of those magical places where things happen. People run into long lost acquaintances. Others meet. One of my confirmed bachelor friends watched a woman walk across the restaurant and knew he had to meet her. They were married about a year later. This magic seems [...]

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The last couple of times [tag]Marc Pinate[/tag] appeared at Listen & Be Heard Poetry Caf?, 818 Marin Street, Downtown Vallejo, was with his group Grito Serpentino, (he also recorded two CD?s with the group) back when we first opened, and even before that at Rafael?s. That was before we opened the caf?. This time he [...]

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