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 [...]

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“God of Luck”
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 journey through [...]

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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, don’t [...]

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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 captured by my gaze
turned backwards
I construct civilizations [...]

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From the unpublished collection : FlatLandz, exclusively for Listen and Be Heard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 notes
cross [...]

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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
ghostly white mist over yellowed willow
leave’s widely spaced teeth-
you [...]

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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’t rumbling
& screeching
with her mother
above a muni-bus
Ares rides
police cars
but wishes
they drove
loud monster
trucks
with big tires
Or course,
Hermes
steals
every
Harley
on the street
Aphrodite
prefers
the pleaurable purr
of a limo
off the stoplight
while Artemis
takes pleasure
in the whining
engines
of sports cars
with four on the floor
athletically
maneuvering
in & out
of [...]

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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
“a prophet is not without honor
except in his own country,
and among his own kin,
and in [...]

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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 Portuguese bread recipe 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 XV olive [...]

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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 [...]

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Townhouse
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 Marc Pinate appeared at Listen & Be Heard Poetry Café, 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 café.
This time he will [...]

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