Listen & Be Heard Weekly Archives

Since closing the doors of Listen & Be Heard Poetry Café, I have given much thought to the Listen & Be Heard website. The site has been serving several functions, including serving the arts community by publishing announcements, reviews and opportunities, and promoting the events we produced at the café. We also publish poetry on [...]

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The review of “Sound Poems” by The Word-Music Continuum began in San Francisco’s China Basin at McCovey Cove. It was carried by a reviewer into a building at Pier 48. The planned route along the Embarcadero was not used. The above-mentioned reviewer emerged from the building joined by two other reviewers. Both of them were [...]

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April 18 will be the opening night for the BENICIA OLD TOWN THEATRE GROUP presentation of “Sugar Babies” at the BDES HALL. This is actually a revival of sorts as the BOTTG originally performed this show 20 years ago. Done in the old Vaudeville and Burlesque style, this will be an evening of laughter and [...]

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for Barry way out in space out so far that if a man went that far & came back to talk about it he’d be younger than his grandchildren …that far out in space a red giant implodes slow grey clouds rumble in gale-warning wind over the lens of Palomar but when the game isn’t [...]

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dust devils dance on the floor of decayed chicken houses kicking up heels of white feathers, the smell of the daily grind that had encyclopedias calling this place: The Egg Basket of the World Captain Bill & Billy Ralph stand, crow bars in hand, ignoring the growth of golden rolling hills, eucalyptic sprouts… 40 feet [...]

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                            Unscrunched – At-a-pinch an illusory surface. Rucks are crushed points, downstream. An air-oozing atlas Of fingerprints, smears. A bubble ground to its pinpoint In some see-through, unrevealed way.

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