Listen & Be Heard

I’ve been on a [tag]poetry journey[/tag] most of my life. From the first time I labored to arrange words on paper I have set one foot before the next on the path to a greater understanding of the Universe I live in, and the Universe within. I don’t always know where the words come from,… Read more

Hamlet was a character in a play who wanted to use a theatrical production to provoke an audience made up of people he knew. The choice of a play is as important to a theatre company as it was to Hamlet. It says a lot about the motivations of those involved, and who the audience… Read more

It’s Tuesday night. According to our own entertainment calendars there isn’t much at all going on on a Tuesday night in Vallejo, except of course at Listen & Be Heard Poetry Caf? where there is some fresh comedy happening at the World Comedy Jam. But I’m home with the kids tonight, and I’m sitting here… Read more

I?ve noticed that things seem a little slow lately. People who come into the caf?, seem to be in an end-of-summer daze. If they didn?t get out in the sun, but worked and worked and worked all summer, now they are looking around, leaving their computers and dark, stale offices, and making a last ditch… Read more

Yesterday afternoon, after I picked up my boys from school, we decided to take a walk around the neighborhood. The Listen & Be Heard office and Listen & Be Heard Poetry Caf?, share the same location at 818 Marin Street in [tag]Downtown Vallejo[/tag], California. Located about halfway between Florida and Marin Streets, we walked in… Read more

A little over a year ago, I knew a few things about spoken word and poetry in the Bay Area, because I was involved, along with my husband Tony, in publishing [tag]Listen & Be Heard[/tag]. We were simultaneously producing a long-standing open mic event, and laboring to get our new space up to code as… Read more