Monday, September 26, 2005
Monday, September 19, 2005
Deborah Shapiro
Thursday, August 25, 2005
Carmelita
Her plans include completing her mother's unfinished manuscripts of children's stories and poetry as well as her own works.
A member of Artists for a Better World, Sharing Friends of the Arts, the Hollywood Arts Council, she also was a founding member of the Pre-Grammy Gala, is founder of the Rose Breast Cancer Society, a 501.c3 non-profit organization in memory of her mother Juanita Zara Espinosa Uddin, who cultivated roses. Carmelita has vowed to fight breast cancer through the arts, and uses the rose and rising Phoenix bird as a symbol of hope that women and men may grow a full and fruitful life. Her work has been recognized by Mayor James Hahn with a commendation 2005 and Congresswoman Diane Watson of the House of Congress. The Celebrity Centre International will host the 9th Annual Rose Variety Arts Show benefit for the Rose Breast Cancer Society to be held the first Sunday May 7, 2006.
Leslie Silton - Event Producer
Someone asked me just a few days ago if anyone knew of my work. I did a quick calculation and added it up, (fingers and toes working like an abacus): it comes to a few million people at least. Boy, was that was a shock. The truth is that I am both a visual artist and a poet. I also write short stories and do photography. In the past few years I've started working with collage and lately I'm now both a muralist and working on my first novel. My career as a poet started back in Greenwich Village, (New York City) in 1964, when I began showing up at the only coffeehouse I knew about - Le Metro - and I was nudged onto the stage to read my poems. It turns out that Alan Ginsberg (the Beat Poet) used to come in there (I didn't know who he was) and he asked me to contribute a page of poems (it was done on mimeo paper in those days) for his irregularly issued "Ninth Street Poets" magazine. Since then I've participated in many readings and open mics over the past 30-plus years both here in the USA and Paris, France when I attended American Center for Students and Artists. The emphasis for me has been in performance. But poets need chapbooks because you can't carry a live poet around in your hip pocket … so I have self-published 3 chapbooks so far (with more to come). Also, my poetry has been spread around by others - as when someone says to me: can I send that poem to my friends? (…all 153, 277 or 841 of them…) Sure. Therefore, since 1998 my work has been published on the internet quite a few times and that doesn't include the times I've sent work out, both solicited and unsolicited. I have read my poetry on radio programs in Los Angeles, Boston, and Miami. In the last couple of years several of my poems were recorded for different CD collections and read aloud either by myself or others on the radio on both coasts. Three of my short stories were recorded and broadcast the cable radio network here in Los Angeles.
Peter Ludwin
My writing influences are multiple and varied. My long association with American folk music is one. A sense of music, rhythm and vividness of focus is important to me in terms of what I try to incorporate into my writing. Certainly the natural world, especially those parts of it that manifest immense space, is another major influence. It has for me a definite spiritual dimension.
Alice Pero
The romance of discovery, the radiant brilliance, the surprise and laughter are all here in Alice Pero's deeply intelligent insights into the edge of things.
~The Book Reader, America's Most Independent Review of Books
Don Campbell
DON KINGFISHER CAMPBELL is the founder of POETRYpeople youth writing workshops, publisher of the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly, leader of the Emerging Urban Poets writing and Wednesday Afternoon Critique workshops, and host of Monday Night Poetry in Pasadena, California. He is the recipient of the National Writers Association's Los Angeles Chapter Author Of The Month Certificate, the Artists For A Better World Spirit Of Youth Award, an Honorable Mention in the Pathetic.org 9/11 poetry contest, the Pennsylvania State Poetry Society's Charles Ferguson Prize, and an Arroyo Arts Collective's Poetry In The Windows Prize. His poetry has been recently published in the anthologies Free-Wheeling, Prism Quarterly, Open Windows, Cookies And Poetry, Dirt, Cosmic Brownies, Three Chord Poems, Midnight Mind Number Five, So Luminous The Wildflowers, and One Drop To Be The Color Black; and is also viewable on the internet at the Tattoo Highway, Poetry Midwest, River Walk, New Verse News, Poets Against The War, Hiss Quarterly, Poetic Diversity, Edifice Wrecked, Call To Arts, Lunarosity, Writer's Hood, Poetic Voices, MindFire Renewed, Poetry Super Highway, Wilmington Blues, Bonfire, and Poetz websites. His first book of poetry "Enter", reviewed as "pithy, trenchant, raw with life", was published by iUniverse Press and is available on Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble.com, etc. You can even find him interviewed on Litrave.com and Poetix.net.
Tamir Hendelman - Poetry on Piano
As a member of the Jeff Hamilton Trio and the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra Award-winning jazz pianist Tamir Hendelman has performed with today’s top performers including Diana Krall, Harry Allen, Teddy Edwards, Warren Vache, Houston Person, and Barbara Morrison. He premiered John Clayton's new orchestration of Oscar Peterson's Canadiana Suite in the Hollywood Bowl.
Russell Salamon
Russell Salamon is the author of eleven books of poetry and one poetic novel, Descent into Cleveland. His work has appeared in Passager, Sunstone, Uncommon Ground, Daybreak, The Listening Eye, Saint Petersburg Russian-American Anthology, Peckerwood, Puckerbrush Review, Retooling for the Renaissance in the Third Millennium among others. He is the winner of the Passager Prize for 1996 and has performed his poetry at the Cleveland Bicentennial Celebration. He serves on the editorial board for California Quarterly, published by the California State Poetry Society. He has been a featured reader at many venues in the Southern California area including Beyond Baroque, Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Mission Viejo Public Library and Bakersfield Art Gallery.
The Inevitable Press, Laguna Poets Series # 213, produced Breeze Hunting for the featured reading in Laguna Beach in 2001. He lives in North Hollywood, California, and is currently working on a collection of poems, Woodsmoke and Green Tea, soon to be published by deep cleveland press. He may be contacted at: thesalamons@eartlink.net
R.G. Cantalupo
r. g. cantalupo makes his living as a non-fiction writer, playwright and teacher. His work has appeared in over a hundred journals in the United States, England, and Canada, most recently appearing in The Wisconsin Review, The Southern Review, Rattle, and 2 AM among others. His books of poetry include Involving Residence, Private Entries, The God Box, and The Far Reading. He has also written a non-fiction memoir, The Light Where Shadows End, and recently completed his first novel, You Don't Know Me. His play Heart recently won first prize at the Western Regional of the American College Theater Festival and was presented at the Kennedy Center. He teaches at Mesa State University in Colorado.
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Shirley Windward
Shirley Windward, born in Washington, DC, has lived through several wars, moved forty-three times, given up three libraries, traveled extensively abroad and in the States, and has taught English in both public and private schools. She lives in the Los Angeles area with her family, sings with a madrigal chorus, and publishes her poetry in local anthologies. She has also published one novel, called "Midwife Chronicles", and her most recent book, written with Audrey Hargreaves, is a small anthology of poetry titled "Slipping Honey In." Concomitant with her continued writing, she also does professional readings of her own work and that of others. Her present files contain several fantasies, three plays, twenty short stories -- and at least 800 poems, still arriving almost daily.
Lois P. Jones
An avid supporter of the arts, Lois believes that artists can never receive enough support and encouragement. She is Workshop Moderator at wildpoetryforum.com and can be read online as Guest Poet on Words and Pictures.