Jazz shaman and bandleader Sun Ra talked about it not being his story, it is “my story.” In our own hometown, we celebrate our story. Not just his story, we include her […]
Our Story by Gerry Fialka
Poems and Cartoons by Marty Liboff
CAN YOU FEEL IT? -MOISHE SHMENDRICK- (Ukraine) a rap song Can you feel it? This is it. So many children dying so many mothers crying. Fear, hate, anger, war too many people […]
Hard To Swallow Pills by Caitlin Johnstone
You were born in the middle of the most sophisticated and expansive mass-scale perception management operation that has ever taken place. The news media is propaganda and schooling is designed to condition […]
A Poem by Nazim Hikmet – 1948
ON LIVING I. Living is no laughing matter : you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel, for example- I mean without looking for something beyond and above living. I mean […]
A Poem by Helene Wolff
Are they blinded by the rays of sun and floodlights? Do they look the other way and cup their hands to fog-stopped ears, those scornful sneerers by the Bay? Here inside my […]
3 Poems by Marty Liboff
HAPPY HOLIDAZE marty liboff It should be Christmas every day of the year give gifts to the poor and those who are dear. Give love, kindness, compassion and joy to every man, […]
Frank T. Rios — Venice West Poet (March 22, 1936 – August 20, 2018)
By Bill Mohr Frank T. Rios, a poet who joined the Venice West poetry scene in the late 1950s and remained one of its most loyal advocates, died early this morning, at […]
VENICE LOSES THE LAST VENICE BEAT POET FRANK T. RIOS
By Pegarty Long – Photos by Pegarty Long I first saw Frankie in 1974. Not that I actually spoke with him at that time because he was lying back on a chair, […]
GRAND DAMES AND DIVAS
Sunday July 22, 2018 One Night only! 7:00 PM Jacki Apple and Anna Homler join the fatally fabulous Linda J. Albertano for an evening of performance readings, vocals, and sonic excursions, […]
Internment Haiku
Internment Haiku from “May Sky : There Is Always Tomorrow : An Anthology of Japanese Aerican Concentration Camp Kaiko Haiku.” Compiled, Translated, and Prefaced by Violet Kazue de Cristoforo. ZANSHO MICHI SHIROSHI […]
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