David Nicol, Ph.D. is a leading scholar-practitioner at the intersection of personal and collective transformation, with a particular focus on the power of coherent group fields to catalyze large-scale change. He is the author of Subtle Activism: The Inner Dimension of Social and Planetary Transformation (SUNY Press), the first comprehensive study demonstrating how collective meditation and prayer can measurably influence social outcomes.

He has taught on Subtle Activism at the California Institute of Integral Studies and the Shift Network, published essays in journals such as Kosmos, Tikkun, and Reality Sandwich, and currently writes Geistic Musings: Essays at the Intersection of Consciousness and Culture on Substack.

Alongside this work, David maintains an active astrology practice that emphasizes direct, embodied engagement with archetypal forces, moving beyond purely interpretive or informational approaches.

Integrating his background in integral philosophy, astrology, and collective transformation, his work explores how coherent group fields can serve as intentional conduits for archetypal intelligence—supporting both individual healing and systemic cultural evolution.

More information on David Nicole at: https://www.earthrising.one/

The show features the voices of poets:
Devreaux Baker
Tonijean Bernbaum
Arthur L. Wood
Terri Glass
Riantee Rand
Kirk Lumpkin
Theresa Whitehill
Blake More

So grateful to the generosity of these poets for sending in their poems!   

The show features the voices of poets:
Devreaux Baker
Tonijean Bernbaum
Terri Glass
Kirk Lumpkin
Karin Uphoff
Amanda Cruise
Theresa Whitehill
Chris Olander 
Kristan Larsen 
Snake Family
Maureen Eppstein
Scott Miller
Karen Lewis
Christopher Torres
Blake More

The show features the voices of poets:
Devreaux Baker 
Kit Bliss Jones
Toni Burnbaum
Melissa Eleftherion 
Larry Felson
Martin Hickel 
Karen Lewis 
Kirk Lumpkin 
Blake More
Chris Olander 
Susan Wooldridge 
Elizabeth Vrenios 

So grateful to them for sending in their poems!   Enjoy the show!

Award winning actress, solo performer, Sherry Glaser  creator and star of the longest running one woman show in Off-Broadway history 'FAMILY SECRETS' returns to the stage after a two year absence with her new show and co-star Juan Wulff.  After a harrowing confrontation with mortality, Sherry’s familiar brand once again elevates and translates her true life experience into a comedic and unique revelation as only Sherry Glaser can. She is joined by new comer Juan Wulff whose theatrical debut will thrill and surprise audiences. Ricci Dedola, who directed Glaser’s OH MY GODDESS!, a comedy of biblical proportions which won best Avant Garde Performance at the 2015 United Solo festival on Broadway in NYC, will direct this new work.

Originally from Venezuela, Juan Wulff says close encounters with death have crafted his soul into becoming a Death Dula for a dear friend in 2023. His patient/doctor experience started with Hodgkin's Disease in 1982, Squamous Cell Carcinoma in 2024 with 3 other cancers in between along with 40 years of living with HIV. While his theater experience has only been with The New Conservatory Theater Center in San Francisco as a facilitator/actor for the AIDS youth aware program, he met Sherry Glaser at Dragons’ Breath Theater in Gualala in 2024 by chance and forged the relationship that sparked her to write Life and Death; A Love Story

Eric Wilder (Kashia Band of Pomo Indians) grew up on the Kashaya Reservation near Stewarts Point and is the grandson of Kashaya Spiritual Leader Essie Parrish. Immersed in cultural traditions from an early age, he learned ceremonial songs, plant uses, and family responsibilities, serving as a fire tender, feather dancer, Big Head Dancer, and eventually a Headman for his family.

Eric’s passion for art led him into the video game industry as an animator, storyboard artist, and concept designer, before returning home to apply his skills to cultural and language preservation. He has served as Tribal Secretary and Chairman, created educational resources for his community, and shared Kashaya knowledge through lectures, storytelling, and graphic design.  Today, Eric continues his work as an artist, educator, and community leader, guided by his grandmother’s teaching: “Each one of you has a talent, don’t hide it—bring it out for everyone to see, especially the young ones.”

Karen Wilder (Manchester-Point Arena Band of Pomo Indians) grew up on the Manchester-Point Arena Rancheria and has always carried a deep appreciation for the arts. While her career began in organizational and management roles—including work with the California Rural Indian Health Board, launching the Garcia River Casino, and helping establish the Tribal Head Start program—those experiences became the foundation for her later work supporting community projects and events like the Native Arts Expo, which she co-coordinates with her husband, Eric Wilder.

Karen earned her B.A. in Native American Studies from UC Davis, grounding her work in cultural understanding and community perspective. Her professional path reflects a commitment to building systems and opportunities that strengthen Indigenous communities, whether through health, education, or the arts. Today, Karen runs her own design business, where she blends creativity with strategy to help small businesses, and artists shine online. 

Visit Eric Wilder’s website

Visit the Native Expo website

The show originally aired on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits, as well as streams on the web www.kzyx.org.                                       

A gifted, sensitive, Renaissance woman, Serafina Andrews draws on a rich spectrum of experience. Early in her life she was fortunate to have a career as a concert ballerina, classical Spanish dancer, and flamenco harpist, touring worldwide. She also studied art at the well-known Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles.

Serafina has traveled extensively throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, Australia, and Egypt, giving seminars and retreats with her husband, Joel Andrews, harpist.   

As a poet she has published “Keys of Passage” and her recent “Daughters of Delphi”. She also authored “The Wisdom of Emotions” and “The Egyptian Book of Temple Initiations”.

Her CD recordings include “Doradus” – Spanish Harp and Guitar with Kent Newman, “Paradise Bird” and “Journey Toward the Sun” with Joel Andrews and “Creative Possibilities” – a radio interview on “Woman’s Voices”. Her paintings have sold throughout the United States and Europe.

View her recent artwork and books at harpofgold.org and SerafinArts.com.

Youth Poets include Frej Barty, current Mendocino County Youth Poet Laureate, Steven Mitchell and Videl Dieck from Pacific Community Charter High School, 5th grade students from Arena Elementary School, Manchester School and 2-3 and middle school poets from the Pacific Community Charter School.  

Every year I feature the upcoming voices of our county and highlight the wonderful programs funded by Get Arts in the Schools, the Mendocino County Office of Education, California Poets in the Schools and individual school site funds.  

I’ve been teaching poetry in Mendocino County classrooms since 2021, and it never gets old!  Every year, I am inspired, awed, entertained and grateful for each and every student willing to dive in and find the voice within.  

I hope you listen closely to the up and coming voices, and even more, I hope you enjoy their fresh and energized voices!  

The show originally aired on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits and on the web www.kzyx.org.                                        

James Humecky is a Somatic Pleasure Coach, Surrogate Partner, and Sensation Artist with over 30 years of experience exploring the living intelligence of the body. He works at the intersection of intimacy, touch, breath, and emotional truth—guiding people back to what they’ve forgotten they could feel.
 

His work is not therapy. It’s not performance. It’s reclamation. Through breath, movement, mindfulness, and touch, James helps individuals and couples strip away the numbness of modern life and return to sensation as a form of liberation.
 

He teaches from the body—not from a manual. He speaks in pulse, in weight, in the hum that comes when someone finally exhales in their own skin.
 

James is currently completing his book, Sensation as Liberation, and hosting the upcoming podcast Wisdom Keepers Series, inviting us all to live at the edge of our own truth, eroticism, and presence. More at:  https://somatic-pleasure.com/

The show originally aired on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits, and can also be found on the web www.kzyx.org.  

Gualala, California resident Harrison Goldberg is a familiar face along the Mendonoma coast. With his trademark tools of musical expression, his three saxophones: tenor, alto and soprano, Harrison can be seen and heard in several local venues as well as on a variety of CD recordings. He changes these three instruments as easily as one might change hats, which brings something to mind: As the grandson of a Russian immigrant hat maker in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Harrison has “worn a few hats of his own making,” including that of an abstract artist in the Dadaist tradition, a wine label designer, a writer of music education workshops, and a mentor for young musicians. He has his share of awards for his visual art pieces which have found their way into some corporate and private collections worldwide. Harrison is an alumnus of the famed Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, and he has been playing saxophone professionally since the age of 17.

Following a series of successful music workshops for children, Goldberg has developed an epic musical edutainment story for young people, …& Music Was King™, which is in the process of being scripted for theater performance. He is also the creator of a cross- cultural music workshop project titled Tapestry International: Celebrating the Living Fabric of Cultures Entwined and its companion performance venue A Sound Vision, which showcases the artistic contributions of children in Tapestry International’s host countries.

Playing professionally since age 17, Goldberg enjoyed 12 years in the vibrant Newport, Rhode Island jazz scene, augmented by stints in Miami and on Carribean cruise ships, before relocating to northern California in the 1980’s. Here his expansion beyond mainstream jazz began in 1992 with formation of the performance art collaborative Tabula Rasa. This four piece ensemble undertook an intentional regimen of mental and musical exercises designed to reach beyond the players’ traditional “programming” as jazz musicians, and augment it with the ability to create new music purely by inspiration… through attentive, intuitive listening. (See NeonEgypt.com: Intuitive Music) This thread was later carried forward and expanded with other players in the group Cloudfire (cloudfiremusic.com), and in partnership with computer-electronic musician and visual artist Simon Burnett as Lavender Fog . Harrison’s latest group, BAKU, is dedicated to the art of spontaneous composition, combining contemplative, ambient structures and melodies with a strong, yet relaxing rhythmic pulse. Their “Jambient Soundscapes” embody a fusion of jazz, Afro beat, Middle Eastern, and other world influences and rhythms.

Goldberg continues to explore common ground between jazz music and the visual arts, collaborating with other mainstream and experimental artists around the globe from his home north of San Francisco. As he explains in his essay ImproVart: Jazz Musician As Painter, “As a practitioner of the musical and the visual, I embark on a dual creative journey. When I begin a painting I eagerly anticipate connecting heart and soul with a rich inner music. While creating, I observe, and at the same time listen to the painting to hear its underlying melody, allowing shapes, forms and colors to begin their inspired dialogue. And as in true jazz, a song soon emerges.”

Committed to sharing the fruits of his evolving artistic journey with audiences and fellow artists alike, Harrison continues to explore new musical expressions that expand the boundaries of his creative imagination. He describes his role in music as “one of many travelers… in concert with one another capable of creating peaceful and harmonious global connections, and building bridges with our neighbors near and far.” Web Site: See Harrison’s artwork with music pairings at: www.HarrisonGoldbergArts.com

The show originally aired on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits, as well as streams on the web www.kzyx.org.                                       

A PAHS 2000 alumna, Bryn has an amazing vocal range covering many styles of music including Broadway, Jazz, Blues, Pop and Rock and Roll. Bryn studied performing arts at SRJC, Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts and at University of North Carolina School of the Arts, where she received a BFA cum laude in Directing in 2010. Her professional career as a performer, choreographer, and director has taken her from the Bay Area to the Central Coast,   New York City, Portland and Ashland, Oregon and on tour in the Southern United States. Upon her return to the Mendonoma Coast, she has performed, choreographed, directed and produced for Broken Anchor Collective (as a Co-Founder), the Gualala Arts Center Theater, The Arena Theater and The Sea Ranch Thespians. 

Bryn & Blue Souls are a multi-genre bending, soul satisfying musical engine that has accelerated onto the scene with a fan base that is getting more voracious with each new release.  "Flooring" audiences since 2020, Blue Souls boasts the ability to "vibe down" and transform into a mellow jazzy duo or trio, or light up the dance floors and festival stages with a full sextet, featuring two saxophones.  As seasoned music veterans, influenced by the ever-glowing online music scene, Bryn & Blue Souls deliver an alchemy of soul, funk, jazz, R&B and Pop cover favorites and originals, proving that soul music can be exponentially greater than the sum of its hearts.  

More info about Bryn and Blue Souls at: bluesoulsmusic.com

Tune into KZYX&Z’s Be More Now program at 7pm on Thursday, April 4 when host Blake More celebrates National Poetry Month with Mendocino County’s first two Youth Poet Laureates – outgoing Youth Poet Laureate Sidney Michele Regelbrugge (2022-24) and incoming youth poet laureate Frej Barty (2024-26). You will hear their thoughts about poetry, writing, the state of expression as well as some of their original poetry.  

The show originally airs on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits, as well as streams on the web www.kzyx.org. 

Object Heavy is Northern California’s hardest hitting Soul sensation. While based in Arcata, this cast of musical characters has made waves up and down the North Coast of California, the Pacific Northwest, and various parts of the United States. Object Heavy has also been voted best band in Humboldt by The North Coast Journal the last 3 years in a row.

Now Object Heavy has hit the studio and cooked up a new album produced by Kelly Finnigan (Monophonics), showing off their progressive yet soulful sound. The band is proud to partner with Color Red Music to release this record in early 2023.

With powerhouse vocalist Richard Love at the helm, and backed by Brian Swislow (Keys), Leo Plummer (Gtr), and Ian Taylor (Bass), Object Heavy is heading into the future in celebration of their new album, “Love & Gravity”.

Object Heavy’s magnetic blend of classic Cadillac soul, effortlessly contagious dance grooves, vocal harmonies and blazing musicianship is a live experience you don’t want to miss.

Emcee Radio Active: A Multifaceted Hip-Hop Visionary for All Ages

Emcee Radio Active, a name synonymous with versatility and positivity, stands as a remarkable figure in the world of Hip Hop. His journey is an inspiring testament to the vibrant, community-centered, and family-friendly nature of his craft.

Musical Magic and Creativity

Emcee Radio Active’s performances are an enchanting blend of emceeing, freestyling, songwriting, and beatboxing. What makes him truly special is his ability to infuse his shows with unconventional instruments like pan flutes and didgeridoos, creating a mesmerizing fusion of sounds. He masterfully combines electronic beats with beatboxing, crafting an innovative soundscape. His performances are not mere spectacles; they’re heartfelt, spontaneous, and always fresh.

Global Stages and Harmonious Collaborations

Having graced stages with artists from around the world, Emcee Radio Active brings a rich tapestry of experiences to his music. His impressive resume includes appearances on national television shows, recognition from peers, and a Grammy-winning collaboration on a children’s Hip Hop album in 2017.

Artistry Beyond Music: “Tsumnu”

Emcee Radio Active’s artistic journey doesn’t stop at music; he also ventures into visual expressions under the name “Tsumnu” (pronounced “Some New”). His art tells compelling stories inspired by his life’s diverse adventures. It reflects the core values of Hip Hop culture, celebrating positivity, humanity, connection, creativity, and life itself.

Community Engagement and Creative Outreach

Emcee Radio Active extends his talents to various events, from Sip/Puff and Paint gatherings to community mural projects and intimate living room/backyard performances. His dedication to connecting with his audience and fostering creativity shines through in every endeavor.

A Member of Hip Hop Congress: A Positive Force for Change

Emcee Radio Active is a proud member of Hip Hop Congress (HHC), an international organization dedicated to uplifting communities through Hip Hop culture. HHC’s mission is to inspire and support artists, youth, and grassroots efforts through social engagement and educational programs. Emcee Radio Active actively contributes to HHC’s ethos of conscious collaboration and positive social change.

“Music is The Mixer”: Celebrating Hip-Hop Culture and Unity

Emcee Radio Active is the driving force behind “Music is The Mixer,” an event that celebrates 50 years of Hip-Hop culture. It’s more than an event; it’s a gathering that promotes diversity, inclusivity, and a passion for creativity. This family-friendly occasion brings together a spectrum of creative souls, from singers and emcees to beatboxers, comedians, and producers. The theme revolves around the power of connections, creating a vibrant atmosphere of networking and inspiration.

A Legacy of Inspiration

In essence, Emcee Radio Active, both in his music and artistry as Tsumnu, is a dynamic force in the world of creativity. He continually connects, inspires, and engages audiences while preserving the positive energy and essence of Hip Hop culture for generations to come.

Emcee Radio Active’s story is one of innovation, authenticity, and a deep-rooted commitment to fostering a vibrant and positive community.

Listen to Emcee Radio Active on Soundcloud

For More info visit his website Tsumnuartwork.com

The show originally aired on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits, as well as streams on the web www.kzyx.org. 

Tune into KZYX&Z’s Be More Now program at 7pm on Thursday, June 1 when host Blake More celebrates the successful end of the 2022-23 school year with a show featuring the literary voices of K-12 students in Mendocino County. Voices you will hear include 3-8 students Manchester Elementary School, 3-8 students from Pacific Community Charter School, as well as some poems from the Mendocino County Youth Poet Laureate Sidney Regelbrugge. Tune in and hear the kids read their poems! 

Tune into KZYX&Z’s Be More Now show at 7pm on Thursday, May 4 when host Blake More will interview Mendocino County authors Dot Brovarney and Kate Dougherty. They will be discussing Brovarney’s new book, Mendocino Refuge: Lake Leonard & Reeves Canyon, which explores the Mendocino canyon that holds the County’s largest natural lake and a fascinating history, telling a multifaceted story of place through the interconnected lives of its plants, wildlife, and human inhabitants from geological time to the present.

Historian Dot Brovarney, M.A., writes about the connections, past and present, between humans and the natural world. She published The Sweet Life: Cherry Stories from Butler Ranch, and co-authored the award-winning Remember Your Relations: The Elsie Allen Baskets, Family, and Friends, chronicling the lives and art of Native Pomo basketweavers. For thirty years, she made her home in Mendocino County’s oak woodlands before recently resettling “over the hill” on an ancient marine terrace in Fort Bragg. Find samples of her work at www.landcestry.com.

Dot Brovarney’s new book, Mendocino Refuge: Lake Leonard & Reeves Canyon, explores the Mendocino canyon that holds the County’s largest natural lake and a fascinating history, including over 200 photographs and watercolor maps. For more about the book, visit www.mendocinorefuge.com. 

The show originally airs on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits, as well as streams on the web www.kzyx.org. 

Heavy Lifting, the outcome of a 3 1/2 year collaboration between artist/printer Felicia Rice of Moving Parts Press and poet Theresa Whitehill is part event, part film, part exhibition and part reading, and it is currently touring Mendocino County and beyond.  Our discussion will center upon how this project presents an opportunity for dialogue and healing in an historic time of crisis and renewal. 

Heavy Lifting is a fierce work that names the darkness in the belief that the first stage of recovery from grief is acknowledgement, and that the precursor to action can be anger. It is a response to a call sounded by artist/educator Paul Soulellis in 2021: “Publishing has always been political, but has it ever felt as urgent as it does right now in the global distress and intersecting crises of the past year? There’s a desperate need for new language to express publishing’s renewed urgency and importance. …let’s turn away from old, legacy publishing models towards something new: an ethics, craft, and politics of urgent making.”

The limited edition artists’ book, Heavy Lifting, is the outcome of a close collaboration between artist/printer Felicia Rice of Moving Parts Press and poet Theresa Whitehill. It began in 2019 with an exchange in which a poem sparked a drawing which sparked a poem which led to a book structure, then spiraled back round again. In 2020, during their early work on the project, Felicia lost her letterpress shop of over 40 years to a devastating megafire in the Santa Cruz Mountains just as the death of George Floyd trained a blazing light on the many deep-seated inequities in this country amid the global pandemic and threat of political totalitarianism. Heavy Lifting took flight in spite of and because of our personal and collective crises of this terrible time and tackles these issues in book form, performance, and dialogue in search of a tenable future. The innovative book structure of nested accordion-fold panels features stunning poems by Theresa Whitehill in compelling conversation with prints by Felicia Rice. Inge Bruggeman writes in the preface to The Heavy Lifting Companion, “Felicia Rice has … an unsurpassed commitment to the book as a unique space for expressing artistic content…. Heavy Lifting not only demonstrates Rice’s innovative use of the artists’ book format, it reveals the unique power of this art form to unfurl within the hands of the individual, thus beautifully connecting the individual’s role to art, poetry, and the world around them.”

Heavy Lifting acknowledges the almost unbearable pace of relentless crises that have unfolded in recent years—covid, climate change, racial injustice, the threat of totalitarianism, immigration crises—and begins to dwell in what might lie beyond these times. Theresa Whitehill’s poems tread a tenuous path at the boundaries between personal and collective reckonings with work that portrays alternating grief, tenderness, defiance, and outrage.

For more informtation on Heavy Lifting, visit:  https://movingpartspress.com/publications/heavy-lifting/

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This show originally aired at 7pm Thursday April 6, 2023 on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits, as well as streams on the web www.kzyx.org. 

Poets you will hear include myself, Kirk Lumpkin, Chris Olander, Sara Mithra, Steve Arnston and David Shaddock.  I will also feature a few wonderful original compositions  written and performed by my dear friend Nymphya — from her album Dream Dance.

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This show originally aired at 7pm Thursday March 2, 2023 on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits, as well as streams on the web www.kzyx.org. 

A blend of painting, process and artistic discovery, they’ll be discussing Lauren’s bright life and colorful contributions to the county’s urban landscape, including her block long county history mural in Ukiah and her most recent “From Finland to Fort Bragg” mural project in Fort Bragg.

A resident of the southern Mendocino coast since 1998, Lauren Sinnott is a working artist in an old-world manner: She paints pictures that are full of pattern and decoration, but also tell stories, often with portraits. She says she makes things that regular people need, like business signs, logos, and even a high school mascot on the basketball court floor.  She learned to sew from her mom and grandma, which is always useful, not just to make her own clothes and create the Velvet Vulva line of purses, but also to hem pants and take prom dresses in.

She grew up in Wisconsin’s dairyland, in a creative, beatnik home. Her mom was an artist and illustrator and she copied her from before she was 2. An exchange year abroad in Belgium shaped her – there really is good coffee in the world! And houses that are 400 years old. At Rice University in Houston she got the training necessary to shape talent, in painting, but also art history. Her masters degree focused on the Renaissance and exposed her to art that was full of meaning, held symbols, had inscriptions, and told stories that people with a shared culture understood. That’s what she aims for now, using her sons and the people around her to populate the painted stage.

Her newest history mural, From Finland to Fort Bragg, illustrates the rich heritage of the many Finnish immigrants to this coastal northern California town.

For illustrated pictures of Lauren’s “Finland to Fort Bragg” mural, visit:  https://historymural.com/finn/

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This show originally airs at 7pm Thursday February 2, 2023 on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits, as well as streams on the web www.kzyx.org. 

Poets you will hear include myself, Kirk Lumpkin, Chris Olander, Sara Mithra, Steve Arnston and David Shaddock.  I will also feature a few wonderful original compositions  written and performed by my dear friend Nymphya — from her album Dream Dance.

It is the end of the holiday season and the jump start into a brand new year. So tonight, I figured I would go easy on myself, and you too, perhaps. This show is an invitation to tune your brain to what these poets and musicians have to say to each other. And to you!  Enjoy.

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This show originally aired at 7pm Thursday January 5, 2023 on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits, as well as streams on the web www.kzyx.org. 

He moved to Washington DC to work in radio where he sold advertising for ABC radio’s first FM Rock station, WRQX. During that time he earned his MBA in Management from Marymount University. He moved on to two other radio stations learning radio formats and audience behavior. The Washington Post took Mark out of radio and into the world of newspaper in the nation’s capitol. It was during that time mark was accepted into part-time creative writing at John Hopkins University where he earned his MA over three years of full time work and full time writing fit into part time structure.

After 12 years at the Post’s “DC mothership” he was asked to start an experimental remote home office in San Francisco to be the brand ambassador representing The Washington Post and Washington DC. “It was the first time of blending opposite ways of thinking. Silicon Valley was becoming the center of innovation and Washington, DC was the center of policy and regulation. Often one didn’t understand the language of the other”.

Over the next fifteen years Mark developed his relationship skills learning how to bring together groups and teams of individuals with all their differences.

In 2013, Mark was awarded the Washington Post prestigious Eugene Meyer Award named after Katharine Grahams father for his career contributions and principles. He retired in 2015 when they moved to Anchor Bay.

Since coming to the coast he’s been a reporter for the ICO. Volunteer for KGUA. A board member of Gualala Arts Center and the Point Arena Lighthouse. He contributed to the Lighthouse Peddler and volunteered for programs at Action Network. He started a running club. In 2022, he hosted discussion groups on James Joyce, Ulysses.

Everything he’s done so far has been a part of learning how to build community across differences. “When I left the Post I returned my laptop and computer. Soon after, I realized my skillset and all I learned about people was mine to own.”

He continued his writing development attending significant writing workshops including Cheryl Strayed’s Writers Camp at Esolen, Dorothy Allison’s workshop at Writing x Writers, Alexander Chee at Corporal Writing. Paul Lisciky at Provincetown Writers Offerings, Napa Valley Writers Conference, Summer workshop in Chamonix, France with Pam Houston and Cheryl Strayed.

In 2015 he met best-selling author Lydia Yuknavitch. It was a turning point for his writing as he became a regular in her workshops followed by one year exclusive mentorship with her. In 2015, Mark was accepted to Skidmore’s New York Summer’s Writing Institute working under Garth Greenwell and a list of incredible writers.

A little bit from him. A little bit from her. A little bit from them. A little bit from everyone including his fellow writers helped Mark put together his own format and program to help writers on every level to get the stories out of them, heard by others. When he partnered with Peggy Berryhill his role in the community grew. Peggy was unconditional in teaching and trusting Mark to help him grow into an integral part of KGUA while strengthening his own skills.

During his three cross-country drives in the past two years Mark decided to start “Let’s Go Bookstoring.” A series of interviews with independent local bookstores he discovered while driving.

“It gave me a chance to talk with unsung heroes passionate about reading and books who struggled through the pandemic to keep reading alive with people locked-down. It was a fascinating learning experience about the power giving of small used bookstores. Southland Books in Maryville, Tennessee, The Source in Davenport, Iowa, Hooray for Books in Alexandria, Virginia. Just a few.

He turned these interviews into KGUA special segments.A discussion with Kristina Jetter, Executive Director of the Sea Ranch Lodge lead to an on-going monthly Storytelling Writing workshop. It was this when branded his workshops as Write-Up-The-Coast.

Mark leads with passion, energy and enthusiasm. All of which he gets by watching others grow and take chances. He started running in 2018 and since then has done half marathons in NY, SF, Humboldt and Washington DC. He took up Canicross (running with dogs) and together he and his dogs have done countless 10Ks.
 

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This show originally aired at 7pm Thursday December 1, 2022 on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits, as well as streamed on the web www.kzyx.org. 

Sports in high school was joined by an involvement with the theater; soon he arrived at Cornell University during its years of student unrest, & where he received his B.A. in Theater Arts.  His time in the east proved California the best place for him.  As wordsmithing overtook acting, he earned an M.A. in Creative Writing at San Francisco State, landing in Santa Barbara afterwards, where Mudborn Press published his first book, Lemurian Rhapsodies.  Here he hosted a poetry show, The Unseen Rose, at KCSB, began Aetheric Press, as well as working with kids & poetry, his livelihood for the next three decades.  His Dinosaurism – An Illuminated Manifesto, & Lunch – An Omnimodal Experience, were both performed before his departure to Sacramento in Orwell’s fateful year, 1984.

In the state’s capitol, he married artist-teacher, Robyn Cota, a true blessing, followed by another, the birth of their son, Dylan. Family camping on the north coast evolved into the good fortune of securing a parcel in Anchor Bay in 2002; building ensued at a modest pace. John Allen began teaching English at Cosumnes River College; surprisingly, he became an assistant scoutmaster while his son earned his Eagle. A central figure in the Sacramento Library’s 2013 award-winning Poe Project, John Allen ordered, introduced & added commentary to The Slender Poe, an anthology of the great American writer’s work.  A volume of his own poetry, The Moon Over Madrid, followed from i street press.  On-campus classes were suspended at CRC in March of 2020—you know why—& he finished his last semester on-line living full-time in Enchanted Meadows.

His study & writing of poetry has been steady for decades, & always he endeavors to be equal to the adage of Wallace Stevens, “Poetry is the scholar’s art.”  His phantom mentors include Heraclitus, Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats, Rilke, & Jeffers. Like many who hold dear the mystery of poetry, he already knows there’s not enough time left to read deeply all the great poems that the world treasures.  But he will keep at that joyful task as he composes his own work at the edge of history.

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This show originally aired at 7pm Thursday October 1, 2022 on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits, as well as streamed on the web www.kzyx.org. 

“The Town Crier,” Raymond Nat Turner, is a NYC poet privileged to have read at the Harriet Tubman Centennial Symposium. He is Artistic Director of the stalwart JazzPoetry Ensemble UpSurge!NYC and has appeared at numerous festivals and venues including the Monterey Jazz Festival and Panafest in Ghana West Africa. He currently is Poet-in-Residence at Black Agenda Report and former Co-Chair of the New York Chapter of the National Writers Union (NWU). Turner has opened for such people as James Baldwin, People’s Advocate Cynthia, sportswriter Dave Zirin and CA Congresswoman Barbara Lee following her lone vote against attacking Afghanistan.

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Originally aired 7-7:30pm, Thursday, on KZYX&Z FM, Mendocino Public Broadcasting. Also streams live at https://kzyx.org

The daughter of a painter and a builder, Lomax began writing poetry as a child and remembers melting crayons in her bedroom and drawing poems around the swirls of color as a way of dealing with her parents’ divorce. Early on, she knew that language had the ability to help people understand experience, help us sort, uncover, and/or complicate how we see the world. In high school, she borrowed a copy of e.e. cumming’s selected poems at the local library, and the possibilities on the page shifted tremendously for her. Lomax began to see poetry as a deep conversation with form, with the reader, with ways of directing experience and connecting with others in intimate ways.

A lecturer at San Francisco State University for over two decades, Lomax has taught writing in schools, prisons, libraries, hospitals, pubs, and farmers’ markets. She served as the Director of Small Press Traffic, the Human Rights and Equity Chair for her teacher’s union, and as a traveling poet-teacher with the Performing Arts Workshop, the William James Association, and California Poets in the Schools. 

To date, Lomax has published three large scale editorial projects and three books of poetry as well as numerous other chapbooks, broadsides, and discreet poems. Her most recent anthology includes work from every US state, district, territory, and commonwealth and is entitled THE BEAUTIFUL: Poets Reimagine a Nation, published by Gualala Arts Center. Lomax also edited Kindergarde: Poems, Plays, Stories, and Songs for Children which received a Creative Work Fund Grant as well as the Lion and Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Literature from John Hopkins University Press. High points in Lomax’s career include when her book, Disclosure, was chosen by the Guerilla Girls as one of their favorite poetry books of the year, and the broadside printing of her poem “Lullaby” by Arion Press in San Francisco. 

Her current project, -unnamed-relation-, considers the links and jumps between ideas, people, and ourselves in the world. Poems from this manuscript have been published in the American Poetry Review, The Elderly, and The Pi Review, among others. She is also working on completing a graphic novel with a former middle school student, Peyton Alexander, making poem-films, writing a musical with her identical twin sister, and completing a short documentary about inequity in California’s education system. 

Find out more about Lomax’s work at danateenlomax.com

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This show originally aired at 7pm Thursday July2, 2022 on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits. www.kzyx.org. 

This year Manchester Elementary School participated in Student Led Projects (SLED,) as part of Prosolve's Nationwide education program. SLED is a national network of student chapters focused on identifying civic issues in their community and implementing sustainable solutions for improvement. With support from national Trail Guides and their classroom SLED Advisor, students in grades 3rd through 8th formed leadership teams and designed projects for school improvement. 

The Sled team projects included replacing a playground structure that had broken, creating a school leadership and spirit team, rehabilitating our woodland that has been devastated by tree die off, and recruiting volunteers to lead enrichment workshops. The teams have held fundraisers throughout the year to finance the play-structure and woodland project. Many thanks to the community for amazing support at the student’s tamale sale, bake sale and lap-a-thon!

Currently the students have been preparing for a "Read-a-thon Fundraiser." The Manchester school students wrote poems and were recorded reading them. Proceeds from the fundraiser will fund Student Led Projects (SLED.) To donate to the fundraiser drop off or mail your contribution. Manchester Elementary School, 19550 Highway 1. Manchester, CA. 95459, or mail to P.O. Box 98 Manchester, CA. 95459. For tax deductible receipt include Name and address. 

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This show originally aired at 7pm Thursday June 2, 2022 on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits, as well as streams on the web www.kzyx.org. 

A resident of the Gualala coast since 1995, Fred Adler has been a friend and mentor for me since we first met in the late 90s. For the past 18 years, he has coordinated the Redwood Whale and Jazz Festival on the South Coast of Mendocino. He also hosted “Sunday Evening Jazz” once a month for 25 years on kzyx and now he hosts the Music of Page and Screen from 1-3 on the first sat of the month here on KZYX. He also hosted a popular jazz show called Wednesday Night Jazz, plus Sunday Musical Journey and a weekly Coastal Interviews show for over 20 yaers on KTDE FM Gualala.  Needless to say, Fred knows a lot about Jazz.  I hope you enjoy and learn from this conversation as much as I did.  

Don Estes currently serves a CEO and Director of InnerSense Inc., and Psiometric Science, Inc. He is a certified medical technologist, laboratory director and neuroscientist. He has lectured worldwide on sensory science and vibrational medicine, appearing on CNN, NBC, ABC, Entertainment Tonight, Science Frontiers, the Discovery Channel and Next Step, which won an Emmy award in 1994.
His work has been featured in Wired, Computer Design, Los Angeles Magazine and in national and international media. Estes’ book Harmonic Law: The Science of Vibration, illustrated by a large wall chart entitled the Absolute Scale of Relative Cosmic Reality, is one of the most complete compendiums of scientific and philosophical knowledge assembled.

Estes is the inventor of VibraSound® Sensory Resonance™ technologies, used by both professionals and nonprofessionals for music, sound therapy, relaxation, entertainment and expanded states of mind. His theories include proprietary knowledge and patents in the fields of light, color, sound, music and algorithmic automata.

In addition to being a consultant to rejuvenation retreats, day spas, mind spas, medical professionals and entertainment facilities worldwide, Estes designed, built and operated three award-winning facilities: InnerSpace™, MindWave™ and the Aha! Spa™.
Since 2001 his company, InnerSense, has partnered with Psiometrics in Glastonbury, England. Together they have pioneered a new science of universal automata, which defines the physical and mental mechanisms behind the manifestation of intention. They have also designed and constructed a world-class supercomputer that can render a model of any reality in a formal mathematical language. Their work is patent pending.

Don currently lives the Aha! experience on a daily basis with his wife and two children in the Santa Monica Mountains of Los Angeles.
Links

• vibrasound.com
• realitymanagement.com
• innersense-inc.com

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This show originally aired at 7pm Thursday February 3, 2022 on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits, and on the web www.kzyx.org. 

Honest and tender, The Last Nomad is a riveting coming-of-age story of resilience, survival, and the shifting definitions of home. Topics for discussion include Salh’s personal history of trauma, civil strife, asylum and ultimately triumph as she speaks of a youth divided between opposing worlds. Salh’s poetric prose radiates with deep empathy and sensitivity, a reflection of the gift for storytelling she inherited from her Grandmother.

Tom Roche is an accomplished film and video editor, documentary director and producer, and published author and photographer. He began his career in 1980 while a student at Florida State dropping out to direct TV newscasts full time, and later he got into his own creative pursuits; Notable projects include the earliest R.E.M. videos, festival-selected documentaries, ad agency work and  Broadcast/cable clients such as CNN, TBS, NFL, CCTV-Beijing, Al Jazeera, ABC, CBS, and NBC Olympics.

In the late 1990’s he was co-editor on 66 episodes of the pioneering Cartoon Network series Space Ghost Coast-To-Coast, the boundary-breaking program which led to the creation of Adult Swim. Another specialty: multi-camera concert editing, with videos for musicians as diverse as Kirk Franklin, Norah Jones, Melt-Banana and even Spinal Tap Unplugged.

His self-produced/directed documentary about R&B Radio in the 1960s, Alley Pat: The Music Is Recorded landed First Place the 2010 Atlanta Film Festival. He was Associate Producer on a trio of Civil Rights documentaries: Dare Not Walk Alone, Sacco & Vanzetti, and Spelman College Foot Soldiers. In 2011, he edited the landmark Katrina documentary for Harry Shearer, The Big Uneasy.

He was a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Board Of Governors 2005-2009, has chaired various Grammy panels over the last 25 years, and is now involved with NARAS lifetime achievement awards. He is presently a blues/jazz/world host on WWOZ-FM, and just completed editing a comprehensive documentary on a local legend: Professor Longhair: Rugged and Funky.

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This show originally aired at 7pm Thursday October 7, 2021 on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits, as well as streamed on the web www.kzyx.org. 

He is a wellness facilitator for sound healing, spiritual counseling, Regenesis, and Universal White Time. He combines his expertise as a composer( several record albums and feature music scores), harmonic mathematician and background in esoteric and exoteric sciences to reveal the precise harmonics of our universal life field. He is an international lecturer, author, and well-known specialist in his field often sought out for his expertise in many projects. Randy is an in-depth researcher on the pyramids, sacred sites, and the mathematical language of light and the harmonics of sacred numbers.

His “Not So Mystery School” in Aptos, California, features weekend intensives in Sacred Geometry, (phiometry), Tuning Forks, Sound and Music and Ancient Esoteric Studies.

A gifted speaker, his students and colleagues are inspired to study and grow and he is a devoted spiritual and academic mentor to all in his world. He tells us his Universal Song/ Resonant Connections classes help connect the dots of a far more loving and intelligent universe leading to more respect for our, and other worlds.

Resonant Living, his company, produces products that are tuned to the universal harmonics and the world of geometry, sacred sites, and ancient musical traditions. His specialty products include Tuning Forks, Desktop and Windchimes, CDs, calibrated to specific natural frequencies. His Sacred Geometry jewelry is made with harmonically balanced stones.

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This show originally airs at 7pm Thursday September 2, 2021 on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits, as well as streams on the web www.kzyx.org. 

• Personal Effects New and Selected Poems by Dan Langton
• Fog and Light on bookshop.org

This show originally airs at 7pm Thursday August 5, 2021 on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits, as well as streams on the web www.kzyx.org. 

Listen to a replay here when it is available.

LINKS MENTIONED IN THE BROADCAST:

• Personal Effects New and Selected Poems by Dan Langton
• Fog and Light on bookshop.org

Daniel Savio (Composer/Lyricist, Musician, SFMT Collective) started his professional theater career playing for the SF Mime Troupe, participating in the tours for GodFellas (’06) and Making a Killing (’07), and returned for Freedomland (’15), Schooled (’16), WALLS (’17), and Seeing Red (’18). In 2018 he joined the Collective and has since become the Troupe’s resident lyricist, writing lyrics for Treasure Island (’19), and serving as composer/lyricist for the Troupe’s first ever radio play Tales of the Resistance (’20). Daniel was co-composer/lyricist, with SFMT vet Bruce Barthol, of the play FSM (’14, Stagebridge Senior Theater), written by fellow SFMT vet Joan Holden. Daniel also composed the scores of four musicals for young audiences at Stagebridge, all with book and lyrics by Josiah Polhemus. He composed original music for an early production of Lauren Yee’s A Man, His Wife, and his Hat (’11, AlterTheater). Daniel plays keyboards for The 808 Band, winner of the 2011 North Bay Bohemian Award for Best Hip Hop Band, which has backed many hip hop and reggae performers including KRS-ONE, MC Radioactive, and Robert Herrera. He has performed as an improv pianist with the Perennials, the Antic Witties, the Un-Scripted Theater Company, 6th Street Improv!, and the Midnight Matinee. Daniel has a BA in Music from the UC Santa Cruz and has studied with Bay Area composer Michael Kaulkin.

This show originally aired at 7pm Thursday July 1, 2021 on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits, as well as streamed on the web www.kzyx.org. 

Tune into KZYX&Z’s Be More Now program at 7pm on Thursday, June 3 when host Blake More will interview Sound Healing author, teacher, researcher and practitioner David Gibson. They will be discussing vibrational healing and its connection to science, healing, consciousness, nature and the Universe – now and in the future! 

David Gibson is the founder and director of the Globe Sound Healing Institute in the San Francisco Bay Area (and online), offering Individual Classes and State approved Certificate Programs in Sound Healing and Therapy and also Audio Recording (www.SoundHealingCenter.com).  

David has written the #1 selling books in both the fields of Audio Recording, “The Art of Mixing,” “The Art of Producing,” and Sound Healing, “The Complete Guide to Sound Healing”.

He is also a top selling producer of Sound Healing music (www.SoundHealingCenter.com/store/music/). His music is in many hospitals around the country including Boston General and U.C. Medical Center.  

He also runs the Sound Therapy Center at the Institute (and online) offering 15  types of sound healing treatments www.SoundTherapyCenter.com. 

David has produced 9 International Sound Healing Conference and is also the founder of the Sound Healing Research Foundation (www.SoundHealingResearchFoundation.org), which is researching sound for Pain, Sleep, PTSD, Autism, ADD/ADHD, Dementia, Anxiety, Depression and Grief. 

He has now setup the Medical Sound Association (www.MedicalSoundAssociation.com) with a group of doctors and Sound Therapists to figure how to cure every disease in the world with sound, music and vibration.  

David has also setup the Sound Education Center for children and  has created over 2500 exercises for children based on all of the books on brain development for children at every age level (www.SoundEducationCenter.com).

This show originally airs at 7pm Thursday June 4, 2021 on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits, as well as streams on the web www.kzyx.org. 

Listen to a replay here when it is available.

LINKS MENTIONED IN THE BROADCAST:

• TEDx Talk: Shattering Cancer with Resonant Frequencies by Anthony Holland, Associate Professor, Skidmore College President, Novobiotronics Inc.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXrZSajlZhw 
• Sound waves for Brain Tumor Treatments: https://www.insightec.com/us
• Colorado First Responder Trauma Counselors Ed and Joanne Rupert: https://911overwatch.org/

This show features author, philanthropist and spiritual teacher J. Jaye Gold, who founded the Center for Cultural & Naturalist Studies, a California non-profit organization that offers disaster relief in the US and works with underprivileged children worldwide. They will be discussing his work, his lifelong studies & world travels, as well as his insights on how subtlety, humor, perspective, and an understanding of group dynamics can help us come to terms with today’s fast-paced, technology-filled culture.  This show originally aired at 7pm Thursday May 6, 2021 on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits; archive can also be found at www.kzyx.org

For more than thirty years, Jan Allegretti has been a consultant in holistic health care for animals and a passionate advocate for animal rights and welfare. She holds a Diploma in Veterinary Homeopathy, and offers private consultation and group workshops in animal health care and advocacy.

Since the mid-1980s Jan has written and worked toward a better relationship between humans and other species. In 2007 co-founded the Mendocino County, California, animal advocacy organization CARE: Compassion for Animals, Respect for the Earth. In 2009 she was nominated for the American Red Cross (Sonoma and Mendocino Counties) Real Heroes Award in the Animal Category.

Ms. Allegretti is the author of The Complete Holistic Dog Book: Home Health Care for Our Canine Companions (Ten Speed Press 2003; 2nd edition Tenacity Press 2018) and Listen to the Silence: Lessons from Trees and Other Masters (Tenacity Press 2007). She has also written extensively for print and online publications, including the column Beyond Body, Mind, and Spirit in the In Defense of Animals e-newsletter.

Jan combines her work as an animal advocate and animal health care consultant in her classes and workshops; she lives in the hills of northern California, in a mountaintop home with the resident deer, ravens, coyotes, rattlesnakes, bears, and countless other wise and wild ones.

This show originally airs at 7pm Thursday March 18, 2021 on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits, as well as streams on the web www.kzyx.org. 

           Valerie Miner’s work has appeared in The Georgia Review, Triquarterly, Salmagundi, New Letters, Ploughshares, The Village Voice, Prairie Schooner, The Gettysburg Review, The T.L.S., The Women’s Review of Books, The Nation and other journals. Her stories and essays are published in more than sixty anthologies. A number of her pieces have been dramatized on BBC Radio 4. Her work has been translated into German, Turkish, Danish, Italian, Spanish, French, Swedish and Dutch. In addition to single-authored projects, she has collaborated on books, museum exhibits as well as theatre.

            She has won fellowships and awards from The Rockefeller Foundation, Fondazione Bogliasco, The Brown Foundation, Fundación Valparaiso, The McKnight Foundation, The NEA, The Jerome Foundation, The Heinz Foundation, The Australia Council Literary Arts Board and numerous other sources. She has received Fulbright Fellowships to Tunisia, India and Indonesia.

            Winner of a Distinguished Teaching Award, she has taught for over twenty-five years and is now a professor and artist in residence at Stanford University. She travels internationally giving readings, lectures, and workshops. She and her partner live in San Francisco and Mendocino County, California.

This show originally aired at 7pm Thursday January 21, 2021 on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits. 

The show will also include poems by 6-8 grade students at Manchester Elementary School who wrote Covid-19 poems as part of my online “Viral Poetry Lesson”

In the words of Sartre: “Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.”

The show originally aired on April 30 from 7-8pm  on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits.

More information about Alena Guest can be found at her website alenaguest.com.

The show also includes poems by 6-8 grade students at Manchester Elementary School who wrote Covid-19 poems during my online classes this spring,

You can find Gail’s award winning collection Blood Memory at Small Press Distributor.

This show originally aired at 7pm Thursday August 6 on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits. 

You can find out more about Holly Stiel and her offerings by visiting her website

This show originally aired at 7pm Thursday September 3 on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits.

• You can find out more about Michael Warr by visiting https://michealwarr-creativework.tumblir.com for updates on poetry whereabouts.  
• For bilingual writing and workshops and video of “To Your Assailant…” see: https://twolanguagesonecommunity.com/
• also FB pages for https://www.facebook.com/OfPoetryandProtest/ 
• and the page https://www.facebook.com/thearmageddonoffunk/ for poetry community posts.
• His book Of Poetry & Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin is now available online at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) by clicking this link: https://bit.ly/3fCZWkM.

Show originally aired on Thursday October 1 on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits, as well as streamed on the web www.kzyx.org.  You can find out more about Dr. Lynne Kitei and the Phoenix Lights by visiting thephoenixlights.net