On Saturday, May 1, from 7-7:30, Cartwheels on the Sky features the poems and process of jazz poet Tony Seymour. His literary career spans nearly five decades, encompassing poetry writing, journalism, academic research and public performances. His collection of over 1,200 poems…
Tune into KZYX&Z’s Be More Now program at 7pm on Thursday, April 1 when host Blake More is honoring Poetry Month by devoting the hour to poetry, but not just to poetry, but to youth poetry – the voice of our future, a voice that the world is not hearing enough of right now. Some poems are brand new, some are a few years old, some you…
On Saturday, March 6, from 7-7:30, Cartwheels on the Sky features the poems and process of Mendocino county poet Peter Lit. Peter was born in 1944, and eventually graduating from UC Berkeley as a political science major in the midst of the Free Speech Movement. He says he missed graduation since…
Tune into KZYX&Z’s Be More Now program at 7pm on Thursday, March 18 when host Blake More will interview host Blake More will interview author, animal rights advocate and veterinary homeopath Jan Allegretti. They will be discussing holistic health care for animals, as well as animal/human wellness and how it relates to…
This week’s Cartwheels on the Sky features the poems and process of Mendocino county poet and current Ukiah Poet Laureate Melissa Eleftherion. Melissa Eleftherion (she/they) is a cis queer human, a writer, a librarian, and a visual artist. She is the author of field guide to autobiography (The Operating System, 2018), & ten chapbooks, including little ditch…
This week’s Cartwheels on the Sky features the poems and process of poet Marylyn Motherbear Scott, who writes memoir, poems, poetic narration, and theatre review. A founding member & editor for the online journal Coreopsis, she is published by Cauldron Press; Bantam Press, Skinner Press, Coreopsis, Green Egg, and WMC Anthologies and regularly features in readings…
Tune into KZYX&Z’s Be More Now program at 7pm on Thursday, January 21 when host Blake More will interview award wining author and university professor Valerie Miner. A longtime visitor and now resident of Mendocino County, Valerie will be reading from and discussing her fifteenth book, Bread and Salt: Stories. This conversation was recorded in early January…
This week’s Cartwheels on the Sky features a mix of poetry, words and music. A blend of past and present, the next 30 minutes is my way of ushering in the long-anticipated 2021. We made it, and I hope you find this selection inspiring and fills you with the kind of hope we need to gather our courage, strength, and heart so we can ride off into the new new now…
Tune into KZYX&Z’s Be More Now program at 7pm on Thursday, December 3 when host Blake More will interview poet Lucinda Watson. Watson’s new book, “The Favorite” comes with great praise from the former Presidential Poet (under Obama) as well as other luminaries. A now retired professor at the Hass Business School at UC Berkeley, Watson’s diverse perspective…
Tune into KZYX&Z’s Be More Now program at 7pm on Thursday, November 19 when host Blake More will interview Ayurvedic Doctor and co-founder of Pacific Coast Ayurveda Madison Madden. In honor of the season, this month’s show focuses on gratitude, the kind of gratitude that starts with self and then extends out into the world because it has no choice…
This week’s Cartwheels on the Sky features the poems and process of poet Jasper Henderson. Jasper Henderson grew up all up and down the Mendocino Coast. He went to school at Harvard College and later at Antioch University. He is a writer, teacher, and designer, and currently he works as the Storyteller / Writer for Antioch University, as well as…
This week’s Cartwheels on the Sky features the poems and process of Michelle Peñaloza. Peñaloza is the author of Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire, winner of the 2018 Hillary Gravendyk National Poetry Prize (Inlandia Books, 2019). She is also the author of two chapbooks…
This week’s Cartwheels on the Sky features a recording of the Mendocino Coast High School Poetry Slam from April 2011. I figured it would be nice to hear how different and the same life was in 2011, and to remind youth that they have strong voices, voices that must be exercised and heard — you are our freedom and you deserve a platform of expression…
This week’s Cartwheels on the Sky feature the poems and process of Ukiah poet Michael Riedell. Micheal Riedell was born and raised in San Diego. For more than two decades he has lived in inland Mendocino with his wife, Kate, and worked at Ukiah High School as a teacher of English and Creative Writing. He also “coaches” the…
This week’s Cartwheels on the Sky feature the poems and process of Ukiah poet Daniel Barth works at home mornings as writer and editor. Afternoons he teaches and does library work at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas. After that he saws, splits, mows, waters, rides his bike, walks and pokes at things with a bamboo hiking stick, just like Gandhi.