9.29 Scott Riley featured

9/29/14  Scott Riley hosted by bruce

Scott Riley is a PhD Candidate in Literature at UC Santa Cruz specializing in twentieth-century American poetry. He holds a BA in Rhetoric from UC Berkeley, a MA from the Graduate Theological Union and a MFA in poetry from Saint Mary's College of California. His poetry has been published in the Berkeley Poetry Review, Palooka Journal and NANO Fiction. He lives with his wife, the Reverend Elizabeth Riley, in Menlo Park, CA.

9/22 feattures Marvin Spector

9/22/14 Marvin Spector  hosted by Nance

Marvin lived and traveled abroad from 1964-75.  Educated in
physics, he became a world traveler for 10 years.  Then he
settled in the bay area and has spent the last 15 years writing
his memoirs in the form of an adventure novel.

Iris De Anda Featured 9/8

9/8/14 Iris De Anda hosted by Odillia

Iris De Anda is a writer, activist, and practitioner of the healing arts. A womyn of color of Mexican and Salvadorean descent. A native of Los Angeles she believes in the power of spoken word, poetry, storytelling, and dreams. She has been published in Mujeres de Maiz Zine, Loudmouth Zine: Cal State LA, OCCUPY SF poems from the movement, Seeds of Resistance, In the Words of Women, Twenty: In Memoriam and online at La Bloga. She is an active contributor to Poets Responding to SB 1070. She performs at community venues and events throughout the Los Angeles area & Southern California. She hosted The Writers Underground Open Mic 2012 at Mazatlan Theatre and 100,000 Poets for Change 2012 and 2013 at the Eastside Cafe. She currently hosts The Writers Underground Open Mic every Third Thursday of the month at the Eastside Cafe. Author of CODESWITCH: Fires From Mi Corazon.