CafeRg Present Red Brick Bistro The Spoken Word Poetry Live Streaming Online BZoO Radio Show Now Podcast

Red Brick Bistro

Now On Podcast Too [click listen]

CafeRg Host this first Podcast and The Radio Show featuring Spoken Word Poets such as SplashHall's own AlluraD, Wordfaery, Sartor and Cy Street. Others included by special permisson from the Allen Ginsberg Trust, Allen Ginsberg and Award Winning Spoken Word Poets - Lisa Martinovic, Janet Kuypers, Belinda Subraman, Karen Gibson Roc and many others.

Tune in to the BZoO HomeGrown Radio SplashHall Poetry's Online Streaming and Podcast Radio for Audio Poetry.

Live streaming of the online radio is Thursdays at 10 AM EST Saturday 9 PM EST and Sundays at 2 PM EST. Saturdays show is followed by the popular jazz and blues music show BZoO After Hours Club at 10 PM EST.

Once at BZoO Radio site, to listen to the live streaming show, just click on your favorite music player on the sidebars and your 'own' player will pop up.

Would you like to have your Audio Spoken Poetry heard on the BZoO HomeGrown Radio's Red Brick Bistro? Contact:cafeRg@gmail.com or add DJ Rg to your MSN Messenger Friends List as (MSN User ID) bzooradio@gmail.com

Live Online Spoken Word BZoO Radio's Red Brick Bistro Featuring Allen Ginsberg

How about a solid hour of Live Online Streaming Poetry - Spoken Word?

Red Brick Bistro

You will hear SplashHall's own AlluraD, Wordfaery, Sartor and Cy Street. Others included by special permisson from the Allen Ginsberg Trust, Allen Ginsberg and Award Winning Spoken Word Poets - Lisa Martinovic, Janet Kuypers, Roo, Belinda Subraman, Kamal Supreme, Karen Gibson and many others.

Tune in to the BZoO HomeGrown Radio SplashHall Poetry's Online Streaming and Podcast Radio for Audio Poetry..

Show Starts at 9 PM EST followed by the popular jazz and blues music show BZoO After Hours Club. Tonight featuring BeauBlues and The Alilbi Blues Band.

Once at BZoO Radio site, just click on your favorite music player on the sidebars and your 'own' player will pop up.

Here's Tonights Red Brick Bistro Line Up Some Poems contain strong adult language.

1. Allen Ginsberg - City Midnight Junk Strains (For Frank O'Hara) (4:48)
2. AlluraD - For loves own sake (2:18)
3. Belinda Subraman & Ken Clinger - You Said Yes (1:09)
4. Celestial Dancer - Tea (5:01)
5. Cy Street - DaDa Hank - a glass into your half bottle (3:30)
6. Janet Kuypers - I Dreamt About You Last Night (5:55)
7. Kamal Supreme - You A Armchair Revolutionary! (4:09)
8. Karen Gibson Roc & Fluid - SWEET LIFE (4:26)
9. Lisa Martinovic - Awash In The Aftermath Of A Telephonic Tryst (3:20)
10. Lisa Martinovic - Ego on a Rampage (3:23)
11. Maximus Parthas Featuring NuEshe - Get It Straight (3:56)
12. Maximus Parthas - Youth, I Used to Know You (5:44)
13. Economic Equation Michael Ricciardi (4:54)
14. PoeTic SunShyne - Can I Love You (Wanna Mix) (1:47)
15. Roo - - Simply Trying (3:52)
16. Paul Marshall - I Might Get Stabbed (3:57)
17. Sartor - Graveyard (4:27)
18. WordFaery - Equinox (0:34)
19. Wordfaery - Extra (0:43)

Would you like to have your Audio Spoken Poetry heard on the BZoO HomeGrown Radio's Red Brick Bistro? Contact:cafeRg@gmail.com or add DJ Rg to your MSN Messenger Friends List as (MSN User ID) bzooradio@gmail.com

Meet BeauBlue SplashHall Poetry's Performance Poet ~ A Virtual Meet Up

Beau Blue's books & recordings include 'Appalachian Canticles' from
Jarus Books, 'Human Tricks' - A Little Licks Record, and 'in the
Electric Shadows' from da Vinci Media. He was founder and co-editor,
with Chris Neklason, of the online eZine, The Hawk, from 1993 to 1995,
co-editor, with Michael McNeilley, of the online eZine, ZeroCity, from
1994 to 1998.

He is publisher and senior editor of Beau Blue Presents, an internet publication specializing in what he calls 'internet broadsides' of text, graphic arts and sound files of contemporary poetry, and publisher/editor/chief animator of Blue's Cruzio Cafe, a website of animations of poets from the USA and around the world.

A performance poet and storyteller, Blue has performed extensively in Northern California, Oregon and Nevada for the last 30 years. He lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

Blue's animated work can be seen at SplashHall Poetry and also hear his music compostitions on BZoO HomeGrown Radio. Come Meet Up with Blue.

Time

Where does the time go? July the 4th is now the 24th. What was that about capturing time in a bottle? Would that were so. We flit through life, not thinking that our time is finite. I started to say that we flit through life without a care, but woes we do have. We worry and fret over things―some big, some little. We never seem to worry that our time here is short. It can be snatched away in an instant. Stop griping and complaining and lift up your fellow man. You'd be surprised how much happier life would be. Take time today to give a good time to someone else to extend your time this Monday.

Meet Amy Lee A SplashHall Poet aka SilverFlame ~ A Virtual Meet Up

Meet Amy Lee aka SilverFlame. Born in Penang, Malaysia, in 1988 = 18 years old of Chinese-English parentage. Amy started writing poetry two years ago - and hopes to make a living writing poetry and or prose.

Currently Amy is attending the University of Melbourne in Australia, working on her BA majoring in Creative Writing and English Literary Studies. She wants to set up her own poetry ezine in the near future - and will definitely let other Splashers know when so they can submit.

Amy's personal blog is called The Devil's Lair

Amy loves reading, especially fantasy - J.R.R.Tolkien rocks!, writing poetry and prose, eating, sleeping, drawing fashion designs, mythology, listening to alt-rock, indie rock, dance music, with a little mainstream thrown in) and BZoO HomeGrown Radio, the paranormal, Amy says, " which is probably why I am paranoid when at home alone, playing the piano, travelling - there's a list of about 20 places and countries I want to visit, watching movies, of most genres, spending time alone sometimes, watching football, playing CS (CounterStrike) etc,etc, etc...yeah, I love a lot of things lol."

Amy adds, "I love writing and hope to continue for many years, so I'm pretty much praying that my muse doesn't decide to vacation for an extended period of time. For me, writing is cathartic - it helps me keep some of my emotions in check, and expunges the darker ones from time to time."

Visit Amy today at SplashHall Poetry, her favorite online poetry and art community. You can read many of her poems there.

Meet Witt Wittmann SplashHall Poetry Director ~ Virtual MeetUp

Witt Wittmann retired in 2006 from thirty years of teaching English. She is now the editor for a small publisher. Poetry Director at SplashHall Poetry. Co-Editor at Rollin Thunder Poetry.

She is an accomplished artist and an award-winning writer. Her art of tatting, a form of lace, is exhibited at the South Carolina Artisan Center as well as The Pickens County Museum. She has been published in the International Old Lacers magazine, The Bulletin, in addition to having two books published: TatWitt: What I Learned When I Learned to Tat (Union County Writers Press, 2002) and Musing at La Poulaille (D-N P, 2003). Wittmann illustrated the books The Prince with the Golden Hair by Irene Honeycutt (D-N P, 2006) and The Last Hurrah by Robert W. Hinson (D-N P, 2005).

Now that she has retired, Wittmann can devote her time to the things that she loves best: art and writing, playing the dulcimer, not to mention gardening and chickens. Visit her personal website here.

Meet Jay aka Beholder - SplashHall Poet

Jay aka Beholder states, "I started writing at a young age.

Never read or studied many poets. My poetry came one day when a teacher came across some lyrics I was writing for a death metal band I was a vocalist in at the time. Unbeknownst to me she entered it in the school poetry contest, in which I took first place.

Before then I had always thought poetry for sappy daydreamers never realizing that poetry is an art form; and the writer every bit an artist painting a picture from his words I started writing under the pen name the Beholder at the age of seventeen. With a few published successes along the way.

I am now on the cusp of thirty and still learning and developing my style. I have a beautiful daughter I don’t get to see enough of who keeps me sane. I hope to publish a book of poetry and a novel I have been writing called "A Day in the Life of a Subculture Icon". It will be based upon my life with drugs and the emergence from there clutching talons. I soon will be getting involved with teens with drug addictions as a volunteer. Hoping that my experiences may be able to help change their lives sooner than it did me. I am a firm believer in all it takes is one person to change the world for the better".

When Jay isnt playing poker or enjoying his daughter, you can find him roaming the halls at SplashHall Poetry.

July the Fourth at Granny Witt's

Fourth of July at Granny Witt's

First, and most important, spray your feet and ankles with Deep Woods OFF! Nothing can ruin your fun worse than picking off ticks. If you'd really like to be comfortable, spray your arms, and if you're wearing shorts, your legs, too. Rub it in good. There's no fun in itchy mosquito bites. If you're like me, you'll spray your hands and rub the stinky stuff on your ears, cheeks, and neck. The voracious buggers hunt for an unprotected spot. For good measure, I spray the the top of my head, too, to keep the circling horseflies away. Be sure to wash your hands.

Second, grab a flyswatter and play Bug Baseball. Get a common fly, it's a base hit. Get a wasp, it's a triple, and that pesky horsefly is a home run. Designate a scorekeeper. Cheat. After a few libations, no one will know the score anyway. When you win, go wash your hands.

Next, if you go out to the chicken pens to treat the birds, pet them, or if you want to be helpful, gather the eggs, please scrub IT off your feet on the zoysia. The grass appreciates the fertilizer. Then go wash your hands.

Remind Papa John to turn the burgers, and please don't mention it when a hot dog falls into the coals and he retrieves it. It'll taste just as good if not better.
Make sure the cat is well out of the way before you pitch a horseshoe. Be sure to tell Granny Witt if you discover the cat used the horseshoe pit for a litter box and then go wash your hands.

See how many birds you can spot on, under, and around the feeders. You should see chickadees, male and female cardinals, nuthatches, and titmouse, (is it titmouses or titmice??) Look for a goldfinch, a purple finch, blue jay, oriole, or thrush. Find a dove, a wren, a bluebird, or a hummingbird. You can even watch the antics of the woodpeckers handing upside down on the feeders. Now if you see a flock of purple martins feasting in the Carolina sky, you win the game.

Another fun game is to see how many Japanese beetles you can catch. Go get a pail and fill it with a squirt of dishwashing liquid and water. Sneak up on a rose, put the pail of soapy water underneath it. Give the rose a tap and the nasty little gnawing creature with drop straight down into the water. That's the end of them. Count how many you get in the bucket and then go wash your hands.

Of course you can have a hamburger and a hot dog along with chips, baked beans, pickles, onions, and slaw. And as many homegrown tomatoes as you care to eat. Yes, and all the root beer you can drink, too. But, ask Granny Witt if you can put blueberries, chocolate sauce, whipped cream, strawberries and cherries on your ice cream, before you pile it on. Mama may not want you to have all that, but you can top it off with a brownie if you want to. It's the Fourth of July. Oh, and when you're eating the watermelon, no matter how good it is, please don't eat all the way to the rind. Leave a little red on it. It allows for a prettier watermelon pickle preserves that I plan to make when all you folks finally go home.

One last game before the fireworks. Find every flag that we have displayed and salute it. Then thank God and a soldier that you are free to celebrate the Fourth of July. Now, go wash your hands.

© Witt July 2006