The mind, a dormant stone

100 Thousand Poets | Musicians for Change is here! This weekend, over 500 events in over 100 countries takes place simultaneously, creating the largest POETRY READING in the world! The grassroots movement, founded in Santa Rosa, CA, launching the question into cyberspace,  " can I get 100 thousand poets for change? do people want change?".   That query was answered with a loud YES from the people! Here we are at year 3 since its inception... the world wants change as collective community! There are no borders, lines creating fictitious boundaries on the land... we are all brother and sister human being.  That's the beauty of life. We exist, therefore, we can help each other in our collective advocacy for change.  Thank you to Stanford University for archiving our efforts around the world and solidifying the legacy of this movement! The  Los Angeles Poet Society  will launch 2 events this weekend! Details below! (LA 100 TPC flyer designed by Juan Ca

Summer is a wrap and so is the 2013 LAPS Summer Poetry Contest...  Good news is, now one of you can win! The prize is to be determined, and so is the winner... This is just to say THANK YOU FOR ENTERING , to ALL of you! ~~~ Thank you for supporting poetry! Los Angeles Poet Society

Juan Cardenas at Venice Beach: 18th and Windward He's a Spanish Vocalist... a Spanish Language Poet, Intoxicating Flutist, purifying soul... Juan  has been a Musician for more than a decade, his major influences go from Jimi Hendrix, Robert Johnson, Ella Fitgerald, Duke Elling ton, Otis Redding, The Doors, and Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouak, Federico Garcia Lorca and more. Get ready for fusion of Beat Poetry and psychedelic Music! Juan is also the Vice President for the Los Angeles Poet Socety, supporting a NEW Spanish segment, La Sociedad de Poetas de Los Angeles!   Juan is currently training to be a certified Poet Teacher with California Poets in the Schools! 9/25/13 is Writer Wednesday!Catch the show at Bob's Espresso Bar in North Hollywood! Experience the creativity swelling inside the chest of the NoHo Arts District!  Catch the open mic all night long!!! 5 minutes max. All creative genres are welcome! Grab the best coffee in NOHO! ♥ 7-9:30pm 5251 Lan

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Massive Global Movement Gives Voice to Local Issues through Music, Art, Photography, Poetry, Mime and More Over 550 Events Planned in 100 Countries for 100 Thousand Poets for Change Dear Friends and Writers, The  Los Angeles Poet Society  is proud to organize the 3rd Annual  100 Thousand Poets for Change  event in Los Angeles, CA! 100 Thousand Poets for Change is a global movement, grassroots in origin, spreading the message of truths in the need for change. As a planet we come together at the local level, organize our masses and show that we are not going to sit idle while our world seeps and weeps for change.  (From the official press release by 100TPC Headquarters): – September 28, 2013 marks the third annual global event for 100 Thousand Poets for Change, a grassroots organization that brings communities together to call for environmental, social, and political change within the framework of peace and sustainabi

SUNDAY September 22nd, 2-4pm at Avenue 50 in Echo Park, CA...  Hear La Palabra! Super duper excited to be invited to read at La Palabra, hosted by  Luivette Resto , the bomb-ass Puerto Ricana Poet! ♥ I hope to see some amigos there for love and support and to join in the open mic! Also performing are Poets, Juan Delgado and Li Yun Alvarado !

To No One I feel so lost… and empty and lonely. Not feeling this world;  how they shape your mind to make you believe that you need to be somebody to somebody,  to be somebody. Society leads you to water, asks you for a quarter to stare at it to see your reflection, asks you for a dollar to taste it, $1.50 to drink from it, and $5 to take some home with you. Water flows free. Of the land,  within the land, to feed the beings of the land. Well, wasn’t that us? Or was that to no one, who was staring down into the water, asking the sun if it would take a nickel for a little warmth on the skin? Of a no one, born to the land  of earth and water, rock and soil, to attempt to forge humanity in a land of hungry dreams and debutante balls. More silicone for the pushin’: technology, Barbie Dolls, prosthetic -- admired for their unnatural presence. Fallacy to replace bodily. Dollars to replace rocks. Savings to scrape

Jessica Wilson giving a reading as a part of 100 Thousand Poets for Change, Spring Forward Festival in Santa Rosa, CA -- the birthplace of 100TPC. Representing LOS ANGELES, California, USA!