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Jessica Videos

I was surprised to see this floating around :) I had the great honor to attend Occidental College as a guest speaker to an Upward Bound class. Thank you to Don Kingfisher Campbell!

Sweet Reunion

I am overjoyed at the thought of a perfect Writers' reunion! :) I will be at the mountain home of my mentor, and personal writing savior... plus my old writing confidante plus my new and closest writing confidante. :) I hope to share some good memories soon! <3

Happy Birthday, SoapBox Poets!

December 2011, marks the 2nd year of SoapBox Poets! It all originated in Venice Beach , when a friend and I saw a preachy man standing on top of an igloo chest. I don't recall what he was preaching about, but I noticed the amount of people who soon came in closer for a listen.With Venice being as Boho and Hippie as it comes in Southern Cali, I thought why not a poet? The few weeks following, Christina Granados and myself, armed with our current work of "twitter poems" or "Raw Bits" as I call mine, red and green milk crates in hand, and hit the boardwalk. There was a lot of competing sounds, but no other poets on the boardwalk. At least, none doing what we aimed to do. Christina and Jessica setting up (1st SoapBox) We put the crates down next to the metallic gold guy...the one with the gold stuffed dog... and stood on top our crates and read a line or two, one by one. We had a bunch of mardi gras beads to get people to notice us. We gave them aw