The mind, a dormant stone

It's an extraordinary feeling, as an artist or creative of any sort, to be backed by a BAND of artists! This type of nurturing is what I am experiencing having been newly added as the baby of the Punk Hostage Press publishing unit! Punk Hostage Press Wow -- I dig that name... let the bad-asses of literature LIVE, and let their words breathe to the people of the world. Epic. I am so honored and so glad to have been adopted by Iris Berry and A. Razor -- I hope I make them proud and ignite passion from my words! It's like having everything to gain and everything to lose on one coin...the gambler in me extends a hand to those dice. I'm all in baby! One of the 1st events I get to join the PHP with is 100 Thousand Poets for Change ! I'll be reading as one of the L.A. Women of Punk Hostage Press! What an honor! You know I'm all about LA and being a woman! Hells yes! Plus, 100 TPC is an event I hold dearly since its conception in 2010! September 27, ...

"Halloween in 1954, Spicer and five painter friends opened the “6” Gallery. Spicer soon left this position and moved east. In his absence, the “6” Gallery became the scene of the famous reading in October 1955 that featured the first public performance by Allen "Ginsberg of " Howl " and helped launch the Beat movement." That's right! My Beat grand-daddy never liked the title...never believed in the collective movement...but was such an influence on the Beat Generation. He was counter-culture to the counter-culture. Truly Beat. No accommodation. You dig?

On "Beat": "It never meant juvenile delinquents, it meant characters of a special spirituality who didn't gang up but were solitary Bartlebies staring out the dead wall window of our civilization..." - Jack Kerouac Dig.

I am so excited that my submission to Cliterature -- a journal dedicated to the sexuality of women, has been accepted to join their latest collection called DESIRE ! Woohoo! To enjoy the selection, please http://cliteraturejournal.com/desire/jessicawilson.html 

The Los Angeles Poet Society presents Writer Wednesdays! an open mic to all creative genres in the midst of the North Hollywood Arts District! Video by Annabel Romanos Writer Wednesday - each Weds at Bob's Espresso Bar 5251 Lankershim Blvd. North Hollywood, CA 91604 Sign up at 6:30pm Show starts at 7pm All genres of creative art -- original work/no cover songs 5 minutes is given at the mic (or as time allows when there is a full house!) www.facebook.com/losangelespoetsociety 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 100 Thousand Poets and Musicians for Change – 2014, Los Angeles, CA September 27 – 28, 2014 (and all over the world!) Hosted by the Los Angeles Poet Society Locations: Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd. Venice CA – Sept. 27 th 2pm-11pm Bob’s Espresso Bar, 5251 Lankershim Blvd. North Hollywood, CA 91604 – Sept. 28 th 2pm-5pm The world movement started in 2010 by Poets and Editors of Big Bridge magazine, Michael Rothenberg and Terri Carrion in Santa Rosa, CA, has sprouted fully to its 4 th year – with over 700 events in 103 countries , from Cairo to Paris, Nigeria to Alaska! Artists are coming together, using their creative energies to stand in solidarity and encourage change. They are, as Mahatma Ghandhi stated, being the change they “wish to see in the world”. Artists are standing firm to be the agents of change in their communities, reaching out and expanding the efforts to unify and encourage a positive platform to achiev...

I am chirpy today because Punk Hostage Press is going to be publishing my book, No Apologies! AHHHHHHHHHHHH-hooooooooooooo! I will have my 1st official book out in the zone of the world! I am so excited! I can't believe it! I am so proud to join the family of Los Angeles Rebels, Beatniks, and Punk Rocker Poets! Holy moly! I am so grateful and in love with this! xoxo Thank you, Punk Hostage, A Razor, Iris Berry! You have me ever more!