The mind, a dormant stone

Saturday, September 24, at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center in VENICE, CA (the West Side of LA) Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd. Venice CA. 10am: Black Mask Parade against Police Brutality GATHER at Venice Blvd. and Lincoln Blvd. We will march over to Beyond Baroque/ Abbott Kinney. Join your community as we march up Venice Blvd. donning the masks of those who are victims of Police Brutality and unjust killing. Stop the murdering police NOW! JUSTICE FOR ANDY LOPEZ! JUSTICE FOR TAMIR RICE! JUSTICE FOR FREDDIE GRAY! JUSTICE FOR KELLY THOMAS! JUSTICE FOR SANDRA BLAND! JUSTICE FOR ALL! BLACK LIVES MATTER! ALL LIVES MATTER! Showtime: 11am-8pm Join us in a world gathering – a celebration of change! The Los Angeles Poet Society is honored to host amazing Angels of Change in our communities! Celebrating 6 years of 100TPC together! Additional events will be held after 3pm at Beyond Baroque. ISSUES WE WILL ADDRESS at this gathering: Homelessness Mass ...

 ORGANIZER: Jessica Wilson CONTACT:  losangelespoetsociety@gmail.com Celebrating 5 years of change...  The moment we stepped together to decide that change was indeed important and it starts within ourselves and expands out into our communities. We are the protectors of the Earth. LAPS is so excited to bring you 2 shows this year - Friday in the San Fernando Valley city of Sylmar at Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural , and on Saturday, 100TPC Day, at our home in Venice Beach, CA, the literary arts mecca, Beyond Baroque  Literary Art Cente r .  Hosted by Poets and Musicians for Change, Juan Cardenas & Jessica Wilson worldwide image 1 by youssef alaoui[/caption]     FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25th at Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural! 8pm featuring Luis J. Rodriguez! All events will be live streamed and broadcast from the POET'S SOAPBOX : http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-poet-s-soapbox   SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 at Beyond Baroque Liter...

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, ...

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...

Thank you to my good friend, Sean Hill, for delivering this mantra in his poem... it has brought me much peace. Thank you to Gandhi, for being so selfless and leading by example. CHANGE! Be the CHANGE!

​ ​Greetings Friends and Writers: ​Happy Tuesday to you! It's been a wild few months for me, I hope all has been well for you!  The Los Angeles Poet Society  is proud to be participating in a  RALLY AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY! JUSTICE FOR ANDY LOPEZ!   ​   ​Andy Lopez  was killed by Deputy Sheriffs in Sonoma County -- Santa Rosa, California. He was shot 8 times for holding a toy gun. He was 13 years old. The communities of Sonoma County, and all those who sympathize and seek to preserve life and personal freedoms, are rising up Saturday, June 7th, the weekend of what would have been Andy's 14th birthday... and we are say NO to POLICE BRUTALITY! ​ ​ Why does this happen? Countless, nameless, people are victimized by the bullies in blue... the police named to protect an d serve. All they serve is the pocket book of big business, while they take all of our tax money, and try to convince us they are on our si...

Jessica Wilson at 100 Thousand Poets for Change, 2013 -- Los Angeles, California! Held at Beyond Baroque, the historic site and home of the Venice West Beat Poets! Video streaming by Ustream

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...