WALL OF
SPARRING
ARTISTS...
Been in at least
one Spar with
the Ghosts...
ALOHI
RAMU AKI
DEE ALLEN
RAFAEL R.J. ALVARADO
LEN ANDERSON
CARLYE ARCHIBEQUE
STEVE ARNTSON
WISE PROOF AVATARI
AVOTCJA
JENNIFER BARONE
IRIS BERRY
BESSKEPP
CHARLES CURTIS
BLACKWELL
BARBARA BLOOM
LEE BOEK
LAUREL ANN BOGEN
BOB BOOKER
JIM BOLT
JACK BOWMAN
J.R. BRADY
EVE BRANDSTEIN
DON BRENNAN
PATRIA BROWN
CAMINCHA
JAMES CAGNEY
DON KINGFISHER
CAMPBELL
MARSHA CAMPBELL
FERNANDO D. CASTRO
NEELI CHERKOVSKI
MEL CLAY
ANN COHEN
JOIE COOK
COPUS
GABE DAVIS
HAL DAVIS
PHIL DEAL
WILL DODGER
TIM DONNELLY
CRAIG EASLEY
ANA ELSNER
STEVEN FAIVUS
RICH FERGUSON
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI
JERRY FERRAZ
ROBBIE FITZSIMMONS
MICHAEL C. FORD
AMELIE FRANK
JERRY GARCIA
BEA GARTH
CHARLIE GETTER
STEVEN GRAY
S.A. GRIFFIN
Q.R. HAND
LATIF HARRIS
SUSAN HAYDEN
DANIEL HEFFEZ
MARTIN HICKEL
GUY HOFFMAN
ARIEL HOLDEN
DENNIS HOLT
PENELOPE HOUSTON
CLARA HSU
ELIZABETH IANNACI
INVERTEBRATES
JOYCE JENKINS
RUEBI LYNN JIMENEZ
GARY JUSTICE
JERRY KAMSTRA
RACHEL KANN
INGRID KEIR
DOUGLAS KEARNEY
ROYAL KENT
DEBRA GRACE KHATTAB
ROSIE KING
DEBBIE KIRK
ANNIE KLOPFER
BRENDA KNIGHT
MARC KOCKINOS
STEFFEN KUEHN
CHARLES KRUGER
GEOFFREY TODD LAKE
RON LAMPI
ERIC LAWSON
MICHAEL LEON
WENDY LOOMIS
JESSICA LOOS
RICHARD LORANGER
KIRK LUMPKIN
PATRICK MAHON
MAMACOATL
PETER MARTI
MIKE THE POET
WHITMAN MCGOWAN
DAVID MELTZER
BILL MERCER
RICHARD MODIANO
H.D. MOE
BRIAN MORRISEY
GINGER MURRAY
PHILLIP T. NAILS
NKETCHI
MARC OLMSTED
SUZIE OLMSTED
OMAR
JANE ORMEROD
LISA ALLEN ORTIZ
ANGEL PERALES
BRENDA PETRAKOS
NICHOLAS PIEROTTI
KOPI POD
A. RAZOR
ARTEMAS REX
HANNA RIFKIN
DOREN ROBBINS
JULIE ROGERS
PABLO ROSALES
BETHANY ROSE
DANI ROTER
JIM RUSSO
FLOYD SALAS
SAM SAX
HERB T. SCHMIDT, JR.
SCRAPPERS
ELENA SECOTA
MORDECAI SHAPIRO
ARA SHIRIYAN
JONATHAN SIEGEL
BUCKY SINISTER
RICK SMITH
MARGERY SNYDER
JEANNE SPICUZZA
A.M. STANLEY
MARK STATES
HARLAN STEINBERGER
CARL STILLWELL
TOM STOLMAR
MANI SURI
ROBERT SWARD
MEHNAZ TAYLOR
WILLIAM TAYLOR JR.
L.K. THAYER
ALFONSO TEXIDOR
MEL C. THOMPSON
THORNE
LA TIGRESSA
V. VALE
MAX WOLF VALERIO
GEORDIE VANDERBOSCH
CHRIS VANNOY
CARA VIDA
JULIA VINOGRAD
T. MIKE WALKER
PAM WARD
LUKE WARM WATER
REX WEINER
RUTH WEISS
D'DRA WHITE
THE BISHOP
NORMAN WILLIAMS
KATHLEEN WOOD
DANIEL YARYAN
GARY YOUNG
V. LAZARO ZAMORA
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POETRY FESTIVAL SANTA CRUZ 2/12/12:
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FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO LOS ANGELES:
THE SPARRING WITH BEATNIK GHOSTS
POETRY SERIES IS MAKING THE ROUNDS!
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"Astonishing! Startling! Fantastic! Poems, music and something special to stagger everyones imagination...by poets braving the boxing match with those long-gone Beat ghosts -- finding their way to our magnificent, underground stage with their inspiring legacies -- as we lure them close with shouts from the bottom of our bohemian hearts-- for brothers and sisters of the Beat afterlife, sharing our sympathetic-poet-state-of-mind and our hunger for meaning in a mediocre world -- finding rollicking words to rattle the senses -- knocking the audience right out of their same-ol' chairs with that somethin'-new, spoken word renaissance -- beings rising from the depths -- no barriers of concrete, wood or stone can stop those ghosts from rising, drifting in from their mystic realms. Don't miss the spectacle, the magic, the mystery revealed." -- Yaryan
THE BIG EVENT...
Poetry Festival Santa Cruz promises to bring a
world-class poetry revival to the Cocoanut Grove on February 12, 2012 in the Grand Ballroom - 400 Beach Street, Santa Cruz - from 3:30 to 10 p.m. (doors at 3 p.m.) There will also be a "Sparring Artists Exchange" concurrently in the Bay View Room (adjacent classic Casino window room) with the ultimate book, art and memorabilia fair. The festival is produced by Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts. Click the following link for all of the festival performer bios...
The festival is sponsored by: Bookshop Santa Cruz, Poetry Santa Cruz, Seabright Brewery, Santa Cruz Weekly, Santa Cruz Art League, Nickelodeon/Del Mar, Food Bin & Herb Room, The Starving Musician, The Beat Museum, Felix Kulpa Gallery, Poetry Flash, Bird & Beckett Books & Records, Sport About, Community Printers, Santa Cruz Construction Guild, NativeImagesGallery.com, Poesy, Blue Press and Torkos Media.
Advance tickets are now available for $12.50 at http://showclix.com/event/poetryfestivalsantacruz
or by calling the ShowClix Call Center at 1-888-71-TICKETS. The phone box office is open Monday through Friday, 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. (Pacific).
Part of the proceeds of Poetry Festival Santa Cruz will benefit the Boys & Girls Club of Santa Cruz.
RECENT SPARRING...
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SPARRING WITH BEATNIK GHOSTS GOES 21 ROUNDS IN ONE YEAR...
JANUARY 2011 TO JANUARY 2012...
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Photo taken at Round 17: Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts @ Grand Star Jazz Club on Sunday, June 5, 2011. Pictured, left to right: Herbert T. Schmidt, Jr., Rick Smith, Melissa Alvarado, Rafael Francisco Jose Alvarado, Laurel Ann Bogen, Douglas Kearney, Lorraine Perrotta, S. A. Griffin (Producer and Host), Pam Ward, Marc Olmsted, Michael C. Ford (back with fedora), Mike The Poet Sonksen (with stocking cap) and Daniel Yaryan (Executive Producer, with hat in hand).
L.A.. SPARRING TOUR VIDEOS AVAILABLE ON YOUTUBE OR POETRY.LA
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POETRY FESTIVAL SANTA CRUZ 2/12/12:
Click link above to order advance tickets online to the 2/12/12 historic Poetry Festival Santa Cruz at the Cocoanut Grove. Also call the ShowClix box office at 1-888-71-TICKETS. The ShowClix call center is open 6 a.m to 6 p.m. (Pacific) weekdays.
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POETRY FESTIVAL SANTA CRUZ 2/12/12:
Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts logo by Santa Cruz cartoonist Tim Eagan.
FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO LOS ANGELES:
THE SPARRING WITH BEATNIK GHOSTS
POETRY SERIES IS MAKING THE ROUNDS!
(Click button above)
"Astonishing! Startling! Fantastic! Poems, music and something special to stagger everyones imagination...by poets braving the boxing match with those long-gone Beat ghosts -- finding their way to our magnificent, underground stage with their inspiring legacies -- as we lure them close with shouts from the bottom of our bohemian hearts-- for brothers and sisters of the Beat afterlife, sharing our sympathetic-poet-state-of-mind and our hunger for meaning in a mediocre world -- finding rollicking words to rattle the senses -- knocking the audience right out of their same-ol' chairs with that somethin'-new, spoken word renaissance -- beings rising from the depths -- no barriers of concrete, wood or stone can stop those ghosts from rising, drifting in from their mystic realms. Don't miss the spectacle, the magic, the mystery revealed." -- Yaryan
THE BIG EVENT...
Poetry Festival Santa Cruz promises to bring a
world-class poetry revival to the Cocoanut Grove on February 12, 2012 in the Grand Ballroom - 400 Beach Street, Santa Cruz - from 3:30 to 10 p.m. (doors at 3 p.m.) There will also be a "Sparring Artists Exchange" concurrently in the Bay View Room (adjacent classic Casino window room) with the ultimate book, art and memorabilia fair. The festival is produced by Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts. Click the following link for all of the festival performer bios...
The festival is sponsored by: Bookshop Santa Cruz, Poetry Santa Cruz, Seabright Brewery, Santa Cruz Weekly, Santa Cruz Art League, Nickelodeon/Del Mar, Food Bin & Herb Room, The Starving Musician, The Beat Museum, Felix Kulpa Gallery, Poetry Flash, Bird & Beckett Books & Records, Sport About, Community Printers, Santa Cruz Construction Guild, NativeImagesGallery.com, Poesy, Blue Press and Torkos Media.
Advance tickets are now available for $12.50 at http://showclix.com/event/poetryfestivalsantacruz
or by calling the ShowClix Call Center at 1-888-71-TICKETS. The phone box office is open Monday through Friday, 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. (Pacific).
Part of the proceeds of Poetry Festival Santa Cruz will benefit the Boys & Girls Club of Santa Cruz.
RECENT SPARRING...
(Click graphic link below to view event posters)
SPARRING WITH BEATNIK GHOSTS GOES 21 ROUNDS IN ONE YEAR...
JANUARY 2011 TO JANUARY 2012...
(Click graphic link above)
(Click above photo to enter performer bio album)
Photo taken at Round 17: Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts @ Grand Star Jazz Club on Sunday, June 5, 2011. Pictured, left to right: Herbert T. Schmidt, Jr., Rick Smith, Melissa Alvarado, Rafael Francisco Jose Alvarado, Laurel Ann Bogen, Douglas Kearney, Lorraine Perrotta, S. A. Griffin (Producer and Host), Pam Ward, Marc Olmsted, Michael C. Ford (back with fedora), Mike The Poet Sonksen (with stocking cap) and Daniel Yaryan (Executive Producer, with hat in hand).
L.A.. SPARRING TOUR VIDEOS AVAILABLE ON YOUTUBE OR POETRY.LA ORDER TICKETS RIGHT HERE!
POETRY FESTIVAL SANTA CRUZ 2/12/12:
Click link above to order advance tickets online to the 2/12/12 historic Poetry Festival Santa Cruz at the Cocoanut Grove. Also call the ShowClix box office at 1-888-71-TICKETS. The ShowClix call center is open 6 a.m to 6 p.m. (Pacific) weekdays.
