Mystic Babylon: S.F. Open Mic Poetry Podcast/TV

Hello! This is “Mystic Babylon” Open Mike Poetry Podcast broadcasting from near the Haight. Today I’m doing a blue screen at a religious shrine next to St. Ignatius church just above the Haight. I decided to read some poems with the name Mary in them, to topically connect with the image of Mother Mary is in the background. I am not very conservatively religious but have studied Christianity and all religion fascinates me, especially when it relates to the subjects of meditation, world peace, and inner peace. I thought the statue looked very graceful so I included it.
Today I have one other poet besides me who is reading, and that other poet is Joan Gelfand. She has been published widely including in publications like, the New York Times, Vanity Fair, and the list goes on and on. She has a poetry book out called, “Seeking Center”, and she has a novel coming out called, “Voice Over”. Joan has a blog at, http://jg.typepad.com/ciel .
Please remember to buy the author’s books. The book I am reading from is, Spirits of Bondage and Inherent Transcendence.
There has been a delay in the creation of the voice over of my text/audio novel, Little Bird Told Me, but the audio version should be out by the end of March. I think my text version of the book should be posted in the Authorhouse Bookstore, and hopefully in
places like Amazon.com by the 23rd of Feb. It will have a cheaper base price from Authorhouse, and I get twice the royalty from their book store so if you can, please buy it from them if you do.
I don’t want to brag, but I think some of the material I put on my poetry podcast is fairly professional in quality and many times rates equal with public radio. They often repeat a lot of their shows on and on and I don’t. The reason why I mention this is just to remind you that we appreciate any support you can give us by buying the books listed here. I have yet to find money growing on trees, although poetry seems to grow on them quite well.
Just to note. With my tax returns I upgraded the hardware on my computer so the quality of the video will hopefully improve greatly.
This video podcast may not show it because it was half edited with my old hardware but the next video podcast should show it.