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

Hello. This is John Rhodes and this is my monthly
“Open Mic Poetry” show. To find out it’s semi-irregular
monthly scheduling you must go to the San Francisco
Public Access TV web page:
http://accessf.org/guide/schedule . Be aware of the spelling
of that because the accessf.org part of the URL has only
two s’s. In the schedule itself the show is listed as: “Open
Mic Poetry”, with the month added after ‘Open Mic
Poetry”.
If by any chance you have the new AT&T U-verse
and get the PEG 99 channel, you can also get a lower
resolution version of this show in many parts of the nation
on AT&T 99. On my web site: http://rhodespoetry.com I
have a youtube video on the main page that describes how
to use the channel 99 channel of AT&T.
I don’t want to go on too long, so I’ll cut to the chase
and tell which wonderful poet we have on today.
Today we have Ivan Arguelles on who was born a
twin of a Mexican Artist father named Enrique. His mother
was named Ethel Meyers Arguelles. Ivan’s twin brother is
named Jose.
Early on in Ivan’s life, in the 11th grade, Ivan
received a national award for one of his poems, which I
imagine helped inspire him. In the 60’s he continued to
write sporadically experimenting with prose, sort of after
the style of James Joyce and William Burroughs. In the
70’s he tried much harder at writing, and developed more
thoroughly his surrealistic style, it being tinted with his
Mexican background.
His first poetic collection was “Instamatic
Reconditioning”, followed by “The Invention of Spain”.
Following this, Ivan was widely published in small
presses and poetry journals. According to the “Directory of
Small Press Publishers”, in 1984 he was ranked 4th most
published poet in the country.
In 1989 Ivan won the William Carlos Williams Award
from the Poetry Society of America.
In 1990 he ceased writing the daily poem and turned
to writing long epic poems.
Ivan Arguelles has published approximately 25 books.
I know one of his collaborators in writing, who helped
with, I think two of his books. This was Jack Foley of
KPFA radio. I have some audio of Jack and his wife Adelle
on my “Mystic Babylon” web site. He is on podcast ten.
Enjoy.