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San Francisco Open Mic Poetry Podcast TV: Albert Flynn DeSilver
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April 29, 2009 07:51 AM PDT
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Hello. This is John Rhodes poetry special known as Mystic Babylon on the Internet. Today we are having
on the poet laureate of Marin county.
Albert Flynn DeSilver has recently begun his tenure as Marin County California's first poet laureate.
He is the author, most recently of "Letters to Early Street," published Spring 2007 from
La Alameda/University of New Mexico Press, and "Walking Tooth & Cloud," published January 2007 from
French Connection Press in Paris.
Andrei Codrescu has said about "Letters to Early Street:" "This is one of our poets and we
stand behind him (or to his side) in any fight, physical or literary, he might be involved in. Except
maybe the situation he describes thus: "A stuffed moose has just capsized in my bed."
Albert has published more than one hundred poems in literary journals worldwide including
Zyzzyva, New American Writing, Jubilat, Jacket from Australia), Poetry Kanto from Japan, Van Gogh¹s Ear
from France, Hanging Loose, Exquisite Corpse, and many others.
Some of his letters in correspondence with the poet Paul Hoover will be featured in the new
book "Letters to Poets" just out from Saturnalia Books.
A visual poem of his will be featured in a public art work in collaboration with the artist Paul Kos,
and built on the banks of the Sacramento River in late 2009.