This set by Lisa Mednick Powell covers 30 years of music in a half hour. The presentation was created to play loud 1/2 hour before our annual Poetry Month live extravaganza. The Corona Pandemic has stopped the world, so I reached out to Lisa to see if we can still thrill our audience with her performance poetry over the internet. Guaranteed to be 100% virus free - this set is entitled "Freedom Songs", and all the poetry in this set appears in issue 40 of Cholla Needles - April 2020. Five of the performances are culled from three of Lisa's solo albums - Artifacts Of Love (1993), Semaphore (2002), and Blue Book (2017). Her composition Face In The Crowd from 1987 was recently re-recorded and appears on the new Song Dogs CD entitled Light In The Distance (2020). Visit Lisa's website at LisaMednickPowell.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rich-soos/message

01 Introduce Miriam • 02 Miriam reads from Cholla Needles 35 pt 1 • 03 Miriam reads from Bluebeard’s Castle • 04 Miriam reads from 100 Cups of Coffee • 05 Miriam reads from Luminosity • 06 Miriam reads from Cholla Needles 37 Pt 2 • 08 Outro --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rich-soos/message

Ernest Alois, Suzanne Ross, Peter Jastermsky & Rich jibber jabber about Poetry Politics Art & Music --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rich-soos/message

Ernest Alois shares his greatest hits, along with new pieces. Bonnie Brady reads from her beautiful memoir, Impressions of Guatemala. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rich-soos/message

At the Art Tours 2019 - Eva Montville’s Studio featuring Cynthia Anderson and Cindy Rinne! With special appearances by Robert M. and Suzanne Ross. Good Times! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rich-soos/message

Featured reader John Brantingham performing at Space Cowboy Books in Joshua Tree, CA. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rich-soos/message

Rose Baldwin is the author of the novel Mike’s Magic Burgers and a collection of The Claire Stories. Recorded live at the Art Tours Studio 105 in Joshua Tree over two days. Rose Moderated the readings both afternoons. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rich-soos/message

Ellen Baird is an author, editor, event co-ordinator and in her spare time teaches writing at Copper Mountain College. Recorded live at the Art Tours Studio 105. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rich-soos/message

Lisa reads from Cholla Needles 34, and from her powerful first book Finding The Azimuth. She also sings outdoors with a battery operated Casio =:-) You can see Lisa with her husband Kip performing at the Joshua Tree Saloon Mondays from 1-3, and Saturday evenings as Arroyo Rogers. Good Times!  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rich-soos/message

John Kenny reads from his novel, The Spark, and answers audience questions. John has been a firefighter since 1989, and is currently a fire Captain in Ottawa. The Spark has a five-star rating on Amazon.  01 Intro to John Kenny • 02 The Spark Chapter 1 • 03 Interview • 04 Audience Questions • 05 Outro --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rich-soos/message