Mystic Babylon: S.F. Open Mic Poetry Podcast/TV
This is the San Francisco Haight Street poetry podcast TV, Mystic Babylon, created by John Rhodes. On this podcast we will have all the poets from the open mics, and poetry readings in the San Francisco Bay Area, on this program. Type in "Mystic Babylon" to iTunes and subscribe. Earlier podcasts will be archived on the web podcast pages that can be a accessed by big "Click Here" pictures, where it says Program Archives.To download the archives to iTunes go to "Advanced" in the iTunes Menu, click on "Subscribe to Podcast" and type in: http://mysticbabylon.podomatic.com/ archive/rss2.xml. I don't recomend you copy and paste that code, but type it in, because sometimes pasting it will leave incorrect gaps in letters. iTunes will automatically download the archives (all the old shows). There is a simple picture tutorial on how to do this on the Mystic Babylon Web site. Visit my serial novel podcast of my book: Little Bird Told Me, at http://littlebirdtoldme.podomatic.com . You can buy all my books from: authorhouse.com , or a paid audio version of my novel from audible.com . To make the Media Player display a larger image, click numerous times the CTRL key, while clicking the + key.
Episodes
February 21, 2011 • 2 mins
Dear Poetry Podcast TV Friends. This is John Rhodes director of the San Francisco Open Mic Poetry Podcast TV Show. Due to the high expense of running this site here at http://mysticbabylon.podomatic,com , please shift to watching this to either http://sanfranciscopoetry.blip.tv or in the near future to http://mysticbabylon.blip.tv. http://mysticbabylon.blip.tv will eventually have all my old podcasts on it possibly with ph...
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February 17, 2008 • 18 mins
HELLO. THIS IS A REPOST IN AN ATTEMPT TO GET IT TO DOWNLOAD PROPERLY. POSTED HERE IT SHOULD DOWNLOAD. I HOPE YOU DON"T MIND THIS RE-BROADCAST.
This is the 2nd full length open mike poetry podcast recording of "Mystic Babylon" from the Haight in San Francisco. I am recording poems from the Word Beat Series of open mic poetry sessions in Berkeley from Telegraph Avenue right near the People's Park. The Word Beat web site is...
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November 23, 2007 • 14 mins
Hello. This is John Rhodes and this is Mystic Babylon Open Mike Poetry podcast in audio today. Today we have 3 poets besides me. We have some more of the poetry from the Poem Dome celebration last April. We have in order: Daniel Yaryan, Paul Corman Roberts, and Kim Johnson. I as usual will read a few poems in the beginning. At the beginning of next month I will have another Comcast Cable Access 29 show for you to watch. P...
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November 2, 2007 • 14 mins
Hello! This is Mystic Babylon broadcasting from near Haight Street with the best of San Francisco poetry. Today we have some poetry from two other poets besides me. First I have some poetry from a poet who asked me a long time ago to record some of her works named Lenore Weiss. She gave me a disk of what she called cell-phone poetry and I extracted one small snippet from that recording.
After that I have some poetry fro...
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November 2, 2007 • 30 mins
Hello. This is Mystic Babylon Open Mike Poetry Podcast broadcasting from near the Haight in San Francisco. Today I have one poet besides me. The poet is named Tom Odegard. You can buy his book, or chapbooks, by writing: Tom Odegard
P.O. Box 2808, Friday Harbor, Washington, 98250, or by sending an email to: tommsg@gmail.com . All of this info will be in the web site show notes and Tom will give more info when he introduces...
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October 29, 2007 • 41 mins
Hello. This is Mystic Babylon Open Mike Poetry Podcast broadcasting from near the Haight. Today we have two poets besides me. These poets are H.D. Moe and Doug Reese. H.D. Moe has many, many books out which can be purchased from numerous places, the main one being his web site at: http://www.hdmoe.com . The second poet, Doug Reese is a close friend of Moe’s and has some very good poems here.
I, being much like the H...
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October 29, 2007 • 18 mins
Hello, this is Mystic Babylon Open Mike Poetry Podcast recording from near the Haight in San Francisco. Today we have only one poet besides me, but we have a special treat today. We have Judith Barnett who works at the Beat Museum in the North Beach area of San Francisco near City Lights Bookstore where the Beats came from. The URL of the Beat Museum is: http://www.thebeatmuseum.org . I met her at the open mikes that the...
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October 26, 2007 • 28 mins
Hello again. This is Mystic Babylon Open Mike Poetry Podcast broadcasting from near the Haight with as usual, for my audio podcast, two other poets. The two poets are Joanna Planteen whose pen name is Monique Marquisa de Magdelena, and the other poet is Dorothy Walters. Joanna, or Monique, as she calls herself, is going to have an all-female poetry collective with a first show Dec. 2nd. Info about this can be found at: ht...
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October 23, 2007 • 25 mins
who prefers to be called, Eugene David.
Marvin Hiemstra is most well-known in connection with the local Literary Magazine, Bay Area Poets Seasonal Review. He is also a poet who has been nominated for a Pulitzer prize in poetry. If you would like to contact him about his magazine or purchasing any of his works contact him at: drollmarv@aol.com .
David Eugene Partch is a prolific poet of the Bay Area who has many chapb...
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October 23, 2007 • 29 mins
Hello again, This is Mystic Babylon Open Mike Poetry Podcast broadcasting from near the Haight in San Francisco. Today we are having two poets besides me. They are James Frame and J.R. Jimmy Hammond. James Frame grew up in Sonoma California, lived in San Francisco most of his adult life, and was a Combat Medic in the Vietnam War. He was influenced by the beat poets, and Robinson Jeffers as a young man. He remembers readin...
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October 22, 2007 • 31 mins
This is the 14th segment of the Mystic Babylon Open Mike Poetry Podcast.
Today we have the head of the Word Beat Poetry series that runs from the Mediterraneum Cafe in Berkeley, and one of her creative children with some of his poems. He sometimes helps host. This is none other than Debra Khattab and Jeremy Morris Siegel. Debra also runs a very nice web site at: http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/wordbeat/ which anyone in t...
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October 21, 2007 • 31 mins
Hi there! This is Mystic Babylon Open Mike Poetry Podcast, from near the Haight in San Francisco. This Sunday we are having among other poets, Katherine Hastings, who can be found at: http://www.wordtemple.com. That is her picture just above. We are also having David Bromige read who is a very prolific writer of poetry, and one other poet Rychard Denner who can be found at Dpress: http://www.sonic.net/~rychard, or simpler ...
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October 21, 2007 • 28 mins
This is Mystic Babylon's Open Mike Poetry Podcast's 11th full length recording. Today besides me, we have the elder Paul Watsky, and the younger George Watsky. Their web sites are: http://www.paulwatskypoetry.com , http://www.georgewatsky.com , and http://www.youthspeaks.org . Please post comments if you can and buy the author's books if you can. Need I remind you that my textual web site is: http://www.rhodespoetry.com a...
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October 20, 2007 • 32 mins
This is “Mystic Babylon” Open Mike Poetry Podcast located near the Haight in San Francisco. I am very proud of this podcast today. We have 3 other poets besides me. Jack and Adelle Foley will read, and also Sharon Doubiago. They are some of the more well known Bay Area poets. Jack works for KPFA in Berkeley. and his web site is at http://www.kpfa.org . All three of them have many volumes of poetry out in print, in book for...
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October 20, 2007 • 25 mins
This is "Mystic Babylon" Open Mike Poetry Podcast. We have two poets reading on this near Memorial Day Podcast. These two poets are James Tracy and Jeanne Lupton. You can buy one of Jeanne's chapbooks by writing her at : Jeany98@aol.com . James tracy's web site is at: http://www.molotovmouths.com/ , and Jeane Lupton's website is at: http://www.jeannelupton.com.
This Podcast came out a combination love/war podcast, th...
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October 19, 2007 • 23 mins
This is Mystic Babylon's 8th recording from near the Haight. Today we have 2 other poets on this Mother's Day, Jehanah Wedgwood, and Judy Jones. May I remind you to support my site by buying works from the poets here. Let me mention that my book of poetry is buyable, at almost any main Internet bookstore, and its title is: "Spirits of Bondage and Inherent Transcendence". My full name is John F. Rhodes. Judy's web site is a...
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October 18, 2007 • 28 mins
This is Mystic Babylon's 7th open mike poetry podcast. Today, besides me, I have 2 poets from Big Sur on, both friends of Laura Huxley, and both published traditionally. Their names are Carolyn Kleefeld, and David Dunn. Just above is a picture of Carolyn K.. Please visit their web site at, http://www.carolynmarykleefeld.com. Need I remind you to please buy a book even though art is for art sake. Thank-you
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October 18, 2007 • 29 mins
This is the 5th Open Mike Poetry Podcast of "Mystic Babylon" broadcasting from the Haight. Today we have three poets reading besides me. They all have their personal connection rooted in reading together at the: "All Poets Welcome Reading Series", held the first Monday of the month, at 7pm at the Gallery Cafe. The three readers are, Robin Demers, the host of the aformentioned reading series, Ken Saffran, and Kit Kennedy. B...
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October 18, 2007 • 28 mins
This bi-monthly San Francisco open mike poetry podcast broadcasting form the Haight is this time hosting two poets plus me, John Rhodes. One of them is Ruby R. Muran de Assereto, and the other is Christopher Bernard. I have posted Chris's picture above. Chris's web site is: http://www.caveat-lector.org/ .Chris I met up with at the Gallery Cafe open mike, and Ruby is one of his friends. In the recording they also mention ab...
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October 16, 2007 • 22 mins
This is Mystic Babylon's 3rd open mike poetry recording from San Francisco in the Haight. It is a mixed bag of poetry from the Bay Area this time. Some of it is from someone whose alias is Dr. Concrescence, who reads in the Fillmore district, known mainly for its music, and also I returned to Berkeley to get one poet from there named David Gollub. The web site associated with him is http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/wordbeat...
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