KZYX: Be More Now with Blake More

KZYX&Z’s Be More Now Features Mendocino Youth Poets reading their Poetry Tune into KZYX&Z’s Be More Now program at 7pm on Thursday, June 1 when host Blake More celebrates the successful end of the 2022-23 school year with a show featuring the literary voices of K-12 students in Mendocino County. Voices you will hear include 3-8 students Manchester Elementary School, 3-8 students from Pacif...

KZYX&Z’s Be More Now Features a conversation with Dot Brovarney, the author of Mendocino Refuge Tune into KZYX&Z’s Be More Now show at 7pm on Thursday, May 4 when host Blake More will interview Mendocino County authors Dot Brovarney and Kate Dougherty. They will be discussing Brovarney’s new book, Mendocino Refuge: Lake Leonard & Reeves Canyon , which explores the Mendocino canyon that...

Host Blake More interviews artist/printer Felicia Rice, poet Theresa Whitehill and poet Sidney Regelbrugge, the Mendocino County Youth Poet Laureate. Heavy Lifting, the outcome of a 3 1/2 year collaboration between artist/printer Felicia Rice of Moving Parts Press and poet Theresa Whitehill is part event, part film, part exhibition and part reading, and it is currently touring Mendocino County and...

Tune into KZYX&Z’s Be More Now program for part two of our trip down poetry lane, featuring Silent Motif, Conference of the Poets, a compilation poetry CD put together by poet Kirk Lumplin with Berkeley Musicians Robert Keller and Paul Mills.  Poets you will hear include myself, Kirk Lumpkin, Chris Olander, Sara Mithra, Steve Arnston and David Shaddock.  I will also feature a few wonderful ori...

Tune into KZYX&Z’s Be More Now program when host Blake More interviews Mendocino County muralist Lauren Sinnott. A blend of painting, process and artistic discovery, they’ll be discussing Lauren’s bright life and colorful contributions to the county’s urban landscape, including her block long county history mural in Ukiah and her most recent “From Finland to Fort Bragg” mural project in Fort B...

Be More Now offers yet another trip down poetry lane, this time featuring Silent Motif, Conference of the Poets, a compilation poetry CD put together by poet Kirk Lumplin with Berkeley Musicians Robert Keller and Paul Mills. Poets you will hear include myself, Kirk Lumpkin, Chris Olander, Sara Mithra, Steve Arnston and David Shaddock.  I will also feature a few wonderful original compositions  wri...

Mark Sanford Gross considers himself “1/3 NY, 1/3 Washington, DC and 1/3 San Francisco.” and for the past 8 years Mark, along with his husband Billy and their two Hungarian shepards, has called Anchor Bay home. He moved to Washington DC to work in radio where he sold advertising for ABC radio’s first FM Rock station, WRQX. During that time he earned his MBA in Management from Marymount University....

Born in Santa Monica, John Allen Cann eagerly acknowledges his first grand enthusiasm began with the arrival of the Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles.  Along with playing shortstop came a fascination with the stats & brief bios on the back  of baseball cards; he considers this the inception of all following passions of study—at times he just wants to turn the world over & see what’s on the o...

Be More Now features the bi-coastal NYC/SF Jazz performance poet and longtime Town Crier Raymond Nat Turner discussing the placement of poetry in community, finding one’s voice and fearless expression with host Blake More.   “The Town Crier,” Raymond Nat Turner, is a NYC poet privileged to have read at the Harriet Tubman Centennial Symposium. He is Artistic Director of the stalwart JazzPoetry Ense...

Dana is fourth-generation Californian, who has lived on the southern Mendocino Coast for nearly three years. She currently serves as the 2021-2022 Poet-in-Residence at the Gualala Arts Center. The daughter of a painter and a builder, Lomax began writing poetry as a child and remembers melting crayons in her bedroom and drawing poems around the swirls of color as a way of dealing with her parents’...

Host Blake More celebrates the successful end of the 2021-22 school year with a show featuring the literary voices of K-8 students at Manchester Elementary School in Manchester, CA.  The last school year has not been without its ups and downs, so 5th grader Max and his fellow students suggested the idea of ending the school year on an especially high note with this very special fundraiser. This ye...

Host Blake More celebrates National Poetry month with some poems from wide and far – featuring mostly youth voices reciting classic poems from the NEA’s National Youth Poetry Out Loud program and from the Canadian program “Poetry In Voice”. Plus whatever else inspires me as we go along. Hopefully you will enjoy a bit of this, some more of that, a little music punctuated with inspiration, contempla...

Tune into KZYX&Z’s Be More Now program at 7pm on Thursday, March 3 when host Blake More will interview Mendocino County’s very own Jazz scholar and producer Fred Adler. They will be discussing his lifelong love of Jazz and specifically the peace and presence of John Coltrane with a special tribute to his musical legacy.  A resident of the Gualala coast since 1995, Fred Adler has been a friend...

Tune into KZYX&Z’s Be More Now program as Blake More interviews vibrational science pioneer Don Estes. They discuss his lifelong quest to develop methods and practices to use sound, light and vibration technologies rather than psychedelics to access non-ordinary states of mind. Don Estes currently serves a CEO and Director of InnerSense Inc., and Psiometric Science, Inc. He is a certified medi...

Tune into Be More Now and catch host Blake More interviewing author Shugri Said Salh about her recently published memoir “The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert”. Honest and tender, The Last Nomad is a riveting coming-of-age story of resilience, survival, and the shifting definitions of home. Topics for discussion include Salh’s personal history of trauma, civil strife, asylum and ulti...

Currently working on a documentary about pianist Professor Longhair, Tom Roche will share some insight into the life and motivations of this NOLA treasure, and why his wildly creative contributions have had such a lasting impact on the way New Olreans music has developed today. Tom Roche is an accomplished film and video editor, documentary director and producer, and published author and photograp...

A true renaissance human, Randy Masters has, BA in Music/Film, Masters and PhD in Divinity and is a multi disciplined alchemist, an award winning composer, a professional musician and multi-instrumentalist, a former university music teacher at UCSC and San Jose State Univ. and the designer of sacred geometry and sound products. He is a wellness facilitator for sound healing, spiritual counseling,...

LINKS MENTIONED IN THE BROADCAST: Personal Effects New and Selected Poems by Dan Langton Fog and Light on bookshop.org

Tune into KZYX&Z’s Be More Now program at 7pm on Thursday, August 5 when host Blake More will interview Diane Frank, editor Fog and Light: San Francisco through the Eyes of the Poets Who Live Here .  The show will be a mix of poetry and discussion, with a few of the poet contributors reading their poems. Poets include, Dan Langton, Angie Minkin, Kathryn Goldman, Gail Neuman, Alejandro Murguia...

Tune into KZYX&Z’s Be More Now program that originally aired on Thursday, July 1, 2021 when host Blake More interviews composer, lyricist, musician Daniel Savio, the musical director of the San Francisco Mime Troupe. They will be talking about the Mime Troupe’s upcoming 62nd seasonal offering, their second radio play Tales of the Resistance, Vol 2: Persistence, which will debut here on KZYX FM...

KZYX&Z’s Be More Now with Author, Vibrational Sound Healer and Teacher David Gibson Tune into KZYX&Z’s Be More Now program at 7pm on Thursday, June 3 when host Blake More will interview Sound Healing author, teacher, researcher and practitioner David Gibson. They will be discussing vibrational healing and its connection to science, healing, consciousness, nature and the Universe – now and...

KZYX&Z’s Be More Now with Author, Philanthropist and Spiritual Teacher J. Jaye Gold    This show features author, philanthropist and spiritual teacher J. Jaye Gold, who founded the Center for Cultural & Naturalist Studies, a California non-profit organization that offers disaster relief in the US and works with underprivileged children worldwide. They will be discussing his work, his lifel...

This interview features author, animal rights advocate and veterinary homeopath Jan Allegretti. They will be discussing holistic health care for animals, as well as animal/human wellness and how it relates to personal growth, environmental sustainability and spiritual curiosity. For more than thirty years, Jan Allegretti has been a consultant in holistic health care for animals and a passionate ad...

For this edition of Be More Now, host Blake More dives into Mendocino poetry, and poets, sharing a couple of interviews with valley poets Bill Churchill and Michelle Peñaloza.  You will hear a mix of poetry, process and lots of discovery as these two fine Mendocino County poets discuss what makes them write!   

     Valerie Miner is the award-winning author of fifteen books. Bread and Salt is her fourth collection of stories. Her latest novel is Traveling with Spirits. Other novels include After Eden, Range of Light, A Walking Fire, Winter’s Edge, Blood Sisters, All Good Women, Movement: A Novel in Stories, and Murder in the English Department. Her short fiction books include Abundant Light, The Night Si...