Suzanne Lummis tells all about the Los Angeles Poetry Festival Suzanne Lummis resides in Los Angeles, where she is director of the Los Angeles Poetry Festival, award-winning teacher with UCLA Extension, and advocate in various Southern California movements and literary uprisings. She combines her background in Poetry writing and theater in the language-driven performance group Nearly Fatal Women. Her plays "October 22, 4004 B.C., Saturday" and "Night Owls" have received Drama-Logue Awards for Playwriting, and she sometimesappears in local…

19 Questions for R.U. Sirius R.U. Sirius has partied with Timothy Leary, emphasized the sexual possibilities of VR on the Donahue show and ran the first technoculture magazine. In the year 2000 he wants your vote for President. He is running on a 19 point platform which is laid out in a little red book called, THE REVOLUTION ®. I had a chance to ask him a few questions about his run for the roses and was pleasantly surprised…

It takes a city of poets to organize the Los Angeles Poetry Festival Laurel Ann Bogen is known for her lively readings and fabulous hats. She is one-third of the poetry performance ensemble Nearly Fatal Women. She is the author of ten books of poetry and short fiction. the most recent is Fission, published by Red Dancefloor Press. She is also on the organizing committee of the Los Angeles Poetry Festival. Carlye Archibeque: How did you become involved in the…