Special Note. Week's starting time: 6:30 p.m Central Standard Time ThursdayApril 7.
Our guest poet REX BUTTERS from L.A.
And two special guests: BILL BLACKOLIVE, from Port Aransas, Texas, and SHERWOOD ROSS, from Coral Gables, Florida.
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Bill Blackolive, in Port Aransas, Texas
Wild Bill Blackolive has been an outlaw folk writer since the sixties.
His memoir, The Emeryville War, chronicles his life “on the fringe of Berkeley" in the 1980′s. Wild Bill lives in a backyard in his broke-down car with his barbells and a litter of pit bulls.”
I crossed paths with Bill and his daughter Madrea through the Guild Of Outsider Writers, and after reading Emeryville, I knew he was somebody I needed to interview!
Lynn Alexander
And SHERWOOD ROSS, from Coral Gables, Florida.
SHERWOOD ROSS IS A NATIVE of Chicago.
After graduation, he worked as a reporter at the City News Bureau of Chicago and the Chicago Daily News, where he covered urban affairs and city planning.
In June, 1966, he covered James Meredith’s “March Against Fear” in Mississippi for Sonderling, also serving as Meredith’s “press coordinator” to draw national media coverage to the event.
After Meredith was shot on the second day of the march south of Hernando, Miss., Ross helped get Meredith into an ambulance and accompanied him to a Memphis hospital.
Ross’ eye-witness account of the shooting for WOL was redistributed by The Washington Post-L.A. Times wire nationally.
Ross also described the event the next morning in a segment interview on NBC’s Today Show, and urged viewers to join him in completing the march.
Ross was congratulated in public by Rev. Martin Luther King for "all the wonderful things you are doing for the Negro people."
Ross has also worked on political campaigns for Democratic candidates in Chicago, Washington, and Nassau County, N.Y., and contributed speeches to the presidential campaigns of Senator George McGovern and Governor Michael Dukakis.
His bylines have appeared in virtually all major U.S. dailies.
Ross also directs the Anti-War News Service and his reporting and commentaries on political and military topics appear literally on hundreds of Internet sites globally.
He resides in Coral Gables, Florida.
Several Ross poems have received wide reception on the Internet, namely, “America, The Imperial,” and “Hiroshima.”
Ross has four children by two marriages and two dogs that still love him.
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Our Guest Poet REX BUTTERS, in Los Angeles.
FOR OVER 25 YEARS, Rex Butters has published poetry in journals as diverse as The Trestle Creek Review, Brain Vomit, Caffeine, interbang, Bad Haircut Quarterly, and the anthology, the Cost of Freedom.
For 35 years, he's written about music. He's written liner notes for artists as diverse as Albert Ayler, Leadbelly, and Brother Jack McDuff.
He performs solo, and with the improvisational music/spoken word ensemble, Black Shoe Polish.