Mystic Babylon: S.F. Open Mic Poetry Podcast/TV

Hello. This is John Rhodes poetry special known as Mystic Babylon on the Internet. Today we are having on the poet laureate of Marin county. Albert Flynn DeSilver has recently begun his tenure as Marin County California's first poet laureate. He is the author, most recently of "Letters to Early Street," published Spring 2007 from La Alameda/University of New Mexico Press, and "Walking Tooth & Cloud," published January 2007 from French Connection Press in Paris. Andrei Codrescu has said about "Letters to Early Street:" "This is one of our poets and we stand behind him (or to his side) in any fight, physical or literary, he might be involved in. Except maybe the situation he describes thus: "A stuffed moose has just capsized in my bed." Albert has published more than one hundred poems in literary journals worldwide including Zyzzyva, New American Writing, Jubilat, Jacket from Australia), Poetry Kanto from Japan, Van Gogh