Cartwheels on the Sky

Host Blake More interviews Object Heavy front man, singer Richard Love. They discuss his music, the band Object Heavy and their upcoming tour. The show will also feature Object Heavy’s upcoming LP “Love & Gravity”.

Object Heavy is Northern California’s hardest hitting Soul sensation. While based in Arcata, this cast of musical characters has made waves up and down the North Coast of California, the Pacific Northwest, and various parts of the United States. Object Heavy has also been voted best band in Humboldt by The North Coast Journal the last 3 years in a row.

Now Object Heavy has hit the studio and cooked up a new album produced by Kelly Finnigan (Monophonics), showing off their progressive yet soulful sound. The band is proud to partner with Color Red Music to release this record in early 2023.

With powerhouse vocalist Richard Love at the helm, and backed by Brian Swislow (Keys), Leo Plummer (Gtr), and Ian Taylor (Bass), Object Heavy is heading into the future in celebration of their new album, “Love & Gravity”.

Object Heavy’s magnetic blend of classic Cadillac soul, effortlessly contagious dance grooves, vocal harmonies and blazing musicianship is a live experience you don’t want to miss.

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 Pacific Community Charter School, as well as some poems from the Mendocino County Youth Poet Laureate, Point Arena High School senior to be, Sidney Regelbrugge. Tune in and hear the kids read their poems in their own voices!

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Originally aired live from 7-7:30pm, Saturday, June 3 at 88.3, KGUA FM Gualala / https://kgua.org

Host Blake More interviews Sonoma County poet Steve Trenam. They discuss Trenam’s life as professor, his literary leadership and his latest book, as this fine poet weaves his quirky, intelligent poetry into the conversation.

Trenam is able to transform empty and blank spaces into places of awe that entice the reader to leave “the dark corners of our rooms” to experience not only the world he creates through these poems, but also the ways in which art, music, dance, and poetry are rooted “at the heart of things.”

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Originally airs 7-7:30pm, Saturday, August 5 at 88.3, KGUA FM Gualala. Also streams live at https://kgua.org

Cartwheels on the Sky Featuring Part 4 of Conference of the Poets & Nymphya on KGUA FM Gualala

On Saturday, May 6, from 7-7:30, Cartwheels on the Sky with Blake More airs part four of trip down poetry lane, featuring Silent Motif, Conference of the Poets, a compilation poetry CD put together by poet Kirk Lumpkin with Berkeley Musicians Robert Keller and Paul Mills.
Poets you will hear tonight include myself, Kirk Lumpkin, Chris Olander, Sara Mithra, Steve Arnston and David Shaddock. I will also feature a few wonderful original compositions  written and performed by my dear friend Nymphya — from her album Dream Dance. This is part 4 of four episodes. Enjoy the last one!

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Originally airs 7-7:30pm, Saturday, May 6 at 88.3, KGUA FM Gualala. Also streams live at https://kgua.org

Cartwheels on the Sky with Blake More airs part three of trip down poetry lane, featuring Silent Motif, Conference of the Poets, a compilation poetry CD

Enjoy!

Originally aired 7-7:30pm, Saturday, April 1 at 88.3, KGUA FM Gualala. Also streams live at https://kgua.org

Cartwheels on the Sky with Blake More airs part two of trip down poetry lane, featuring Silent Motif, Conference of the Poets, a compilation poetry CD

Enjoy!

Originally aired 7-7:30pm, Saturday, March 4 at 88.3, KGUA FM Gualala. Also streams live at https://kgua.org

Cartwheels on the Sky with Blake More features yet another trip down poetry lane, this time featuring Silent Motif, Conference of the Poets, a compilation poetry CD put together by poet Kirk Lumpkin with Berkeley Musicians Robert Keller and Paul Mills. Poets you will hear tonight include myself, Kirk Lumpkin, Chris Olander, Sara Mithra, Steve Arnston and David Shaddock. I will also feature a few wonderful original compositions  written and performed by my dear friend Nymphya — from her album Dream Dance. This show is an invitation to tune your brain to what these poets and musicians have to say to each other. And to you!  

Originally airs 7-7:30pm, Saturday, February 4 at 88.3, KGUA FM Gualala. Also streams live at https://kgua.org

Cartwheels on the Sky with Blake More features Anchor Bay Poet John Allen Cann. They will be discussing Cann’s poetry and how it expresses itself in his life and community. Topics include being in the moment, finding one’s voice, inspiration and lots of lots of poetry.

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 other side. The radio by his blue bed entranced him with songs, their lyrics knocked about his head as the figure of the poet gathered a strange, numinous nobility.

Sports in high school was joined by an involvement with the theater; soon he arrived at Cornell University during its years of student unrest, & where he received his B.A. in Theater Arts.  His time in the east proved California the best place for him.  As wordsmithing overtook acting, he earned an M.A. in Creative Writing at San Francisco State, landing in Santa Barbara afterwards, where Mudborn Press published his first book, Lemurian Rhapsodies.  Here he hosted a poetry show, The Unseen Rose, at KCSB, began Aetheric Press, as well as working with kids & poetry, his livelihood for the next three decades.  His Dinosaurism – An Illuminated Manifesto, & Lunch – An Omnimodal Experience, were both performed before his departure to Sacramento in Orwell’s fateful year, 1984.

In the state’s capitol, he married artist-teacher, Robyn Cota, a true blessing, followed by another, the birth of their son, Dylan. Family camping on the north coast evolved into the good fortune of securing a parcel in Anchor Bay in 2002; building ensued at a modest pace. John Allen began teaching English at Cosumnes River College; surprisingly, he became an assistant scoutmaster while his son earned his Eagle. A central figure in the Sacramento Library’s 2013 award-winning Poe Project, John Allen ordered, introduced & added commentary to The Slender Poe, an anthology of the great American writer’s work.  A volume of his own poetry, The Moon Over Madrid, followed from i street press.  On-campus classes were suspended at CRC in March of 2020—you know why—& he finished his last semester on-line living full-time in Enchanted Meadows.

His study & writing of poetry has been steady for decades, & always he endeavors to be equal to the adage of Wallace Stevens, “Poetry is the scholar’s art.”  His phantom mentors include Heraclitus, Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats, Rilke, & Jeffers. Like many who hold dear the mystery of poetry, he already knows there’s not enough time left to read deeply all the great poems that the world treasures.  But he will keep at that joyful task as he composes his own work at the edge of history.

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Originally aired 7-7:30pm, Saturday, October 1 at 88.3, KGUA FM Gualala.

Recorded in October 2022, this Cartwheels on the Sky with Blake More features Anchor Bay Poet John Allen Cann discussing Cann’s poetry and how it expresses itself in his life and community. Topics include being in the moment, finding one’s voice, inspiration and lots of lots of poetry.

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 other side. The radio by his blue bed entranced him with songs, their lyrics knocked about his head as the figure of the poet gathered a strange, numinous nobility.

Sports in high school was joined by an involvement with the theater; soon he arrived at Cornell University during its years of student unrest, & where he received his B.A. in Theater Arts.  His time in the east proved California the best place for him.  As wordsmithing overtook acting, he earned an M.A. in Creative Writing at San Francisco State, landing in Santa Barbara afterwards, where Mudborn Press published his first book, Lemurian Rhapsodies.  Here he hosted a poetry show, The Unseen Rose, at KCSB, began Aetheric Press, as well as working with kids & poetry, his livelihood for the next three decades.  His Dinosaurism – An Illuminated Manifesto, & Lunch – An Omnimodal Experience, were both performed before his departure to Sacramento in Orwell’s fateful year, 1984.

In the state’s capitol, he married artist-teacher, Robyn Cota, a true blessing, followed by another, the birth of their son, Dylan. Family camping on the north coast evolved into the good fortune of securing a parcel in Anchor Bay in 2002; building ensued at a modest pace. John Allen began teaching English at Cosumnes River College; surprisingly, he became an assistant scoutmaster while his son earned his Eagle. A central figure in the Sacramento Library’s 2013 award-winning Poe Project, John Allen ordered, introduced & added commentary to The Slender Poe, an anthology of the great American writer’s work.  A volume of his own poetry, The Moon Over Madrid, followed from i street press.  On-campus classes were suspended at CRC in March of 2020—you know why—& he finished his last semester on-line living full-time in Enchanted Meadows.

His study & writing of poetry has been steady for decades, & always he endeavors to be equal to the adage of Wallace Stevens, “Poetry is the scholar’s art.”  His phantom mentors include Heraclitus, Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats, Rilke, & Jeffers. Like many who hold dear the mystery of poetry, he already knows there’s not enough time left to read deeply all the great poems that the world treasures.  But he will keep at that joyful task as he composes his own work at the edge of history.

Cartwheels on the Sky 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 Ensemble UpSurge!NYC and has appeared at numerous festivals and venues including the Monterey Jazz Festival and Panafest in Ghana West Africa. He currently is Poet-in-Residence at Black Agenda Report and former Co-Chair of the New York Chapter of the National Writers Union (NWU). Turner has opened for such people as James Baldwin, People’s Advocate Cynthia, sportswriter Dave Zirin and CA Congresswoman Barbara Lee following her lone vote against attacking Afghanistan.

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Originally aired 7-7:30pm, Saturday, September 3 at 88.3, KGUA FM Gualala. Also streamed live at https://kgua.org