HAS GIL SCOTT-HERON STILL GOT IT?

We'll be discussing that and more on umüvme as we feature tracks by this spoken word cowboy/pioneer/rebel/celebrity/bluesman.  Hosts Mark and Yolanda debate and dissect poems and songs from Gil's new album I'm New Here and reflect on his oldies-but-goodies.  We dare you to call-in to share your 2 cents live on the air:  215-609-4301.

umüvme hosts, Yolanda & Mark, will be giggin tomorrow night at Moonstone Arts Center at 13th and Samson, along with poet Trapeta Mayson.  It will be a poetry and bass extravaganza!  Come check us out live in the flesh at 7pm or tune in for a rerun of last week's saucy show featuring poet/painter JoAnne McFarland and erotica poet Mr. Hollister.

umüvme features JOANNE MCFARLAND & MR. HOLLISTER.

JoAnne McFarland is a painter and poet working in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn, NY. Her latest poetry collection, Acid Rain, received Honorable Mention in the inaugural 2009 Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Second Book Award. Her collection Watermarks was chosen as finalist by Cornelius Eady in the 2002 Associated Writing Programs Award Series. Her artwork is included in many private and public collections, among them the Library of Congress, the Columbus Museum of Art, and the Department of State. A dominant theme in her work is using creativity to thwart violence, particularly violence against women. Her web address is: www.joannemcfarland.com.

Mr. Hollister, an author located in Columbus, Ohio is currently releasing his 1st book since 2007.  Syn: The Complete Erotic Poetry Collection Volume I, published by My Time Publications, features a collection of seductive & erotic poetry dedicated to a man's adoration for woman and the various ways he pleases his woman.  Available at barnesandnoble.com as well as amazon.com, Syn has been ranked as one of the true must reads of 2010.

Missed it? Check out the PODCAST.

umüvme features MICHAEL STEFFEN.  Steffen's first book, No Good at Sea, was published by Legible Press in 2002. His second, Heart Murmur, has just been released by Bordighera Press. Michael was granted a 2002 Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. His poems have appeared in a wide variety of journals including Poetry, Potomac Review, The Ledge, Poet Lore, Rhino and many others. Michael is a Y2K graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Vermont College and currently resides in Roseto, Pennsylvania.

Plus, we've just acquired the freshly released Gil Scott-Heron album, I'm New Here, so we'll be hippin you to that as well...Don't miss it!

umüvme is on the road tonight!  we will be recording a reading by the lioness-of-a-poet sonia sanchez at the free library of philadelphia at 7pm and airing it on the show at 9pm.  sanchez will be reading from her new book Morning Haiku.  tune in for her seventeen syllable delights...

Due to technical difficulties, umüvme is postponed for the night and the following show will be rescheduled.  we'll see you next tuesday...

umüvme features MR. HOLLISTER, an author located in Columbus, Ohio who is currently releasing his 1st book since 2007.  Syn: The Complete Erotic Poetry Collection Volume I, published by My Time Publications, features a collection of seductive & erotic poetry dedicated to a man's adoration for woman and the various ways he pleases his woman.  Available at barnesandnoble.com as well as amazon.com, Syn has been ranked as one of the true must reads of 2010. 

Check out the podcast of last week's show featuring BARBARA CROOKER.

umüvme features BARBARA CROOKER.  The author of more than 650 poems published in over 1975 anthologies, books, and magazines such as The Green Mountains Review, Smartish Pace, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Nimrod, The Denver Quarterly, The Tampa Review, Poetry International, The Christian Century, and America, Crooker is the recipient of the 2007 Pen and Brush Poetry Prize, the 2006 Ekphrastic Poetry Award from Rosebud, the 2004 WB Yeats Society of New York Award, the 2004 Pennsylvania Center for the Book Poetry in Public Places Poster Competition, the 2003 Thomas Merton Poetry of the Sacred Award, the 2003 "April Is the Cruelest Month" Award from Poets & Writers, the 2000 New Millenium Writing's Y2K competition, the 1997 Karamu Poetry Award, and others, including three Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, and thirteen residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.  Her full-length books are Radiance, which won the 2005 Word Press First Book competition and was a finalist for the 2006 Paterson Poetry Prize;  Line Dance, which came out in 2008 from Word Press and won the 2009 Paterson Award for Literary Excellence; and More, forthcoming  from C&R Press in 2010.  Garrison Keillor has read seventeen of her poems on The Writer's Almanac, National Public Radio, and she recently read in the Poetry at Noon series at the Library of Congress.

Check out the podcast of last week's show featuring MEL BRAKE.