Cholla Needles

This set by Lisa Mednick Powell covers 30 years of music in a half hour. The presentation was created to play loud 1/2 hour before our annual Poetry Month live extravaganza. The Corona Pandemic has stopped the world, so I reached out to Lisa to see if we can still thrill our audience with her performance poetry over the internet. Guaranteed to be 100% virus free - this set is entitled "Freedom Songs", and all the poetry in this set appears in issue 40 of Cholla Needles - April 2020. Five of the performances are culled from three of Lisa's solo albums - Artifacts Of Love (1993), Semaphore (2002), and Blue Book (2017). Her composition Face In The Crowd from 1987 was recently re-recorded and appears on the new Song Dogs CD entitled Light In The Distance (2020). Visit Lisa's website at LisaMednickPowell.com

Ernest Alois shares his greatest hits, along with new pieces. Bonnie Brady reads from her beautiful memoir, Impressions of Guatemala.

Lisa reads from Cholla Needles 34, and from her powerful first book Finding The Azimuth. She also sings outdoors with a battery operated Casio =:-) You can see Lisa with her husband Kip performing at the Joshua Tree Saloon Mondays from 1-3, and Saturday evenings as Arroyo Rogers. Good Times! 

John Kenny reads from his novel, The Spark, and answers audience questions. John has been a firefighter since 1989, and is currently a fire Captain in Ottawa. The Spark has a five-star rating on Amazon. 

01 Intro to John Kenny • 02 The Spark Chapter 1 • 03 Interview • 04 Audience Questions • 05 Outro

Cholla Needles Show #3 intro • 02 Douglas Tibbets - intro • 03 Douglas Tibbits - A Love Prayer • 04 Douglas Tibbets - First Glance • 05 Douglas Tibbits - first time • 06 Mike Vail - intro • 07 Mike Vail - The Salvation of San Juan Cajon ptA • 08 Mike Vail - ptB • 09 George Howell - The Firebug and the Stolen Water • 10 George Howell - Trazodone • 11 Ellen Baird - Oceano • 12 Ellen Baird - Letter From The Editor • 13 Ellen Baird - Benediction • Claps! • 14 Chantelle reads Memories by Bonnie Brady • 15 Bernal Hornsby - Essential • 16 Marie Bobin reads from Station Eleven • 17 Friend of Douglas Tibbits reads Charlie Chaplin • 18 Greg Tibbits - Unseen Legislators • 19 Douglas Tibbits - Thinking of You • 20 Greg Tibbits - Politics • 21 Soos reads As the world reaches by Bukowski • 22 Mike Vail - The Raven • 23 George Howell - The Wedding Ring and the Glovebox • 24 Greg Tibbits reads Trump by Turq Teischa • 25 Friend of Douglas Tibbits - Voices Echo  • 26 That's It! • Cholla Needles Show #3 outro

Susan Rukeyser, moderator, Rich Soos - poem of thanks, Mike Stillman - segment deleted, Dave Maresh - Fixer Upper, Ernest Alois - Personal Survival, Bonnie Brady - Swimming Upstream, Cynthia Anderson -Big Bobcat Eating, Rose Baldwin -After, Peter Jastermsky - Two Cherita, Laura Berry -Unexpected, Greg Gilbert - Behind The Dimly Lit Kitchen, John Brantigham - Agenda, Teddy Quinn - Border Kindness, Marie Bobbi - Station Eleven, Jean-Paul L. Garnier- Water, George Howell - The Wedding Ring In The Glovebox, Susan Rukeyser - Listen To What I Don’t Say