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Featuring At Bird & Beckett of San Francisco on July 20th:On Monday, July 20th, at 7PM, Mel C. Thompson and the iconic, award-winning poet Julia Vinograd will be featured at the phenomenal Bird & Beckett, a wonderful bookstore, a legendary live-jazz venue and a great stage for spoken word artists and poetry aficionados. The event will be hosted by the inimitable poet and musician Jerry Ferraz. This haven of culture and learning is at 653 Chenery Street in the lovely Glen Park District of San Francisco. For more information on this and other Bird & Beckett events, click on the link below:
www.bird-beckett.com
MEL C. THOMPSON
Spoken Word Artist
Current Contact Data:
Mel C. Thompson
237 Kearny Street, # 102
San Francisco, CA
94108-4502 , USA
melvinbrand@yahoo.com
www.melcthompson.com
(925) 435-8554
More Melvin Photos:
For more photos, click on the link below to see an eight-page scrapbook of images.
The Mel C. Thompson Online Scrapbook
Published In Over The Transom:
Jonathan Hayes produces this well-edited, edgy zine out of San Francisco. He published my sexual-spiritual poem "The Hand Job That Saved The World." I had the pleasure of reading this publication this morning and especially noticed several great poems in there by A.D. Winans and Glen Chestnut, two solid Bay Area wordsmiths and storytellers. Over The Transom accepts submissions through e-mail and U.S. Mail. To submit poems or inquire about obtaining issues of the zine, contact:
Jonathan Hayes,
Editor
Over The Transom
825 Bush Street, #203
San Francisco, CA 94108
jsh619@eathlink.net
Also note, Hayes and his publisher, Silenced Press, will be issuing his polyphonic, polyvisual, mini-epic consciousness-journey called T(HERE). This book is a good read if you have a wide-open mind, whether through years of Zen meditation, decades of scholarly philosophical investigation or a few really wild acid trips. To contact Silenced Press, go to:
www.silencedpress.com
Featured At San Francisco's Park Branch Library:
Karma bonus points to Diamond Dave for a hosting job of cosmic proportions during my June 9th feature. It was fun and the audience was a joy. And cheers to Kat and Richard who brought both warmth and food for the poets. Many other poets pitched in to help with set up and clean up. Thanks also to the library staff for their selfless organizational work. And special thanks to Murray for her support and encouragement.
Part Two Of Future Amnesia Now Available:
Part Two of Future Amnesia is just a little "deeper," than Part One. For insance, it actually contains love poems, (nice viewing for those who tire of my more cynical side, (although it still has plenty of cynicism too). This book will also remain in the "Links" section on the upper left of this web page. As always, this complete booklet is available free of charge in full chapbook format by US mail or in PDF format by email. Use the contact data above to get yours. To view a generous excerpt of this short chapbook, please click the link below.
Part Two Of Future Amnesia
Published In IPTRC:
The International Poetry Translation And Research Centre of China has published a love poem that still remains dear to my heart, one I wrote in the mid-90s in San Francisco. To read this poem, please click on the link to the site below:
On The Search For God In Detroit On IPTRC
Published In The Internationally Acclaimed "nth Position":
The "nth Position," an award-winning web site, recognized postively by such far flung sources as the BBC, the LA Times, CNN, ABC and too many other major publications to list here, has published Melvin's abstract poem "Conclusions" in their June issue. To read this poem, please click on the link to the site below:
June Issue of "nth Position"
Appearance At The Berkeley Poetry Festival:
Mel C. Thompson will be one of many features at the festival to be held on June 6th, 1PM-4PM in front of the remains of the old Cody's Books, near Telegraph at Haste. The invocation will be given by the world-famous Wes Scoop Nisker, and the even will be hosted by the inimitable Phil T. Nails. Other readers and luminaries will include Steve Arntson, Dale Jensen, Joyce Jenkins and Richard Silberg.
An Oldie But Goodie Still In Print?:
Alan Kaufman masterminded the amazing Wordland Book Series. I was published in Volume 4 along with the legendary Maketa Groves, the very talented Mark Olmsted of The Ginsberg Lineage and the divinely perverse Merle Tofér. This book ranges from the sublime to the absolutely sick. It is not recommended for overly-sensitive souls. Click on the link below to see this book for sale at Amazon Dot Com.
Wordland Dossier # 4
Published In Poets From Hell:
Alan Allen conceived, published and edited and this very professional and well-done anthology. It is perhaps the best historical record of the Babarian School of Poetry ever published. It is circulated at libraries, bookstores and on Amazon, and it has now crossed over into Kindle publication. This 348-page, perfect bound book has an amazing color cover and was co-editied by the inimitable Julia vinograd and the late David Lerner. Although this book came out a couple of years ago, I've finally taken the time to promote it on my web site. On page 241, they published my most noted poem, "The Ambulance." Click on the link below to see this book for sale at Amazon Dot Com.
New American Underground Poetry
Published In The Faithful Fools Anthology:
Ralph Dranow, rA mu Aki and Marsha Campbell have published this wonderful volume with an amazing color cover image by Charles Curtis Blackwell. My poem appears on page 19. Funding for the project came, in part, from the Bill Graham Foundation and the Fleishhacker Foundation. The book party last night on May 4th was really a blessing. To contact Faithful Fools Arts, see info. below:
The Faithful Fools
Will To Print Press
234 Hyde Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
Check The Blog For Additional Mel C. Thompson News:
Please go to the upper left of this home page and click on "Blog" to read more about recent spoken word events, media links and additional publishing activity surrounding the spoken word work of Mel C. Thompson.
Current Chapbook Manuscript Projects:
See Excerpts from Mel C. Thompson Manuscript Chapbooks:
To view sample poems from any of the chapbook excerpts available online, please click on "Links" at the upper left of this web page.
Get The Complete Texts:
If you prefer to view these chapbooks in full print version, e-mail me and let me know which booklets you are interested in. I will send you a complimentary copy of the chapbooks via US Mail. Or, if you would like PDFs, notify me and I will email the PDFs to you. (See contact information at the top of the page.)
Biographical Data:
For a full ten-page biography of the artist, complete with "too much information" about personal-confessional matters, click on the link below. This biography is not only accurate, but will surely be "more than you want to know."
Melvin's Inexcusably Self-Indulgent Autobiography
The offical Melvin Logo