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TRIPLE SPAR HIGHLIGHTS
A SPOKEN WORD TRIPLE KNOCK OUT!
30 POETS, 3 CONSECUTIVE NIGHTS,
IN 3 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CITIES...

            "Triple Spar" Spider logo & flyer designed by Santa Cruz artist Melissa West.
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FROM LOS ANGELES...
ELLYN MAYBE & HER BAND
played at all three Rounds of Triple Spar:
SPARRING WITH BEATNIK GHOSTS,
Round 9 (shown above) and Rounds 10 & 11!
Her bandmates are Robbie Fitzsimmons
(keyboard) & Harlan Steinberger (percussion).
Video by John Rhodes.

ROUND 11: SANTA CRUZ
Saturday, 10/16/10
SPARRING WITH BEATNIK GHOSTS
REVISITED FELIX KULPA GALLERY
107 Elm Street - Downtown Santa Cruz

Guest Host MARK KOCKINOS performed at Round 11: Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts @ Felix Kulpa Gallery on Saturday, 10/16/10 during Triple Spar. He also featured at Round 5 in Santa Cruz on 2/24/10 and hosted Round 6 @ Viracocha in San Francisco 4/24/10. Photo by ELLA SENERES (her website: www.respectallbeings.com).

Photo of features from Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts, Round 11 @ Felix Kulpa Gallery in downtown Santa Cruz, 10/16/10. Pictured (L to R): Ellyn Maybe, Ron "The Lamp" Lampi, Jeanne Spicuzza, our Guest Host Marc Kockinos, Dennis Holt, Mel C. Thompson, (L to R) back row: Brenda Petrakos (behind Ellyn), Harlan Steinberger, Robbie Fitzsimmons, Santa Cruz County Poet Laureate Gary Young, William Taylor, Jr. and Daniel Yaryan.



      JEANNE SPICUZZA performed at Round 11: Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts @ Felix Kulpa Gallery in Santa Cruz on Saturday, 10/16/10. She also featured at the first Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts @ Li Po Lounge in San Francisco on 8/23/08. Photo by ELLA SENERES (her website: www.respectallbeings.com).

Santa Cruz County Poet Laureate GARY YOUNG performed at Round 11: Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts @ Felix Kulpa Gallery in Santa Cruz on Saturday, 10/16/10. Regarding the Round 11 show, Young said, "This isn't just Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts, it's like a mixed martial arts slap-down of the Ghosts."
Photo by ELLA SENERES (her website: www.respectallbeings.com).

Los Angeles poet BRENDA PETRAKOS performed at Round 11: Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts @ Felix Kulpa Gallery on Saturday, 10/16/10 during Triple Spar. Photo by ELLA SENERES (her website: www.respectallbeings.com).

BRENDA PETRAKOS @ Felix Kulpa Gallery in Santa Cruz. Photo by ELLA SENERES (her website: www.respectallbeings.com).

"The way Brenda Petrakos fuses in-depth tales with incredible songbursts is illustrious as she effectively chooses to sculpt poetic art from her real life experiences. She continues to delight audiences while the strength of her words haunts the Beatnik Ghosts. Brenda's latest performance was a sensational crowd-pleaser and an intimidator to the heavy-hitting Ghosts we spar with!" -- Yaryan


      Santa Cruz poet DEBBIE KIRK performed at Round 11: Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts @ Felix Kulpa Gallery on Saturday, 10/16/10 during Triple Spar. Photo by ELLA SENERES (her website: www.respectallbeings.com).

WILLIAM TAYLOR, JR. performed at Round 11: Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts @ Felix Kulpa Gallery on Saturday, 10/16/10. Photo by Yaryan.

Los Angeles poet ELLYN MAYBE performed at Round 11: Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts @ Felix Kulpa Gallery in Santa Cruz on Saturday, 10/16/10 for the Triple Spar finale (Ellyn and her band played all three Triple Spar shows, including Rounds 9 and 10).
She was joined by bandmates Harlan Steinberger, Director of Hen House Studios (www.henhousestudios.com) ; and Robbie Fitzsimmons -- lead vocalist/songwriter for the band Rabbits Running!
Photo by Ella Seneres (www.respectallbeings.com).

MEL C. THOMPSON performed at Round 11: Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts @ Felix Kulpa Gallery in Santa Cruz on Saturday, 10/16/10. Photo by Yaryan.

"Only Mel C. Thompson could unleash the provocative guilty pleasure that Santa Cruz has longed for secretly for so long, clearing away a puffy cloud of political correctness with a humor that defies a climate like a reckless Rebel Without A Cause defies the rules of the road, the fuzz and codes of conduct. Thompson's performance cleverly and bravely delved into new realms that no other poet has effectively tapped before. A revolution in poetry as a shared art of expression and story-telling for the ages." --Yaryan



     Santa Cruz poet DENNIS HOLT performed at Round 11: Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts @ Felix Kulpa Gallery on Saturday, 10/16/10 during Triple Spar. Photo by ELLA SENERES (her website: www.respectallbeings.com).

Santa Cruz poet RON LAMPI performed at Round 11: Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts @ Felix Kulpa Gallery in Santa Cruz on Saturday, 10/16/10. Photo by ELLA SENERES (her website: www.respectallbeings.com).

"Ron Lampi brought a word-present in the form of a jet stream festooned upon the night air and flowing into Felix Kulpa Gallery as a wreath of fresh trandscendence. All the poet features brought their muses with them to Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts that night and Ron 'The Lamp' Lampi danced a cosmic tango with his muse marvelously, speaking highly of the majesty of the Monterey Bay and the influence of Santa Cruz." --Yaryan

ROUND 10: BERKELEY
Friday, 10/15/10
SPARRING WITH BEATNIK GHOSTS
@ ART HOUSE GALLERY
    & CULTURAL CENTER
2905 Shattuck - at Ashby

MARK STATES - Oakland Poet, performed in Berkeley at Round 10: Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts during Triple Spar @ Art House Gallery on 10/15/10. States was Guest Host for the 1st Berkeley Round.
Video by John Rhodes.

Photo of features from Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts, Round 10 @ Art House Gallery & Cultural Center in Berkeley, 10/15/10 - taken at the "Performers Only" backstage clubhouse at Art House. Pictured (L to R): Bucky Sinister, A.M. Stanley, D'dra White, Ellyn Maybe, Q.R. Hand, Jr., Mike The Poet (aka: Mike Sonksen), Jezebel Delilah X, J.R. Brady, our Guest Host - Mark States, (centered Front to Back) Tim Donnelly and Daniel Yaryan.

BUCKY SINISTER performed at Round 10: Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts @ Art House Gallery, Berkeley, on 10/15/10. Photo by Yaryan.

JEZEBEL DELILAH X performed at Round 10: Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts @ Art House Gallery, Berkeley on 10/15/10. Photo by Yaryan.

TIM DONNELLY performed at Round 10: Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts @ Art House Gallery, Berkeley, on 10/15/10. Photo by Yaryan.

D'DRA WHITE performed at Round 10: Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts @ Art House Gallery, Berkeley on 10/15/10. Photo by Yaryan.

J.R. BRADY performed at Round 10: Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts @ Art House Gallery, Berkeley on 10/15/10. Photo by Yaryan.

Los Angeles poet MIKE SONKSEN (AKA Mike The Poet) with YARYAN and Q.R. HAND, JR. -- who all performed at Round 10: Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts @ Art House Gallery, Berkeley on 10/15/10.

ROUND 9: SAN FRANCISCO
Thursday, 10/14/10
SPARRING WITH BEATNIK GHOSTS
@ THE BEAT MUSEUM
540 Broadway - North Beach

Guest Host GINGER MURRAY performed at Round 9: Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts @ The Beat Museum on Thursday, 10/14/10.

Photo of features from Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts, Round 9 @ The Beat Museum in San Francisco, 10/14/10 - taken at museum entrance. Pictured (L to R) back row: Harlan Steinberger, Keith Savage, Julie Rogers, David Meltzer, our Guest Host Ginger Murray, Jerry Ferraz, Whitman McGowan, Margery Snyder, Steve Arntson. Pictured front row (L to R): Chris Vannoy, Richard Loranger, Martin Hickel, Ellyn Maybe, Robbie Fitzsimmons.

Beat icon DAVID MELTZER performed at Round 9: Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts @ The Beat Museum on Thursday, 10/14/10.

WHITMAN MCGOWAN performed at Round 9: Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts @ The Beat Museum on Thursday, 10/14/10.
Video by John Rhodes.

RICHARD LORANGER performed at Round 9: Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts @ The Beat Museum on Thursday, 10/14/10. He also featured at the first Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts@ Li Po Lounge in San Francisco on 8/23/08. Photo by Yaryan.

STEVE ARNTSON performed at Round 9: Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts @ The Beat Museum on Thursday, 10/14/10. He also featured at the first Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts @ Li Po Lounge in San Francisco on 8/23/08. He has also featured AT three other Rounds (2, 3 and 5). Photo by Yaryan.

MARTIN HICKEL, Marin Poet, performed in San Francisco
at Round 9: Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts during Triple Spar @ The Beat Museum on 10/14/10.
Video by John Rhodes.