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UNDER THE TREE: 2ND ANNUAL Tree Academy Anthology of Poetry & Prose (2024)
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TREE ACADEMY anthology of poetry & prose (2024), edited by Michael C Ford.
This student volume contains short stories, meta-fiction, flash fiction, narrative novels in progress, pitch-paragraphs for screenplays, memoires, a cultural essay and narrative monologues created for theatre arts! With every page turn, there are graphic intensifiers accompanying the text -- designed by Daniel Yaryan.
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UNDER THE TREE: A Tree Academy Anthology of Poetry & Prose (2023)
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TREE ACADEMY anthology of poetry & prose (2023), edited by Michael C Ford.
This student volume contains short stories, meta-fiction, flash fiction, narrative novels in progress, pitch-paragraphs for screenplays, memoires, a cultural essay and narrative monologues created for theatre arts! With every page turn, there are graphic intensifiers accompanying the text -- designed by Daniel Yaryan.
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NEW RELEASE! BORN IN BERKELEY
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Lynn Rogers' Born In Berkeley is a coming-of-age story from the perspective of a young woman in the 1960s that picked up where the Beat Generation left off. A powerful novel based on a true story in the heart of a counterculture movement.
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- Foreword by James Stauffer
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“Lynn Rogers' Born in Berkeley is a 60s coming-of-age story as related to Colly who is determined from an early age to live life on her own terms. Colly's is a world made vital, personal and real by Rogers' beautifully expressed voice of experience. Against a background of receding Beat creativity and rising 60s idealism, the book is poignant with the pain of rejection, the tentative search for love and acceptance. I was drawn by the lovely and almost hypnotic poetry of words and sensations presented here, and made to wonder what I might have missed in that very important time.”
--Dale Aycock, Author--Starspinner 1 & 2, Stardrifter
“Born in Berkeley takes me back to a time a lot of us have forgotten. When the sexual revolution has just begun. We as women felt we had to be agreeable to be accepted. And this teenage girl was made to feel that if she wasn't agreeable to men's advances, she was not part of the revolutions. A good description of an era that was even more sexist than today, when women were not given a choice. Very apt descriptions of the San Francisco Bay Peninsula, during that tumultuous era."
--Dr. Katherine Derby, Los Gatos, CA
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Tripping with a Viper author Anne Marie Maxwell (aka Anne Murphy, as she was known in the 1950s and 1960s) tells her autobiographical story of her adventures as a longtime lover and romantic, travel partner of Beat icon Neal Cassady “without fiction, facelifting or varnish, just as I’ve sometimes painfully and often gratefully recalled it,” says Maxwell. Her writing traverses many roads of America (and beyond) with this “unexpurgated, true story of Neal Cassady and Anne Murphy.” It journeys further past the facade of pop culture fascination and excitement galvanized by Beat Generation writers, artists and poets. Her first-person account enters a zone of struggle through the consequences and detriments accrued for a non-conformist life lived devoid of limitations. For the first time, Maxwell’s memoir is brought to the publishing world for a new generation of readers to explore. It is one of the most important accounts of the female perspective of the Beat Generation as a counterbalance to the otherwise overrepresented male-driven narrative. Anne Marie Maxwell is no longer just a spoke from Neal Cassady’s wheel of influence and inspiration. This first, fully published edition, gives her back her long-lost voice and is a testament to her intellectual, spiritual and sexual powers.
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IN CASE OF FLOOD STAND ON THIS BOOK...IT'S DRY ENGLSIH
New ILLUMINATED EDITION by American poet Michael C Ford
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NEW RELEASE ANTHOLOGY! POETRY, PROSE, ART +INTERVIEW!
INSURGENT IMAGINATION: ANNUAL #1 SPRING 2024
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- Insurgent Imagination is a literary arts anthology committed to defending the creative impulse. This illuminated "Robert Branaman Edition" contains artwork on every spread as visual intensifiers to the poems, essays and perspectives of over 40 creators. .
- The featured artist is the late Robert Branaman, who was a Beat artist, experimental filmmaker and poet.
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New Release! Illuminated Edition by Michael C Ford
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AVAILABLE NOW! Michael C Ford's new poetry volume IN CASE OF FLOOD STAND ON THIS BOOK IT'S DRY ENGLISH, is an "Illuminated Edition" featuring full-color graphic intensifiers throughout to compliment Ford's incredible poems.
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New Release: Tripping with a Viper
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- Anne Marie Maxwell (aka Anne Murphy in the '50s and '60s) tells her autobiographical story of her adventures as a longtime lover and romantic, travel partner of Beat icon Neal Cassady “without fiction, facelifting or varnish."
- 124 pages with visual intensifiers to the memoir.
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UNDER THE TREE: 2ND ANNUAL ANTHOLOGY (2024)
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TREE ACADEMY anthology of poetry & prose (2024), edited by Michael C Ford.
This student volume contains short stories, meta-fiction, flash fiction, narrative novels in progress, pitch-paragraphs for screenplays, memoires, a cultural essay and narrative monologues created for theatre arts! With every page turn, there are graphic intensifiers accompanying the text -- designed by Daniel Yaryan.
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New Release! Born in Berkeley
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Lynn Rogers' Born In Berkeley is a coming-of-age story from the perspective of a young woman in the 1960s that picked up where the Beat Generation left off. A powerful novel based on a true story in the heart of a counterculture movement. An exclusive to Mystic Boxing Commission with cover art by Fitz.
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New Release: The War Between
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- Exclusive film novelization paperback based on the screenplay by Ron Yungul!
- The story of two Americans representing a great political divide who must learn to trust one another and work toward a common goal: survival.
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New Release: Insurgent Imagination
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- Illuminated "Robert Branaman Edition" features the creative works of the late, Beat artist who was also an experimental filmmaker and Los Angeles poet.
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New Release: The Sparring Artists
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- Anthology features 138 contributors from the popular multi-media series Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts.
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- 164 pages of poetry & prose combined with art and photographic intensifiers throughout.
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California Road Kill by GenXCore
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California Road Kill is the harrowing journey of three societal outliers marred by violence, homelessness and the residue of addiction. Its characters embark on a path both physical and spiritual, of psyche and soul, as they seek redemption from the past, present and future. From urban blight to coastal breezes, it is a story not only of renewal and reckoning, but of California itself..
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Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts Omnibus
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- Deluxe, 608-page, hardcover edition
- Glorious art, poetry, narrative fiction, in-depth reviews, legacies, remembrances and the poetic chronicle of the SPARRING WITH BEATNIK GHOSTS © multi-media poetry series.
- Groundbreaking compendium, contains 267 artistic contributors
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Under the Tree: A Tree Academy Anthology of Poetry & Prose
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- Short stories, meta-fiction, flash fiction, narrative novels in progress, pitch-paragraphs for screenplays, memoires, a cultural essay and narrative monologues created for theatre arts!
- Artwork throughout the edition!
- Edited by Michael C Ford
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Sorcerers: Through Dimensions Infinite by Yaryan & Fitz
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- Exciting, illuminated, full-color edition by Yaryan & Fitz!
- 232 pages! The first complete volume of cosmic pulp poetry!
- Poetry by Yaryan/Artwork by Fitz!
- Introduction by Michael C Ford
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Weed: Adventures of a Dope Smuggler by Jerry Kamstra
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The modern classic tale of Mexico and marijuana smuggling in the mid-1960s by novelist Jerry Kamstra!
- Illustrated 45th Anniversary Edition with artwork by Fitz!
- Introduction by Gerald Nicosia
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Coming Soon! Pharmacy Psalms and Half-Life Hymns -- For Nothing
Nelson Gary's astounding thousand-plus page Pharmacy Psalms megabook combines art of poetry with psychology and theology to open new pathway in therapeutic treatment of mental illness.
“Instead of seeing the literary movie, Nelson Gary invites you inside the theater of your own skull.”
—Harvey Kubernik, author of the liner notes to Allen Ginsberg’s Kaddish CD and Project Coordinator for The Jack Kerouac Collection Recordings.
Coming Soon! The Frisco Kid by Jerry Kamstra
San Francisco's as far-out as you can go in America without falling off. THE FRISCO KID is Jerry Kamstra's far-out novel of Edge City and the reckless, creative, insane bunch of artists, writers and hangers-on who spilled out their energies in tender bawdy celebration of a golden era in the life of sensation. The Frisco Kid lives and loves and deals with all the Beats, boppers, café loungers, winos, oddballs and dreamers who made North Beach in San Francisco a famous American place and time.
Coming Soon! The Sparring Artists (2024) Annual #2
Coming soon in August 2024! The Sparring Artists is the Literary Anthology of Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts. This edition is Annual #2 and has two special guest editors: S.A. Griffin and Richard Modiano. Last year's edition made L.A. Taco's list of The Best 37 Books About Los Angeles Culture (and Beyond), which declared: "this collection screams punk rock, spoken word, jazz, hip hop, surreal, avant-garde, it’s all in here."
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Features
SPARRING WITH BEATNIK GHOSTS
Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts (SWBG) is a multi-media poetry supershow that began in the basement of Li Po Lounge in San Francisco's Chinatown on August 23, 2008. The series has traversed California from Mill Valley to Venice -- hosting mystic boxing matches with all the bygone ghosts of literary history. Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts is the creation of poet, publisher and event organizer Daniel Yaryan. SWBG also spawned many volumes of literary/art anthologies collected by the Bancroft Library, UCLA, The Huntington Library and other special collections. Watch the 15th Anniversary show from 9/23/23 at Beyond Baroque in Venice, CA!
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WEED: ADVENTURES OF A DOPE SMUGGLER -- by Jerry Kamstra
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Jerry Kamstra's new classic is a tale of marijuana and marijuana smuggling but it is also about Mexico itself. What started out as a simple photographic expedition turned into a major smuggling operation involving a ton of marijuana and the hair-raising means used to bring the weed into the States. This absorbing story reads like an adventure novel -- but it's all true. Peer Amid Press and Mystic Boxing Commission bring you this special 45th Anniversary Edition with over six dozen photographs and never before seen illustrations by artist Fitz (AKA Mat Fitzsimmons).
Check out the rave review from Empty Mirror onlline magazine at the bottom of this page!
EVENT PRODUCTION AND BOOK PUBLISHERS
The Mystic Boxing Commission is dedicated to artists and their fight to be seen and heard! We promote artists, produce literary events and create masterworks from our in-house design department "Peer Amid Press." We're always in your corner. We publish artistic books of poetry, prose and anthologies. Contact Daniel Yaryan for more information.
KAMSTRA SPARRING ARCHIVE
The Kamstra Sparring Archive (AKA Sparchive) is part interactive museum, part art gallery and entirely a sanctuary for poetry, performance and visual art. The aim is artistic preservation, documentation and promotion of creative endeavors. The archive honors Jerry Kamstra, author of The Frisco Kid and Weed: Adventures of a Dope Smuggler (RIP: 1/2/35-11/26/19), The Archive is host to exclusive Sparring Artist Salons in the NoHo Arts District. Visit https://www.facebook.com/KamstraSparchive for updates or contact Daniel Yaryan for more details.
BOOK DESIGNERS
Peer Amid Press is the design department of the Mystic Boxing Commission with over three decades experience in producing the most beautiful editions possible.
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The Mystic Boxing Commission Festival of Sound & Vision >>>>>> Watch the YouTube video!
"The Mystic Boxing Commission Festival of Sound & Vision" happened LIVE at the Valley Relics Museum on Friday the 13th of November, 2020. It was an in-person and streaming event -- celebrating the release of the new book "Sorcerers: Through Dimensions Infinite" by Yaryan and Fitz. It was the only festival of its kind in the greater Los Angeles area in 2020 showcasing many of the best poetic talents of Southern California, in addition to music and a multimedia art show. The Valley Relics Museum is an open-air museum inside an enormous space inside two airplane hangars -- located at Hangars C3 & 4, 7900 Balboa Blvd., Van Nuys, CA (entrance on Stagg St.) in the west San Fernando Valley.
Reviews, Interviews & Articles
EMPTY MIRROR online magazine reviews the 45th Anniversary Edition of "WEED"
WEEDWEEK podcast interview discussion on "WEED: Adventures of a Dope Smuggler"
WEEDWEEK podcast interview discussion on "WEED: Adventures of a Dope Smuggler"
EMPTY MIRROR online literary magazine's Gregory Stephenson reviews the 45th Anniversary Edition of "WEED: ADVENTURES OF A DOPE SMUGGLER" by JERRY KAMSTRA. Click the button below to read the article...
WEEDWEEK podcast interview discussion on "WEED: Adventures of a Dope Smuggler"
WEEDWEEK podcast interview discussion on "WEED: Adventures of a Dope Smuggler"
WEEDWEEK podcast interview discussion on "WEED: Adventures of a Dope Smuggler"
WEEDWEEK hosts Donnell Alexander and Alex Halperin interview publisher Daniel Yaryan on "WEED: ADVENTURES OF A DOPE SMUGGLER" by JERRY KAMSTRA. Click button below to hear the podcast show and interview...
SANTA CRUZ SENTINEL article about JERRY KAMSTRA receiving lifetime achievement as "literary outlaw"
SANTA CRUZ SENTINEL article about JERRY KAMSTRA receiving lifetime achievement as "literary outlaw"
SANTA CRUZ SENTINEL article about JERRY KAMSTRA receiving lifetime achievement as "literary outlaw"
SANTA CRUZ SENTINEL writer Wallace Baine wrote a feature story about novelist JERRY KAMSTRA receiving lifetime achievement award for 'literary outlaw' life. (Photo by Dan Coyro/Sentinel) Click button below to read the Sentinel article...
SantaCruz.com article about LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI DAY hosted/produced by YARYAN
SANTA CRUZ SENTINEL article about JERRY KAMSTRA receiving lifetime achievement as "literary outlaw"
SANTA CRUZ SENTINEL article about JERRY KAMSTRA receiving lifetime achievement as "literary outlaw"
SANTA CRUZ WEEKLY writer Stephen Kessler wrote a feature story about LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI DAY in Santa Cruz hosted and produced by YARYAN. (Photo by Christopher Felver) Click button below to read the Santa Cruz Weekly article...