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"Can a poet be an outlaw?" just picked up copies of 1st run limited edition new book/cd/dvd, THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, (my 20th book)/(my 30th cd)/(my 1st dvd). beyond beautiful, unlike anything i've ever done. so deeply honored. being brought out by Gill Scott Holland & The Green Building & Holland Brown Books. price $25. you can order them now from me (i'll have them at shows) or email me @ tmopinsight@yahoo.com or call 502 475 7772. or order them from Holland Brown Books www.hollandbrownbooks.com. press releases & 3 promo videos will be sent out round world within week. plus review & feature article copies of book/cd/dvd are available (only 50) for review & feature articles. contact editor Stephanie Brothers, www.hollandbrownbooks.com, to receive copy. plus, if you're interested in Ron, lost highway outlaw poet aka The Storm & the boneman, appearing/performing/reading/giving talk at your college/university/school/museum/festival/club etc, anywhere round the world, contact Shawn

Pierson, Club 502, Ron's booking agent & manager, at 502 435 3035 or 502 230 1772, or email

shawnstudio502@gmail.com. thanks. hope to visit practice some lightninged hangoutology with all of you soon.

(from back cover of new book): "I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom & pure mathematics." Hunter S. Thompson

keep Louisville (& the world) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

Ron, lost highway outlaw poet

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my brilliant dear young artist poet friend Russel!!! thank you!!! your response brought me to tears. few know the struggles the determination the ever growing persevering will power the death threats the bullshit backstabbing by status quo power greed monger elitist. we need/must do some shows some touring together!!! thank you my friend for you beautiful poignant response to this bullshit but obviously important debate/discussion well i reckon ultimately this is bout freedom of expression bout freedom. not only do we have to continually fight for the right to party but apparently we forever have to fight for the right to be ourselves, whatever that means to each of us. thank you.

have fun hoss

your friend forever

Ron, wandering lost highway sin eater hillbilly shaman gypsy rattlesnake lightning drinker yogi outlaw poet

kentucky, New Jerusalem, where diamonds are created

Pierson, Club 502, Ron's booking agent & manager, at 502 435 3035 or 502 230 1772, or email

shawnstudio502@gmail.com. thanks. hope to visit practice some lightninged hangoutology with all of you soon.

(from back cover of new book): "I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom & pure mathematics." Hunter S. Thompson

keep Louisville (& the world) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

Ron, lost highway outlaw poet

we are The Storm Generation

plus facebook & facebook fan club

cell 502 475 7772

--- On Tue, 6/29/10, Russel Hulsey wrote:

Date: Tuesday, June 29, 2010, 2:30 PM

“Well, while I’m here I’ll do the work — and what’s the work?

To ease the pain of living. Everything else is drunken dumbshow.”

Allen Ginsberg

Blurry Cars Torn From Morning

for Ron Whitehead

Sickness creases air in

so many unpleasant

folds. Broke

smokestack. Blurry

cars torn from morning.

Impossibly dark maps

of the gone world.

When will we see

crashes of light?

Reach beyond arm's

length.

When will we hear the

poets chime?!

Embrace ecstatic. Rise

above burned sky

seizure of drunken

dumbshow.

Shut up your facade

America. Rave your

Muslim smile. Chant

your Agnostic

Humanistic flags.

Untie your Armies'

boots. Braille your

Buddhist waves. Ignite

your inner-workings.

Cosmic Christ your

sewers' stench.

Peace-pipe forgotten

reservations with holy

buffalo-visions of Earth.

Paint masterpieces of

Judaic Mysticism;

Hindu shrines of brave

compassionate

voyage. Into America.

Laugh your heart

freely. Air looms of

peace.

Evacuate tollbooths.

Excavate sacred rights.

Re-live your

Forefathers creed!

Liquidate disturbances.

Make highways High &

freeways Free. Invoke

new dynamic shrouds.

Erect tomorrows'

libraries to your

unborn.

Deny red glare rockets

to rise. Kiss your

comely vacancy - The

space where for too

long (the) sword has

pierced (the) stone.

Russel Hulsey

AKA Jack Russel, Lost HWY

The Storm Generation

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!” - Jack Kerouac

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Ron Whitehead <tmopinsight@yahoo.com> wrote:

Can a poet be an outlaw?

Ron Whitehead, wandering lost highway gypsy yogi non-violent spiritual warrior (but don't ever mistake my kindness for weakness) outlaw poet (AHA), 6/29/10

kentucky, New Jerusalem, where diamonds are created.

(from back cover of new book): "I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom & pure mathematics." Hunter S. Thompson

keep Louisville (& the world) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

Ron, lost highway outlaw poet

we are The Storm Generation

plus facebook & facebook fan club

cell 502 475 7772

Pierson, Club 502, Ron's booking agent & manager, at 502 435 3035 or 502 230 1772, or email

shawnstudio502@gmail.com. thanks. hope to visit practice some lightninged hangoutology with all of you soon.

(from back cover of new book): "I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom & pure mathematics." Hunter S. Thompson

keep Louisville (& the world) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

Ron, lost highway outlaw poet

we are The Storm Generation

plus facebook & facebook fan club

cell 502 475 7772

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Can a poet be an outlaw?

responses, of thousands, from round the world, to Ron Whitehead &

Can a poet be an outlaw?

response from Denis Mahoney, Boston/Black Pig Liberation Front

Note: Ron Whitehead; Poet as Outlaw

This question can a poet be an outlaw is perhaps the stupidest discussion a bunch of poets and poets aficionados can have. And something that might prove most useful. I think now how much I learned from the back and forth aesthetics of Robert Duncan and the L-A-N-G-A-U-G-E poets. Both sides added multiplicities to the dimension of poetry.

Who the fuck cares? Poets do, readers do. We define, we make metaphors, we deconstruct, a strong sense of imponderables, indisputable, unsharable. Bend and twist, dance on the certainty of sensory. I am not talking about representation, the singularity of origin, an assimilated sense of meaning which is different for everyone, or a central ‘idea’ of anything.

If Ron Whitehead is not an outlaw poet no one is. Only a dick would start an argument on semantics or denounce his concept as he chooses to represent them. This is his tradition. He is a contrarian in the best sense of the word.

I could care less what a dictionary defines as outlaw, I really could could care less about the definition of any word other than how poet uses it, feels it, burns it tattoos it into his/her skin. That is what we deal with. His words.

What a petty discussion. Ron Whitehead says he is outlaw, and I know the man, and I’m willing to give him his word. He’s an outlaw with words. His words can kill or make thousands sing along. Maybe sometimes he misses, but so did his fellow prophet Crazy Horse, the bullets missed, but turncoats stabbed him in the back. Billy the Kid, punk murderer, missed, fucked himself. Burroughs shot his wife in the head and got away with it, a William Tell murderer on the run. Joan dead in Mexico. Nothing cool about that, the fuck. So who you looking for to be your outlaw poet -- Corso? a junky dick; Jim Morrison? great dinner guest, piss on your chairs and sheets.

Ron Whitehead makes these punks look like kids. He has lived it, he has lived past their youth, he is wise, he knows when to pull his gun and it’s not arbitrary.

Ron Whitehead speaks and lives the truth. His trigger is on hold, but shoots words for truth for all of us..

Might not be yours but tells it like motherfucker (but he loves his Mom and the term is guttural). He’s not this generations’ Jack Kerouac. So what if sometime times he’s drunk, wailing like a madman, he is that kind of writer.

For our generation, Ron still writes, one of his friends, Hunter Thompson blew his head off like Cobain. Ron’s the Kentucky prophet Like John Brown, he’ll fuck them in their still wet eyes and fill their skulls with urine. That’s his outlaw poetry. Collect his piss as souvenirs, and study in it in whatever shitty university will buy it.

Ron’s right here, standing, reading, spouting his revolutionary shit, outlaw shit. Let him go! Petty fucking professor says he ain’t an outlaw poet... Says he ain’t an outlaw. Define it to your class professor pig. Ron will still stand and be ready to write and ready to roll. Fuck the word outlaw. Fuck academia. Ron is beyond both. He’s our Yeats, our Pound, our Ginsberg, our Baraka. He brings his friends with him. He is a general, a meek Jesus-Muhammad- Buddha general. Love General. He is America's poet.

Outlaw? He’ll kill you with love.

He’d rather hug your ass than put a bullet in it.

Denis Mahoney, Boston, Black Pig Liberation Front (last cd included NYC DJ Spooky & NYC's other best DJs & Lee Ranaldo & Thurston Moore & Mike Watt & others. Ron & Denis/Black Pig have worked/performed together for years & are looking forward to upcoming global projects/tours/performances)

“Well, while I’m here I’ll do the work — and what’s the work?

To ease the pain of living. Everything else is drunken dumbshow.”

Allen Ginsberg

Blurry Cars Torn From Morning

for Ron Whitehead

Sickness creases air in

so many unpleasant

folds. Broke

smokestack. Blurry

cars torn from morning.

Impossibly dark maps

of the gone world.

When will we see

crashes of light?

Reach beyond arm's

length.

When will we hear the

poets chime?!

Embrace ecstatic. Rise

above burned sky

seizure of drunken

dumbshow.

Shut up your facade

America. Rave your

Muslim smile. Chant

your Agnostic

Humanistic flags.

Untie your Armies'

boots. Braille your

Buddhist waves. Ignite

your inner-workings.

Cosmic Christ your

sewers' stench.

Peace-pipe forgotten

reservations with holy

buffalo-visions of Earth.

Paint masterpieces of

Judaic Mysticism;

Hindu shrines of brave

compassionate

voyage. Into America.

Laugh your heart

freely. Air looms of

peace.

Evacuate tollbooths.

Excavate sacred rights.

Re-live your

Forefathers creed!

Liquidate disturbances.

Make highways High &

freeways Free. Invoke

new dynamic shrouds.

Erect tomorrows'

libraries to your

unborn.

Deny red glare rockets

to rise. Kiss your

comely vacancy - The

space where for too

long (the) sword has

pierced (the) stone.

Russel Hulsey

AKA Jack Russel, Lost HWY

The Storm Generation

Dear Professor Smock,

This e-mail is in regards to your "CAN A POET BE AN OUTLAW"? commentary with Ron Whitehead. I think you should read the comment section. I WROTE IT. But for your reading pleasure, I have copied and pasted it here:

The BEST music, poetry, art, literature, for me has been OUTSIDE the halls of prostitution, I mean, academia. In music, composers like Stockhausen, Boulez, and Luigi Nono (but to name a few) did NOT rely on academia for their paychecks. They STUCK THEIR NECKS OUT. Give me poetry of Ron Whitehead ANY DAY OF THE WEEK, but for academia? They can all be good little boys and girls and compose, write, create for their God: TENURE!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

You see, Professor Smock, I am a composer and pianist. I "learned" music from inside the walls of academia. I learned from all of the self-righteous, tenure-hungry Ph.D.'s in music. What I find funny is, *I* am the one that has CD's out on a major label. (http://www.naxoslicensingcom/performer/110173/) {this website is blank now, as NAXOS finally received my biography, photos, and music samples from the studio}. My flute concerto is available already: http://numusicdirect.com/MW15.html [I share this CD release with fellow living composers].

And yet, I hold NO POSITION IN ACADEMIA. I would not WANT TO. I quite enjoy composing what I WANT to compose, what I damn well feel like composing, and I do NOT HAVE TO BOW DOWN to some dean or department chairman and be a good little boy and compose like they tell me.

I will be composer-in-residence at Western Michigan University, where I am to not only have my works performed there, but to speak to the students as to WHY I DID NOT CHOSE THE FUNERAL HOME, or, as I like to call it, THE HOUSE OF PROSTITUTION OF ACADEMIA (one must sell your body and soul to get TENURE). The faculty at W.Mich. understand my feelings about academia, which makes this all the more interesting. I am speaking at the very type of institution that I loathe. Perhaps W. Mich. has some enlightened faculty?

I will have a performance of a new work, "FOUR POEMS OF RON WHITEHEAD" which I set to chamber ensemble, mezzo-soprano, and a WONDERFUL child-actress who lives in Louisville, Kentucky. All this, and I don't have a job in academia. No, I do NOT come from money. I have what you might call a "day job". I write and maintain software. It pays the bills, gives me enough for my diabetes medications via health insurance, and a nice retirement. I get home VERY early, am NOT worn out from dealing with CLOSED MINDED PH.D.'s, and compose for six hours per night.

I do not have to beg for funding for a project ( my composition for Western Michigan calls for electronics: I paid cash, and did not have to GROVEL or spread my legs for any funding! ) and basically give the middle finger to those who preach what I am composing is wrong (yet, I get commissions for a high fee, and I have a recording contract....hmmmm.....)

Ron Whitehead can call himself whatever he pleases. He is a REAL POET, sticking his entire neck out for art. You, sir, on the other hand, more than likely, wrote "proper and polite poetry" for your beloved God and Creator: TENURE.

Yours,

Peter D. Pecere (Michigan/Virginia/NYC)

Pianist/Composer/Guitarist/and, maybe, OUTLAW MUSICIAN!

Yo Brother Ron this is Grrrrrrrrreat publicity for yr new releases a godsend....i can relate though i didnt pay to much
attention to it at the time shortly after Utangarðsmenn made there debut a few professors n intellectuals made an attack publicly on Bubbi´s lyrics saying they were not correct grammitically and so on and therefor not relevant blablabla ahahahaha!!!!
We were so busy giggin...it was splashed all over the papers we didnt really react except to keep doin what we were doin ( it just seemed bizzare & rediculous to us personally )& it wound up as a big debate heavily publisized at The University of Iceland our rcds. sold like hell literally flew off the shelves and a space was opened up for thought & debate in Icelandic society the whole thing took on a Life of its Own i mean what more could ya ask for?... when the dust settled some who started all this kinda faded under their desks and the public recognized that the musical & lyrical idiom of Rock n Roll was a Free & Wide Open Space beyond all silly rules IT WAS IS AT ITS BEST OUTLAW POETRY...Congratulations Ron the gods are smiling on you & with you...

Infinite Rockin Blessings,

Brother Michael
WhopbopaloolaBingBangBOOM!!!

Michael Dean Odin Pollock, Iceland, founding member of Utangardsmenn/Outsiders (played with The Clash/voted Iceland's Best Rock Band of 20th Century)

www.myspace.com/michaeldeanodinpollock

www.imradio.com/michaeldeanodinpollock

www.grapevine.is

' Anything Can Happen Anytime '

Can Ron Whitehead be an outlaw poet? Does Charlie Daniels play a mean fiddle? Michael Young, Roots n Boots DJ, Radio Louisville

The only way to be a true poet is to be an outlaw my friend!
Larry Jaffe, Florida

more Testimonials, from round the world, regarding Ron Whitehead and his work:

His poetry, prose, and other writings have appeared round the world in a spectrum of journals, magazines, anthologies, newspapers, posters, CDs, cassettes, vinyl, chap-books, zines, books, literary, music, films & arts publications. Below, you will find quotes and testimonials, from folks round the world, regarding Ron and his work (plus closing poem):

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (City Lights, San Fransisco): "Ron Whitehead is a real visionary!"

Hunter S. Thompson (Colorado): "I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics."

Yevgeny Yevtushenko (Russia): "Ron Whitehead is a prophet. He is one of the world's greatest poet prophets. What an inspiring honor to hear him read here at Granada Nicaragua's International Poetry Festival!"

Cameron Crowe & Nancy Wilson (California): "We love Ron and Sarah Whitehead's WESTERN KENTUCKY masterpiece...and Sarah Elizabeth's stunning music...Ron Whitehead is a genius...Ron and Sarah are quite the inspiring couple..."

David Amram (New York): "Ron Whitehead is already acknowledged by many of his Elders to be a Major Literary Figure and the epitome of the work ethic! Ron and I have collaborated, recorded and performed at major festivals and universities all over the USA and Europe. Ron Whitehead is an extraordinary motivator who inspires young people to pursue the highest standards, to work tirelessly and to celebrate the intellect by constant study of Classic Literature while remaining Creative. At 73, I continue to learn from him."

Blanca Castellon (Nicaragua): "Ron Whitehead was the hero of our 2009 Granada Nicaragua International Poetry Festival."

Casey Cyr (Connecticut): "Ron Whitehead transends even the devestatingly hard lessons of our times and speaks to the only true lessons, the eternal ones. He cuts right through the chaos that comprises our chattering thoughts. Ron Whitehead asks: Can art matter? Is it merely a gold exchange for the rich? Art IS the Holy Grail. And at the deepest primal level, everybody knows it. Only a few, like Ron Whitehead, can perceive it as clearly and communicate it while in his incarnate human being."

Frank Messina (New York): "Ron Whitehead is one of my closest allies. He is a man of wisdom and tolerance. Ron and I debate over political issues, and sometimes he's even right. But, in the end, we're still friends. There is only one man I want to fight along my side in the trenches of life and his name is Ron Whitehead. He is one of the last warriors left in America."

Carolyn Cassady (England): "I had heard people talk about Ron Whitehead for years so when I heard him read at The Ocean on the last night of the London International Poetry and Song Festival I understood why. His poems, and his reading of them, are pure genius."

Annalisa Papaleo (Italy): "Ron Whitehead is an alchemist of language, a magician of poetry, a King of Words...I am honored to translate his work into Italian."

John Rocco (New York): "In BEAVER DAM ROCKING CHAIR MARATHON: fragments of a lost text, Ron Whitehead is 'the great rememberer' and 'the great experiencer'...a scintillating portrait...a Bildungsroman...in which each memory becomes charged with his history and the embrace of his subject...capturing the memory of what Ginsberg calls 'Mortal' America...and Whitehead's new CD TAPPING MY OWN PHONE is a mercurial collection which features some of the 'fragments' that appear in the novel."

John Tytell (New York): "With The Declaration of Independence This Time: Selected Poems 1996-2000, Ron Whitehead has a brave powerful book and the voice to carry it."

Zen Master Dae Gak (Korea): "Ron Whitehead is Angry tender hearted Poet lover Who, Ripped open by life's Sharp, diamond caesarean Edge, Emerges, awake, alive, Shaking blood and tissue. Howling at the, with a shriek, Morning sun AAAAAGH!!!!!!!"

Theo Dorgan (Ireland): "Ron Whitehead is a one man Atlantic bridge."

Eimear O'Connor (Ireland): "Ron Whitehead's words travelled at high speed Along the Liffey and out into the sea...mesmerised By the motion Of emotion...Something magic Happened over the Winding Stair Above the streets, Closer to the stars."

Vincent McWilliams (Ireland): "Ron Whitehead's poetry is like a fast train coming."

David Amram (New York): "At the dawn of the 21st Century our young people have few role models of distinction and even fewer people close to their own age to look up to. Ron Whitehead gives hope to our artistic and intellectual future and gives our young people someone to look up to and emulate. Having worked with Ron many times, round the world, I can only share my amazement at his genius-level ability to organize and create memorable events that make all involved feel inspired to do their best. His own brilliance as a poet is matched by his dynamism, integrity and ability to communicate with anybody and everybody. I am honored to work with him anytime he ever needs me."

Lee Ranaldo (New York): "Ron Whitehead's TAPPING MY OWN PHONE is superb!"

Michael Pollock (Iceland): "Ron Whitehead is The World Ambassador of Poetry."

Karel Srp (Czeck Republic): "The ARTFORUM '98 Exhibition of Ron Whitehead's important work, both his and his work as Director of The Literary Renaissance, was a big hit and a huge success. It is very important for us to see, through poetry and art, the situation in USA and round the world. Through Ron's work we see. Now all his work is in our archives. The people of Prague can continue to see. We are proud. It is important for us. Thank YOU!"

Lana Witt (California): "Ron Whitehead is amazing. I've seldom known poetry to rise to the honesty, stubborness, and energy of what came charging straight at me in his CD TAPPING MY OWN PHONE."

Frank Messina (New York): "Listening to TAPPING MY OWN PHONE is like tapping into an oil well of inspiration; a poetic horn of plenty where the flavor of American political angst and true Kentuckian local color shoots its way straight to the soul. Ron Whitehead is at least Chaucer's equal. The BEAVER DAM ROCKING CHAIR MARATHON is a Masterpiece better than THE CANTERBURY TALES. Three cheers to Ron Whitehead!"

Kevin Ring (England): "Ron Whitehead explodes in a tirade aimed at pulling down all the garbage that society holds dear: rampant commercialism, couldn't care lessism. If the President thinks he's got trouble with Ms Lewinsky then he'd better watch out for Ron as he gives us the REAL AMERICA."

Frederick Smock (Kentucky): "BEAVER DAM ROCKING CHAIR MARATHON achieves an urgency and immediacy that is truly poetic."

Jordan Green (North Carolina): "Ron Whitehead is the incantatory, subversive bard of Kentucky. He is a poet with higher vision and higher frequency tuning. He has a performance style learned from his Pentecostal preacher grandfather but which also takes the best from the oral poetic style of the Beats. Ron is an energy force that encourages articulation and voice, that makes young people proud to be part of something. His voice cuts through the rough reality of his western Kentucky coal mining roots and reaches for a higher cosmic grace. Ron has produced over 400 readings and INSOMNIACATHONs and has read all over Europe and the USA. At the age of 48, with a family to support and complete commitment to his craft, Ron Whitehead will get in a car or on a plane anytime and travel anywhere he's asked to give a reading."

Miguel Moors (Belgium): "Ron Whitehead dissects American Society with a butcher knife."

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (California): "Ron Whitehead, out there in Kentucky, out there where the tall heroes used to grow, is sowing the dragon's teeth of new heroics."

Bob Holman (New York): "And now it was like a cyclone hit that stage - Ron Whitehead is screeding a poem with an 8-piece orchestra toodling out sounds by Jeremy Podgursky, amazing, high energy, a battle for soul!"

Anastasios Kozaitis (New York): "Ron Whitehead is the most engaged poetry activist in the United States of America!"

Al Aronowitz (New York): "An autobiographical gem that marks compassion and defiance as the touchstones of heroic myth in the coming-of-age of a young man in the western Kentucky coal fields. Ron Whitehead is one of the greatest poets of our time."

Paul McDonald (Indonesia): "Ron Whitehead has the gift of perceiving the divine in the ordinary. His work is always at least exciting if not magical. It is simultaneously hard-bitten, stark and urban while containing a gentle, pastoral lyricism all of which is always compelling. His work is a dharma gate that must be entered, a magnificent Zen koan where the question and answer lie hidden in the experience."

Rene Hendrix (The Netherlands): "William S. Burroughs and Ron Whitehead, in a series of dreams, taught me how to save the world."

Casey Cyr (Connecticut): "Ron Whitehead has been working so hard all his life, has climbed the equivalent of a hundred Mount Everests for poetry, music, integration, inclusion, non-specialization, LOVE and the advancement of humankind. No one else who I know has the endurance and capacity and generosity of spirit (except for David Amram who shares these qualities) to achieve what he is achieving. Ron is clearly chosen for the work that he is doing, and it is a ray of clarity and grace that shines from his being. HIS GIANT HEART IS SINGING!"

Jan Pankow (The Netherlands): "Ron Whitehead's poems are a magnetic field of poetry energy: encounters, viewpoints, and facts of life mingling with emotions, dreams, and visions."

Robert Lax (Greece): "Ron Whitehead's "Moxley and Eirene" worked its way into one of my just-before-waking dreams last night. The whole story. And yes, naturally I'm ready to endorse all he says in I Will NOT BOW DOWN, too!"

Douglas Brinkley (Texas): "Ron Whitehead is one of the most exciting poets in America. Poet and literary activist, he is one of the great poets of his generation."

Tenzin Geyche Tethong, Secretary to His Holiness The Dalai Lama (India): "Ron Whitehead, His Holiness The Dalai Lama thanks you and offers his blessing and permission for you to create a poster of his message to you which you have written in the form of a poem. I would like to express my personal appreciation to you. Your poem for of His Holiness's message is extremely powerful and moving. I am confident that it will inspire many."

Robert Hunter (California): "Ron Whitehead's energy and important work never fail to amaze me!"

Diane di Prima (California): "Ron Whitehead, Fellow traveller riding the winds of change between worlds, in the thick of the creative process, Bon voyage! I enjoyed EVE AND THE OPHIDIANS. "White Horses" is really strong!"

Bob Holman (New York): "Spoken word at its purest and most fulfilling. Ron's combination of full drawl, magnolia sweet and Wendell Berry's Mad Farmer's blue hot rage, vitally fashions a new post in the American ear."

Jim Carroll (New York): "Love, Angelic Orders, and Blessings on Ron Whitehead's good work!"

David Amram (New York): "There were over 300 poets and musicians. Ron Whitehead was the highlight of the New York City festival. When he read I was knocked out! I marveled at the talent he possessed! He captures the spirit of the South in his poetry!"

Eithne Strong (Ireland): "Ron Whitehead's dazzling energetic work, his poetry and his prose never cease to impress and astonish!"

Allen Ginsberg (New York): "Ron Whitehead is energetic Bodhisattvic poetic spirit! Happy to see and read so much poetry energy!"

Harper Tobin (Washington, D.C.): "Ron Whitehead's BEAVER DAM ROCKING CHAIR MARATHON is no cheesy nostalgia trip. Anyone familiar with Whitehead's work knows better. He gives achingly real portraits of Beaver Dam's inhabitants, offering up the disturbing as well as the beautiful, the ugly as well as the quaint. His style shifts from page to page always capturing the reader, evoking the spirit of defiance and hope that is the heart of this literary treasure...Why isn't Ron Whitehead already a household name?! His TAPPING MY OWN PHONE is a gem. Ron reads as if any breath could be his last. He captures the world in all its beauty, corruption, and potential. I cannot recommend his work highly enough!"

Joe Slavin (Kentucky): "Ron Whitehead is the most extraordinary teacher-scholar it has been my great good fortune to know over a career spanning thirty seven years. His success in encouraging students, to express themselves and grow as students, is unrivalled."

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (California): "Ce Ron Whitehead est un brave type! Il a ecrit un poem autobiographique que est epatant...sur San Francisco et un certain fer-ling-g hetti...Qui est? Ron Whitehead is Bodhisattva in Kentucky!"

Seamus Heaney (Ireland): "Ron Whitehead, the only begettor of all this, is here for good!"

Colin Cooper (England): "Ron Whitehead lives at 100 miles an hour judging from his book of poetry...like Ferlinghetti...he's a rabble rouser and wildly romantic and we need plenty of those...the book is illustrated by full colour paintings by Ferlinghetti...Fit him alongside Gary Snyder for wit and insight...certain to shake up the old guard."

Bob Edwards (Washington D.C.): "I LOVE Ron Whitehead's "The Coal Miner(I & II)" and "Moxley and Eirene!"

Denis Mahoney (Rhode Island): "These past months I have read Ron Whitehead's BLOOD FILLED VESSELS RACING TO THE HEART: Beyond Chaos is The Ocean of Consciousness several times. What a remarkable work it is! It's subtle (and not too) back and forth gestures and movements and openings and its Placement! I wish he would continue this work! This is the direction that people need to See towards, be, at least, opened to. Thank You Ron Whitehead for The Work!"

Danny O'Bryan (Kentucky): "The Great White Light, Whitehead that is, swept over The College last night with a round of passionate posey mined directly from his ever raucous life. Mentioning notables like Amiri Baraka and The Dalai Lama - illustrious heroes many of the role-model-starved students probably never heard of - the poet quickly had them under his spell. The man, who always wears his life on his sleeve for everyone to gawk at, flexed his tattoo covered arms at the scribes "I might be skinny but look at those muscles!" and spit out tales of Kentucky rocking chair competitions and wild family antics that made "Do You Want To Be A Millionaire" look life watching paint dry. Certainly all present learned an important lesson: It doesn't hurt to celebrate life in all its painful and joyful manifestations!...Ron Whitehead, a virtual P.T. Barnum of Poetry, is on a one-man crusade to change the consciousness of the world through poetry and music...Whitehead and his non-porfit organization The Literary Renaissance launched a series of multimedia INSOMNIACATHONs (Temporary Autonomous Zones): 48-hour marathons of poetry and music and art and film (all the Arts), similar to Ken Kesey and The Merry Pranksters minus the bus, attracting large audiences and worldwide attention...This led Whitehead to take his traveling magic mystery theatre on the road to New York City and New Orleans (where the TIMES-PICAYUNE named his INSOMNIACATHON 1996 "Arts Event of The Year") and The Netherlands and numerous other cities states and countries...Never one to separate art from show biz or politics (or newcomers from old-timers) Whitehead assembled an odd cast of characters for his Hunter S. Thompson "This is Your Life" Tribute which the NEW YORK TIMES called "a beautiful literary last waltz." The event included actor Johnny Depp, musician Warren Zevon, socialite Roxanne Pulitzer, historian Douglas Brinkley, world musician composer David Amram, the Sheriff of Pitkin County (Aspen), former Louisville Mayor Harvey Sloane, Hunter's Mother Virginia, his son Juan, and a host of others including a bluegrass band. Everyone at the SRO event closed out the night standing singing "My Old Kentucky Home."

Casey Cyr (Connecticut): "I got to know Ron Whitehead's I WILL NOT BOW DOWN: Selected Poems 1990-1995 well and from it I feel an understanding for some of what Ron has been doing in the world. The physicality of which is astonishing - but that doesn't even compare with what kind of alchemy is happening on the mental levels. Ron Whitehead is Shaman and Shamas (the candle that lights other candles) contributing to, directing, promoting, integrating, expanding, and possibly healing the consciousness of an artistic body of thought that sure does need help to go to the next level, which I believe has something to do with the heart region. And if I might prophesize, I think that Ron will be seen as one of the great poets of our generation, which I believe spans about 50 years. The kids of tomorrow's wasteland are really going to need him. Just like we need Patchen and Kerouac. Those guys changed and saved my life."

John Tytell (New York): "Ron Whitehead reminds me of Corso...early Yeats in the Celtic Twilight...Ferlinghetti...Ginsberg...spontaneous transcription emerging in a tumultuous rush...infused with Whitehead's belief in the magical transformations implicit in poetry, with the music of the poem serving as chant, incantation, ultimately pagan prayer...the same can be said for the poetry rants (Insomniacathons) Whitehead has been organizing around the country, non-stop marathon readings."

David Amram (New York): "The first time I heard Ron Whitehead read I felt what I imagine those who heard Abraham Lincoln deliver The Gettysburg Address felt."

Thomas Nord (Kentucky): "Ron Whitehead eats, sleeps, and breathes poetry."

Michael Dean Odin Pollock (Iceland): "The London International Poetry & Song Festival's response to Ron Whitehead's I WILL NOT BOW DOWN was Incredible POWERFULL it felt like a bomb hit The Ocean...people were yellin, clappin, sayin YEAH others riveted wide eyed to their seats...i stood at the back of the room up on some stairs to get an eagle eye view of this poem which I consider along with LEAVES OF GRASS by Walt Whitman and HOWL by Allen Ginsberg and THANKSGIVING PRAYER by William S. Burroughs to be one of the GREAT American poems of All Times. I WILL NOT BOW DOWN and ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER capture the voice/heart/spirit of later 20th Century and on better than anything I've heard!"

Nick Obis (Ohio): "Ron Whitehead, I thank you and Quincey Troupe for headlining the University of Dayton's 2nd Annual Literature Conference, 2002. Friday evening was nothing short of astounding - certainly like nothing my students had ever heard! I heard so many wonderful comments from them in the following days and weeks about all the various aspects of your performance, with your group The Viking Hillbilly Apocalypse Revue. I too can still hear the Icelandic rapping, the ambient music, and the powerful words; it was a staggering, moving experience; I don't think I have ever seen anyone, anywhere, break dance at a poetry reading! But what moved me more than the poetry and music was your patience, kindness, and understanding. I was so nervous before the festival, and so relieved by your sympathy and easygoingness. You are truly a remarkable person with a remarkable group. Thanks for teaching me to "never give up!"

Denis Mahoney (Rhode Island): "Ron Whitehead has the goods and is the last and forward maker of the fire breather preacher with the text written new across the starry night. I can picture him reading poems with snakes crawling out of his mouth and nostrils, like those maniacs who work the snakes for Jesus, turning to medusa flames, the fork filled flavor flick fuck tongue is two words split into a thousand pieces of black and white sand and delivered like a Sioux death chant, a new ghost dance to live and rise out of the ashes. Ron's word is poet breath, new creation out of decay, intentions are color worlds, filled with color, every tint is blow breath glass and I keep coming back to his nostrils flared like John Brown in Kansas, hard muscle break tracks, or soft glow of love he is able to bring the rage round to snake crazy snake soul sonnets to orpheus, our brother Rilke Flower-muscle that slowly opens back the anemone to another meadow-dawn, until her womb can feel the polyphonic light of the sonorous heavens pouring down is prophecy and vision blast bleak and we all stand naked against the capitalist relation that has come to encompass existance and Ron as new prophet stands against that as strong as John Brown, Rilke, just a neck down the vision ladder from our kooky Dada Queen Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and is exactly what is needed. I give Ron the world in his breath."

Tom House (Nashville): "That's a wild and fierce look on the cover of Ron Whitehead's new I Will Not Bow Down CD, and that's a wild and fierce picture of him there on the inside, and that's a wild and fierce performance/production he presents. I was not prepared. Finally got back home and settled in here last night put it on and blew my head right from the start. Old favorite, "Tapping My Own Phone," the music is like the subconscious of the mind mouthing those feverish thoughts. "4th Person Singular" a favorite as well. Not sure if I've heard that one before. "Raven Hair And Turquoise" and "Comes Night And Wind" both great. The music never gets in the way of the words and, as in the very best one to me "Gimme Back My Wig," the whole becomes way more than the components, damn almost like rock and roll - and in many ways this feels as much like a "band" CD as it does a "spoken word" one. And I think Ron paces it like one. That's just something always important to me, almost like a set, and Ron is a master at that. He couldn't end it more personally, poetically, beautifully than with "You Grow Wild In My Heart." I Will Not Bow Down is definitely a masterful work and I congratulate Ron and all who perform on it. I'll be giving this guy some hardcore listening these days to come. "

Dan Roberts (KZYX Radio, California): "TAPPING MY OWN PHONE is the most amazing CD of poetry I've heard!"

August Highland (California ): "Ron Whitehead is The Dalai Lama of the literary world."

Frank Messina (New York ): "I've seen thousands blinded by the white light, halos and fractal geometry of Ron Whitehead. I've seen tundra-demons, geothermal genies, naysayers forever turned to stone by that Kentucky 'Bone Man'. And yes, I've seen Ron Whitehead levitate over stages 3, 4 and 5,000 miles from Kentucky, held up high by coal mine spirits, red wine and Buddha at the palms of his feet."

Jean Ritchie (New York): "Kentucky, by Sarah Elizabethth and Ron Whitehead, is a stunning CD. Sarah and Ron both did a beautiful job."

Dr. Joe Slavin (Kentucky): "Kentucky, by Sarah Elizabeth & Ron Whitehead, is a stunning piece of work, beautiful in both sound and heart."

Tommy Gaffney (Oregon): "Spending time with Ron Whitehead a few years back changed my life. The whole damn experience, from the wine-soaked meeting in his living room to the bourbon-infused book signing, he so graciously hosted, is still with me everyday. Not sure how to repay him for all that. And I appreciate the email updates on his mad adventures. I open the ol’ yahoo account every morning hoping for more news. What can I say, he's an inspiring man. And I’ve been spreading the word about his work around Portland, Oregon. In fact, I currently volunteer to host a small writers group (in my cramped little living room), and we discussed Ron's Tapping My Own Phone as our first “assignment.” We also listened to my copies of “I Will Not Bow Down” and “The Viking Hillbilly Apocalypse Revue." The overall theme for the session was “this is how this shit is done.” In a word, Ron Whitehead's influence continues to cross mountain ranges that ain’t used to being shown up. Thanks Ron for being you, my friend."

Casey Cyr (Connecticut): "Ron Whitehead's new CLOSING TIME CD is magical, radical inspiration, stark truth, gentle beauty. It portrays the human experience completely. The flame reflected in four generations, all together reveal the purity of oneness."

David Amram (New York): "Ron Whitehead's 'The Sound of Snowflakes on Christmas Eve' and 'Old Blue Got Run Over by A Coal Truck on Christmas' are right up there with Charles Dickens' A CHRISTMAS CAROL and Dylan Thomas' A CHILD'S CHRISTMAS in WALES. Not one word could/should be changed. They are classics! I have always loved Ron Whitehead's spirit and generosity as well as his work...These stories are like the late paintings of Matisse, and Richard Strauss' last art songs, where they both turned to simplicity and clarity when in their prime. Ron's stories/poems should be read at The White House, if we get a President who knows where the South is located and understands the poetry of the lives of everyday people and the beauty of family life as well as the magic of Snow in the South...Ron's work is right up there with Mark Twain...It transcends politics. His work should be read in classrooms, as children's stories, Southern Studies, poetry classes, church reading groups...His work can reach the whole world...His work is way Beyond Beat!! Ron Whitehead's work is lyrical, touching, and perfectly written AND SO REFRESHING...I'll be glad to write a Forward or Introduction to any of his books anytime... Nobody is doing what Ron Whitehead is doing, especially in his newest works...They are 100% Whitehead."

Dennis Kirtley (Morocco): "I am all about music. I think music. I sleep it. I eat it. It's just in me. And not just my own music - also the music of great composers. I know many symphonies by heart, great jazz compositions, note for note. As I was reading Ron Whitehead's poems last night, music was playing in my head and it wouldn't stop. It was the score of "Rhapsody in Blue" by Gershwin. The brainscreen image was that of a train, streaming forceful and unstoppable through the countryside. This is the sense Ron Whitehead's poetry and person brings to me. I thank him for being him!"

Gui Stuart (Kentucky): "Ron Whitehead is the greatest living writer...and he is still struggling to pay the bills so how can I hope for anything more than to write...writing is an unnatural act...but it is not any more unnatural than working in an office or talking on a cellphone...and in some strange ways it is the most natural act of all...being human feels like an unnatural act in these trying times of fascism...the absurdity of fascism is everywhere but I don't want to live like that and I sure as hell don't want to write like that...I owe Ron Whitehead more than I can ever repay...he has taught me that failure is nothing and that it is okay to fail as long as I write what I feel and know...and I'm gonna continue, just like Ron does, regardless of whether I ever get published...I'm gonna continue to test my own limits and probe my own humanity...I would love to make some money to live on and be able to start a printing press with Ron someday but that is not why I write...I write to try and redeem my own soul for myself...that is why I write...I write out of some alien innate gnostic urge to express the conflict of humanity that is in me and in all of us...that is why I write...they can't beat us...Ron Whitehead proves that every day...they can't take our souls from us...Ron Whitehead reminds us of that in his writing and in his life...they can lie and cheat and steal and even kill us but they'll never take our souls...Ron Whitehead reminds us of that in all he says and does...Ron Whitehead reminds us that no matter what happens Never Give Up."

Thomas Healey (Indiana): "It's always great to hear Ron Whitehead read. It's the poetic equivalent of a lava flow. The burn sears away the dross, leaving pure gold."

Paul K (Detroit/NYC/Kentucky): "Ron Whitehead is America's greatest living poet."

A Prayer for the Ascended Master Poet,

Ron Whitehead

by Casey Cyr (Connecticut)

Today I pray for the ascended master poets

born to be born to be born

the ascended master poets

to teach to heal to unify

living in realization of one's purpose

that each one will graciously accept

the abundance clearly present in the universe

that he may not suffer

as suffering remains a lesson of the uninitiated

and a choice by the enlightened

that he may be at peace at the center of the storm

as the true Bodhisattvaa that he is

and receive many unlimited blessings

but not be bound by limitations and impositions

for he stands clearly in a lighted room

with eyes open

where others may or may not choose to

open their eyes

for the light is there, it is always on

today i pray for the ascended master poet

that he may receive the abundance of the universe in all forms

because an ascended master knows what do to with

money power success

may he have any and all things that he needs

to fulfill his purpose

may he reach any and all persons, destinations

may any obstacles vanish like fog lifted by sun

may any fear surrounding this abundance be washed away from his human form

stand before your mirror

do not hold it tightly, do not let it break skin

honor each cell

breathe in love

breathe out ascended master knowledge

that you've been gathering for eternity

that only you can emit

seize your purpose and share your being fully

breathe in abundance

in any and all forms

for they are yours

stand before your mirror and say "aaaah!"

and thank molecules spinning

that got born

the ascended master poet before you

A Prayer for the Ascended Master Poet,

Ron Whitehead

Today I pray for the ascended master poets

born to be born to be born

the ascended master poets

to teach to heal to unify

living in realization of one's purpose

that each one will graciously accept

the abundance clearly present in the universe

that he may not suffer

as suffering remains a lesson of the uninitiated

and a choice by the enlightened

that he may be at peace at the center of the storm

as the true Bodhisattvaa that he is

and receive many unlimited blessings

but not be bound by limitations and impositions

for he stands clearly in a lighted room

with eyes open

where others may or may not choose to

open their eyes

for the light is there, it is always on

today i pray for the ascended master poet

that he may receive the abundance of the universe in all forms

because an ascended master knows what do to with

money power success

may he have any and all things that he needs

to fulfill his purpose

may he reach any and all persons, destinations

may any obstacles vanish like fog lifted by sun

may any fear surrounding this abundance be washed away from his human form

stand before your mirror

do not hold it tightly, do not let it break skin

honor each cell

breathe in love

breathe out ascended master knowledge

that you've been gathering for eternity

that only you can emit

seize your purpose and share your being fully

breathe in abundance

in any and all forms

for they are yours

stand before your mirror and say "aaaah!"

and thank molecules spinning

that got born

the ascended master poet before you

Casey Cyr

John Rocco (New York City): "Ron Whitehead is The Master of The Flying Guillotine."

listen

the roaring city

is the buddah's golden speech

the waves in the distance

are the buddah's pure luminous body

how many thousands of poems

how many songs

will flow through us tonight

and when the songbird sings at dawn

we won't be able

to repeat even one word

ron whitehead

language was is and always will be an experiment

question everything including me, and especially your self

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Pierson, Studio 502 at 502 435 3035 or 502 230 1772, or email

shawnstudio502@gmail.com. thanks. hope to visit practice some lightninged hangoutology with all of you soon.

(from back cover of new book): "I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom & pure mathematics." Hunter S. Thompson

keep Louisville (& the world) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

Ron, lost highway sin eater hillbilly shaman gypsy rattlesnake blood lightning yogi alchemical outlaw poet

we are The Storm Generation

plus facebook & facebook fan club

cell 502 475 7772

tmopinsight@yahoo.com &

Pierson, Club 502, Contact Information: Studio502 / Shawn Pierson

Ph: 502.230.1772

bookings@louisvillestudio502.com

www.louisvillestudio502.com
. thanks. hope to visit practice some lightninged hangoutology with all of you soon.

(from back cover of new book): "I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom & pure mathematics." Hunter S. Thompson

keep Louisville (& the world) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

Ron, lost highway outlaw poet

we are The Storm Generation

plus facebook & facebook fan club

cell 502 475 7772

my dear Brother Gregory!!! i am so far behind. working on this ancient gifted no memory computer which only does plain text email. just now reading this. thank you. meer dan voorden. more than words. thank you. all so true. ccing a few others on this so important email. interesting that here we both stand. how is that? that we are still standing. with nothing. on nothing. nothing. no income (need $385 just to cover basic expenses so i can stay in louisville month of july/doesn't include food red wine supplies or anything else/if doesn't happen then i reckon tho i don't want to cause i'm so close and i want to make lousiville homebase rest of life while traveling spreading the gospel round world more than ever and so many things going on and i feel that i'm just max 2 months away/unless miracles occur earlier to breaking on thru to the other side but if it doesn't happen i'll be gone baby gone to who knows where). no nothing. know nothing. guided by unseen forces. thank the creative forces of the universe for love and light for guiding, even tho i don't begin to understand the why the how of that guidance. we are still here. tho i'm so ready, more than ever to turn and walk away. from everything. i'm still here. nobody. with nothing. but the awareness that there's more work to do. having no idea how i'm gonna do that work. yet. i'm doing it. one moment at a time. stubborn i am. dammit. i refuse. i will not bow down. i will never give up. least till my termination date arrives. which i have anticipated all my life. and expect it to occur any moment any fleeting moment now. the only thing giving me the courage to hang on at least a little longer to keep on with the creative work i've been called to do and that i've been doing non-stop 24/7 for past 20 years burning the candle at both ends till all the wax is gone and now instead of two there's only one flame burning. i am that burning flame that fire. and somehow mysteriously unexplainably paradoxically i feel strongly that that one flame i am channeling is growing stronger brighter. i have no idea why. but i have strong heart feeling that my children my grandchildren my loved ones family friends guides angels allies mentors teachers students my creative work the poemed lightning i channel, seen and unseen creative lightning forces of the universe, are moving in me (& you & others including Gill Scott Holland & others @ The Green Building & Holland Brown Books & others involved in participating in production distribution sales spreading the word bout regarding my new book/cd/dvd) and through me for all the right reasons at just the right time right on time and somehow i know that altho i am penniless and homeless that everything is okay and i have to work beyond hard every day to not walk away to not disappear into the vanishing point to stay to be patient and strong, despite my ever constant failures due to the challenges, to stay strong and despite any and all odds to stay the course to carry on...till transition time date arrives...and then...i'll still carry on.

sending love always

Brother Ron, wandering penniless homeless sin eater hillbilly rattlesnake blood & lightning drinking gypsy giant hearted love and light yogi outlaw poet

kentucky, New Jerusalem, where diamonds are created (cause of the intense pressure, the alchemically crucibled river of fire we are we must cross, realizing that i am/we are the fire the crucible the alchemical ferrymen)

july 1st & 2nd, 2010

Ron Whitehead

2705 Hikes Lane

Louisville, Kentucky 40218

cell 502 475 7772

email tmopinsight@yahoo.com

website www.tappingmyownphone.com

plus facebook & facebook fan club sites

--- On Wed, 1/13/10, gregory chaney <gregoryschaney@gmail.com> wrote:

From: gregory chaney <gregoryschaney@gmail.com>
Subject: Fwd: for jacob : poet ron whitehead's response to experiencing the 'theatre' at 'parnassus'
To: "Ron Whitehead" <tmopinsight@yahoo.com>
Date: Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 5:58 PM

brother ron,

just wanted to give you a look over my shoulder ...

brother gregg
'0'
'the egg'

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: gregory chaney <gregoryschaney@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:00 AM
Subject: for jacob : poet ron whitehead's response to experiencing the 'theatre' at 'parnassus'
To: info@lawoftime.org

hello jacob, (and please share this with dr. arguelles)

i am sending this letter to you in hopes of establishing a framework through which to interpret the material i will be mailing to you or directing you to on the internet. i, myself, am rather unimportant in this process ... something of a nobody. on the other hand, the artwork which has come through me for the past 9 years is, i believe, very important. you should take it very seriously ... as seriously as does the poet ron whitehead. as you are most likely unfamiliar with ron whitehead, i will provide a little background on him in a few moments. what follows this note is a 'letter to the editor' which ron wrote to leo magazine in response to an initial article they published on 'the revolutionary theatre of the divine imagination', which i also refer to as 'parnassus'. (the artwork i have briefly discussed with you). though brief and, therefore, rather superficial --- the article at least gains purchase to a foothold in the 'legitimate' media. i will be mailing you copies of leo magazine with the original article and the published 'letter to the editor'. i came to know ron through the artwork. he has spent extensive time 'experiencing' it and relates to it with the intuitive, open heart of a poet.

for the best brief biography of ron you should google: 'outlaw poetry ron whitehead i refuse'. the first entry this pulls up should be the 'outlaw poetry and free jazz network' website and the bio of ron.

ron whitehead is a globally known poet and author of over 20 books. he is about 60 years old and recently returned to reside in louisville. in the course of his career he has been nominated for the pulitzer prize (twice) and the nobel prize in literature. he collaborated with the dalai lama on the poem 'never give up' which was adopted by the united nations/unesco as the theme poem of the year 2002, 'the year of the mountains'. ron has deeply immersed himself in the writings of thomas merton and matthew fox (a friend of jose arguelles, i understand). the eminent poets lawrence ferlinghetti (whom ivan arguelles surely knows personally. most likely jose does also.) and the late allen ginsberg and robert lax are among those who have considered ron a close friend and colleague. (robert lax was the great mystic poet who was thomas merton's dearest earthly friend from his days at columbia ... the person merton referred to as 'my spiritual superior') ron is deeply connected in the global art, literature and music cultures. in other words, he may know a thing or two about art.

i, myself, did not recently fall off the turnip truck (although i wouldn't mind jumping on one to ride along to an agrarian life among my amish friends). ten years ago, before surrendering completely to the 'spirit' ---the creative process moving through me --- and adopting a 'bootleg monastic' life, i lived a very different existence. (at some point i will share with you the dream which precipitated this dramatic life shift). i come from a humble working class background. i had absolutely no formal education or training in art. at the time of my 'transformation' i had resided in chicago for 15 years where i practiced as a clinical psychologist. i had an academic appointment as clinical instructor at northwestern university medical school and practiced in the northwestern memorial hospital system. i also practiced at the chicago institute of neurosurgery and neuroresearch, as well as being a co-director of 'the neuro-behavior and rehabilitation network' in chicago. i had a sweet michigan avenue private practice which allowed me to devote a day a week to pro bono work. i was married to a bright, creative woman who was a loving and supportive partner. and then i got 'the call' ...

in the service of the creative process i walked away from the life i had created in chicago and returned to louisville in the year 2000. i have since lived rather like a pauper, relying on manual labor to make a living. the physical beginnings of the 'theatre' date to a new year's gathering december 31, 2000. a group of tibetan monks were being welcomed to louisville. they were sent to louisville by the dalai lama to commemorate the anniversary of the 'transition' of thomas merton in 1968, to honor the deep relationship between merton and the dalai lama and to celebrate the vow these two spiritual masters made --- to become peacemaking bridges between east and west and to reveal the underlying unifying elements of their spiritual traditions. i brought to the gathering a portable 'cosmic altar' music box created earlier in the day. john lennon's 'imagine' and 'mind games' emanated from the piece.

though i had no intentions of anything else coming of it, this 'music box' would become a core of the 'theatre' which has evolved in the 9 years hence. it became integrated into the work as the head/mind of the 'station' i came to recognize as a shapeshifting figure ('the cosmic poet'/'millennial cicada'/'cosmic butterfly' among other manifestations). in this past nine years i have never signed or sold a single piece of art. the collective work of the past 9 years forms a coherent whole --- a sort of archetypal dream theatre. i understood, early on, that the work was 'through me' but not 'by me' and that i could accept no money for it. i understood that, when 'whole', the 'theatre' at 'parnassus' was to be offered as "a perpetual gift in honor of those most wounded and dishonored by the culture we find ourselves in". the work has now been turned over to stewards, selected by virtue of great purity of heart, who represent those souls and interests. one, momfeather erickson, is the spiritual elder of the cherokee in kentucky. the other, virgil boyd jr. is a descendent of african slaves. together, by virtue of their identities or through the social/environmental justice activities they are engaged in, this pair captures the essence of the work. the task now is to find a permanent setting where the work can be shared with the public. any thoughts on this matter would be greatly appreciated. any material resources generated by the 'theatre' at parnassus would go directly towards supporting the work of momfeather, virgil and the organization which would provide the 'theatre' at 'parnassus' a home. if the organizations guided by jose arguelles could allow the work to do 'the greatest good' in the world, i am confident that virgil and momfeather would be happy to share the 'theatre' and collaborate.

as i am led by 'spirit' (in a manner parallel to the process whereby i am led to various objects which 'want' to enter into the art) to various readings and fragments of material, my informational matrix is full of glaring lacunae. in a meandering course, i am only allowed to light upon certain areas of 'study' for brief periods --- just long enough, it seems, to further a 'plan' and on a 'timetable' which seems to have 'a mind of it's own'. i assure you that i will astonish you with my ignorance.

a great irony is that neither i nor ron whitehead knew directly of jose arguelles or his work until a couple of years ago, when, by magical synchronicities (which by that point were commonplace -- yet always a source of inexpressible delight) i was led to the book 'the transformative vision'. reading this and other works by dr. arguelles was like opening a codex by which to interpet the 'theatre' at 'parnassus' which had evolved over the previous 7 years. it is as if a divine 'double blind' experiment has been conducted via what you refer to as the 'noosphere'. the result is that what has been expressed in words and two dimensional illustrations in the work i have read of dr. arguelles --- has been expressed in three (and more) dimensions in the 'theatre' at 'parnassus'. these manifestations have come independent of each other --- yet clearly are from a common source. to further add to the intrigue, what i feel to be ron's most prophetic work is contained in a recording of poetry titled 'closing time' ( while ron has not fully plumbed the 'meaning sources' of that title --- it is certain that he is not referring to last call at the neighborhood tavern...). i will get hold of a copy for you. track # 19 (calling the toads: the antinomian fire this time) reads like a 23 minute poetic anthem for the 'movement' defined by dr. arguelles.

in addition, i have been led to do a little reading of the work of ivan arguelles. amazingly, in one of the 9 'stations' of the 'theatre' the identities of ivan and jose arguelles are elegantly synthesized in the figure of the 'poet-prophet priest/priestess'. this is an 'anancy' figure (8 limbs, one head/mind --- think 'twins) which bears a staff in which all of the primary elements of the jose arguelles illustration of 'the staff of hunab ku' are integrated upon a 'lightning rod' with references to 'the city of angels' (the latter two themes deeply related to ivan arguelles). on this figure the 'persona' of 'western modern man' is 'opened up' to reveal the 'true self', the 'aboriginal self', or what thomas merton refers to as the 'green self'. the figure pays homage to the 'lunar muse' and the moon goddess. a solar sphere/planetarium projector is situated within hand's reach at the figures right side. the poet of 'voice' and the poet of 'vision' are merged into one being which becomes a divine poetic filmmaker --- operating what i have come to call (long before encountering the writings of dr. arguelles) 'the moving picture camera of quetzalcoatl'. please keep in mind that these are my interpretations of imagery which 'came' to me in the creative process --- rather than consciously contrived constructs. as with any 'dream' it is wide open to other interpretations. again, what you must understand is that this work evolved and became 'whole' long before any conscious exposure to the work of jose or ivan arguelles. this is just a 'fingernail' sketch. there is so much more to describe of this 'station', and we could discuss the seemingly impossible synchronicities between the 'theatre' and the work of dr. arguelles endlessly. but that will have to wait for now. just keep in mind that thomas merton holds the key to understanding these 'synchronicities' and that the deeper significance of the date 'december 10' is about to show itself. we'll get back to this in due time.

i hope that i have provided an adeqate context to give a sense of what is being 'revealed'. what i am proposing is that this work offers, to those with even slightly open minds, irrefutable and concrete proof of the prophetic 'theories' set forth by dr. arguelles --- in both the process and product of the work. all in quite an enchanting, magical, entertaining manner, at that. 'rational' explanations of what has occurred over the past 9 years are simply inadequate and overpowered by the evidence at hand. i am also proposing that the resources necessary to translate the 'transformative vision' of dr. arguelles into 'reality' are converging in louisville, kentucky even as i write. i look forward to unfolding this picture of the future as we proceed.

in the past 9 years i have endured consternation and ridicule from family, old colleagues and friends. i live a hand to mouth existence, with the mouth often being that of the wolf. many see me as a failure and most consider me a fool. those in traditional 'academia' would offer that my views are 'all wet'. but then, doesn't this go with the lot of the 'poet'?...

"the poet is one who stands out in the rain, hoping to be struck by lightning ..."

-------------------- ivan arguelles

perhaps a few will listen...

in the service of the great 'POETA',

gregory chaney, ph.d.

p.s.: i will also be sending you a copy of a narrative about the 'theatre' at 'parnassus. included, as well, will be matthew fox's article on 'the return of the black madonna' and accompanying images of the design of the 'museum plaza' building in louisville. this will set the stage for a 'jungian' interpretation of the building design which will be self-evident and require (for those who have been given adequate background on the psychodynamic interpretation of art and the psycho/social/ historical/spiritual context of this project) not even the least little 'leap of faith'. dr. arguelles will have an immediate intuitive 'recognition' of the significance of this material. we can talk later about the profound implications of this 'dream interpretation'. i apologize in advance for the crude presentation of the materials i will be sending you as well as the scribbly handwriting. i have been quite unplugged from technology for about 9 years and am only now starting to join the 'last' millennium in that regard. i have no computer of my own, so access to one can be sporadic. i am also, surely, the world's slowest typist. a letter like this is agonizingly tedious and time consuming. sometimes it is simply more expeditious to write things out in longhand, illegible as it is at times. perhaps a rosetta stone might help...

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Ron Whitehead <tmopinsight@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hello Stephen and Jo Anne and LEO!!!! Thanks Jo Anne for a great piece on Gregory Chaney and his masterpiece! Here's my Letter to the Editor regarding the piece. hope you'll run it. Thanks!

your friend
Ron Whitehead
11/06/09

"Knowledge, from Homer to the inception of Modernism, and through Postmodernism and chaos to The Ocean of Consciousness, is reorganized, redefined through literature, art, music, and film. The genres are changing, the canons are exploding, as is culture. The mythopoetics, the privileged sense of sight, of modern, contemporary, avant-garde poets, musicians, artists, filmmakers are examples of a society, a culture, a civilization, a world in which humanity lives not securely in cities nor innocently in the country but on the apocalyptic simultaneous edge of a new realm of being and understanding. The mythopoet, female and male, returns to the role of prophet seer by creating myths that resonate in the minds and hearts of readers, myths that speak with the authority of the ancient myths, myths, like Gregory Chaney's REVOLUTIONARY THEATRE OF THE DIVINE IMAGINATION, that are gifts from the shadow.

Gregory Chaney's epic REVOLUTIONARY THEATRE OF THE DIVINE IMAGINATION stands shoulder to shoulder with history's greatest works of art: Homer, Dante, Michelangelo, da Vinci, Shakespeare, Blake, Picasso, Kahlo, Chaney.
It will take at least a century for scholars to decipher, interpret and analyze Chaney's masterpiece. The work will inspire for generations to come.

I pray that those who are able provide safe harbor for the artist and his creation. Divinely inspired genius visits only on rare occasions. We must cherish this gift. I hope films and books document the art and the artist before he departs for other realms.

I am honored to know Gregory Chaney. I am uplifted and astonished by his nine-year channeled REVOLUTIONARY THEATRE OF THE DIVINE IMAGINATION."
Ron Whitehead
november 6, 2009

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"the (outlaw) poet is one who stands out in the rain, hoping to be struck by lightning." ivan arguelles

"love is the ultimate outlaw" from Tom Tobbins' STILL LIFE WITH WOODPECKER.

just picked up copies of 1st run limited edition new book(20th)/cd(30th)/dvd(1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems. beyond beautiful, unlike anything i've ever done. so deeply honored. being brought out by Gill Scott Holland & The Green Building & Holland Brown Books. price $25. you can order them now from me (i'll have them at shows) or email me @ tmopinsight@yahoo.com or call 502 475 7772. or order them from Holland Brown Books www.hollandbrownbooks.com. press releases & 3 promo videos will be sent out round world within week. plus review & feature article copies of book/cd/dvd are available (only 50) for review & feature articles. contact editor Stephanie Brothers, www.hollandbrownbooks.com, to receive copy. plus, if you're interested in Ron, lost highway outlaw poet aka The Storm & the boneman, appearing/performing/reading/giving talk at your college/university/school/museum/festival/club etc, anywhere round the world, contact Shawn

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(from back cover of new book): "I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom & pure mathematics." Hunter S. Thompson

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what is the difference tween a writer and a poet by gregory chaney

"the (outlaw) poet is one who stands out in the rain, hoping to be struck by lightning." ivan arguelles...any other questions...go ask Alice...and remember...what the door mouse/keeper/ferrymanwoman/whoever said...feed yer freakin head...interesting to reach the end of your life...which is where we always are...from birth to death...and realize...you've been here before...at the doorway to...another beginning

"love is the ultimate outlaw" from Tom Tobbins' STILL LIFE WITH WOODPECKER.

Pierson, Studio 502, 502.230.1772, bookings@louisvillestudio502.com

www.louisvillestudio502.com
thanks. hope to visit practice some lightninged hangoutology with all of you soon.

(from back cover of new book): "I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom & pure mathematics." Hunter S. Thompson

keep Louisville (& the world) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

Ron, lost highway outlaw poet

we are The Storm Generation

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for official but especially non-official release: Lee Troutman & outlaw poet Ron Whitehead & others Live in Evansville Indiana July 3, 2010

Lee of several will be in the upcoming Summer Art Exhibit @ Bill
Sovern's Poetry House and Art Emporium. he is scheduled to lay da
fresh beats on opening night. may see accompaniment by didge and hand
saw, with half dozen Outlaw Poets sprinkled on top, artists slamming
paint, splush splush, beating the rhythm. If'n y'al' be in IN, then
come on dizzown!! the price is r n always is has been leas' today oar
then is right. 'tis free! 'tis gonna be, a hoe-down, we's rolin, lots
of fun, til' early morn, roun then, now, i'm not sure really when!
gypsy space traveling in white Saturn with master of the Saw and the
Unsawed Mike Hood, the Pixin Vixen Victoria S., and the Outlaw Poet
himself Dr. Ron Whitehead. pack lunch, Bill's house far out as moon.

- E. (ellsworth)

www.severalhundredpeople.com

Saturday, July 3, 2010
7:00pm - 10:00pm
Poet House & Art Emporium

The Poet House & Art Emporium
105 Adams Evansville, Indiana 47713
812-598-4573
Curator: William Soverm

The Summer Exhibits Co- features are Louisville, Ky Artists & Musicians
Andy Cook & Lee Troutman. Also exhibiting are Kevin Bengert ( Sculpture ),
Mike Pittman ( Mided-Media Paintings ), Sarah Nellis ( Paintings & Prints ),
John Potts ( painting ), Dene Stephenes ( Glass ), Jeannie Tyree (
Drawings & Prints ), Andrea Wannemeuler ( Jewelry ).

The Summer Exhibit will run from July 3 - September 18, 2010.
Opening reception July 3, 2010 7:00 - 10:00 PM
w/ solo performance by Lee Troutman
Andy Cook is in several Exhibits in louisville in
July so he will be bring his work to the Gallery
on August 7, 2010 & will be performing at a
reception that night from 7:00 - 10:00 PM
The Poet House & Art Emporium is open from
12:00 - 6:00 PM Saturdays & Sundays and by appionment.

Artistically yours, Bill

"the (outlaw) poet is one who stands out in the rain, hoping to be struck by lightning."

ivan arguelles

"love is the ultimate outlaw" from Tom Tobbins' STILL LIFE WITH WOODPECKER.

Pierson, Studio 502, 502.230.1772, bookings@louisvillestudio502.com

www.louisvillestudio502.com
thanks. hope to visit practice some lightninged hangoutology with all of you soon.

(from back cover of new book): "I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom & pure mathematics." Hunter S. Thompson

keep Louisville (& the world) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

Ron, lost highway outlaw poet

we are The Storm Generation

plus facebook & facebook fan club

cell 502 475 7772

"love is the ultimate outlaw" from Tom Tobbins' STILL LIFE WITH WOODPECKER.

John Rocco (New York City): "Ron Whitehead is the comet crashing outlaw shaman lunatic poet who keeps us all together!" Thanks, Ron!

Pierson, Studio 502, 502.230.1772, bookings@louisvillestudio502.com

www.louisvillestudio502.com
thanks. hope to visit practice some lightninged hangoutology with all of you soon.

(from back cover of new book): "I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom & pure mathematics." Hunter S. Thompson

keep Louisville (& the world) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

Ron, lost highway outlaw poet

we are The Storm Generation

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cell 502 475 7772

Los Angeles Center for Digital Art

featuring Contemporary Artist / Poet Russel Hulsey & Beat Poet / Author / Educator Ron Whitehead

among many many other Artists / Poets / Celebs / Creative Industry Thinkers from around the world>>>

info on Russel/Ron Live in Louisville performance & simultaneously internet connected performance with LA Center for Digital Art & artists round world forthcoming soon as we're able to share. event happening this coming thursday july 8, 2010.

"FEED_BACK"

July 8-24, 2010
Reception July 8, 7-9pm
In conjunction with Downtown Art Walk

Forty-eight artists from over 18 countries are gathering at LACDA via the Live@808 networked performance space. Live@808 is a custom web application where realtime video, audio, texting and countless other media collide and intermix in a playful and exciting environment facilitated by emergent technology. The live webcams and video feeds projected in the gallery will be accompanied by a multi-screen installation of video shorts looping on monitors throughout the space.

The FEED_BACK exhibit is a zone of participation, input, response, and transformation that beckons us toward openness, spontenaity and improvisation. It is an inter-media experiment in collaborative international connection and communication that engenders an awareness of the cogent ability of internet technologies to galvanize the world culture in a constructive manner.

All views simultaneously in equal amplitudes illuminate the newly mediated grid of the social. A high bandwidth sense of being unfurls where all notions of anything or everything collaborate and communicate instantaneously over a reverberant labyrinth of wide area networks. This is discursive critical mass—no opinion can exist at the expense of another and all identities, genders, skins, species, preferences and desires are transmutable. The didactic dissolves and philosophy is aesthetisized as infinitely malleable and interactive audio-visual spaces. Anteriorly recursive plagarisms download, mutate, intermix and upload again. Vocabulary becomes a poetics of redefinition, and concepts become the vertigo of a shimmering ideological spectrum moving at light speed.

This is the new music of the technologized psyche: the electronic symphony of every instrument and every note synchronously blended to one monolithic and ecstatic tone. A meditation. An intercultural over-excitation where all colors combine to create a brilliant light. Each computer screen is a glimpse-a partitioned selection-of this luminous digital site, of the total epistemic memory residing in the global database for instant retrieval, update, recombination and re-storage. This vortical workstation of the internet is a tributary, a feeding bottle or breast, and an hermaphroditic genital of the info-communicative circulatory/nervous system where through interaction we sate the antique dictum for being the smarter monkey that better survives a hostile nature, that better survives its own hostile nature.

And then, noise becomes the signal. Find the signal in the noise. Overexposed, overloaded, distorted, meters in the red. Hissing, scratched, discolored, alaised, unintelligble and unreadable. Lens flares. Warped, faded, clipping, bleeding, and humming. Dot screens, moiree patterns. Raster lines. Corrupted data. Feedback. Modem hash. Channel offsets. Degenerated dubs, replications and simulations.

Allow random access thoughts. Art is assembly language. Be a noise-to-signal processor. Processing and filtering all input. Be electronic. Sampling, capturing. Reconfiguring. Inputting, communicating, disseminating. Be a feedback loop. Be an answering machine. Be a disconnected number, out of service. Be a busy signal, unreachable. Be a signal. Be a system error, crash applications. Be an error message. Be an error. Be an assembly language translator. Be machine level code. Be code. Be corrupted streaming data. Be an aliased side effect. Be aliased.

Make feedback. Be noise.

—Rex Bruce, July 2010

--

russelhulsey.com | russelhulseyprojects.com

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"love is the ultimate outlaw" from Tom Tobbins' STILL LIFE WITH WOODPECKER.

Pierson, Studio 502, 502.230.1772, bookings@louisvillestudio502.com

www.louisvillestudio502.com
thanks. hope to visit practice some lightninged hangoutology with all of you soon.

(from back cover of new book): "I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom & pure mathematics." Hunter S. Thompson

keep Louisville (& the world) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

Ron, lost highway outlaw poet

we are The Storm Generation

plus facebook & facebook fan club

cell 502 475 7772

"love is the ultimate outlaw" from Tom Tobbins' STILL LIFE WITH WOODPECKER.

John Rocco (New York City): "Ron Whitehead is the comet crashing outlaw shaman lunatic poet who keeps us all together!" Thanks, Ron!

Pierson, Studio 502, 502.230.1772, bookings@louisvillestudio502.com

www.louisvillestudio502.com
thanks. hope to visit practice some lightninged hangoutology with all of you soon.

(from back cover of new book): "I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom & pure mathematics." Hunter S. Thompson

keep Louisville (& the world) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

Ron, lost highway outlaw poet

we are The Storm Generation

plus facebook & facebook fan club

cell 502 475 7772

for immediate release (hope to see everyone there):

Scott Shuffitt: Resistance
Gallery M
July 9 - August 27, 2010

Artist Reception: July 30th
6pm-10pm, Frankfort Avenue Trolley Hop
Readings by Ron Whitehead
Music by DJ Matt Anthony

Please refer to the attached press release and images for information on the exhibition.

For additional information please contact Jane in Gallery M.
--
Jane D. Ferebee
Arts Manager
Mellwood Arts & Entertainment Center
1860 Mellwood Ave.
Louisville, KY 40206
jane.mellwoodartcenter@gmail.com
502-895-3650
Fax: 502-895-3680

Pierson, Club 502, Contact Information: Studio502 / Shawn Pierson

Ph: 502.230.1772

bookings@louisvillestudio502.com

www.louisvillestudio502.com
. thanks. hope to visit practice some lightninged hangoutology with all of you soon.

(from back cover of new book): "I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom & pure mathematics." Hunter S. Thompson

keep Louisville (& the world) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

Ron, lost highway outlaw poet

we are The Storm Generation

plus facebook & facebook fan club

cell 502 475 7772

"love is the ultimate outlaw" from Tom Tobbins' STILL LIFE WITH WOODPECKER.

John Rocco (New York City): "Ron Whitehead is the comet crashing outlaw shaman lunatic poet who keeps us all together!" Thanks, Ron!

Pierson, Studio 502, 502.230.1772, bookings@louisvillestudio502.com

www.louisvillestudio502.com
thanks. hope to visit practice some lightninged hangoutology with all of you soon.

(from back cover of new book): "I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom & pure mathematics." Hunter S. Thompson

keep Louisville (& the world) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

Ron, lost highway outlaw poet

we are The Storm Generation

plus facebook & facebook fan club

cell 502 475 7772

hello my dear family & friends! well i hate being in this position of having to ask for help, cause as anyone who knows me knows i help whoever i can whenever i can, which i've done for decades, but now i need your help all of which i'm willing to barter for via editing, ghost writing, performing for or with you, & any other creative things you are interested in doing (including sleeping with beautiful women), but i need help. i'm on verge of biggest breakthroughs ever, which will certainly begin full throttle (tho they've already started) end of august when Gill Scott Holland & The Green Building & Holland Brown Books bring out my new book/cd/dvd which will be followed by year long world tour all of which will enable me to get back on track back on my feet get my own apartment again back in The Highlands, or one of Louisville's arts districts, pay my few debts, pay my own way, live my dream, and help others.

but for next 2 months, starting right now, i need minimum $385 (doesn't include food, shampoo/supplies, red wine) in order to stay in Louisville (& alive) while all these amazing door openings unfold and happen. so. i'm willing to barter in exchange for any portion of this amount needed, so i can, one step at a time, put this puzzle together and carry on the creative work i've been called and blessed to do. any and all help will be way beyond appreciated. thank you!!!!

sending love always

your friend forever

Ron Whitehead

2705 Hikes Lane

Louisville, Kentucky 40218

cell 502 475 7772

email tmopinsight@aol.com

website www.tappingmyownphone.com

plus facebook and facebook fan club sites

"love is the ultimate outlaw" from Tom Tobbins' STILL LIFE WITH WOODPECKER.

John Rocco (New York City): "Ron Whitehead is the comet crashing outlaw shaman lunatic poet who keeps us all together!" Thanks, Ron!

Pierson, Studio 502, 502.230.1772, bookings@louisvillestudio502.com

www.louisvillestudio502.com
thanks. hope to visit practice some lightninged hangoutology with all of you soon.

(from back cover of new book): "I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom & pure mathematics." Hunter S. Thompson

keep Louisville (& the world) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

Ron, lost highway outlaw poet

we are The Storm Generation

plus facebook & facebook fan club

cell 502 475 7772

"love is the ultimate outlaw" from Tom Tobbins' STILL LIFE WITH WOODPECKER.

John Rocco (New York City): "Ron Whitehead is the comet crashing outlaw shaman lunatic poet who keeps us all together!" Thanks, Ron!

Pierson, Studio 502, 502.230.1772, bookings@louisvillestudio502.com

www.louisvillestudio502.com
thanks. hope to visit practice some lightninged hangoutology with all of you soon.

(from back cover of new book): "I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom & pure mathematics." Hunter S. Thompson

keep Louisville (& the world) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

Ron, lost highway outlaw poet

we are The Storm Generation

plus facebook & facebook fan club

cell 502 475 7772

Ron Whitehead

2705 Hikes Lane

Louisville, Kentucky
40218

USA

Phone 502-451-9426 (land)

502-475-7772 (cell)

Email tmopinsight@yahoo.com

Official website www.tappingmyownphone.com

also on facebook plus facebook fan club

Ron Whitehead resume, bio, testimonials

Objective	Visiting Writer/Professor/Full Time or Adjunct Professor of Creative Writing/Writing/Literature/Humanities/Readings/Performances/FilmWork/ Recording/Editing/Writing/Publishing/Speaking/Producing.
Experience	20 years teaching University of Louisville, St. Catharine College, Bellarmine University, Spalding University, Jefferson Community College. 24 years lecturing, presenting papers, chairing sessions at national and international literature symposiums: University of Iceland (Reyjkavik), University of Nijmegen (The Netherlands), University of Braga (Portugal), Trinity College (Ireland), New York University, Hofstra University, numerous others. more info included in brief bio (included).



Education	1982-86 University of Louisville Louisville , Kentucky. BA English 3.75GPA 1985 University of Oxford Oxford ’s International Graduate School. 4.0GPA 1990-92 University of Louisville MA Humanities 4.0GPA
Interests	see brief bio plus testimonials (included) hundreds of references, and transcripts, available upon request. also glad to interview via phone, internet, in person.

Ron Whitehead's brief bio:

Ron Whitehead is poet, writer, editor, publisher, organizer, scholar, professor. He grew up on a farm in Kentucky. He attended The University of Louisville and Oxford University. As poet and writer he is the recipient of numerous state, national, and international awards/prizes including The All Kentucky Poetry Prize and The Yeats Club of Oxford's Prize for Poetry. He was nominated, twice, for The Pulitzer Prize. In 2006 Dr. John Rocco (NYC) nominated Ron for The Nobel Prize in Literature.He was recently inducted into his high school's (Ohio County High) Hall of Fame, representing his 1968 graduating class.

Ron has taught college/university for 20 years at The University of Louisville, Spalding University, St. Catharine College, Jefferson Community College, and Bellarmine University. He has presented numerous talks, lectures, and writing workshops around the world at colleges, universities, and institutions which include Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland), The University of Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland), The University of Braga (Braga, Portugal), The University of Nijmegen (Nigmegen, The Netherlands), New York University (New York, New York), Hofstra University (New York, New York), University of Louisville (Louisville, Kentucky), University of New Orleans (New Orleans, Louisiana), and many more.

In 1992 Ron and Kent Fielding founded The Global Literary Renaissance, a non-profit organization, supporting the global literary community. Ron was Director of the Global Literary Renaissance for 14 years.

Ron has produced over 2,000 music and poetry events throughout Europe and the USA including many 24, 48, 72 & 90 hour Non-Stop Music & Poetry INSOMNIACATHONs plus he produced The Official Hunter S. Thompson Tribute (featuring Hunter, Johnny Depp, Warren Zevon, Roxanne Pulitzer, David Amram, Hunter's mother, Virginia, & son, Juan, & many others), the London International Poetry & Song Festival (with Richard Deakin), The New York City Underground Music & Poetry Festival (with Casey Cyr), The Netherland's 10-day International Meer Dan Woorden Festival (with Jan Pankow), LIVE at THE RUD Benefit Concert (with Jim James, of My Morning Jacket, and Sarah Elizabeth), plus many many more. After he produced INSOMNIACATHON 2008 (April 2008) he retired from producing events but has agreed to co-produce the first ever Storm Generation Festival in Iceland June 2011.

Ron has edited and published nearly 2,000 titles including work by His Holiness The Dalai Lama, President Jimmy Carter, Seamus Heaney, Jack Kerouac, David Amram, Diane di Prima, Lucien Stryk, Allen Ginsberg, John Updike, BONO, Frank Messina, Yoko Ono, Andy Warhol, Amiri Baraka, Rita Dove, Thomas Merton, Wendell Berry, Edvard Munch, William S. Burroughs, Hunter S. Thompson, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso, Herbert Huncke, James Laughlin, Douglas Brinkley, Lee Ranaldo, Robert Hunter, Anne Waldman, Ed Sanders, David Minton, Bob Holman, Cathal O'Searcaigh, Eithne Strong, Theo Dorgan, Jim Carroll, Casey Cyr, Denis Mahoney, Steve Dalachinsky, Jean Genet, Jan Kerouac, Christopher Felver, Brother Patrick Hart, Robert Lax, Sarah Elizabeth, Michael Pollock, Olafur Gunnarsson, and many many others.

Ron's work has been exhibited round the world from New York City to Louisville to New Orleans to San Francisco and from India to Czech Republic to Italy to Portugal to Ireland to The Netherlands to Iceland and beyond. The UN/UNESCO "Poetry On The Peaks" program selected The Dalai Lama/Ron Whitehead "Never Give Up" message/poem poster as its theme for 2002. Thousands of copies were donated and shipped to cities, mountain villages, Buddhist, and other communities, groups, and organizations round the world. The "Never Give Up" poem has been published in numerous publications including NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, a book by His Holiness The Dalai Lama, and many others. Ron's "Never Give Up" poem can also be found on t-shirts, cards, posters, and banners all over the world.

For the past 20 years Ron has been GOing non-stop. He is the author of 20 books and he has work on more than 30 CDs. His new book, THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems includes cd and his first dvd as inserts. Ron is doing more and more film work as screenwriter, editor, and actor.

His 20 BOOK titles include:
WESTERN KENTUCKY: Lost & Forgotten, Found & Remembered (with Sarah Elizabeth)
THE THIRD TESTAMENT: Three Gospels of Peace (with art by Lawrence Ferlinghetti & David Minton)
BEAVER DAM ROCKING CHAIR MARATHON
THE WANDERER

THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO & on parting, the wilderness poems (with cd companion), June/July 2010 release

4th person singular: THE ADVENTURES of BRAIN MAN (work in progress)
GROWTH OF THE SOUL: Kentucky, Where Diamonds are Created: I Refuse, Will Not Bow Down and I Will Never Give Up: an alchemical autobiographical history of The Global Literary Renaissance, White Fields Press, Published in Heaven, The Storm Generation, and my life (focus on 1990-2010)(work in progress)

His over 30 CD titles include:
TAPPING MY OWN PHONE
KENTUCKY ROOTS
KENTUCKY: poems, stories, songs
KENTUCKY BLUES
I WILL NOT BOW DOWN
EXTERMINATE NOISE
FROM ICELAND TO KENTUCKY & BEYOND
SWAN BOATS @ FOUR
THE SHAPE OF WATER
THE VIKING HILLBILLY APOCALYPSE REVUE
WALKING HOME

I REFUSE

Ron Whitehead and SOUTHSIDE's SOUTHSIDE LOUNGE

Ron Whitehead and SOUTHSIDE's WE ARE THE STORM double cd

THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO & on parting, the wilderness poems: audio book recording, (companion to new book, 2010 release)

Ron reads his work with musicians from around the world, in all genres of music, including David Amram, Iceland's Sigur Ros & HOH & MEGAS, Tyrone Cotton, Iceland's Michael & Danny Pollock of UTANGARDSMENN/The Outsiders, Jim James of My Morning Jacket, Paul K & The Weathermen, Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, Frank Messina & Octopoet & Spoken Motion, James Walck & The Mind2Hands Symphonia, Vassar Clemens, Tom House, By The Grace of God, Black Pig Liberation Front, Casey Cyr, Rich Martin, Jeremy Podgursky & The Pennies, Blowup in Japanese, RB Morris & Hector Qirko, Scaramongo, Sarah Elizabeth, SOUTHSIDE, The Honey Highway & numerous others.

Ron's groups have included Voices Without Restraint, Ron Whitehead's Apocalypse Jam, The Viking Hillbilly Apocalypse Revue, and outlaw music/spoken word band SOUTHSIDE. He and Sarah Elizabeth performed and toured together constantly for 5 years. Ron is planning a multi-legged world tour which will start in June/July when his new book/cd/dvd is released with an evening of music and spoken word plus reception signing at Gill Scott Holland's The Green Building on East Market Street in Louisville, Kentucky. His world tour will include many various musicians singers bands poets writers and other creative artists always changing depending on date and location.

Ron was recently nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature by New York City professor, James Joyce scholar, music critic, and author of many books, Dr. John Rocco (see letter below).

To The Nobel Prize Committee,

I am writing you about one of America's greatest poets. His name is Ron Whitehead and for his entire career he has written volatile and important verse that has given a new presence to American poetry. Whitehead's work is in the tradition of the Beat Generation but also deeply influenced by rock and roll, the legacy of the European avant-garde from Knut Hamsun to James Joyce, and his own native Kentucky. He is at the same time a regional and universal writer; Kentucky is his home but the world is his subject. Whitehead's poetry is a powerful summation of the American spirit.

I would like to take this time to bring this extraordinary poet to your attention for consideration for the Nobel Prize in literature. Whitehead's poetry is exuberant and shocking, delicate and blunt, combative and sensitive. There is a vital spirituality in his work that questions the nature of artistic creativity at the same time it embodies it. His work is profoundly engaged in critiquing the control modern American culture has over the individual and the planet. The Beaver Dam Rocking Chair Marathon is a summation of his aesthetics: part Bildungsroman, part rock protest, all Whitehead white hot poetic energy.

As the profile in this package indicates, Whitehead is a tireless promoter of poetry and its power to heal the world. To recognize his work is to recognize the power of the word to resist imperialism, intolerance, and hate. Whitehead has made American poetry a vehicle for social change and a power to transform the world...

Thank you for considering this important American writer.
Yours sincerely,

Dr. John Rocco
Associate Professor of Humanities
SUNY (State University of New York Maritime)
James Joyce scholar John Rocco is the author of The Nirvana Companion, The Beastie Boys Companion, The Doors Companion, The Grateful Dead Companion, and other Schirmer Books. He is completing a volume on James Joyce. His novel Fur was released in 2005. He is a critic for American Book Review and numerous other literary and music publications.

Several thousand of Ron's works have been published round the world in a diverse range of publications (all mediums) from TRIQUARTERLY (Northwestern University/Illinois) to ARTFORUM (Czech Republic) to BLUE BEAT JACKET (Japan) to BEAT SCENE (England) to SOUTHERN REVIEW (Louisiana) to TRIBE magazine (NYC).

Ron has presented over 6,000 readings of his own creative work round the world.

Ron's work is in museum, library, and private collections around the world. The University of Louisville Rare Books & Archives, Directed by Delinda Buie, is the permanent repository for Ron's work (past, present, future). Five exhibits have been held. A major exhibition, with catalog, is being planned. Several thousand, of tens of thousands, of items have already been catalogued.

Many of Ron's poems have been and are being translated into many languages. For a time Ron was Velocity's (Kentucy's Courier-Journal) Advice Columnist. He has written for and been featured in a multitude of publications around the world. In February 2009 Ron was a featured poet at the International Poetry Festival in Granada, Nicaragua. 130 poets from 50 countries, all 7 continents, participated. He recently returned from NYC where he completed film work for Ralph Stevens' independent film, AMAZING SPACE plus he did performances with Frank Messina, David Amram Trio, Tyrone Cotton, and SOUTHSIDE members Scott Mertz, Andy Cook, and Lee Troutman at the Cornelia Street Cafe and the Chelsea Hotel.

After his Father's June 2009 death (plus the deaths of 15 friends within 90 days of his Dad's death) Ron entered a state of semi-seclusion to recover from the grief and to focus on three new books but he will continue to teach and edit some plus perform and record with musicians and bands, all genres of music, plus give readings talks performances round the world plus do more film work. After being away from Louisville for a year he has finally returned and, while traveling more than ever, plans to make Louisville home base from now on.
And after turning down over a thousand gigs he has finally started accepting a few paying gigs. He is finally back on his feet and if you've seen his recent performance/presentation/readings (or his new DVD) you know he can not only still kick major ass but his new work has revealed a growing deeper aspect to his being his work.

If you're interested in Ron, lost highway outlaw poet aka The Storm & the boneman, appearing/performing/reading/giving talk at your college/university/school/museum/festival/club etc, anywhere round the world, contact

Shawn Pierson, Studio 502, 502.230.1772, bookings@louisvillestudio502.com

When not traveling Ron lives in Kentucky. Ron´s official website, www.tappingmyownphone.com, annually receives approximately one million hits from more than 80 countries. He is presently looking for a new webmaster to overhaul and maintain his site. The brilliant Kurt Maddox is webmaster for Ron's facebook site and facebook fan club.

here are a few Testimonials regarding Ron Whitehead and his work:

John Rocco (New York City): Ron Whitehead is the comet crashing outlaw shaman lunatic poet who keeps us all together! Thanks, Ron!

Casey Cyr (Connecticut): "Ron Whitehead transends even the devestatingly hard lessons of our times and speaks to the only true lessons, the eternal ones. He cuts right through the chaos that comprises our chattering thoughts. Ron Whitehead asks: Can art matter? Is it merely a gold exchange for the rich? Art IS the Holy Grail. And at the deepest primal level, everybody knows it. Only a few, like Ron Whitehead, can perceive it as clearly and communicate it while in his incarnate human being."

Frank Messina (New York): "Ron Whitehead is one of my closest allies. He is a man of wisdom and tolerance. Ron and I debate over political issues, and sometimes he's even right. But, in the end, we're still friends. There is only one man I want to fight along my side in the trenches of life and his name is Ron Whitehead. He is one of the last warriors left in America."

Carolyn Cassady (England): "I had heard people talk about Ron Whitehead for years so when I heard him read at The Ocean on the last night of the London International Poetry and Song Festival I understood why. His poems, and his reading of them, are pure genius."

Annalisa Papaleo (Italy): "Ron Whitehead is an alchemist of language, a magician of poetry, a King of Words...I am honored to translate his work into Italian."

John Rocco (New York): "In BEAVER DAM ROCKING CHAIR MARATHON: fragments of a lost text, Ron Whitehead is 'the great rememberer' and 'the great experiencer'...a scintillating portrait...a Bildungsroman...in which each memory becomes charged with his history and the embrace of his subject...capturing the memory of what Ginsberg calls 'Mortal' America...and Whitehead's new CD TAPPING MY OWN PHONE is a mercurial collection which features some of the 'fragments' that appear in the novel."

John Tytell (New York): "With The Declaration of Independence This Time: Selected Poems 1996-2000, Ron Whitehead has a brave powerful book and the voice to carry it."

Zen Master Dae Gak (Korea): "Ron Whitehead is Angry tender hearted Poet lover Who, Ripped open by life's Sharp, diamond caesarean Edge, Emerges, awake, alive, Shaking blood and tissue. Howling at the, with a shriek, Morning sun AAAAAGH!!!!!!!"

Theo Dorgan (Ireland): "Ron Whitehead is a one man Atlantic bridge."

Eimear O'Connor (Ireland): "Ron Whitehead's words travelled at high speed Along the Liffey and out into the sea...mesmerised By the motion Of emotion...Something magic Happened over the Winding Stair Above the streets, Closer to the stars."

Vincent McWilliams (Ireland): "Ron Whitehead's poetry is like a fast train coming."

David Amram (New York): "At the dawn of the 21st Century our young people have few role models of distinction and even fewer people close to their own age to look up to. Ron Whitehead gives hope to our artistic and intellectual future and gives our young people someone to look up to and emulate. Having worked with Ron many times, round the world, I can only share my amazement at his genius-level ability to organize and create memorable events that make all involved feel inspired to do their best. His own brilliance as a poet is matched by his dynamism, integrity and ability to communicate with anybody and everybody. I am honored to work with him anytime he ever needs me."

Lee Ranaldo (New York): "Ron Whitehead's TAPPING MY OWN PHONE is superb!"

Michael Pollock (Iceland): "Ron Whitehead is The World Ambassador of Poetry."

Karel Srp (Czeck Republic): "The ARTFORUM '98 Exhibition of Ron Whitehead's important work, both his and his work as Director of The Literary Renaissance, was a big hit and a huge success. It is very important for us to see, through poetry and art, the situation in USA and round the world. Through Ron's work we see. Now all his work is in our archives. The people of Prague can continue to see. We are proud. It is important for us. Thank YOU!"

Lana Witt (California): "Ron Whitehead is amazing. I've seldom known poetry to rise to the honesty, stubborness, and energy of what came charging straight at me in his CD TAPPING MY OWN PHONE."

Frank Messina (New York): "Listening to TAPPING MY OWN PHONE is like tapping into an oil well of inspiration; a poetic horn of plenty where the flavor of American political angst and true Kentuckian local color shoots its way straight to the soul. Ron Whitehead is at least Chaucer's equal. The BEAVER DAM ROCKING CHAIR MARATHON is a Masterpiece better than THE CANTERBURY TALES. Three cheers to Ron Whitehead!"

Kevin Ring (England): "Ron Whitehead explodes in a tirade aimed at pulling down all the garbage that society holds dear: rampant commercialism, couldn't care lessism. If the President thinks he's got trouble with Ms Lewinsky then he'd better watch out for Ron as he gives us the REAL AMERICA."

Frederick Smock (Kentucky): "BEAVER DAM ROCKING CHAIR MARATHON achieves an urgency and immediacy that is truly poetic."

Jordan Green (North Carolina): "Ron Whitehead is the incantatory, subversive bard of Kentucky. He is a poet with higher vision and higher frequency tuning. He has a performance style learned from his Pentecostal preacher grandfather but which also takes the best from the oral poetic style of the Beats. Ron is an energy force that encourages articulation and voice, that makes young people proud to be part of something. His voice cuts through the rough reality of his western Kentucky coal mining roots and reaches for a higher cosmic grace. Ron has produced over 400 readings and INSOMNIACATHONs and has read all over Europe and the USA. At the age of 48, with a family to support and complete commitment to his craft, Ron Whitehead will get in a car or on a plane anytime and travel anywhere he's asked to give a reading."

Miguel Moors (Belgium): "Ron Whitehead dissects American Society with a butcher knife."

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (California): "Ron Whitehead, out there in Kentucky, out there where the tall heroes used to grow, is sowing the dragon's teeth of new heroics."

Bob Holman (New York): "And now it was like a cyclone hit that stage - Ron Whitehead is screeding a poem with an 8-piece orchestra toodling out sounds by Jeremy Podgursky, amazing, high energy, a battle for soul!"

Anastasios Kozaitis (New York): "Ron Whitehead is the most engaged poetry activist in the United States of America!"

Al Aronowitz (New York): "An autobiographical gem that marks compassion and defiance as the touchstones of heroic myth in the coming-of-age of a young man in the western Kentucky coal fields. Ron Whitehead is one of the greatest poets of our time."

Paul McDonald (Indonesia): "Ron Whitehead has the gift of perceiving the divine in the ordinary. His work is always at least exciting if not magical. It is simultaneously hard-bitten, stark and urban while containing a gentle, pastoral lyricism all of which is always compelling. His work is a dharma gate that must be entered, a magnificent Zen koan where the question and answer lie hidden in the experience."

Rene Hendrix (The Netherlands): "William S. Burroughs and Ron Whitehead, in a series of dreams, taught me how to save the world."

Casey Cyr (Connecticut): "Ron Whitehead has been working so hard all his life, has climbed the equivalent of a hundred Mount Everests for poetry, music, integration, inclusion, non-specialization, LOVE and the advancement of humankind. No one else who I know has the endurance and capacity and generosity of spirit (except for David Amram who shares these qualities) to achieve what he is achieving. Ron is clearly chosen for the work that he is doing, and it is a ray of clarity and grace that shines from his being. HIS GIANT HEART IS SINGING!"

Jan Pankow (The Netherlands): "Ron Whitehead's poems are a magnetic field of poetry energy: encounters, viewpoints, and facts of life mingling with emotions, dreams, and visions."

Robert Lax (Greece): "Ron Whitehead's "Moxley and Eirene" worked its way into one of my just-before-waking dreams last night. The whole story. And yes, naturally I'm ready to endorse all he says in I Will NOT BOW DOWN, too!"

Douglas Brinkley (Texas): "Ron Whitehead is one of the most exciting poets in America. Poet and literary activist, he is one of the great poets of his generation."

Tenzin Geyche Tethong, Secretary to His Holiness The Dalai Lama (India): "Ron Whitehead, His Holiness The Dalai Lama thanks you and offers his blessing and permission for you to create a poster of his message to you which you have written in the form of a poem. I would like to express my personal appreciation to you. Your poem for of His Holiness's message is extremely powerful and moving. I am confident that it will inspire many."

Robert Hunter (California): "Ron Whitehead's energy and important work never fail to amaze me!"

Diane di Prima (California): "Ron Whitehead, Fellow traveller riding the winds of change between worlds, in the thick of the creative process, Bon voyage! I enjoyed EVE AND THE OPHIDIANS. "White Horses" is really strong!"

Bob Holman (New York): "Spoken word at its purest and most fulfilling. Ron's combination of full drawl, magnolia sweet and Wendell Berry's Mad Farmer's blue hot rage, vitally fashions a new post in the American ear."

Jim Carroll (New York): "Love, Angelic Orders, and Blessings on Ron Whitehead's good work!"

Michael Young (Kentucky):

"Can Ron Whitehead be an outlaw poet? Does Charlie Daniels play a mean fiddle?"

David Amram (New York): "There were over 300 poets and musicians. Ron Whitehead was the highlight of the New York City festival. When he read I was knocked out! I marveled at the talent he possessed! He captures the spirit of the South in his poetry!"

Eithne Strong (Ireland): "Ron Whitehead's dazzling energetic work, his poetry and his prose never cease to impress and astonish!"

Allen Ginsberg (New York): "Ron Whitehead is energetic Bodhisattvic poetic spirit! Happy to see and read so much poetry energy!"

Harper Tobin (Washington, D.C.): "Ron Whitehead's BEAVER DAM ROCKING CHAIR MARATHON is no cheesy nostalgia trip. Anyone familiar with Whitehead's work knows better. He gives achingly real portraits of Beaver Dam's inhabitants, offering up the disturbing as well as the beautiful, the ugly as well as the quaint. His style shifts from page to page always capturing the reader, evoking the spirit of defiance and hope that is the heart of this literary treasure...Why isn't Ron Whitehead already a household name?! His TAPPING MY OWN PHONE is a gem. Ron reads as if any breath could be his last. He captures the world in all its beauty, corruption, and potential. I cannot recommend his work highly enough!"

Joe Slavin (Kentucky): "Ron Whitehead is the most extraordinary teacher-scholar it has been my great good fortune to know over a career spanning thirty seven years. His success in encouraging students, to express themselves and grow as students, is unrivalled."

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (California): "Ce Ron Whitehead est un brave type! Il a ecrit un poem autobiographique que est epatant...sur San Francisco et un certain fer-ling-g hetti...Qui est? Ron Whitehead is Bodhisattva in Kentucky!"

Seamus Heaney (Ireland): "Ron Whitehead, the only begettor of all this, is here for good!"

Colin Cooper (England): "Ron Whitehead lives at 100 miles an hour judging from his book of poetry...like Ferlinghetti...he's a rabble rouser and wildly romantic and we need plenty of those...the book is illustrated by full colour paintings by Ferlinghetti...Fit him alongside Gary Snyder for wit and insight...certain to shake up the old guard."

Bob Edwards (Washington D.C.): "I LOVE Ron Whitehead's "The Coal Miner(I & II)" and "Moxley and Eirene!"

Denis Mahoney (Rhode Island): "These past months I have read Ron Whitehead's BLOOD FILLED VESSELS RACING TO THE HEART: Beyond Chaos is The Ocean of Consciousness several times. What a remarkable work it is! It's subtle (and not too) back and forth gestures and movements and openings and its Placement! I wish he would continue this work! This is the direction that people need to See towards, be, at least, opened to. Thank You Ron Whitehead for The Work!"

John Rocco (New York City): "Ron Whitehead is The Master of The Flying Guillotine. He is the comet crashing outlaw shaman lunatic poet who keeps us all together!" Thanks, Ron!

Jean Ritchie (New York): "Kentucky, by Sarah Elizabethth and Ron Whitehead, is a stunning CD. Sarah and Ron both did a beautiful job."

Dr. Joe Slavin (Kentucky): "Kentucky, by Sarah Elizabeth & Ron Whitehead, is a stunning piece of work, beautiful in both sound and heart."

Tommy Gaffney (Oregon): "Spending time with Ron Whitehead a few years back changed my life. The whole damn experience, from the wine-soaked meeting in his living room to the bourbon-infused book signing, he so graciously hosted, is still with me everyday. Not sure how to repay him for all that. And I appreciate the email updates on his mad adventures. I open the ol’ yahoo account every morning hoping for more news. What can I say, he's an inspiring man. And I’ve been spreading the word about his work around Portland, Oregon. In fact, I currently volunteer to host a small writers group (in my cramped little living room), and we discussed Ron's Tapping My Own Phone as our first “assignment.” We also listened to my copies of “I Will Not Bow Down” and “The Viking Hillbilly Apocalypse Revue." The overall theme for the session was “this is how this shit is done.” In a word, Ron Whitehead's influence continues to cross mountain ranges that ain’t used to being shown up. Thanks Ron for being you, my friend."

Thomas Healey (Indiana): "It's always great to hear Ron Whitehead read. It's the poetic equivalent of a lava flow. The burn sears away the dross, leaving pure gold."

Paul K (Detroit/NYC/Kentucky): "Ron Whitehead is America's greatest living poet."

A Prayer for the Ascended Master Poet,

Ron Whitehead

by Casey Cyr (Connecticut)

Today I pray for the ascended master poets

born to be born to be born

the ascended master poets

to teach to heal to unify

living in realization of one's purpose

that each one will graciously accept

the abundance clearly present in the universe

that he may not suffer

as suffering remains a lesson of the uninitiated

and a choice by the enlightened

that he may be at peace at the center of the storm

as the true Bodhisattvaa that he is

and receive many unlimited blessings

but not be bound by limitations and impositions

for he stands clearly in a lighted room

with eyes open

where others may or may not choose to

open their eyes

for the light is there, it is always on

today i pray for the ascended master poet

that he may receive the abundance of the universe in all forms

because an ascended master knows what do to with

money power success

may he have any and all things that he needs

to fulfill his purpose

may he reach any and all persons, destinations

may any obstacles vanish like fog lifted by sun

may any fear surrounding this abundance be washed away from his human form

stand before your mirror

do not hold it tightly, do not let it break skin

honor each cell

breathe in love

breathe out ascended master knowledge

that you've been gathering for eternity

that only you can emit

seize your purpose and share your being fully

breathe in abundance

in any and all forms

for they are yours

stand before your mirror and say "aaaah!"

and thank molecules spinning

that got born

the ascended master poet before you

the time has come for all humankind to awaken to the fact that the time of the male dominant aspect of our being must now be surpassed by the female aspect, the nurturer healer peacemaker in each of us. there is little time left. it is essential that Mother Earth's sacred sites that each individual's sacred sites be healed, otherwise we will soon experience the end of time as we have known it

keep Louisville (& the world) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

the dance (by ron whitehead): we wear these garments...dwell in these temples...briefly...

we are short lived...temporary...sun worshippers we...are delicate...

pale pink blossoms on...Van Gogh's almond tree...our fine attire...

covering bones...dancing bones...the bones...of life...loving bones...

bones in love...the dance...a waltz fragrant...spring wind carries...

us to the end...of the night

Ron, wandering sin eater lightning drinker yogi lost highway outlaw poet

we are The Storm Generation

plus facebook & facebook fan club

cell 502 475 7772

"love is the ultimate outlaw" from Tom Tobbins' STILL LIFE WITH WOODPECKER.

Shawn Pierson, Studio 502, 502.230.1772, bookings@louisvillestudio502.com

thanks. hope to visit practice some lightninged hangoutology with all of you soon.

(from back cover of new book): "I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom & pure mathematics." Hunter S. Thompson

"love is the ultimate outlaw" from Tom Tobbins' STILL LIFE WITH WOODPECKER.

John Rocco (New York City): "Ron Whitehead is the comet crashing outlaw shaman lunatic poet who keeps us all together!" Thanks, Ron!

Pierson, Studio 502, 502.230.1772, bookings@louisvillestudio502.com

www.louisvillestudio502.com
thanks. hope to visit practice some lightninged hangoutology with all of you soon.

(from back cover of new book): "I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom & pure mathematics." Hunter S. Thompson

keep Louisville (& the world) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

Ron, lost highway outlaw poet

we are The Storm Generation

plus facebook & facebook fan club

cell 502 475 7772

Los Angeles Center for Digital Art

featuring Contemporary Artist / Poet Russel Hulsey & Beat Poet / Author / Educator Ron Whitehead

among many many other Artists / Poets / Celebs / Creative Industry Thinkers from around the world>>>

"FEED_BACK"

July 8, 2010
Reception July 8, 8:45 - 10:00pm

Broadcast LIVE from Derby City Espresso | Louisville KY | USA/filmed by Amanda Arnold

Forty-eight artists from over 18 countries are gathering at LACDA via the Live@808 networked performance space. Live@808 is a custom web application where realtime video, audio, texting and countless other media collide and intermix in a playful and exciting environment facilitated by emergent technology. The live webcams and video feeds projected in the gallery will be accompanied by a multi-screen installation of video shorts looping on monitors throughout the space.

Make feedback. Be noise.

—Rex Bruce, July 2010

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russelhulsey.com | russelhulseyprojects.com

"love is the ultimate outlaw" from Tom Tobbins' STILL LIFE WITH WOODPECKER.

John Rocco (New York City): "Ron Whitehead is the comet crashing outlaw shaman lunatic poet who keeps us all together!" Thanks, Ron!

Pierson, Studio 502, 502.230.1772, bookings@louisvillestudio502.com

www.louisvillestudio502.com
thanks. hope to visit practice some lightninged hangoutology with all of you soon.

(from back cover of new book): "I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom & pure mathematics." Hunter S. Thompson

keep Louisville (& the world) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

Ron, lost highway outlaw poet

we are The Storm Generation

plus facebook & facebook fan club

cell 502 475 7772

"love is the ultimate outlaw" from Tom Tobbins' STILL LIFE WITH WOODPECKER.

John Rocco (New York City): "Ron Whitehead is the comet crashing outlaw shaman lunatic poet who keeps us all together!" Thanks, Ron!

Pierson, Studio 502, 502.230.1772, bookings@louisvillestudio502.com

www.louisvillestudio502.com
thanks. hope to visit practice some lightninged hangoutology with all of you soon.

(from back cover of new book): "I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom & pure mathematics." Hunter S. Thompson

keep Louisville (& the world) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

Ron, lost highway outlaw poet

www.hollandbrownbooks.com

we are The Storm Generation

plus facebook & facebook fan club

cell 502 475 7772

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

July 7th, 2010

Holland Brown Books

Releases

Ron Whitehead’s 20th Book, 30th CD, 1st DVD

Louisville, Kentucky, USA - Independent publisher Holland Brown Books releases poet and educator Ron Whitehead’s 20th effort in August.

THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting,

the wilderness poems,

is Whitehead’s latest book collection of poetry. This limited edition package includes a CD of the author’s reading of the book, as well as a film/DVD with the author’s reading, in

addition to exclusive, never-before-seen interviews and excerpts.

The book/cd/dvd package will be released at The Green Building August 19th, from 6-8 p.m, with a reading and Q&A. There will also be an opportunity to have copies signed by the author. The Green Building is located at 732 East Market Street, Louisville, Kentucky, USA.

A second opening will be held at the Rudyard Kipling on August 27th, from 10p–2am. This evening event will feature performances from poets, musicians, and spoken word artists. The Rudyard Kipling is located at 422 West Oak Street, Louisville, Kentucky, USA.

Ron Whitehead is poet, writer, editor, publisher, organizer, scholar, professor. He

grew up on a farm in Kentucky. He attended The University of Louisville and

Oxford University. As poet and writer he is the recipient of numerous state,

national, and international awards/prizes including The All Kentucky Poetry Prize

and The Yeats Club of Oxford's Prize for Poetry. He was nominated, twice, for The

Pulitzer Prize. In 2006 Dr. John Rocco (NYC) nominated Ron for The Nobel Prize in

Literature. He was recently inducted into his high school's (Ohio County High School, western Kentucky, where Bluegrass Music was born) Hall of Fame, representing his 1968 graduating class.

Here are a few, of thousands, of global testimonials to Ron and his work:

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (City Lights, San Francisco): "Ron Whitehead, out there in Kentucky, out there where the tall heroes used to grown, is sowing the dragon's teeth of new heroics. He is a real visionary!"

Yevgeny Yevtushenko (Russia): "Ron Whitehead is a prophet. He is one of the world's greatest poet prophets. What an inspiring honor to hear him read here at Nicaragua's International Poetry Festival!"

David Amram (New York): "Ron Whitehead is already acknowledged by many of his Elders to be a Major Literary Figure and the epitome of the work ethic! Ron and I have collaborated, recorded and performed at majore festivals and universities all over the USA and Europe. Ron Whitehead is an extraordinary motivator who inspires young people to pursue the highest standards, to work tirelessly and to celebrate the intellect by constant study of Classic Literature while remaining Creative. At 73, I continue to learn from him."

Frank Messina (New York): "Ron Whitehead is one of my closest allies. He is a man of wisdom and tolerance. Ron and I debate over political issues, and sometimes he's even right. But, in the end, we're still friends. There is only one man I want to fight along my side the the trenches of life and his name is Ron Whitehead. He is one of the last warriors left in America."

Carolyn Cassady (England): "I had heard people talk about Ron Whitehead for years so when I heard him read at The Ocean on the last night of The London International Poetry and Song Festival I understood why. His poems, and his reading of them, are pure genius."

Blanca Castellon (Nicaragua): "Ron Whitehead was the hero of our 2009 International Poetry Festival."

Casey Cyr (Connecticut): "Ron Whitehead transcends even the devestatingly hard lessons of our times and speaks to the only true lessons, the eternal ones. He cuts right through the chaos that comprises our chattering thoughts. Ron Whitehead asks: Can art matter? Is it merely a gold exchange for the rich? Art IS the Holy Grail. And at the deepest primal level, everybody knows it. Only a few, like Ron Whitehead, can perceive it as clearly and communicate it while in his incarnate human being."

Annalisa Papaleo (Italy): "Ron Whitehead is an alchemist of language, a magician of poetry, a King of Words...I am honored to translate his work into Italian."

Theo Dorgan (Ireland): "Ron Whitehead is a one man Atlantic bridge."

Michael Dean Odin Pollock (Iceland): "Ron Whitehead is The World Ambassador of Poetry."

Douglad Brinkley (Texas): "Ron Whitehead is one of the most exciting poets in America. Poet and literary activist, he is one of the great poets of his generation."

Bob Holman (New York): "Spoken word at its purest and most fulfilling. Ron's combination of full drawl, magnolia sweet and Wendell Berry's Mad Farmer's blue hot rage, vitally fashions a new post in the American ear."

Allen Ginsberg (New York): "Ron Whitehead is energetic Bodhisattvic poetic spirit! Happy to see and read so much poetry energy!"

David Amram (New York): "The first time I heard Ron Whitehead read I felt what I imagine those who heard Abraham Lincoln deliver The Gettysbug Address felt. He was the sensation of The New York Festival."

Thomas Nord (Kentucky): "Ron Whitehead eats, sleeps, and breathes poetry."

Nick Obis (Ohio): "Ron Whitehead, I thank you and Quincey Troupe for headlining the University of Dayton's Annual Literature Conference. Friday evening was astounding, certainly nothing my students had ever heard! I heard so many wonderful comments from them in the following days and weeks about all the various aspects of your performance, with your group The Viking Hillbilly Apocalypse Revue. I can still hear the Icelandic rapping, the ambient music, the powerful words. It was a staggering moving experience. I've never seen anyone anywhere break dance at a poetry reading! But what moved me more than the poetry and music was your patience, kindness, and understanding. I was so nervous before the festival, and so relieved by your sympathy and easygoingness. You are truly a remarkable person. Thanks for teaching me to Never Give Up.

Tommy Gaffney (Oregon): "Spending time with Ron Whitehead changed my life. The whole damn experience, from the wine-soaked meeting to the bourbon-infused book signing, which he so graciously hosted. It's all still with me everyday. Not sure how to repay him for all that. I open my yahoo account every morning hoping for more news and updates on his mad adventures. What can I say, he's an inspiring man. I've been spreading the word about his work around Portland, Oregon. I host a writers group and our first assignment was to listen to and discuss his TAPPING MY OWN PHONE and I WILL NOT BOW DOWN. After the listening, I said 'this is how this shit is done!' Ron Whitehead's influence crosses mountain ranges. Thanks Ron for being you!!!"

Paul K (Kentucky): "Ron Whitehead is America's greatest living poet."

Hunter S. Thompson (Colorado): "I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is

crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure

mathematics."

Copies of the book are available at the author’s shows, and at

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if you're interested in Ron Whitehead appearing/performing/reading/giving talks/presentations at your college/university/school/museum/festival/club, anywhere round the world, contact Shawn Pierson, Studio 502, 502.230.1772, bookings@louisvillestudio502.com

keep Louisville (& the world) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

Ron Whitehead

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Carson McCullers THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER and Jack Kerouac's BIG SUR two of the most brutally honest and heartwrenching heartbreaking books i've ever read. and. i respect so much the courage it took them to write those books. The heart is the loneliest hunter of all. so hard to live with so much deep deep heartbreak. regardless of my anger, bout my own failures, bout all the injustices of the world, all i've ever wanted, all i ever want is for love and forgiveness to have their way, for us all, despite our honorable differences, for all of us to recognize and respect our common bonds, for all of us to forgive ourselves and each other, and to love and accept each other as we are, and to live in peace, to find and be happy.

Ron Whitehead, july 13, 2010

kentucky, where diamonds are created

p.s. i have no complaints, only open hearted thanks for my family and friends and allies and guides and angels and teachers and students and mentors and enemies and debtors, i only have open hearted thanks for each moment event person being, past present future, seen and unseen, who i've ever been blessed to come in contact with. i am, finally, thankful for this blessed opportunity called life, this gifted opportunity to learn and to grow my soul. thank you. all of you.

for everything.

love and pain

"for what often seems like eternity, if we have even once opened our hearts to love, then, eventually inevitably, had then had it broken, and yes it's always 50/50 we always help enable the breaking, for what often feels appears to be eternal, love and pain walk hand in hand. rest assured that when, after your heart has been broken, often time and again, once you/i/we wake up to the realization that pain is a necessary part of the equation, our soul guiding us ever deeper to the heart of unlimited unconditional open soft gentle kind patient forgiving giving nurturing accepting encouraging thankful bleeding broken healed and stronger more loving compassionate than ever heart heart of all hearts the one heart that binds holds embraces all hearts in light and love. let us let go let down release all the defensive walls walls that we've built created, in self defense against more pain, walls that surround our hearts guarding us against new love and pain, let's let go of everything cept our open soft unguarded gentle kind wise discerning bleeding peaceful healed forgiving giving thankful loving compassionate hearts...then we'll recognize we'll know that we have finally, after the long arduous journey, that we are all finally home, home at last, no longer lost, no longer in pain, but home, we've arrived, yet again, into the warm embrace of home sweet home."
Ron Whitehead, aha poet
kentucky, New Jerusalem, where diamonds are created
"p.s. if anybody can spare a couple of fine point sharpees i'll barter you for some hangoutology, especially if you bring some blood of Christ blood of the poet red wine
p.p.s. part of my 1-2 hour morning spiritual practice is that i visualize levitating over an open sarcophagus in the upper chamber of lightninged radiant light filled golden crystal tipped great pyramid (visions started occurring & growing in early days of meditative practices when i lived in Phoenix Arizona). this experience becomes as real as sitting here speaking with you. i have had, and continue to have, amazing brilliant hued epiphanies awakenings realizations there. this morning i realized that the open empty sarcophagus (well sometimes it's jewel filled) represents the promise that eventually there will be no more death that actually the illusion of death has already ceased to exist that so-called death is merely a doorway opening to new experiences
p.p.p.s. and i have a strong growing feeling that the earth's magnetic poles have already started the avalanching shifting slowly steadily but picking up momentum and then, as in the blinking of an eye, maybe 12/21/12, Kentucky will, in an instant, become a tropical paradise, much life Hawaii is today. and the pure in heart, regardless of what anybody says or thinks about us now, or does to us, the pure in heart will see and know God (use whatever name you choose/same lightninged energy). the Time and the Half-Time have now passed. The Storm, the great transition, has arrived. Are you part of The Storm? do you choose to be motivated by fear or by love. i choose love. i am, as some of you are, The Storm. the necessary inevitable Storm of Love. Compassion and Self-Awareness are essential.
p.p.p.s. sending blessings light and love to two friends who just crossed over: Tuli Kupferberg (yes The Fugs) and Tom Johnston (shaman of wolf clan). may you both be guided by light and love to where you want and need to go."
Ron Whitehead, aha poet
july 14, 2010
kentucky, where diamonds are created

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Press Release for Steve Tomes Benefit tonite: Ron & many others performing. thanks to Angel for making this happen. & including me. hope to see all of you there!!!!

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Ron, outlaw poet & damn proud of it!!!

kentucky, where diamonds are created

Thank you so much for helping. This is all the information on the Benefit we talked about yesterday.

Steve Tomes, 40, from Austin, IN was a Bass player for an original band called "High Water Mark," from Louisville, KY. Steve was traveling with his fiance and three of their children on Saturday June 12, 2010 when he got out of their van to pick up a turtle in the middle of the road. After Steve had safely gotten the turtle across the road, he was crossing in front of the van when it was hit from behind, striking Steve and propelling the van 60 feet. After arriving at UofL hospital and receiving two surgeries, he was pronounced brain dead and passed away early Tuesday morning, June 15. Steve had 6 children and a fiance and they were already in financial dire straights. I am holding a benefit show for Steve's family at Jack's (located at 3308 Plaza Drive in New Albany, IN) on Sunday July 18, 2010. The list of performers are: The Big Rock Show, Jefferson Tarc Bus, Scary Uncle, Wax Factory, Gypsy Ring, Trust Divided, Stand, Wyndell Williams, and Outlaw Poet Ron Whitehead. We will be holding raffles and auctions. Local business owners such as; Chip Adams and The Louisville School of Rock, Lancaster Cafe, Tucker's, Curves of Floyds Knobs, Asgard Ink, Monarch Distributors, Karen Lee of Gypsy Ring, Jack's and Strandz and threadz have already donated toward the raffles and auction. Anyone else that would like to donate can contact me Angel Hall at 502-689-2058. The donation will be $5/person at the door. This event will last all day and evening.
Thank you so much for helping us to get the word out. I hope that getting it out in all the papers will help make this benefit a success and raise lots of money for the family.

Thank you,
Angeli Hall and Tomes Family

"i stand chastised purged broken bleeding hearted beyond sorrow lonely beyond gone

in this sunrise sunset red blue silver gold ineffable numinous

i stand enlargedmurmuringhearted healed overflowing love joy compassion bloody

crystalclear river alchemicalfire unconditional love thankfilled gratefulled

for every trialtribulation for all painsuffering lovecompassion forgivinggiving for all blessedgifts every momentevent breath personbeing seenunseen pastpresentfuture eternally heartsoulentirebeing filled thankful for this preciousgemterriblybeautiful opportunity to grow my soul filled life."

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"i stand chastised purged broken bleeding hearted beyond sorrow lonely beyond gone

in this sunrise sunset red blue silver gold ineffable numinous

i stand enlargedmurmuringhearted healed overflowing love joy compassion bloody

crystalclear river alchemicalfire unconditional love thankfilled gratefulled

Ron Whitehead, riding with rebel Jesus outlaw poet

Kentucky, New Jerusalem, where diamonds are created

aggression will never stifle truth

502 475 7772

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Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

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keep Louisville (& the world) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

Happy Birthday my friend and brother Yevgeny!!!!!!! (we read & practiced some hangoutology in Nicaragua @ amazing International Poetry Festival Granada 130 poets from 50 countries all 7 continents. the beautiful brilliant Lorena Lobita Wolfman was my translator. my friend Allen Ginsberg introduced me to Yevgeny years ago in NYC)

Poet gives house, art to Russia

Associated Press

Peredelkno, Russia

Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russia's most renowned living poet, has given his house and an extensive art collection to the state as a museum.
The two-story museum in the writer's colony of Peredelkino, just outside Moscow, contains paintings by Marc Chagall, Joan Miro, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.
The museum also exhibits Yevtushenko's photographs from his travels in Siberia, China, Italy, and the Middle East, and items collected during his life, including Mark Twain's cane.
Yevtushenko, who opened the museum at a ceremony Saturday, came to prominence during the Soviet Union's so-called cultural "thaw" under Nikita Khrushchev.
One of his best-known poems is 1961's "Babi Yar," which denounces anti-Semitism and the failure of Soviet authorities to build a monument commemorating the Nazi massacre of Jews in Kiev.
Yevtushenko, who turns 77 Sunday, now divides his time between Moscow and Tulsa, Okla., where he teaches poetry at the University of Tulsa.
Before cutting the ribbon, Yevtushenko read his recent poem, "U.S.S.R. - FRG 1955. (Reportage from past century)," about a football game that brought Russian war veterans and Germands together 10 years after the end of World War II.
He expressed hope in the future. "I grew up during Cold War, now it is time of 'Cold Peace,'" Yevtushenko said.
Sergei Arkhangelov, director of the State Museum of Contemporary History of Russia, said poets in Russia have a vital social role.
"A poet in Russia is not just a poet; it is a role of an activist," he said.

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"i stand chastised purged broken bleeding hearted beyond sorrow lonely beyond gone

in this sunrise sunset red blue silver gold ineffable numinous

i stand enlargedmurmuringhearted healed overflowing love joy compassion bloody

crystalclear river alchemicalfire unconditional love thankfilled gratefulled

Ron Whitehead, riding with rebel Jesus outlaw poet

Kentucky, New Jerusalem, where diamonds are created

aggression will never stifle truth

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

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philologically pseudo-hieroglyphic

the latest labels names vacuous words

tossed swung flung shot at me

include pious eccentric oh and

i've been questioned by authorities

in high places demanding to know

what or who gives me the authority

to call myself how dare i call myself

an outlaw poet and well my response

to all my enemies and critics

besides god blessum but fuckum

can be found in the next empty line

_____________________________

Ron Whitehead aha

eccentric pious outlaw poet and damn proud of it

kentucky, where diamond studded outlaws are borned and dwelleth

july 20, 2010

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P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

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Ron Whitehead, riding with rebel Jesus outlaw poet

Kentucky, New Jerusalem, where diamonds are created

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

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keep Louisville (& the world) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

full count bottom 9th 2 out tie game i'm at the plate

for daddy & mama & my brother brad & my uncle roy

& my sons nathanial & dylan & my daughter rani &

my little league coach jackie maddox & my brothers

by other mothers tommy james & frank messina

& mark reese & the magical mystery tour leader

kentucky colonel david amram & jack i said jack kerouac

full count bottom 9th 2 out tie game i'm at the plate

bat in hand knowing fully confident knowing i'm gonna

line drive the next pitch cause i know the pitcher &

know he's gonna fire a fastball low knee high at pinpoint

edge outer corner of plate & i know i'm gonna drive it

line drive it right between 1st & 2nd & bring in one of

my many best friends from 3rd base & we're gonna

by god win this game then i come to from my daydream

dreaming bout days past gone baby gone like so many

of my heroes pee wee reese jackie robinson dizzy dean

satchel paige ty cobb so many others gone baby gone

and yeah hell yeah i love baseball but now i'm closer than

ever to joining my heroes at that glorious how great thou

art game in the sky but right now i'm in the upper deck last

row next to the stars watching the game with my fellow birds

watching the game way down there and i'm half blind but i

still see every play with my intuition and i'm half deaf but i

feel every crack of the bat deep in my heart and thank god

that not only am i an athlete a true believer lover of the game

i'm also a gifted man in every way what with such a huge

vast brilliantly hued family and friends plus oh yeah oh hell

yeah the other gift the gift that has taken this baseball loving

kentucky farmboy all over the world the blessed gift of

poetry so hell yeah as long as there's a mic and a stage

i'll be there still in the game full count bottom 9th 2 out tie

game i'm at the plate singing my poems my songs to you

my dear sweet you thank you for listening my dear sweet

family and friends thank you and long live all hail baseball

and poetry and songs and family and friends and hangoutology

and long may you live and please please remember to always

always be thankful for the game be thankful thankful thankful

for the holy for the sacred game game the game

sending baseball love poems always

your friend forever

ron yes ronnie paige whitehead

baseball loving kentucky outlaw farmboy poet

& damn proud of it

july 21, 2010

kentucky, where diamonds including baseball diamonds are created

aha

new poem from new book Ron's working on titled

Prayers for The Modern Traveler (title & book suggested by Mark Reese)

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Kentucky, New Jerusalem, where diamonds are created

502 475 7772

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P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

s t e p h a n i e @t h e g r e e n b u i l d i n g . c o m

keep Louisville (& the world) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

to check out new Ron videos go to

Ron Whitehead, riding with rebel Jesus outlaw poet

Kentucky, New Jerusalem, where diamonds are created

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

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keep Louisville (& the world) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

thanks Man! appurciate it. will be a great time. your name's on the guest list. have tightened up the act a lot. worked out a bunch of the kinks. given much thought into what the audience wants to see and hear. every show i play, i keep refining routine a bit more. some guy told me one time "if people don't like it, then it ain't art." i wanted to disagree with him, because most people can kiss my ass, but i'm learning more and more now that i want to make popular music. pop music. music people dig. Johnny Cash said, "i don't write country music, I write popular music." if it was good enough for him, hell, i'll take it, too. i guess the best way to let people know about the shows, is to go to the following facebook event pages and invite whichever of your facebook friends you feel like.

links:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=137763466248714&index=1

thanks again Ron! hope you is r doing well!

press release:

Several Hundred People performing 2 shows this week!

First Show

"Live Lunch" July 23rd at

About Live Lunch WFPK Radio Louisville hosts “Live Lunch” every Friday at noon. Come see your favorite local and touring artists perform live at the Louisville Public Media performance space at 619 S. Fourth Street in downtown Louisville. Due to fire code regulations, space in the performance studio is limited to 70 people.Doors open at 11:30 am. Brown bag your lunch, and join us for this free performance. If you’re a member of WFPK at the $52 level or higher, call to reserve a free lunch from the City Café! (First 50 callers receive a lunch.) Also, Family level members ($120) and above can call to enter for a chance to reserve a seat for the show! (Reserved seating is limited.) Call (502) 814-6565 to reserve your lunch or to enter for a chance to reserve a seat; lunch reservations will be taken from 1pm the Friday before the show to noon the Thursday before the show. Reserved seating entries will be taken from 1pm the Friday before the show to noon the Monday before the show. If you can’t make the performance in person, listen live at 91.9 WFPK Radio Louisville.

Read more: http://www.wfpk.org/live-lunch/#ixzz0uMGRjs5g

@ Zanzabar Saturday, July 24th, 9pm

so's if then y'all is down roun Germantown hear sounds of pure energy exploding like rounds, thens thats us hounds bounds for the grounds. we's be rollin. makes the drums goes pounds. opening set dApHnE lUsTeR & the LuMiNaRiEs from 9 to 10, then, we'll be your friend, from 10 till midnight. don't fight. no cussing spitting, just dancing n hugging is all that's permitted. you we look forward to seeing, naw meaning?

to check out new Ron videos go to

Ron Whitehead, riding with rebel Jesus outlaw poet

Kentucky, New Jerusalem, where diamonds are created

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

s t e p h a n i e @t h e g r e e n b u i l d i n g . c o m

keep Louisville (& the world) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

to check out new Ron videos go to

Ron Whitehead, riding with rebel Jesus outlaw poet

Kentucky, New Jerusalem, where diamonds are created

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

s t e p h a n i e @t h e g r e e n b u i l d i n g . c o m

keep Louisville (& the world) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

greyhound into & out of tennessee

on a greyhound bus we rode

the viking hillbilly apocalypse revue

an outlaw band we were and be

on a greyhound bus we rode

into nashville tennessee straight

but staggerin from kentucky on

a greyhound bus we rode guitars

johnny cash jesus olafur and me

we be outlaws damn proud to be

we rode right but all wrong direct

with guns and bullets arrivin 3am

drinkin rattlesnake blood chasin

it with lightnin at 3am arrivin greyhound

station nashville tennessee gonna

determined to be popular as viking

hillbilly new jerusalem outlaws in

nashville tennessee riding with rebel

jesus johnny cash guitars olafur and

me well yes we looked suspicious

and it sure as hell didn't take long

for the cops to stop and bust us

long before we made it to the ryman

in nashville tennessee so now we're

gettin off the greyhound return ticket

free yeah they shipped our asses back

to kentucky to the kentucky state

penitentiary so here we sit outside

eddyville without our guitars in prison

cells rebel jesus johnny cash no

guitars olafur and me and yes i admit

that we're outlaws damn proud to be

and so by god outlaws we'll always

by god be

olafur gunnarsson & ron whitehead

july 22, 2010

aha

everybody can just kiss my ass publishing & recordings

a published in heaven book & cd

from Ron's next book he's working on titled

PRAYERS for THE MODERN TRAVELER

to check out new Ron videos go to

Ron Whitehead, riding with rebel Jesus outlaw poet

Kentucky, New Jerusalem, where diamonds are created

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

s t e p h a n i e @t h e g r e e n b u i l d i n g . c o m

keep Louisville (& the world) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

to check out new Ron videos go to

Ron Whitehead, riding with rebel Jesus outlaw poet

Kentucky, New Jerusalem, where diamonds are created

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

s t e p h a n i e @t h e g r e e n b u i l d i n g . c o m

http://www.youtube.com/studio502sessions

keep Louisville (& the world) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

for immediate release (hope to see everyone there):

handful, of many, of Ron's upcoming shows:

july 30th: Scott Shuffitt Resistance Art Exhibit Mellwood Arts Center featuring

outlaw poet Ron Whithead and dj extraordinaire Matt Anthony spinning world wax

august 7th: Ron guest celebrity @ benefit music poetry arts pillow fight concert. Dusty June producing event, w/others, to help children with incurable (so far) diseases. more info on way. great cause. see facebook for more info.

august 8th: Ron featured guest outlaw poet @ Stevie Ray's music benefit concert. celebrating life/work of Dennis Erwin. many bands/musicians. more info on way. great cause. check facebook for more info.

august 19th: Ron's 20th book 30th cd 1st dvd 4 new videos release by Gill Scott Holland's Holland Brown Books @ The Green Building, East Market, Louisville, Kentucky 6 to 8pm.

www.hollandbrownbooks.com. music/poetry/Q&A/food wine reception & signing. Ron's newest work, THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems

is unlike anything he's ever done.

august 25th: Ron featured poet Holler Poets, Lexington Kentucky, led by Eric (UK prof/author/&like Ron, anti-mountaintop removal activist). more info to come.

august 27th: Ron's 2nd book/cd/dvd release this one mostly music but also includes spoken word & Resistance art @ The Rudyard Kipling (Louisville's Ryman) plus signing. hosted by Ron. 10pm to 1:30am. performer list to come.

august 28th: Ron featured Iroquois Amphitheatre Annual Kentucky Harvest some of louisville best rap hip hop hardcore rock blues performers bands including hellyes

outlaw poet Ron Whithead & God's Open Nerve Storm Generation AllStar Band.

october 16th: GONZO FEST @ The Monkey Wrench. amazing shut down the street 2 stages bands spoken word Gonzo billboard and Hunter statue unveiling Resistance art beyond beyond amazing performers. more info to come. event produced & hosted by Monkey Wrench owner Denny Humphrey & outlaw poet Hunter friend Ron Whitehead with help from Scott Shuffitt, Wax Fang, Flying Dog Beer & many others...

stay tuned

to check out new Ron 4 new videos go to

Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet and damn proud of it

Kentucky, New Jerusalem, where diamonds are created

502 475 7772

ron@tappingmyownphone.com

www.hollandbrownbooks.com

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

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"Can a poet be an outlaw?" just picked up copies of 1st run limited edition new book/cd/dvd, THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, (my 20th book)/(my 30th cd)/(my 1st dvd). beyond beautiful, unlike anything i've ever done. so deeply honored. being brought out by Gill Scott Holland & The Green Building & Holland Brown Books. price $25. you can order them now from me (i'll have them at shows) or email me @ tmopinsight@yahoo.com or call 502 475 7772. or order them from Holland Brown Books www.hollandbrownbooks.com. press releases & 4 promo videos will be sent out round world within week. plus review & feature article copies of book/cd/dvd are available (only 50) for review & feature articles. contact editor Stephanie Brothers, www.hollandbrownbooks.com, to receive copy. plus, if you're interested in Ron, lost highway outlaw poet aka The Storm & the boneman, appearing/performing/reading/giving talk at your college/university/school/museum/festival/club etc, anywhere round the world, contact Shawn Pierson, Club 502, Contact Information: Studio502 / Shawn Pierson

Ph: 502.230.1772

bookings@louisvillestudio502.com

www.louisvillestudio502.com
. thanks. hope to visit practice some lightninged hangoutology with all of you soon.

(from back cover of new book): "I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom & pure mathematics." Hunter S. Thompson

keep Louisville (& the world) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

Ron, lost highway outlaw poet

we are The Storm Generation

plus facebook & facebook fan club

cell 502 475 7772

"love is the ultimate outlaw" from Tom Tobbins' STILL LIFE WITH WOODPECKER.

John Rocco (New York City): "Ron Whitehead is the comet crashing outlaw shaman lunatic poet who keeps us all together!" Thanks, Ron!

to check out new Ron videos go to

Ron Whitehead, riding with rebel Jesus outlaw poet

Kentucky, New Jerusalem, where diamonds are created

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Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

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Ron's new book reviewed in todays 7/31/10 Courier-Journal, Kentucky's main newspaper.

The Courier-Journal

Saturday July 31, 2010 (Daddy would have been 82 today. he crossed over a year ago. what a precious gift to receive this review on his birthday!)

(front section of Courier, inside back cover, book review page)

Keith Runyon, editor

(photo of front cover of Ron's new book)

Ky. poet's

collection

filled with

longing

By Mary Popham

Special to The Courier-Journal

BOOK REVIEW

The Storm

Generation

Manifesto

By Ron Whitehead

Holland Brown

First edition in-

cludes audio

recording and film

of the recording

and interviews

58 pp. $25.00

to order go to

1st book release at

The Green Building

E. Market Street Louisville

August 19th 6 to 8pm.

2nd book release at

The Rudyard Kipling

Oak Street Louisville

August 27th 10pm to 1:30am

The voice of the narrator in

"The Storm Generation

Manifesto; and On Part-

ing, The Wilderness

Poems," by Kentucky poet Ron

Whitehead, is of loneliness and

longing. Sometimes his words

are like memory seizures, burst

from a light strobe. One such

poem that I find particularly

intriguing is an alphabetical

listing in "woodsmoke." With

no punctuation, the word choice

is not for the images alone but

also for the sounds of the syllables.

A flash, a signal, and then the word

is overtaken by another - like

woodsmoke itself:

"amethyst asphodel azure bronze

copper

diamond dust ebony emerald

gold indigo
jade jasper lavender opal pearl

pine resin

sapphire silver turquoise water

wine woods woodsmoke"

Whitehead's poetry often re-

peats thoughts of Daddy, Mama,

dreams, home at last, home to

home, going for home - sur-

rounded by other wistful, nostal-

gic images: a coal-train whistle, a

farmhouse, railroad tracks and

rusted bridge, a bobwhite, songs

filled with love, a bamboo pole

and catfish.

This poet has traveled all

across America from the foun-

tain in St. James Court, Louisville

to far countries, giving more than

6,000 readings. In Russia, Ice-

land, England, Ireland, Scotland

and Nicaragua he searches for

spiritual brothers, "cosmic

grace." He met His Holiness The

Dalai Lama and co-wrote "Never

Give Up":

"...Too much energy in the

world

Is spent developing the mind

Instead of the heart

Develop the heart..."

Whitehead co-wrote this col-

lection's title poem, "The Storm

Generation Manifesto," with Ice-

landic novelist and friend Olafur

Gunnarsson, during a climb to

the top of The Viking Mountain

in Iceland. It speaks to the gentler

side of "the honest, fierce, brutal"

poets to expose the "non-violent

spiritual warriors." Excerpts

from this long poem:

"...we are creative expression

we blow away lies and injustice

...we are kind

we have soft hearts...we are

God's open nerve..."

One of my favorite poems, ti-

tled "go down," may have come

from this trip to Iceland. Like

many other poems in the book, it

is very small with a huge mes-

sage: "sometimes necessary/ to

go down/ when climbing/

mountain."

But the book ends with a very

long poem, "The Revolutionary

Theatre of the Divine Imagina-

tion." It is a longing, a prayer, a

dedication for "all who find the

courage to be their dream." For

the full impact of the poet's per-

formance skills, the first edition

includes a CD and DVD.

Mary Popham is a writer and critic

who lives in Louisville.

to check out new Ron videos go to

Ron Whitehead, riding with rebel Jesus outlaw poet

Kentucky, New Jerusalem, where diamonds are created

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

s t e p h a n i e @t h e g r e e n b u i l d i n g . c o m

keep Louisville (& the world) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

to check out new Ron videos go to

Ron Whitehead, riding with rebel Jesus outlaw poet

Kentucky, New Jerusalem, where diamonds are created

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

s t e p h a n i e @t h e g r e e n b u i l d i n g . c o m

keep Louisville (& the world) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

Frank Messina (NYC/Jersey City/NY Mets Poet Laureate): "Ron, congratulations on what I believe is your most courageous and beautiful work, THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems. The poems are old age wisdom poems of reflection. I read the entire book in an hour. Afterwards felt a profound sense of sadness. Beautiful work, deeply touching, poignant sad, sometimes hilarious yet always brilliant.

I know how deeply effected you were by your daddy's death. I am glad you delved into this often avoided topic of the life cycle. You leaned in and wrestled with the beasts...and triumphed. This is perhaps your best work ever.

The DVD is excellently produced. Classic Ron Whitehead. Keeping the conversations with the studio engineer was a briliant idea. Hilarious moments, brilliant moments. One day beyond your time, young people will put on the DVD and see 'that Kentucky madman outlaw poet' in all his mighty glory.

You said you expect this to be your final work. While I hope that isn't true, it'll be a perfect conclusion to a profound and magically prolific life.

Congratulations and Big Hugs from your Sicilian brother in Jersey City."

Frank Messina

to check out new Ron videos go to

kickass 7am 8/06/10 Live phone/radio/internet interview from Ireland to Kentucky & beyond Sean Callahan interviewing me

Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet

Kentucky, where diamonds are created

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Olafur Gunnarsson (Iceland): Ron Whitehead's newest book/cd/dvd, THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, is by far his finest work...and anyone who contradicts that is a damn fool...if such a fool exists. The Storm Generation has truly been born!

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

s t e p h a n i e @t h e g r e e n b u i l d i n g . c o m

keep Louisville (& the world) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

Hey! I'd like to invite everyone

to go to my brand new website at

http://rbmorris.com

and check it out!

And I have a brand new book of verse

Keeping the Bees Employed

which I am trying to bring to press right now.

For this I NEED your help.

I'm asking everyone who can to make

a pre-purchase of copies of the book.

This will allow me to print up the first run of the books,

and those who pre-purchase will be the first to receive

signed copies of this volume of life and love.

to check out new Ron videos go to

kickass 7am 8/06/10 Live phone/radio/internet interview from Ireland to Kentucky & beyond Sean Callahan interviewing me

Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet

Kentucky, where diamonds are created

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

s t e p h a n i e @t h e g r e e n b u i l d i n g . c o m

keep Louisville (& the world) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

Gill Scott Holland, The Green Building, and Holland Brown Books www.hollandbrownbooks.com (to order copies or purchase them @ Ron's shows), in conjunction with Published in Heaven, The Global Literary Renaissance, and The Moving Mystery Theatre,

is proud to present the 1st of 2 Louisville Kentucky releases of

Ron Whitehead's new book (his 20th)/cd (his 30th/dvd (his 1st)/

plus 4 new videos.

THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems

the 1st official release will take place thorsday August 19th 2010 from 5:50-8:30pm at The Green Building, 732 East Market Street, Louisville Kentucky (2nd release will be held on August 27th @ The Rudyard Kipling. that Press Release will be sent out within 24 hours). seating capacity @ The Green Building is only 75 so please arrive a few minutes early. the event is free and open to the public. a brief Q&A then hors d'oeuvre/red wine reception & book signing will follow.

list of the following live performances plus art work:

5:50-6:10pm = Karen Brumley will play bagpipes during arrival of guests.

6:10pm = brief welcome from Gill Scott Holland and Ron Whitehead

6:12-6:20 = Tyrone Cotton, 2 songs

6:20-6:30 = Paul K, 2 songs

6:30-6:35 = Russel Hulsey, 2 poems

6:35-6:45 = Scott Mertz, 2 songs

6:45-6:55 = Hannah Daugherty & Sarah Ward = 2 accapella mountain songs

6:55-7 = Rani Whitehead Newman, poem intro for her Dad

7-7:30 = Ron reads from new book accompanied by Middle Eastern groove band GNUMA featuring Andy Cook (percussion & didgeridoo), James Vaughn (cello), Ray Wegimont (guitar) with special guests Scott Moore (violin/fiddle), Karen Brumley (bagpipes), and world dancers Rebekah Trigg & Angela Wood.

7:30-7:45 = brief Q&A with author Ron Whitehead

7:45-8:30 = food/wine/book signing hangoutology

Artwork by Scott Shuffitt, Russel Hulsey, Howard Wilson, Emil Walton, Shawna Khalily, Andy Cook, Jen Burks, Jeremy Dixon.

Official photographers = Jen Burks & Brook & Ulysses Sandidge

Official filmmakers = Amanda Arnold & Scott Shuffitt

Special Thanks to WFPK 91.9 www.wfpk.org Radio Louisville DJ for playing Ron's Off The Record entire week starting 8/16/10 plus Marion will be performing 2 songs @ 2nd book/cd/dvd release August 27th @ The Rudyard Kipling.

Special Thanks to Mary Popham for wonderful Courier-Journal review of Ron's new book/cd/dvd. Rave reviews are coming in from round the planet.

More, by John Rocco/NYC & others round world, on the way.

After these 2 Official Releases, with the help of Ron's new booking agent/manager, Shawn Pierson, and with the help of everyone at Holland Brown Books Ron will be doing a local regional national international yearlong tour, performing with musicians and bands wherever he travels, culminating June 2011 in Morocco (with The Joujouka Musicians in The Rif Mountains) & Iceland (where he'll co-produce the 1st ever Storm Generation Festival with Olafur Gunnarsson, Iceland's leading novelist, and other Icelandic friends who are some of Iceland's, and the world's, leading poets writers musicians filmmakers photographers). After the festival Ron will climb The Viking Mountain again.

Be Your Dream!!!!

Life is a Brief and Precious Gift. No Complaints, only Thanks!

I Thank All of You with All My Heart!!!!!

Ron Whitehead

8/10/10

see you on the 19th.

to check out new Ron videos go to

kickass 7am 8/06/10 Live phone/radio/internet interview from Ireland to Kentucky & beyond Sean Callahan interviewing me

Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet

Kentucky, where diamonds are created

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

s t e p h a n i e @t h e g r e e n b u i l d i n g . c o m

keep Louisville (& the world) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

to check out new Ron videos go to

kickass 7am 8/06/10 Live phone/radio/internet interview from Ireland to Kentucky & beyond Sean Callahan interviewing me

Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet

Kentucky, where diamonds are created

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

s t e p h a n i e @t h e g r e e n b u i l d i n g . c o m

keep Louisville (& the world) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

You said you expect this to be your final work. While I hope that isn't true, it'll be a perfect conclusion to a profound and magically prolific life.

Congratulations and Big Hugs from your Sicilian brother in Jersey City."

Frank Messina

St. Louis is taking its hottest burlesque show on the road. The Show-Me Burlesque tour, curated by Lola van Ella, mixes the obligatory sexy striptease with aerial acrobatics, daring pyrotechnics, theatrical vignettes and choreographed group routines. These girls even travel with their own Chaplinesque rounder, Sammich the Tramp!

(as sneak private gift Ron will join The Show-Me Burlesque Troupe to read his Dangerous Places To Have Sex in Kentucky, for which he's received standing Os from New Orleans to Chicago to NYC to Amsterdam & beyond, while Burlesque Troupe dances in ecstatic divine bliss)

program for Ron's 2nd book (his 20th)/cd (his 30th)/dvd (his 1st)/plus 4 new videos (all info on 1st August 19th Green Building Event listed below)

THE STORM GENERATION and on parting, the wilderness poems book/cd/dvd/videos: A Gill Scott Holland & The Green Building & Holland Brown Books in conjunction with Published in Heaven & The Global Literary Renaissance & The Moving Mystery Theatre with The Rudyard Kipling present An Evening of Burlesque Music Spoken Word World Dance & Much More Creative Lightninged Wildness friday August 27th 2010

10pm to 1:45am @ The Rudyard Kipling, Oak Street (tween 4th & 6th Streets downtown Louisville Kentucky USA, google The Rudyard Kipling &/or Ron Whitehead &/or The Show-Me Burlesque Troupe/St.Louis for more info), 21 & over, $10 cover plus Ron will be signing new book/cd/dvd plus other cds & books by Ron &/plus work by The Show-Me Burlesque Troupe will be available throughout the evening for sale plus bar and restaurant will be open all evening:

Sex & Spirit Life is A Tangent All is One

An Evening of Tantric Burlesque Spoken Word Dance Music

featuring:

10-10:45pm = Ron's daughter Rani read poem dedicated to her Dad then Ron welcome/intro then Ron & Gnuma middle eastern groove band featuring Andy Cook percussion & didgeridoo & James Vaughn cello & Ray Wegimont guitar with Special Guests Scott Moore violin/fiddle & Scott Mertz guitar/vocal & Russel Hulsey poem & Sylvia Walters one song & Justin Lewis one song & Dean McClain one poem & WFPK 91.9 www.wfpk.org Radio Louisville DJ Marion Dries doing 2 songs with Gnuma (plus week before she'll be playing Ron's Off The Record all week) plus world dancers Rebekah Trigg & Angela Wood accompanying throughout then

10:45 -1:45 = The Show-Me Burlesque Troupe/St. Louis (you ain't seen nuthin like this before. and secret is that Ron will join the dancers to read Dangerous Places To Have Sex in Kentucky)

Artists exhibiting work for show: Russel Hulsey, Scott Shuffitt, Andy Cook, Shawna Khalily, Howard Wilson, Jeremy Dixon, Emil Walton

Special Thanks to Ken & Sheila & everybody at The Rudyard Kipling, Gill Scott Holland & Stephanie Brothers & Patrick & Amanda & everybody at The Green Building & Holland Brown Books & to Stephen Kertis & Crew & Jeff Carpenter & Al Fresco Studios & Pip Pullen & Sarah Elizabeth Burkey & Lisa K Worley & Andy Cook and Hunter S. Thompson & Michael Pollock & Shawn Pierson & Daddy & Mama & everyone who finds the courage to be their dream.

Official photographers = Brook & Ulysses Sandidge

Official filmmakers = Amanda Arnold & Scott Shuffitt

Michael Dean Odin Pollock (Iceland/Utangardsmenn/Outsiders/voted Iceland's Beswt Rock Group 20th Century): Listening to Ron Whitehead's new CD, THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems (Book/CD/DVD) reminds me of the Magick & Significance of the Oral Tradition that is Ancient VERY prominent in Icelandic texts & Sufi Joujouka Music and Ron's mam o man i gotta say that his new DVD really hit me in that deep deep place...all ego and Self conciousness laid aside it remimded me that Ron & the forces he is channneling which incude his army of guardian angels equals makes Ron one of the Greatest Poets of he 20th Century...i know its the 21st Century now but i don't run on linear time i got one foot in this world & one in the next i am out on the bridge & Brother Ron thanx for reminding me concerning death & loss as i watched my ma & pa & several close freinds go in the last coupla teared years...i dont have too much earthly ambition left but my conviction is reafirmed by watchin this STORM GENERATION DVD that when i die i wanna die ALIVE :-))))))"

is proud to present the 1st of 2 Louisville Kentucky releases of

Ron Whitehead's new book (his 20th)/cd (his 30th/dvd (his 1st)/

plus 4 new videos.

THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems

list of the following live performances plus art work:

5:50-6:10pm = Karen Brumley will play bagpipes during arrival of guests.

6:10pm = brief welcome from Gill Scott Holland and Ron Whitehead

6:12-6:20 = Tyrone Cotton, 2 songs

6:20-6:30 = Paul K, 2 songs

6:30-6:35 = Russel Hulsey, 2 poems

6:35-6:45 = Scott Mertz, 2 songs

6:45-6:55 = Hannah Daugherty & Sarah Ward = 2 accapella mountain songs

6:55-7 = Rani Whitehead Newman, poem intro for her Dad

7:30-7:45 = brief Q&A with author Ron Whitehead

7:45-8:30 = food/wine/book signing hangoutology

Artwork by Scott Shuffitt, Russel Hulsey, Howard Wilson, Emil Walton, Shawna Khalily, Andy Cook, Jen Burks, Jeremy Dixon.

Official photographers = Jen Burks & Brook & Ulysses Sandidge

Official filmmakers = Amanda Arnold & Scott Shuffitt

Special Thanks to Mary Popham for wonderful Courier-Journal review of Ron's new book/cd/dvd. Rave reviews are coming in from round the planet.

More, by John Rocco/NYC & others round world, on the way.

Special Thanks to Gill Scott Holland for inviting Ron to do this project, and to Stephanie Brothers, editor, to Patrick Bourland, assistant editor, to Amanda and everyone at The Green Building & at Holland Brown Books & to everyone involved in the production of this creative project, which is unlike anything Ron has ever done, and they are Stephen Kurtis & Crew for recording, editing, and mastering the DVD and the 4 new Ron videos, to Jeff Carpenter @ Al Fresco Studio for recording, mixing, & mastering the CD, to Sarah Elizabeth Burkey for graphic design and layout, to Pip Pullen for graphic art on the book, cd, and dvd, and to Ron's new booking agent/manager Shawn Pierson. Special thanks to Andy Cook for Ron photo Edinburgh Scotland War Poets Tour & to Lisa K Worley for photo of Olafur Gunnarsson and Ron at foot of Viking Mountain and Special Thanks to my friend Hunter S. Thompson for words on back cover of book: "I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folks wisdom & pure mathematics." Special Thanks also to Olafur Gunnarsson, Michael Pollock, & Gregrory Chaney for inspiration, and to Daddy, now residing on the other side, yet everpresent, and to Mama, the two best parents anyone could ever hope to have.

Be Your Dream!!!!

Life is a Brief and Precious Gift. No Complaints, only Thanks!

I Thank All of You with All My Heart!!!!!

Ron Whitehead

8/10/10

see you on the 19th.

to check out new Ron videos go to

Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet and damn proud of it

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

s t e p h a n i e @t h e g r e e n b u i l d i n g . c o m

keep Louisville (& the world) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

to check out new Ron videos go to

Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet and damn proud of it

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

to check out new Ron videos go to

Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet

Kentucky, where diamonds are created

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

s t e p h a n i e @t h e g r e e n b u i l d i n g . c o m