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What’s great about stormy weather is that stirs up some great stories, and out here in California it means we have more indoor time.  This translated into more creative time for us play with some of the new AI media tools coming our way.  So in this week’s show you’ll have a preview of what’s possible in telling your tales in more spectacular ways. My favorite experiment so far is our Scifi short, “First Contract,” about a group of intergalactic trader priests negotiating with an off planet entheogenic humanlike tribe living in a tropical rain forest. We have completed just the first couple of minutes sans visuals, a nice tease..

Our last radio broadcast with poet/scientist Len Anderson

We are sad about the passing of Santa Cruz poet/physicist Len Anderson, but happy that we are able to share some of his science poetry.  A large part of Len’s work deals poetically with spiritual and metaphysical themes, and funny! One of his poems starts like a joke,”Science and Mysticism walk into a bar, and decide to have it all out in the back alley, each accusing the other of not knowing what he is talking about.,” His friend and colleague on the frontier, Dr. Nick Herbert, wrote a touching in memoriam of Len, on Nick’s blog, including the rest of this poem. So if want to know who won, see you in podcast! 

Guest - Physicist Poet Dr. Len Anderson

Listen Now to Len Anderson

We had a an opportunity to meet Len Anderson last weekend and had a very stimulating conversation on physics and art and various other sundry topics.. simply delightful!  To make a long story short, we invited him to our show this week to share him with you, including his unique Science meets Art poetry.

 

Len Anderson has a BA and PhD in Physics from UC Berkeley.  He worked for four years in experimental elementary particle physics and nearly 16 years at Measurex Corporation (now part of Honeywell), developing sensors for the automation of paper manufacturing.  He and his wife have lived in Live Oak since 1998.

Len has been writing poetry since 1985 and has studied with Richard Maxwell, Robert Bly, Joseph Stroud, Joseph McNeilly and Sally Ashton.  His work has appeared in a variety of literary journals, anthologies and other publications.  He is a winner of the Dragonfly Press Poetry Competition, the Mary Lönnberg Smith Poetry Award (Cabrillo College), has received a Pushcart nomination from The DMQ Review, and was awarded the 2011 Award for Outstanding Literary Achievement from Dragonfly Press.  He has published two collections of poems, Invented by the Night (2011) and Affection for the Unknowable(2003), both from Hummingbird Press. He has also published a chapbook,BEEP: A Version of the History of the Personal Computer Rendered in Free Verse in the Manner of Howl by Allen Ginsberg.