Manzoni In The Morning

I'm back with Mr. Dennis Held, bringing you the newest episode of Manzoni in the Morning! We talk about the writing process, the hard COVID winter, and reflect on the life and times of poetry legend Lawrence Ferlinghetti.  For more content (poems, stories, essays, novel excerpts) check out my website: manzoniinthemorning.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/manzoni-in-the-morning/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/manzoni-in-the-morning/support

Happy Inauguration! We did it! We made it through the storm. Here's a NEW Manzoni in the Morning! Episode #45: "America Reborn" (w Special Guest Mr. Dennis Held) Video: https://youtu.be/7sG4bTJuOqw via @YouTube I wrote 3 new poems especially for this occasion. Let us rejoice! Episode 45, as #45 leaves the White House for the last time. Coincidence? #manzoniinthemorning #spokane #poetry #podcast --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/manzoni-in-the-morning/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/manzoni-in-the-morning/support

It's Manzoni in the Morning #44! I address the mayhem regarding the D.C. riots and a certain somebody's Twitter ban with a few pointed words and two poems. Then I continue the scifi alien adventure "The Annunaki Next Door" as A'lan the watcher arrives in Ethiopia and encounters something a little more dangerous than mountainous terrain filled with grass-eating geladas.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/manzoni-in-the-morning/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/manzoni-in-the-morning/support

It's Manzoni in the Morning Episode #43, New Year's Edition! with special guest: Poet Dennis Held. His books "Ourself", "Not Me, Exactly", and "Betting on the Night" are available on Abebooks.com and at Auntie's Bookstore in Spokane, WA We've got 10 poems lined up for you! Countdown to 2021 1:52-3:41 Reuben 6:34-8:02 First Words of the New Year 15:53-1652 One Last Gasp 17:10-17:38 A Very Bipolar New Year 17:49-18:54 Final Friday Night 19:40-22:30 The Wasp 25:09-26:10 Spokane Girlfriend 32:57-33:42 A God's Song 29:48-30:52 Sans 33:54-34:44 Youtube Video Link: https://youtu.be/LdOzKQqtNqM --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/manzoni-in-the-morning/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/manzoni-in-the-morning/support

Merry Christmas!  Happy holidays! Happy everything!  Poems:  A Father Tells his Children a Christmas Bedtime Story 3:33-34:45 My First Christmas in Spokane 40:38-42:08 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/manzoni-in-the-morning/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/manzoni-in-the-morning/support

On this week's episode, it's the continuation of the scifi story: "The Annunaki Next Door."   No new Weed of the Week or Kratom Korner. So I wrote an essay on Cyberpunk:2077 and why it's awesome (even if it is glitchy AF).   Next week will be part 3, plus a special Christmas story-poem! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/manzoni-in-the-morning/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/manzoni-in-the-morning/support

New poems:  The Second Year is About to Begin 2:36-5:17 A Poem for my Mother on Her Birthday 5:54-7:57 At Each Other's Throats 8:39-9:42 Can One Trick the Algorithm? 15:23-18:12 Social Media Gods 20:45-22:30 Is it Right? 31:03-32:04 The Annunaki Next Door Pt. I 32:59-1:01:14 Tune in next week for the continuation of The Annunaki Next Door as A'lan goes off on his journey... --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/manzoni-in-the-morning/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/manzoni-in-the-morning/support

New poetry! New short story! I go off on a few different rants.  Poetry: The Redneckler  Every Vote Counts  Reopening the State: Quarantine Phase II   Short Story: The Intruder   Weed of the Week:  Blue Lights (from Burnwell)  Blueberry Moon Pure Cannabis Concentrate Blend (from Raven)   Kratom Korner: Digital Buddha (from Kat's Botanicals)   Have a Happy Thanksgiving. God bless. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/manzoni-in-the-morning/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/manzoni-in-the-morning/support

New short story: "The White Man's Hell" (a white man finds himself in a Fox News-fever dream and RuPaul's Drag Race-inspired nightmare world that treats him like his ancestors treated other marginalized folks: very badly. He can't vote. He can't hold a decent job. All he can do is take abuse, do what he's told, and be little more than arm candy)  This story was conceptualized while I was watching the news, and it turned over to 700 Club. And they were ranting about what the world will be like when the Democrats win. And guess what? They did (at least, the presidency, anyhow). But they're not going to implement THESE kinds of changes. They're not psychotic dystopian monsters. But I definitely can channel that spirit. And I did, into this weird sci-fi speculative tale.  Poems: Dreaming & Screaming  At the Starting Line of a New Race  Gnawing  Undeterred  We Must Survive the Slings and Arrows  I am the Virus Thanks for listening, Manzoniacs, Manzonistans and well wishers!

Manzoni's back! In this episode, I talk about the difficulties of trying to survive during quarantine, and read several poems addressing this.   Donate to Manzoni in the Morning via Venmo @PayingManzoni  "You're the greatest!"  --Manzoni Loves You  Poems: Pandemic Panic, Stay-at-Home Order, Grace Me with Patience, Dragons Crawling Forth, Day After Day, Winding Down to a New Era  Youtube Link (full video): https://youtu.be/mHt4d2sv6s4 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/manzoni-in-the-morning/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/manzoni-in-the-morning/support

In this podcast:  "R.B.G.'s Revenge", "Tyrant King" (poems)  "Clown" (short story) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/manzoni-in-the-morning/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/manzoni-in-the-morning/support

Manzoni reads new poetry: "War on Everyone", "I Welcome the Rain", "The Entitled Throngs of Americans", "A Poem for my Garden", "The Summer that Wasn't", "Prelude to a Coronavirus Streetfight".  Man, isn't everything crazy, lately? How is everyone holding up?  Is the quarantine getting to you? I know it is for me.  Do you have any creative solutions to these new problems and situations? Like how to put on a mask with no hands? @WritingManzoni --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/manzoni-in-the-morning/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/manzoni-in-the-morning/support

Manzoni is BACK! It's been a crazy year, so far, since moving to suburbia. Listen as I discuss a variety of issues: Black Lives Matter, the riots, mental health, right wing nuts, poetry, my new novel, the quarantine's impact upon us and other controversial topics! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/manzoni-in-the-morning/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/manzoni-in-the-morning/support

Manzoni dresses up as a construction werewolf, rants about society & politics, tries Moxie, smokes weed and reads poetry for this special episode. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/manzoni-in-the-morning/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/manzoni-in-the-morning/support

NEW Episode! New poems! An emotional moment. And a reading from my upcoming novel: "Judge, Umpire & Executioner"!!!  Weeds of the week: White Fire 5 (loud), Biscotti (loud), Snow Land (legends) from Cinder Downtown Spokane.  Check out new poetry every Sunday: https://lineriderpress.com/headlinepo... --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/manzoni-in-the-morning/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/manzoni-in-the-morning/support

It's chapters 3-5 of The Spokane Story, an upcoming satirical novel from the twisted mind of Alexander A. Manzoni.  Spokane's premier father & son meth cooking team take to the streets.  WHAT SORT OF MADNESS WILL ENSUE? Violence! Drugs! Profanity! It's a hardcore journey into an dark world many of us fear to tread. This was originally recorded when I wrote the novel, so aspects may be different from the final product. IG: @TheSpokaneStory Twitter: @TheSpokaneStory --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/manzoni-in-the-morning/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/manzoni-in-the-morning/support

Ch. 1 of The Spokane Story, a dark comedy novel from the twisted mind of Alexander A. Manzoni. Pete's been in jail for an entire year. So you'd expect him to try to at least attempt to be good when he gets out, right? Not when your father is a meth cook living in an R.V. on the street! Twitter: @TheSpokaneStory IG: @TheSpokaneStory #BetterThanNewJersey #ManzoniLovesYou --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/manzoni-in-the-morning/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/manzoni-in-the-morning/support

Chapter 2 of The Spokane Story, a novel from the twisted mind of Alexander A. Manzoni. It's the darkly comedic story of father & son meth cooks, living in a beat-up R.V., on the streets of Spokane, Washington. They are trying to survive in a cutthroat world of drugs & insanity.  GOOD LUCK!!! Twitter: @TheSpokaneStory IG: @TheSpokaneStory #BetterThanNewJersey #ManzoniLovesYou --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/manzoni-in-the-morning/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/manzoni-in-the-morning/support

Manzoni's HERE, on this beautiful Friday morning, and he's reading poetry, part of "Another Day Another Drug Test, talking about his mother's upcoming show (on Sunday 8/25 from 12pm-4) "Sunday Artmart" (Link to FB event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/913942842284622/?event_time_id=913942855617954). He also speaks about his new writing gig as election correspondent for Headline Poetry (@Headlinepoets, LINK: http://lineriderpress.com/headlinepoetry) and has a couple hits of weed.  (Weed of the week: Chemdawg, by Driftboat & White Fire 5, by Loud). Have a GREAT weekend! Manzoni LOVES YOU. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/manzoni-in-the-morning/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/manzoni-in-the-morning/support

Manzoni's BACK!!!! And he's got some new poems for you! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/manzoni-in-the-morning/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/manzoni-in-the-morning/support