Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul. Bob Ross ••• The Mad Gallery ••• Body positivity! ~ Fernando Carpaneda To see all Fernando’s wonderfully madly mysterious works, as well as our other resident artists (50 and counting!) take a virtual stroll thru Mad Swirl’s Mad Gallery! ••• The Poetry …
Mad Swirl Open Mic : 11.01.23
by Mad Swirl on October 26, 2023 :: 0 comments
Join Mad Swirl this 1st Wednesday of November (aka 11.01.23) as we do the open mic voodoo that we do do at our OC home, BARBARA’S PAVILLION! Starting at 8pm (note NEW start time), join hosts Johnny O & MH Clay as we will kick off these open mic’n Mad Swirl’n festivities with some musical grooves brought to you by …
The Best of Mad Swirl : 10.21.23
by Mad Swirl on October 22, 2023 :: 0 comments
There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars. Jack Kerouac ••• The Mad Gallery ••• Selfitis: The obsessive taking of selfies ~ Fernando Carpaneda To see all Fernando’s wonderfully mad & mysterious works, as well as our other resident artists (50 and counting!) take a virtual stroll thru Mad Swirl’s Mad Gallery! ••• The …
The Best of Mad Swirl : 10.14.23
by Mad Swirl on October 15, 2023 :: 0 comments
My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all. John Lennon ••• The Mad Gallery ••• The Transfiguration ~ Fernando Carpaneda Fernando Carpaneda of New York (via Brazil) brings …
Bloodstones: A New Mad Swirl Press Publication
by Mad Swirl on October 13, 2023 :: 0 comments
Three years ago, on this day, Mad Swirl lost a good friend and the Mad World lost a unique poetic voice. Rob Dyer left this plane to explore what lies beyond and left us some of his attempts to understand this one in his poetry. Bloodstones is a collection of Rob’s poems as they were presented over his ten years with …
Featured Artist : Fernando Carpaneda
by Madelyn Olson on October 12, 2023 :: 0 comments
The Transfiguration Fernando Carpaneda of New York (via Brazil) brings us some wonderfully mad and queer work this month, and we truly couldn’t be more thrilled about it if we tried. While his subjects are often serious, melancholic, maybe even a little mysterious, there is something playful and undeniably erotic in each piece, and we can’t help but feel that Carpaneda himself is somewhere …
The Best of Mad Swirl : 10.07.23
by Mad Swirl on October 8, 2023 :: 0 comments
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken. Frank Herbert ••• The Mad Gallery ••• Seeing Past Our Imperfections (Monochrome) ~ Andrea Damic To see all Andrea’s whimsically dark works, as well as our other resident artists (50+ and counting!) take a virtual stroll thru Mad Swirl’s Mad Gallery! ••• The Poetry Forum ••• This past …
Note of Gratitude to the Mad Ones : 10.04.23
by Mad Swirl on October 5, 2023 :: 0 comments
If you joined Mad Swirl Open Mic this past 1st Wednesday of October (aka 10.04.23) at our OC home, Barbara’s Pavillion, then you know that once again whirl’d up the Swirl and got the Mad mic opened for all you Mad ones out there! This month we premiered Rob Dyer’s “Bloodstones.“ A handful of poets who knew & loved Rob …
The Best of Mad Swirl : 09.30.23
by Mad Swirl on October 1, 2023 :: 0 comments
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. Rumi ••• The Mad Gallery ••• Mobile Tranquility ~ Andrea Damic To see all Andrea’s whimsically dark works, as well as our other resident artists (50+ and counting!) take a virtual stroll thru Mad Swirl’s Mad Gallery! ••• The Poetry Forum ••• This past week on Mad Swirl’s Poetry Forum… …