Neutral Ground with Guest Dennis Formento

join Stacey Mangiaracinaas she talks to Dennis Formento Show to discuss Dennis Formento's new book, "Looking For An Out Place" (FootHills Publishing, 2010) Bio: Dennis Formento: Born in New Orleans, ’54. Participant in 90s explosion of New Orleans poetic arts at the Dragon’s Den, Maple Leaf Bar, Sweet Lorraine’s and numerous coffeehouses and galleries; published Mesechabe: the Journal of Surregionalism arching Mississippi Watershed ecology with city culture, N.O. home brewed; recited poetry with free jazz Gilgamesh Orchestra , founded Frank Zappatistas free jazz/free verse band, 2001, inspired by music of Sun Ra; collaborated with dancers, visual artists in New Orleans Dramarama and other venues; joined nucleus of movement to stop David Duke’s racist juggernaut; defended women’s clinics and protested the “peaceful” atom; sweltered in N.O. humidity, drowned in dead-end jobs; escaped the flood of Katrina in ’05; read at Venice Biennale, 2009 and at Locanda Hermann in Rome with a pilgrimage to my father’s hometown