Press22publishing, Kensington, CT (2024)

06/09/2024

I'm doing all this a with the focus of being a lyric writer/publisher Rare older cut on guitar. (The song restarts after a few secs of 1st attempt. ) via press22publishing . And catalog of songs is nor being transcribed into sheet music for voice, piano and guitar.

05/26/2024

1st concert length performance combining my art as poet/ spoken word artist, lyric writer, and singer songwriter on piano. All original work that would never made it to this day without the big love of the entire online open microphone poetry venues and the NWCT Arts Council and this tri-state area's arts community that has allowed me to produce, perform poetry and go live on baby grands. including the 3rd and coming 4th Cornwall Library International Hybrid Poetry Event. I'm blessed to have a small foot print in this area. https://youtu.be/oE5Vn6YUjyw?feature=shared&t=1812

RELAX AND FIND TIME, THIS IS 90 MINUTES OF BACK STORY, THE SHOW, & then more LOVE.

Thank you Thomas and Katalyst for encouraging my soul to spend this large open time invitation to mark a threshold event in my life. The Project 'Raw As When ~A Poet Sings' began over 40 years ago. The goal to date is to have all my songs transcribed into sheet music, published and licensed, and then with who? how? when? and what gets recorded, engineered and produced? - Performing? has a lot to do with how well this RAW Soul-disciplined work is received. Please support the hungry algorithm of this codded world of sound-gates limit the spread of art from the grassroots of humanity.

Round 1:Lantern CarrierMessiah PayneMary JenningsFin HallAlex PhuongRichard SpisakC.C. Arshagra Feature SetRound 1 con't:Dre ReyesJoeskiPaul SkiffJeff Cottri...

05/07/2024

Dear Destruction,

Dear Destruction, I agree with you are in pain
As your efforts of fear are restlessness

You’re the tooth that just wants to bite itself
The bone at war with its own marrow
Your face and your fists of beliefs in a fight
And anger is you feel their impact and bruises

You are the yesterdays you cannot stop living
And the annoyance you experience as the present approaches
You’re the clocks and calendar that can only turn back time
Ever switching sides in the cycle of abuse and abused

My name of offensive to you
The thought of it makes you hate life

You have learned to rebrand my presence
While pretending you breathe free air
And so the air should bow and thank you
For the your domination over its creation

As good and evil live just like a conjoined twin
As right and wrong are just two hands grown out from one body
As us verse them are ever falling as the flip of the same coin
And best and worst face each other inside one mirror; both afraid of ghosts

Meanwhile, time is: this will all end
And nothing you hold to can change this
Eternity said “I’m an eye’s blink”
Forever said “Death is your friend”
Now arrives as silence sleeping
Dreaming how the mind hears all the kindness of laughter
Patience continues paying the price of life’s birth
While humility lives to be love and to ask

“Destruction, why do you fear my name?

© C.C. Arshagra

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04/23/2024

Bug Haiku #01

I knew they could crawl
Not fall when found upside down
”Not in my coffee.”
-c.c. arshagra

03/22/2024

Just made it in to the 35 poet long end of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe'S 4TH year online open mic Anniversary! My 1st time playing on the Keyboard with a buzzy vocal mic. Thank you all for your community love world wide. https://www.youtube.com/live/ICvYegiyTpM?si=J3MHt53ZzqAspQ8i&t=12117 THE 2 PROJECTS: Raw As When ~ A poet sing. And book of lyrics C.C. Arshagra are 30 years in the makes and nudging their way to the front burner. All because you love is pushing this out. THANK YOU!

Celebrate with the Nuyorican Poets Cafe on 3/21/2024 as we reflect on our four years of online open mics

03/16/2024

COMING SOON the 3rd International Hybrid Poetry Event Here is a clip from the 2nd event from the Fall of 2023 Ron Whitehead Ron Whitehead Beat Poet Icon National and Lifetime Awarded Beat Poet Laurette

International Poetry Day. A live-Zoom hybrid bi-annual poetry event. Saturday, November 18 at 2 pm. Poets from around the world, poets from across the USA, a...

03/13/2024

COMING the 3rd International Hybrid Poetry Event - APRIL 20th, 2024 - hosted by C.C. Arshagra, CultrualCommunicationArts, and CornwallLibrary.org/events (posting soon) The Second is here: https://youtu.be/r5g62cigWxU?si=y_RqSQPUBOPOXHgA This is now a Biannual (Spring and Fall) event POETS FROM NOV 2023 Mary Jennings MASS, USA. Alexandra Psaropoulou, Athens GREECE, David Henri, CT live , Ron Whitehead, Louisville, KENTUCKY, US, PoetAQ, Fukuoka, JAPAN, Robert Murphy, CT Live, David Leo Siroi, Edmundston, NEW BRUNSWICK, US, Kkumar Prasanna, Hyderabad, INDIA, Guilford, Connecticut, Marianne Tefft, Sint Maarten , CARIBBEAN. Martina McGowan, Indianapolis, INDIANA, US, Rawle Iam James, Toronto CANADA, Nick Jacobs , Local live, CT, Paul Skiff, NYC NEW YORK, Pankhuri Sinha INDIA, Derdre Fisher, local Live CT, Rick Lupert, Santa Clarita ,CALIFORNIA, Ray Jane NYC, NEW YORK, Elemental the poet, Huston, TEXAS, Mbonisi Zakhali Zomkhonto, Windsor Ontario, CANADA, Marcy Dhiwayo, ZIMBABWE. --THANK YOU! Margaret Haske! The Cornwarn Library and all the poets and poetry lovers! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

International Poetry Day. A live-Zoom hybrid bi-annual poetry event. Saturday, November 18 at 2 pm. Poets from around the world, poets from across the USA, a...

03/03/2024

https://www.youtube.com/live/HKVqrERnG_c?si=4QnPQuzJkreDmcTP&t=8673 Another growing trial on the keys as I continue to take lyric writing PROJECT: Raw As When - A Poet Sings seriously: here's thw work in progress of YESTERNOW the lyric

Welcome to The Online Open Mic ( ) - presented by the Nuyorican Poets Café and hosted by Elemen2al the Poet - taking place on every Thursday at 8 P.M. Ea...

01/22/2024

This is my quite YouTube Channel, please subscribe and all those other hungry algorithm things. thanks This is a piece, that asks for 12 min of your time. Click on it if you have the time. This is a slow moving thought-scape ride of macabre poetry with text on screen The GOD Victim Is

Arshagra's 2nd piece in a Macabre Poetry Film Series. Arshagra is a complete artist across multiple mediums and his message is one of relentless benevolence...

01/20/2024

https://cornwallct.org/event/2nd-annual-valentines-evening-of-love-poetry/

All love poems and poets welcome. Free. Host C.C. Arshagra Sign up 6:30 Advance Sign-up email: [email protected]

01/14/2024

https://youtu.be/iKZ8e8uXfS4?si=xUYDb_5VXu4o7Jnp&t=5649 Here I read one of Ron Whitehead's signature poems "I will not bow down" I hope I did it justice; followed by original lyric "Forever Hums" from Raw As When ~ A Poet Sing" Lyric writer project. A 2024 focus on recording for sheet music publishing and music industry licensing. All recording artists, labels, and sound supervisor interested please contact! {Please state who you are, and let me know what your interests are. Thank you, CC contact page here ccArshagra.com

Tonight's Performers:1. Amadeus2. Whisper Poet3. Debbie Segal4. Teresa Gallion5. Generalissimo6. Sophia Falco7. Paul Skiff8. Jackson Riley9. Dre10. Kittay11....

01/05/2024

2024 starts with a throwback to the days I wrote songs on guitar. 1st live guitar song in many years. please like share, comment etc. LYRIC: "Life is not an Insult Sea" Thanks to Nuyorican Poets Cafe Thursday night open Mic online. hosted by Elemental ThePoet followed by Michael Sindler, a new poet Amber Wilkins, and more REMINDER 2024v Press22publishing with launch into publishing chapbook of other poets and also publishing sheet music born on coming studio-time for 2 projects: Recording: Raw As When~ A Poet Sings. and Publishing C.C. Arshagra The Lyric Writer

Welcome to our weekly online open mic - hosted by Elemen2al - taking place on every Thursday at 8 P.M. Eastern Time.If you weren't able to order an "Ar...

01/03/2024

01/02/2024

"The Future of Water" Lyric both read and sung. Live online at Nuyorican Poets Cafe

12/12/2023

the GBRPS "Genetic Bill of Rights Painting Series" One the the most vital and Important painting series I ever created with artist Mariam Muradian . Based on the Genetic Bill of Right. Appeared as a cover story in Gene Watch Magazine by the nations oldest Genetic Watch Group the "Council for Responsible Genetics" AKA CRG , and publicly exhibited at Judson Memorial Church, Washington Sq. NYC as part of The Data Base and Race Conference
in which CC Spoke on the roll of the artist in addressing newly arriving science and technology in relationship to academia, education, legislation, information, communication and human awareness.

12/09/2023

an 2003 lyric being reworked for piano in 2023 War on No Heroes - a raw work in progress (Who Be Naked Up In here open mic)

Who Naked Up In Here Open Mic Episode 21 Hosted By Mrwitzthepoet

11/27/2023

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10/28/2023

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09/04/2023

Kathleen writes about the National International Beat Poetry Festival!

National Beat Poetry Festival at Barkhamsted, CT

08/04/2023

A must watch in full video archive. A timeless open .The swan song of "Thunder Lung" Ray Jane's evening as host of NUYORICAN Poets Cafe Thursday night Open Online. Poety Music and heartfelt tribules. ♥️

All art forms are welcome. Sign up for a three-minute slot by claiming one of the 20 available performer's tickets. The open mic is non-competitive and there...

07/23/2023

This election cycle without cornell wests voice will further convince you to enslave your mind and live to serve hatreds and fears.
"Hate and fear require to be hated and feared in return in order to exist." C.C. Arshagra

“Jon Stewart NAILS it! Did you know corporations SOCIALIZE their losses & PRIVATIZE its gains? Yes, corporations keep all profits for themselves while we the taxpayer pick up the tab for their losses. It’s WHY they’re so filthy rich & it’s been the “Corporate way” since Reagan......

07/23/2023

If you don't know the story. Watch the film TILL

“BREAKING: President Biden has announced that on Tuesday he will sign a proclamation to establish a national monument honoring Emmett Till and his mother Mamie Till-Mobley. Details: - The National Monument will span across 3 locations in Illinois and Mississippi, and…”

07/14/2023

I love this venue, believe in its future and have faith in its Executive Director! Bantam Cinema!

Cult icon, enigma, recluse... the life of Syd Barre8, founding member of Pink Floyd, is full of unanswered ques?ons. Un?l now. Piecing together his comet-like rise to pop stardom, his crea?ve and destruc?ve impulses, breakdown, exit from the band and subsequent life alone, this feature length docume...