Biography: James Ph. Kotsybar

Primarily a poet, I started the hypno-musical Versonics: The Verse That Can Happen which performed at L.A.'s Llhasa Club, Beyond Baroque Gallery and The Performing Arts Center, with recordings later broadcast on KCSB 91.9 FM in Santa Barbara. I've merited publication in 2AM Magazine, Prophetic Voices, Poetic Justice, and various small press literary journals. I founded and sponsored R.A.I.L. (Readers And Interested Listeners), which combined featured poets with open-mike readings and became a part of the Santa Barbara Poetry Festival. Invited back to KCSB radio to read my poetry set to original music on the programs The Art Of Peace and Music Soup, I continued as a regular monthly guest on Music Soup for a year. Recently, several of my poems on physics were published on the Non-equilibrium Phenomena blog of the noted physicist Dmitry Podolsky of the University of Helsinki, Finland. Currently I am producing videos of my poetry for the Santa Barbara Television channels (Channels 17 & 21) and website (sbchannels.net/Versonics-the-verse-that-can-happen). I am an orchid judge for the American Orchid Society and own an orchid nursery called Chaotic Exotics. I have had articles and poetry published in every major publication dealing with orchids, including the Orchid Review which is published by the Royal Horticultural Society.