Part of the BWOMS Afterparty Sessions:

"Fractions" written and performed by Rachel Marie

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Rachel Marie is a student, born and raised in El Paso, Texas. her poetry has been featured on the backs of napkins, in school garbage cans, and various deleted Word documents. She is currently working on a collection of a poetry entitled Desert Baked Mud Girl which explores themes of identity, spirituality, gender, ancestry, love and abuse, and healing through poetic narcissism. 

You can catch Rachel as the featured poet for Front Era Slam's Pinata Prompt Slam on July 23, 2015 at Joe, Vinny, & Bronson's Bohemian Cafe (824 N. Piedras) 8 pm.
 
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Recorded July 2015
El Paso, TX
Poem by Rachel Marie
Music produced by DJ Derosa
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"Fractions" written and performed by Rachel Marie

Part of the BWOMS Afterparty Sessions:

"Flowers" written and performed by Rachel Marie

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Rachel Marie is a student, born and raised in El Paso, Texas. her poetry has been featured on the backs of napkins, in school garbage cans, and various deleted Word documents. She is currently working on a collection of a poetry entitled Desert Baked Mud Girl which explores themes of identity, spirituality, gender, ancestry, love and abuse, and healing through poetic narcissism.

You can catch Rachel as the featured poet for Front Era Slam's Pinata Prompt Slam on July 23, 2015 at Joe, Vinny, & Bronson's Bohemian Cafe (824 N. Piedras) 8 pm.

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Recorded July 2015
El Paso, TX
Poem by Rachel Marie
Music produced by Jason Shaw 
For more info on events, visit:
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"Flowers" written and performed by Rachel Marie

In August I was invited to ACE Studio in El Paso, TX to record some of my poetry.

This is a mashup of several spoken word poems with coffee and cosmic imagery, thus the title "Cosmic Love Brew"

Vocals: Richie David Marrufo
Drums: Christopher J. Serrano
Saxophone: Daniel Rivera

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Recorded August 2015
ACE Studios
El Paso, TX
Mixed and Mastered by Jacob Del Olmo
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"Cosmic Love Brew" written and performed by Richie David Marrufo

Part of the BWOMS Afterparty Sessions:

"Don't Wanna Lose" written and performed by Gabby Allong

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Recorded September 2015
El Paso, TX
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"Don't Wanna Lose" by Gabby Allong

performed LIVE at the Glasbox for FrontEra Poetry Slam, 9/17/15

Poem: Richie David Marrufo
Guitar: Luis Camberos
Congas: Christopher J Serrano

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El Paso, TX
2015

Check out Front Era Poetry Slam online for live slam poetry events in El Paso, TX

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"Juxtaposition" LIVE at FrontEra Poetry Slam

Part of the BWOMS Afterparty Sessions:

"Prayer, Protest, Peace" written and performed by Rachel Marie
Percussion by Richie Marrufo

Rachel Marie is part of the FrontEra Poetry Slam team.
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Recorded January 2016
El Paso, TX
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"Prayer, Protest, Peace" recorded and performed by Rachel Marie

Cover comprised of Devendra Banhart's "Wake Up, Little Sparrow" mashed up with Manu Chao's "Clandestino"

Sara Yinling is the winner of Frontera Poetry Slam's July 2016 bout. As a prize, she chose to record this song.

Guitar/Vocals - Sara Yinling
Banjo/Vocals - Cristobal Rivera

Recorded as part of the BWOMS Recording Sessions in collaboration with Frontera Poetry Slam, July 2016  

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Wake up, Little Sparrow + Clandestino (mashup/cover)by Sara and Cristo

This is a track recorded live in one take, just for the sake of improvising music and poetry. I wasn't doing anything with the track, so I decided to share it.

Spoken Words - Richie David Marrufo
Drums - Christopher J. Serrano 

Check out Chris and Richie performing with the group Endangered Language!
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Recorded as part of the BWOMS Recording Sessions, July 2015 
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"Beautiful Dreamer" by Richie David Marrufo

"Heavy Moon" is a rueful track accompanied by music from Dan Sayers and Christopher J. Serrano. 

Watch/Listen on Youtube: https://youtu.be/WvwrAFXb9kk

Recorded at Power at the Pass
El Paso, TX
2017

"Heavy Moon" by Richie D. Marrufo

Windblown World is a love song about pursuing your passion through perseverance and the beautiful people you meet along the way. 

One of my favorite poems to share. I had to go back and re-record it with a jazzy track. 

Power at the Pass
El Paso, TX
2017

"Windblown World: A Xuco Love Song" by Richie David Marrufo

Welcome! 

Join EPCC Professors Jorge Gomez and Richie Marrufo as they briefly discuss Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron. Thanks for tuning in! 

For more local content, check out The BWOMS Podcast here on soundcloud (@bwoms) or major podcast providers. 

Be on the lookout for the DREAM Podcast, coming soon to podcast providers near you. 

Intro: Mountain Vibes
Episode Mix: Various Artists 
Outro: RITUVLS

Recorded @ Power at the Pass 
El Paso, TX
2018

Riffin' On Bergeron

Another of my poems, "Show, Don't Tell," set to music. 

Samples from: 
"Forgot to Be Your Lover" - William Bell (1968)
"Dead Poet's Society" (1989)

Lyrics:

[clip 1]

Let Poetry, Be Poetry
I explain to a room full of students
who are unaware of their own potential.

A torrential discourse on the source
and divorce of common sense from education.
The course which pours through seams of dreams
left in shambles. To the children in left in rambles
who have become adults. Let's call them...left behind. 

Who have been crushed within the steely, tempered
jaws of the daily grind.

and if you don't mind, I'd like for us to learn.
and in turn, yearn for something with meaning. 

something is gleaming.
We won't have to tell the world that the moon is shining,
when we can guide them with the glint of light on broken glass.

Why do you ask? Because
My classroom is always open - just as long as your mind is.
and NO, I'm looking for a bit more than you just simply having to mime this.

[clip 2]

Filled with passion.
Compassion
Con pacion.
mi gente de mi mente inteligente.

In the lunch room people come and go
speaking of "who you have to know."

with clumsy guitar cords strummed in accord
with the fruitful air
which slowly transpose
into magical Luiz Bonfa melodies
in the hazy, redeye underbelly of my distant reality
just in time to see the futility in eternity.

Whatever happened to the time when knowledge
was POWER? . . .and books were passports
into the uncharted territories of passion and the imagination.
To send the sensation
of unsent incendiary letters into the better
but unbent deflector sector of 
no-so-silent spectres. Because THIS
is the kind of stuff that haunts you.
...when people tend to look a lot more 
like shadows -- then they do people.
It's feeble. 

and 
whether restless, unchained, or haunted,
a little perspiration will lead to the day we've always wanted.

So Show, Don't Tell.
Let Poetry, Be Poetry.
Edit. Edit. Edit.
and ALWAYS
Risk yourself in language! 



Show, Don't Tell

El Paso, TX - English Professor, spoken word artist, musician, and so on. Project Director for The Barbed Wire Open Mic Series (A BorderSenses Event), Host of the 306 Sessions Concert Series, and The BWOMS Podcast 

"'If you can sing it, you can write it.' So make sure you're always singing."

Richie D. Marrufo

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