Seeing Red at Redroom.com

Redroom.com is a new venture founded by entrepreneur and management consultant Ivory Madison. It made its debut on Dec. 21, 2007, as an encyclopedic global online community for writers and their readership. Redroom.com is a pragmatic response to the well-established fact that many authors whose primary focus is the printed word are strangers to self-promotion via the Internet.

The Red Room site provides a forum for viral marketing on the www. It is meant to appeal to readers, authors, booksellers and publishers as a kind of one-stop shop for biographical information, book reviews, video and audio content as well as authors' events calendars. Its goal is to showcase esteemed writers by way of creative social networking through original, author-generated content and comments.

The Red Room roster of authors is expanding at an explosive rate. The latest and most prestigious addition to the Red Room community is Senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama.


See Barack Obama's Redroom page

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Visit the Red Room corner of Poet Ana Elsner


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Hear This

If you live in or visit the San Francisco Bay Area you will have an opportunity to hear the poet Ana Elsner read from her book CIPHERS OF UNCOMMON ORIGIN and from her new manuscript ALL POEMS ACTUAL SIZE. Philip Hakett will also be reading.



The San Francisco Public Library presents

An Evening of Poetry

Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2007

at the North Beach Branch,
Columbus Ave. at Mason

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For a complete schedule

of Ana Elsner's featured readings

and upcoming public engagements

please go to her

Events page

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[See also: 'P' is for Poetry]

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Freudian and Machiavellian

The theories established by Sigmund Freud (1858-1939), the 'Father of Psychoanalysis', opened a chanel to understanding the power of the unconscious mind as being the (secret) seat of all human fear and desire. This fear and desire, residing in the unconscious and often repressed, governs human behavior. Ergo, exploiting these hidden feelings enabled the manipulation of behavior.


Edward Bernays (1891-1995), the grand-daddy of mass manipulation and propaganda and Freud's nephew, most successfully applied Freud's theories. He did so on a large scale and mostly for the benefit of the large corporations and of the politicians who consulted him, including president Eisenhower.

This video documents such mass manipulation accomplished by tapping into human fear. It also extends to the justification of interference in the affairs of foreign nations, all under the guise of preserving American values. In actuality, however, the motives for such interventions were anchored in the safe-guarding of American corporate interests and profiteering.




Brainwashing a Nation by fabricating the 'Communist Threat', the 'Terrorist Threat' and so on

A very recent example of exploiting deep-seated human fear in order to justify political repression, military aggression and outright lies was demonstrated by the "Department of Homeland Security", a creation of president George W. Bush and his henchmen. In and around 2003-2004 the American People were kept in a constant state of fear fuelled by the regular issuance of various levels of "Terror Alerts".



[Also see Unmasking contemporary propaganda]


[More about Bernays' unethical activities: Engineering demand]

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When? On June 6, 2007

Author and wordsmith Ana Elsner

is the Featured Poet

on Wednesday, June 6, 2007 at 7p.m.

at Sacred Grounds, 2095 Hayes Street, San Francisco.

(If you need more information please call the host

at 415-346-0347)

Ana Elsner will read from her most recent work in this convivial coffeehouse setting.

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[See also The power of poetry]


[Ana Elsner speaks Words that are Poems]

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April 2007 Featured Poet: Ana Elsner

The San Francisco Public Library presents,

Ana Elsner, Poet, Author and Translator

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In honor of National Poetry Month Ana Elsner will read from her poems on the state of affairs in contemporary America

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Parks Branch, 1833 Page Street, SF on Tuesday, April 10, 2007, at 7 PM.

"The poet Ana Elsner contributes a unique new voice of personal insight and of literary significance to modern American poetry." - Nina Feday, Librarian,retired

After the reading there will be a poetry open mic.

- Click to see Ana Elsner's event listing at Poets.org, The Academy of American Poets -

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All programs at the Library are free.

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[Related: Ana Elsner - reading and book signing]

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PRESS RELEASE - March 2007

"Chewy Words and Soft-spoken Confections,



A Special Evening of Poetry"


Poets Ana Elsner and Stephen Kopel invite you to a joint reading from their works at 5:30pm on Wednesday, March 28, in the library of the historic Monticello Inn, 129 Ellis St. near Powell St. in downtown San Francisco.
(See map below.)

After the reading there will be an informal conversation with the audience about poetry.

This is a free event. Seating is limited.

"Come hear our poetry and have a glass of wine with us,"

your hosts Ana and Stephen

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Location of Event:

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