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About Tarzana Joe 

Here's a little about Joe.  

Tarzana Joe is one of the few poets in America whose work is broadcast weekly on nationally syndicated radio.  As Tarzana Joe, he is heard on the Hugh Hewitt Show which is broadcast in Sacramento (KTKZ), San Diego (KCBQ), San Francisco (KNTS), Los Angeles (KRLA), and on over 100 other stations across America. 

As a talk-radio poet, Tarzana Joe’s weekly poems are commentaries on everything from the recent elections to corporate mergers to potato salad.  Listener response to these segments has kept them a part of a commercial radio program for over seven years.

Joe attended Regis High School, an all-scholarship Jesuit institution in New York City.  He won a Carswell Scholarship to Wake Forest University and graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor’s Degree in English and Theatre.  He has participated in the Sunland-Tujunga Shouting Coyote Poetry Festival and appeared as Shakespeare at the Los Angeles Unified School District-Reseda Festival of Books.  Joe’s play “Blue Laws” was nominated for an L.A. Ovation award as Best New Play in Los Angeles in 1995.  He co-wrote the screenplay for “The Pickets” which was accepted into the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival in 2003.  He is the Executive Producer of “Animals” a documentary about animal cruelty issues.

Joe is a goalie and plays ice hockey twice a week.  He lives in Tarzana in the San Fernando Valley.