As you know, I love a great poem joined together with a great video.
I recently came across this amazing piece by poet Tanya Davis on YouTube (with over 1.5 MILLION views as of this writing). Her poem pairs perfectly with the style and eye of film maker Andrea Dorfman.
It’s an instructional video that teaches us how to be comfortable in solitude. Not only that, but how to really go out of your way to really embrace it.
As as self-realized introvert, this video makes me all warm and fuzzy inside and pulls a gentle smile to the corners of my mouth. Tanya’s words really speak from a soul who has come to terms aloneness. Though it isn’t clear if she has struggled with it at some point or has always just embraced it.
Here’s a nice poem put to video. I like how the video creator, Andrew Kamp, let the sounds bleed through to Tracy K. Smith’s poem so that both became part of the other. Some poetry videos tend to be words laid on top of video with no real interaction.
Rightfully intrigued, I followed the link and found a poem entitled “You Can” for Will Brown.
It was a short poem that I interpret to mean that you should always be ready to receive inspiration. Not only that, but to somehow capture the thought, the seed, and save it for …
Much has been said about the coming of Apple’s iPad as the time-stamp for the impending death of Amazon’s Kindle. Point and counter-point have been given across the web, in print, and new and old media.
I, for one, I believe that the two can both peacefully coexist in the fast moving market of e-readers. In fact, I now own both devices and am equally pleased with both when it comes to the purpose …
Saudi Arabian poet Hissa Hilal recently took part in a poetry competition for an Abu Dhabi TV show called “Million’s Poet“. The name comes from the fact that the top poet receives a one million dollar prize. I could go into a five paragraph post on that alone, and perhaps I will eventually, but the most remarkable part of this story is that she performed at all.
I recently wrote a post about the lack of good video poetry available to viewers and how we sometimes have to search through multiple videos before we actually find a good one. Well, poet Dave Bonta of Moving Poems has done most of the hard work for you.
Moving Poems scours the web for great examples of poetry put to video and video worked around poetry. Dave decided to start the site “in part to …
Cloudy Day Art listener Paul Badger recently turned me on to a relatively new poetry community site called Hello Poetry.
I’ve seen my share of sites that prompted poets to come online, share their poetry, and interact amongst the community. Some have been good and some have been bad. What separates the good from the bad, in my opinion, comes down to how the site founder handles a small set of criteria (in top …
I came across this video while doing one of my periodic searches for poetry on Twitter. Poet Austin Kleon came up with a creative way to pen poetry.
He takes an article from a newspaper, looks for key words that inspire him, then blacks out all the rest. It’s a different take on those magnetic poetry or refrigerator poetry kits you can by online, but it is a cool idea none the less. He’s also …
Earlier today a friend, and fellow poet, 
Cloudy Day Art listener 
