Monthly Archives: October 2005

Cloudy Day Art #27 – In Transition

Hey All,
Well, I have a short show for you this week. My family and I are in transition from Charleston, SC to Washington, DC, so we’re living out of a hotel for the next couple of weeks. This week’s show is just an update, plus a reminder to submit your poems for “Second Sunday” by [...]

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In transition

Well, I’ve begun the long transition from Charleston, SC to Washington, DC. The house has been sold and we’re living in a hotel until we leave early next week.
As a result, my postings here will be few and far between. I’m on a dial-up connnection and man, oh, man am I missing my broadband connection!
The [...]

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Cloudy Day Art #26 – Interview with Poetic Sunshyne

This week I interviewed poet Poetic Sunshyne of the Rhyme or Reason monthly poetry podcast. A pre-Katrina resident of New Orleans, she now calls San Antonio, Texas her home. She discusses the tragedy and blessings of the situation and where she goes from there. She also shares her poetry of love and life.
Here’s this [...]

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Stephen Fry on Slam Idol

I would highly suggest listening to Simon Toon’s latest “Slam Idol Podcast”. It features a very thought provoking interview with actor/poet Stephen Fry.
Mr. Fry gives his take on modern poetry and gives his reasons as to why a poet needs to study poetry to be a better poet.
“The art of poetry consists of technique”
Learning [...]

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Video Poetry

Lately I’ve been thinking about doing a periodic (monthly?) poetry video. Something artistic.
Here’s a great example I found on Google Video:
The Poetry of the Suicide of a Poem
The first one I ever saw was on the The-Hold poetry podcast. It went to the back of my mind for a little while then Larry Winfield mentioned [...]

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Listener interview info

Well, as you heard in the show, I lost about 10 minutes of my interview with Listener because I forgot to hit the record button. This is actually the second interview I did this with. The first time was while I was interviewing Larry Winfield. Hence the “Yeah, Larry, I did it again” line.
So, to [...]

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Cloudy Day Art #25 – Hip-Hop artist Listener interview

Hey Everybody,
This week’s show is an interview I conducted with hip-hop artist Listener, aka Dan Smith. This interview was recorded on the Friday before he started his “Tour of Homes“. Go see a show!!!
Here’s this week’s breakdown:
01:15 Slam Idol Podcast voting promo (I’m in this competition!)
02:30 Slam Idol interview with Stephen Fry
04:40 [...]

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Behind the Scenes

Hey everybody.
I’ve decided to add this section to the site to give you all a “behind the scenes” on things going on with the show and a closer glimpse into things in my world. It will have info on upcoming projects, technical issues I’m working through, and general rants and raves about life in general.
Please [...]

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Cloudy Day Art #24 – Second Sunday!

Well, it’s finally here folks. Second Sunday! I’d like to thank all the poets for submitting their poetry for this week’s show. I enjoyed hearing it all and putting this show together. Listen out for next months “Second Sunday” theme.
Here’s this week’s poetry podcast breakdown:
01:38 GypsyMag.com promo
02:44 The next Second Sunday
04:08 “We [...]

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Cloudy Day Art #23 – Guest Poet Larry Winfield

Hello once again, my friends! I have another great show for you here at the Cloudy Day Art poetry podcast. Guest poet Larry Winfield of the Sundown Lounge poetry podcast joined us over the phone for a cross-country interview from LA. Enjoy!
Here’s this week’s breakdown:
01:06 Second Sunday reminder! (Submit your audio poem with a [...]

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