Cloudy Day Art #32 - Poetry to Music

Well, better late than never!
Another Cloudy Day Art poetry podcast show featuring poetry set to music. I have got to try that sometime. Anybody have any advice on where to find some good background music or how to create my own? Let me know!

Here’s this week’s breakdown:

01:25 “Resolutions” is January’s “Second Sunday” theme. Thanks to Paula Small.
03:14 Florn.net Podcast promo
05:24 “Double-Double A Waltz for Voice” by Uncle Seth
06:43 “Evolution is Revolution” by Nadir featuring Iaayaalis
09:13 Slam Idol’s interview of Stephen Fry feedback by Robert G
13:24 “Land of No Sorrows” by Mr. Green’s Legacy
15:01 “Seek the Truth” by Lady J
18:40 Going to PodcasterCon
19:25 Member of the DC Podcast Network
19:46 Be sure to check out BZOO Radio
21:09 Outro song - “Only” by Adam Zadok

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Length: 25:19
Size: 14.5MB

Tags:Poetry:Music:Stephen Fry:Audio:Theme:PodCasterCon2006

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“Resolutions” - Second Sunday theme for January

Thanks to Paula Small for submitting the “Second Sunday” theme of “Resolutions” for January.

You know what to do. Dive into your poetry archives or get to thinking about how you will approach this topic for your submission to next month’s show.

All submissions will need to be in by 12pm EST on January 8th, 2005. Spread the word!

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Cloudy Day Art #31 - Second Sunday for December

It’s Second Sunday everybody! I hope you enjoy this week’s show.
I’m really enjoying putting together these shows, so be sure to get your poem together early for next month’s show.

Here’s this week’s breakdown:

01:10 The Word Nerds promo
03:17 DC Podcasters meetup this week
04:47 Queenie launches her podcast for her audio book “Forever Fifteen”
06:04 “Winter’s Wonderland” by Paula Small
07:33 “Winter Solstice” by Belinda Subraman
09:40 “Winter Solace” by Will Brown
12:00 Outro Song - “In The Bleak Midwinter” by Allison Crowe
17:10 Poetry Resource of the Week - Urbis.com

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Poetry Archive

I ran across a news story recently about “The Poetry Archive” located at PoetryArchive.org . Here is a blurb from their “About” section.

The Poetry Archive exists to help make poetry accessible, relevant and enjoyable to a wide audience. It came into being as a result of a meeting, in a recording studio, between Andrew Motion, soon after he became U.K. Poet Laureate in 1999, and the recording producer, Richard Carrington. They agreed about how enjoyable and illuminating it is to hear poets reading their work and about how regrettable it was that, even in the recent past, many important poets had not been properly recorded.

Overall I think it is a great idea. I had no idea that recordings of poets such as Yeats and Kipling even existed yet alone were available on the web to be listened to by anyone with an internet connecti0n. I am quite interested in hearing their delivery technique and how that delivery style has changed or not changed over the years.

A big negative for the site, in my humble opinion, is the format that the audio is delivered in. Real Audio. Ugh.
I haven’t had that beast installed on my computer for years and do not plan on installing it either. That program was notorious for the way it embedded itself into a user’s computer and for the conflicts it caused when you tried uninstalling it. To this day I quickly write-off any website that soley relies on Real Audio for content delivery as out of touch and not serious about sharing it’s content.

That being said, it appears that PoetryArchive.org is at least contributing to the online poetry community and I applaud them for that.

Tags:Poetry:Archive:Review:Audio:Poetry Archive:Andrew Motion

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Been a good week

It’s been a good week here at Cloudy Day Art.

Good Week Pt 1: I managed to put up a podcast after another hiatus. We’re finally settling in here in DC, so things should be back on the regular schedule.

Good Week Pt 2: I wrote a poem for the first time in awhile, too. That was the “How to Try” poem mention in podcast #30. I think it turned out rather nicely. It was one of those that just flow out of you as you write it. I think I will definitely rework it over time. I think the “natural flow” written poems are good candidates for future modifications because they have a solid emotional/spiritual foundation at the base.

Good Week Pt 3: Cloudy Day Art and myself received a nice mention from Paula Small and Simon Toon on Simon’s Slam Idol Podcast where Paula was the guest. That kind of thing always makes blush, but it is very encouraging as well. Paula’ s poem “Seekin’ Wisdom” (Slam Idol 61) was very well done and is doing great in the competion. Definitely one of my favorites from this competion.

Good Week Pt4: I was contacted by two poetry podcast hosts that I had never heard of before. I added one, “30 Days” by Scott Glassman, to the links section, but I wasn’t sure if I had the correct website for the other one. She posted a note in the forums. That was is called “Little Red’s Writing Hood“. I’ll see if they have a promo to share.

Wow, the week isn’t even over yet. Let’s hope there’s more to come.

Will

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Cloudy Day Art #30 - How To Try

I’m back for another episode of the Cloudy Day Art poetry podcast. We’re settled in at our new place, so the show should be more regular from now on. I’ll have more in depth shownotes up soon.

Here’s this week’s breakdown:

Slam Idol contest 7 voting is open (promo)
Feedback on Dennis Kim story from Simon of the Slam Idol podcast
I comment on Simon’s Stephen Fry interview
I share a new poem “How to Try”
Outro Song: Queenie “Why”

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Size - 13.9 MB
Length - 24:20

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