Cloudy Day Art #64 - Interview with poet David Biespiel

This week’s poetry podcast features an interview with David Biespiel I did for the InterBoard Poetry Competition (IBPC) in conjunction with BZOO Homegrown Radio.

David Biespiel’s books of poetry include Shattering Air (BOA Editions) and Wild Civility (University of Washington Press). He’s a contributor to American Poetry Review, Parnassus, Poetry, The New Republic, & among his honors are a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature & the Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry at Stanford University. He is the editor of Poetry Northwest, writes a monthly column for The Oregonian, and he is the director and writer-in-residence of The Attic Writer’s Workshop.
 

Links mentioned:
Poetry Daily
The Writer’s Center

Thanks to Rg of BZOO Homegrown Radio for setting up this interview!

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My ‘Poema’ - “Hurricane”

Here’s my “poema” ‘Hurricane‘ which was written specifically for the Slam Idol Podcast. It is currently contestant #3 in contest number 14. Please be sure to listen to all six poems and rate them all once the contest is over. Check out The Workshop Project 1 for the details of how this came together.

A ‘poema’ is what I’ve decided to call my soundscape poetry dramas. Poem + drama = poema. Some of you recall my previous two “Winter Solace” and “Be Silent“.

This poem is being released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license.

The background “storm” audio is courtesy of “The Freesound Project“. Here’s the link to the storm file: Severe Thunderstorm

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Cloudy Day Art #63 - Second Sunday for September

This month’s “Second Sunday” show features the poetry of:

Tairy Woodard
Sylence Campbell
Robert G. Parent
Simon Toon
Will Brown

Thanks to everyone who submitted. Please check out their websites and/or podcasts and let them know what you think of their works!

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Special thanks goes out to CM Bauer for his suggestion of “Circles” for the theme for October’s “Second Sunday” show. Thanks, Chad!

Links mentioned:
“The Sin of Worship” by Thom Ingram
The Workshop

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Cloudy Day Art #62 - Discussion on Publishing with Tairy Woodard

This week’s show continues the discussion from last week on publishing. Tairy Woodard of “Little Red’s Writing Hood” poetry podcast and fellow “Association of Poetry Podcasting” member shares her thoughts and experiences that she gained from publishing her own book “Researchable Insights“.

Links mentioned:
Little Red’s Writing Hood
LuLu.com
The Write Stuff poetry podcast

Outro Music:
“Red as the Moon” by The Forecast. Check out their MySpace page, too.

Download “Red As The Moon” (MP3, 192kbps)

*ANNOUNCEMENT*
Listen in to Simon of the Slam Idol Podcast and myself as we both audio-blog our thoughts and creative process as we prepare a poem for each other’s show. We have to deliver our poem to the other by September 9th. Simon is submitting a poem for my “Second Sunday” show and I’m submitting a poem for an upcoming “Slam Idol” competition!

Simon’s Audio-blog

The Workshop - my new poetry in progress podcast.

Please feel free to leave a comment here or in the forum

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Introducing “The Workshop”

As you may have heard, Simon of Slam Idol and I have ventured into an audio-blogging challenge where we will both detail our thoughts and writings as we both write poems for the other’s show. It’s been a fun project thus far and I am gaining huge insights into the creative process of both of us.

You can subscribe to our audio here: Simon and Me

I’ll have the text of my poems available at my new site: The Workshop along with any additional info that I may mention in the audio.

The Workshop will also be a way for you to listen in on future projects as well. These will be poems that I will be contributing to specific podcasts, websites, magazines, etc that do not have a “first to print” clause.

This is going to be fun!

Will

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