Monthly Archives: June 2007

Cloudy Day Art #78 – Billy Jones aka Billy the Blogging Poet

Bill the Blogging PoetThis week’s poetry podcast features an interview with blogging poet, aka ““.

I decided to interview Billy after coming across a blog that was participating is his “” Poetry Carnival. It was a great conversation and I’m looking forward to having him back on for more!

From here on out, I will conclude every interview with three things I picked up out of …

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"The State of Poem" Poetry Documentary – Winter 2007

I came across this movie trailer while checking out a new poetry blog called ““.

Billed as:

A comprehensive view of contemporary poetry across the United States.

It’s a production in association (site currently down – their MySpace)

It looks very interesting and I’m curious to see how it is released. Artsy, independent movie houses, straight to DVD???


Let me know your thoughts …

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Has our constant online connection broken our connection to creativity?

esc_key Some of you have noticed the “Take My Survey!” link at the top  of the page and have taken it as well (thank you!).

One of the questions I ask is:

“If you write poetry, how do you usually compose?” 

 

That really got me thinking about how we as poets create and edit our works.  Think about it. Just generations ago, poets used nothing but pen and paper to generate their works. …

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