Cloudy Day Art #78 - Billy Jones aka Billy the Blogging Poet
June 16, 2007
This week’s poetry podcast features an interview with blogging poet, Billy Jones aka “Billy the Blogging Poet“.
I decided to interview Billy after coming across a blog that was participating is his “Ringing of the Bards” 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 the interview. Here’s “My Three Things”:
- Billy really has a vision to get poets online
- Billy, and I partially, really believes every poet should have a blog
- Billy brought out a great point about how much poetry we should/should not put online
Listen in at the end of the interview for details.
Links mentioned:
BloggingPoet.com - Billy’s blog
Ringing of The Bards - Home of the poetry carnival
MuseCrafters.com - Get your free poetry blog
Policlicks.com - Billy’s media company
Sundown Lounge - Larry Winfield’s poetry podcast
The Slam Idol Podcast - Vote Now!
Outro Music:
“Two Days Out of Seven” by Clayton (URL CORRECTED!)
Second Life - 3D online world
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June 12, 2007
I came across this movie trailer while checking out a new poetry blog called “Speaking of Poetry“.
Billed as:
A comprehensive view of contemporary poetry across the United States.
It’s a Zampano Films production in association Kill Poet Press and Journal (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 in the comments.
The State of Poem (extended trailer)
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Has our constant online connection broken our connection to creativity?
June 2, 2007
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.
No computers.
No Internet.
Just the poet.
The solitude of the craft has become broken by Instant Messaging, e-mail notifications, and the temptation to minimize creation and maximize our web browsers.
That being said, according to current survey results, 50% of us create our poetry on computers. I am one of those. In fact, besides short phrases scribbled on napkins during quick flashes of inspiration, 99% of all my drafts are formed through a keyboard.
To those who purposely avoid the computer and opt for the holy trinity of poet, pencil and pad, I commend you for your discipline.
But, at the same time, I wonder if there are any advantages to being online during creativity. Certainly a case can be made for quick access to online dictionaries and thesauruses. What about a quick trip over to Wikipedia to corroborate your witty sci-fi reference to Cerulean Blue?
What are your thoughts?
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