Today The Huffington Post posted an article titled “National Poetry Month: Breeding Hyperlinks Out of the Dead Land” by Travis Nichols. Travis begins the article talking about how newspapers and sites across the internet are “shining a spotlight on the art form they normally ignore, mangle, or treat with derision”.
This is a very true statement, though spoken partially in jest. In fact, this is somewhat what I’m doing here at Cloudy Day …
I love a good poetry or spoken word video. You have to search through so much to find a real gem. Let me be clear, there are thousands of great poems being recorded to video out there, but very few great poems with great video.
I present to you today, a decent poem being performed on great video. AmeriKa by RaD (aka Ryanaustin Dennis) is a typical angry-at-America poem shot beautifully and artistically by Christopher George …
Today is launch day for the “magical” device known as the iPad. Hundreds of thousands of Apple fanboys and girls, techies and geeks, and normal everyday people are eagerly awaiting the arrival of their new wonderful toy.
Being a gadget freak myself, I thought about and pondered how I could possibly justify purchasing an iPad for myself. In my household we have an iMac, a laptop, and a netbook. All the bases are covered!
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Congratulations to Simon from Slam Idol! Yesterday, April 1st, he celebrated 5 years of producing The Slam Idol Podcast. The longest running and most consistent poetry podcast ever.
As you can tell by searching this site, I’ve been a big fan all this time.
Many poetry related podcasts came on the scene after his 2005 debut with big dreams and aspirations–I was one of them. I have seen many come and go. …
It’s the first day of April 2010! Which means it’s the first day of National Poetry Month here in the United States and Canada.
National Poetry Month was started by The Academy of American Poets in 1996 and has been gaining popularity ever since. Each year poets around the country, and world in this connected age, find new ways to celebrate poetry and increase it’s visibility.
One of my favorite celebrations is the challenging and …
In honor of National Poetry Month, I will be posting at least one blog post for every day in April. I’ve tried other month long experiments in the past, including writing poetry, podcasting, and a short stint at NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month).
This will kind of be a mixture of all that because I’ll be posting everything from poetry, embedding poetry videos, talking about poet tech, a podcast here and there, and maybe even …
Cloudy Day Art Presents:
The Poet Tech Podcast – Episode #006
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I was able to record a great discussion with poet Radames Ortiz and musician Jonathan Jindra this past weekend. We discussed their upcoming multimedia collaboration of poetry and music; the way artists release CDs now and how they are marketed; the tools used to put together the project; being independent versus …
Cloudy Day Art Presents:
The Poet Tech Podcast – Episode #005
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This episode features a discussion I had with Simon from The Slam Idol Podcast. We talk about the history of poetry podcasting, where we are now, what are the current trends, and what the future of poetry in tech and social media could be like.
Simon has a lot of …
Cloudy Day Art Presents:
The Poet Tech Podcast – Episode #004
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In light of the recent events in Haiti, I decided to talk about we as poets can use social media as a tool to bring about thoughts, action, and change in the world around us.
Here are the topic points of the discussion. Listen in for the details and as always …
Cloudy Day Art Presents:
The Poetry Podcast – Show #89
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This week’s show features a recording of an interview that I did with poet Gordon Buss over the weekend. We had a great conversation about poetry, performing, sources of inspiration, and other topics. Gordon also shared three of his poems for us:
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Cloudy Day Art Presents:
The Poet Tech Podcast – Episode #3
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In this week’s episode I give my predictions of what the future of poetry online looks like from this point forward. Here are the key points that I discuss. Listen in above or download the MP3 for the details:
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