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 …
I am pleased to announce that within a few weeks I will be launching “The Poet Tech Podcast”, a new addition to the recently launched Cloudy Day Art Podcast Network.
The Poet Tech Podcast is a podcast for poets and writers about how we use technology, in the broadest form of the word, to create and interact with our works. I’ll discuss everything from computer hardware and websites to pens and paper.
Possible topics:
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Team Hawaii wins the 11th Annual International Youth Poetry Slam – Brave New Voices 2008 Grand Poetry Slam!
Wow, that was a lot of words, and there were some amazing words spoken at tonight’s Grand Slam Finals. The final teams were Hawaii, Rochester, NY, New York City, Chicago, and last year’s returning champs, Philadelphia.
There were so many poetry fans packed into the Lincoln Theatre here in Washington, DC that they had to turn folks …
Team Santa Fe, New Mexico. The only all Native American team at the Brave New Voices 2008 International Youth Poetry Slam gives their introduction. The crowd loves it!
Here’s a great article in the NY Times about the team and their mission:
“Young American Indians Find Their Voice In Poetry”
The crowd was really supportive of the team and …
Brave New Voices 2008 is off to a great start. I captured some great pieces today. More to follow, but for now enjoy this highly motivating piece “Unofficial Proclamation”:
What do you think?
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*UPDATE* I’ve started to add some video here.
I’ll be attending next week’s “Brave New Voices 2008“, the 11th Annual International Poetry Slam Festival, here in Washington, DC July 15-19th 2008. Over 450 poets from around the country and world will be converging on the nation’s capital to compete.
The festivities will include workshops, discussions on the environment, the competitions throughout the week, and the Grand Slam at the Kennedy Center Lincoln …