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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:

• This Is All I Am
• Is It Always Wrong
• Dove

They are all wonderful pieces and I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.

Be sure to stop by Gordon’s poetry site, Ugly Dog Poetry, to read and experience some of his poetry.  Be sure to leave him a comment and let him know what you thought.

Links mentioned in the interview:

• Ugly Dog Poetry (Gordon’s poetry site)
• Indiefeed Performance Poetry
• Slam Idol Podcast

Thanks for listening.  Please subscribe to the show if you like what you hear!

I’d love to read your comments below.

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This week’s episode of The Poetry Podcast features the following poets:

• Jen Thorpe of  the “Inside My Head” podcast reading – Three Haikus
• Charly “The City Mouse” Fasano performing “Smiles That Go Ding
  • Listen to or purchase his latest CD/tape here: Charly’s Bandcamp page
• Bruce McRae performing “Netherworld”

Outro music:

Gidgets GaGa – “A Christmas Wish”

Reminder: The Cloudy Day Art Podcast Network productions will be on a winter hiatus and will return to production on Sunday, January 3rd. The first release of 2010 will be on The Poet Tech Podcast.  The next Poetry Podcast will be out on January the 11th.

This gives you four weeks to record and send me your poems!  I’m looking forward to listening and sharing them with the rest of the Cloudy Day Art community.

Have a great holiday season and see you next year!

Cloudy Day Art Presents:
The Poetry Podcast – Show #87

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This week’s show features the poetry of:

• Robert G. Parent – “The Little Blue Box”
• Fierce – “I Love You” (Courtesy Music Alley)
• Cody Spanbauer – “Burn Black” (Courtesy Music Alley)

I also play a song by Allison Crowe entitled “Choose to Be” (Courtesy Music Alley)

Please be sure to visit the website of all the featured artists and let them know that you heard their works on Cloudy Day Art’s “The Poetry Podcast”!

Let me know what you think of the show in the comments! Thanks for listening.

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Welcome to the first episode of The Poet Tech Podcast!

In this week’s episode we discuss:

• The purpose of The Poet Tech Podcast
• Play a welcome message from Simon from Slam Idol
• Talk about the benefits and distractions of tech and social media
• How we can ensure tech and new media distractions don’t hinder our writing

Links mentioned:

• Article from Psychology Today: “Easily distracted: why it’s hard to focus, and what to do about it”

I would love to hear your feedback on this week’s episode, so please leave a comment, call my voicemail line, fill out the contact form, or send me a message on my twitter!

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Welcome back to The Poetry Podcast presented by Cloudy Day Art!  It has been a long time since our last podcast.  I’m so glad that you decided to listen to this week’s show.  I really appreciate it! Take a listen to hear about where I’ve been and where the show, and website, is going.

Featured in this week’s show:

• Racquel Cook shares a poem called “Change” (Thanks to Doug Ramsay!)
• Unspoken with “Thanks to You”
• Suzi Q. Smith with “Dear Huey“
• I share a poem entitled “Mist“
• Outro song “Faking It” by MC Jack in the Box featuring Brad Sucks

Please let me know what you think of the show in the comments!

This show is in honor of the 11th Annual International Youth Poetry Slam – Brave New Voices 2008 festival that is taking place this week in Washington, DC. If you are in the area, I would love to meet up with you this week, so please drop me a line at my contact page!  You can find out more information about the event at the Youth Speaks website. I blogged about the event as well.  (EDIT – This was a great event!)

This weeks poetry podcast features the poetry of:

Mozart Guerrier – “For Little Boys Who Sometimes Fall Through the Cracks ”

Jon Clare – “Joys of Youth” (courtesy LibriVox.org)

Outro song:

Peter, Bjorn, and John: “Young Folks”

Let me know your thoughts on these poems and if you have any ideas for upcoming shows.  All input is greatly appreciated!

*UPDATE* I’ve started to add some video here.

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Thanks for listening!

Will

1. Community is important
2. Studying and practicing forms help build a better toolbox
3. Reading poetry regularly helps build a better toolbox
4. The importance of observing your surroundings
5. When you don’t have a topic to write about, meditate 5 minutes to open up your mind

These are not the only things I learned, but a few of the key takeaways. In fact, listen in for a bonus #6.

I would love to hear lessons learned from anyone else who participated in this challenge or any other similar challenge. Just leave a comment, fill out the contact form, send and email, or call in to the voicemail line.

Special thanks to James Berkowitz for sharing his poem “New York City Streets”!

Please go to his website to check out his many other projects and poetry.

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Katie interviewed a bunch of Association of Poetry Podcasting (APP) members back in September 2007 for an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer, so I decided to interview her to find out a little bit about here.

We had a great conversation about poetry and she shared three poems of her own.

Also mentioned in this show:

Katie Haegele’s website, The La-La Theory

Copy of article Katie wrote about the APP

NaPoWriMo (Go here to find links to some of the folks who participated)

APP (sign up in the forums!)

eMail Our Military (promo)

Outro song: “Sun vs Moon” by Codaphonic (courtesy the Podsafe Music Network)

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Please share your thoughts in the comments below!

Poets featured:

Gordon Buss – “Pressing Against Us to be Heard”
Linda Bradley – “Fibro Fog”
Steven Pasfield – “Burning Eyes”
David McFadden – “This Dark Midnight”
Mongo Jolly – “A Taste of Spring in an Early Winter Chill”
Will Brown – “The Birth of the Poet in the Deep Deep Darkness”

Outro music:
“The Music that the Angels Do” – Listener Project
(Listener interview – Cloudy Day Art #25)

Thanks to all who submitted poetry! I really appreciate it!

If you want your poetry played, please e-mail me at Will{at}CloudyDayArt.com

Other links mentioned:

Paula Small (thanks for the donation, Paula!)

“Little Red’s Writing Hood” (Tairy Woodard’s poetry podcast)

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This week’s show features an audio interview with Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate from 2004-2006, and author of the previously reviewed book “The Poetry Home Repair Manual : Practical Advice for Beginning Poets“.

With its release, Ted has created the most influential item to ever change the way I think about writing poetry.  I highly recommend reading his book.

His simple prodding to become a better observer of life around you is a key factor to any of us becoming better poets. This act alone gives us a wealth of material and thoughts to create in-depth and thought-provoking poetry.

Listen in to our conversation here:

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As, always I would love to hear your thoughts on this conversation and what you personally got out of this podcast or from reading this book.

Link: Ted Kooser