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 [...]

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I have had a couple of weeks to digest the experience that was National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo), so in this week’s poetry podcast I decided to share with you five things that I took away from the experience. Community is important Studying and practicing forms help build a better toolbox Reading poetry regularly helps [...]

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This week’s poetry podcast interview is with poet and freelance journalist Katie Haegele. 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 [...]

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This week’s show features some listener submitted poetry. 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 [...]

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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. His simple prodding [...]

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Have you been looking for ways to effectively improve your performance when reading your poetry at an open mic? Or, have you wanted to submit an audio file of yourself reading or reciting a poem to an online website, but not happy with the recorded result? Well, this is the poetry podcast episode for you! Don, [...]

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This week’s poetry podcast features a recent discussion with Thom Ingram about the importance and non-importance of learning, studying, and using the various poetic forms in our everyday writings. It was a great discussion and I definitely learned a few insights that I will use in the construction of my own poems. We would love to hear [...]

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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 [...]

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Finally! Another Cloudy Day Art poetry podcast has finally been released. It seems time goes by so fast these days. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the poetry featured in this show, courtesy of CCMixter.org and Archive.org. Poetry featured: “Randy” by Ken Munro of “Ken Munro’s Word Warehouse“; remixed by Gurdonark “What About the Moonlight” by June Jordan ; [...]

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It’s National Poetry Month here in the United States, so I decided to share 7 easy ways that we all can use to support poetry this month. No, you don’t have to be from the U.S. to take part. These 7 ways can be used where ever you are. Read more poetry Talk about poetry Write a [...]

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On January 27th, 2007, poets from around the country joined “DC Poets Against the War” and ?United for Peace and Justice? in a march on Washington, DC to protest the war. This video contains interviews with some of the poets, the organizers, and scenes of the march itself. It starts at DC bookstore and restaurant ?Busboys [...]

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