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PTV – Poetry on Video

I had some unexpected time today so I had a chance to play around with my recent poem, Launching Rockets, and put some film clips together for a new video. All the images and clips are public domain, except the rolling clouds, which I found at StockFootageForFree and downloaded free of charge. I recorded the [...]

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Launching Rockets

This recent poem seems to be pretty well self-explanatory. I’m not sure yet how I feel about it. I’m not even sure if this is really a poem, or just an expanded question. Launching Rockets The road behind us is paved with atrocities. We circle and circle, our destination and our centre unknown. Ourselves, we [...]

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My Rules for Poetry

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Did that get your attention? The title was just a lure. There are no rules of poetry any more than there are rules for what you should do after you wake up in the morning. The post I wrote recently on Murderous Poets seems to have cause a stir. It was only a small stir, [...]

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Murderous Poets

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Name your five favourite poets. Most human beings in North America have a hard time doing this, especially if they are asked to exclude composers of song lyrics. Only those who are very well read even begin to start answering. Is it any different in Europe, or Asia? Do the masses of South America still [...]

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Swimming

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We are as swimmers treading water. Our heads watch and listen as we contemplate cool white clouds and the vastness of sky and beneath our bobbing chins, the silky mirror of loneliness that keeps us distant and cool and aligned. Yet beneath this skin of water, fingers touch extended fingers and caress our rhythmic thighs, [...]

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More About Poets

Some time ago I wrote an article asking what is a poet, including some very insightful takes on the word by a dozen writers, artists and musicians. Someone recently reminded me that I had not actually answered my own question, so here it is, from the preface of First Stirrings… The poet is not the [...]

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What is a Poet?

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If you didn’t notice, it’s Poetry Month again. (I nearly missed it myself – I usually do.) Today, April 23, is also the birthday of William Shakespeare. So before the day and the month is over, I wanted to take the opportunity to share some thoughts, not on poetry, or what it is, but what [...]

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Virtual Poetry Reading

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This is a video I made for a YouTube / Facebook project, 100 Poems in 100 Days, created by Mark Ruddick from the University of Exeter in the UK, and involving poets and spoken word artists from around the world. I thought it was a pretty cool project and was very happy to participate.

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