A fellow poet who goes to several open mics a week, posed this: Wondering if you could give me your thoughts on the difference, we are seeing on the poetry scene right now between the written word and spoken word performance. My response (off the cuff) was this: My poems end up changing as I … Continue reading To Be Read or Spoken?
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Open mic
At open mics, we share histories. We have experienced something so significant that we had to recorded it on paper or computer screen. And to do more than just express it, we needed to spend more time with it and use the exact right words to do it justice. Sometimes we wrap our message in … Continue reading Open mic
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