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About to launch into a cleaning frenzy to get the house in order before Daniel Nester arrives for the Weekend of Poetry Doom, an company comes a-visiting tonight.
TOMORROW: I read T.S. Eliot at 5 p.m., then Daniel and I headline a night of sestinas at 7 p.m., both at Nick's Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St., Worcester. Classic writers and formal poems made awesome. With booze. It's like a make up for how these things were mis-taught in high school.
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To celebrate both National Poetry Month and April Fool's Day, I orchestrated a ridiculous poetry game online Tuesday: #FantasyPoetreySlam, where a wide range of writers wrote poems and posted videos of said poems from the perspective of a resident of one of six fantasy worlds.
#TeamGotham won, in large part due to Rick Lupert's high scoring video:
#TeamSunnydale came in second, thanks in great deal to Kathy Silvey's "found poem":
And #TeamGondor came in third, thanks in great part to this awesome poem from Dawn Gabriel:
And there's plenty more. Follow the #FantasyPoetrySlam hastag and enjoy!
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In my What you're Listening To column, I listened to the latest album from Protean Collective, and in Pop Culture Notebook, I listened to Janelle Monáe cover Prince, ran down the April Fool's hoaxes and spoke to local musicians about the passing of Anderson Lynne Mar.
All right. Enough of that. I have way too much to do right now.
TOMORROW: I read T.S. Eliot at 5 p.m., then Daniel and I headline a night of sestinas at 7 p.m., both at Nick's Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St., Worcester. Classic writers and formal poems made awesome. With booze. It's like a make up for how these things were mis-taught in high school.
***
To celebrate both National Poetry Month and April Fool's Day, I orchestrated a ridiculous poetry game online Tuesday: #FantasyPoetreySlam, where a wide range of writers wrote poems and posted videos of said poems from the perspective of a resident of one of six fantasy worlds.
#TeamGotham won, in large part due to Rick Lupert's high scoring video:
#TeamSunnydale came in second, thanks in great deal to Kathy Silvey's "found poem":
And #TeamGondor came in third, thanks in great part to this awesome poem from Dawn Gabriel:
And there's plenty more. Follow the #FantasyPoetrySlam hastag and enjoy!
***
In my What you're Listening To column, I listened to the latest album from Protean Collective, and in Pop Culture Notebook, I listened to Janelle Monáe cover Prince, ran down the April Fool's hoaxes and spoke to local musicians about the passing of Anderson Lynne Mar.
All right. Enough of that. I have way too much to do right now.
