Soundart Radio

Have you ever wanted to make your own radio show? Then Soundart Radio can help you. Poet radio time again.

Perhaps you recorded a show on
 a cassette when you were a teenager and spent a lot of time alone. Maybe you have a list in your head that you could read out. Or perhaps you're a poet who lives in the trees, an angel, a roadkill chef or can recognise birds by their songs. If so, send some poems to poetandgeek.com.

If you are interested in more technical skills, go here: http://www.soundartradio.org.uk/projects/creative-radio-course/

Or just listen to birds and other cool stuff here http://www.soundartradio.org.uk/

ARTournament September 25th Sunday Daytime Chill Gloucester, UK

Do you fancy lingering in the season of mellow? Fruitfulness guaranteed.

ARTournament will be giving away prizes for the best audience voted performance of the day. Each member of the audience will be given one vote on the door when they arrive. The performer/s with the most votes at 9.45pm will be presented with £100 in cash-good luck everyone.

The New Inn in the centre of Gloucester (opp M&S) City Centre. 16 Northgate Street, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom this goes on for days and days until 6th November. Go here for more http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=215822795131451.

Kalinić Vinko tweet poetry

Kalinić Vinko was born in 1974 in Split, Croatia.: writer, poet, journalist and human rights activist.

Vinko  is descended from a family of fishermen on the island of Komiža/Vis. He is the author of 5 books of poetry. His poems have been translated into several languages ​​and published around the world. In addition to the official Croatian language, he writes in a special dialect, "Komiža."  in his poetry journal and poetry.

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Rains made us wet that summer All night long Clinging tight one to another One through another Drop by drop Out of two of us thousands of us

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More here:  http://vinkokalinic.blogspot.com/  and here http: / / www.facebook.com / pages / Vinko-Kalini% C4% 87/110184921886. English translations of his poems available here http://www.mediterranean.nu/?p=2131.

Your own poetry radio

Your own show, your own share: BlogTalkRadio claims to be the easiest way to create and share audio on the web.



You'll find all the stuff you need to know at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/.

The Speakeasy cafe open mike poetry ~internet radio~ show tonight!

US time for this one so plenty of time to check it out even though it is today.

At 7pm US East Coast time, check in early, meet poets, hear poets and read yourself:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/speakeasycafe/2011/09/08/the-speakeasycafe-open-mic-poetry-show.

This show happens every Thursday and you do have to call in...but maybe there is a way round that.

Deconstruction of a shantie

In Chinook, shantie or shantey still simply means to sing and we can guess that its roots occur somewhere in the French word chanter.

On boats and ships around the world, shanties were work songs whose rhythms helped synchronise tasks. So for example a haul shantie was sung when hauling in a line. If the job was expected to be quick, a short-haul shantie would be sung - one long stress per chorus; if long, with less force perhaps two pulls each chorus, a long-haul shantie was called for such as the ubiquitous Blow the man down (beloved of music teachers).

Other shanties would be developed for other jobs and might involve stamping as a kind of group percussion. And it is the driving rhythm that may encourage us to recognise shantie or shantie beats in poetry. Or simply hear the sound of a work task hidden in its structure.

There is more information here http://www.jsward.com/shanty/index.shtml and here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_shanty

Youth Poet Laureate Program, New York, United States

This event runs from 12th September at 4.30pm until 14th October at 4.30pm.

(I like this level of precision timing btw)

Register now to become New York's Youth Poetry Laureate, serve for the city for 1 year, complete a full NYC library tour, and win a book deal to publish your first book of poems.

Sound good?

Full details at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=250040398350561