SOLICITING POE-IMAGERIES

LAUNCHING “Spoken World Live”
A TV Show for Spoken Word Artists & their poe-imageries
Hosted by Miguel Coleman
Sponsored by Living Free Network

Poets, Wordsmiths, Flow-ologists …
Have you set your poems to music and filmed yourself in the flow?

Now accepting submissions for broadcast on
our show “Spoken World Live”, a MTV-esque Television Show
featuring the Videos of Poets.
We”re talking Poetry + Images + Music aka Poe-imageries
(Music Videos for Poets)!

If you would like to submit your Poe-imagery
for Broadcast on our Show, please e-mail to
spokenworldlive @ hotmail.com
w/your Name, Address & Telephone number.
We will email you a Photo Release to be completed &
sent with your Poe-imagery on DVD to:
Spoken World Live
PO Box 931596
Hollywood, CA 90093

The world is talking, why don”t you!

Spitfire named poet laureate of Belfast – Maine Coast NOW – A Courier Publications Information Source
Belfast, Maine is a tiny coastal town with a gorgeous rocky coastline, art galleries, craft stores, delightful inns and B&B”s…. and its own Poet Laureate. The quill will be passed at the end of the year to Barbara Spitfire, one of the small town”s “Fab Four” women poets. The Fab Four also participated in the 2nd Annual Belfast Poetry Festival held this past October 6 & 7th. The Festival was sponsored by The Live Poets” Society, Maine, which also publishes Off the Coast. The Maine litmag is published three times a year, and nominates six poets annually for a Pushcart Prize. The latest issue is available at www.offthecoast.com, and is as delightful to hold and see as it is to read. Off the Coast accepts submissions from both published and new poets. They prefer shorter poems, and also review five to six poetry books per issue. Poets are encouraged to submit their books for review. Full submission details are available here.

Press release showed up this morning on Gotpoetry.com so I”m spreading the word. If you performed in Austin during the National Poetry Slam in any venue – if you read a poem in Austin during the National Poetry Slam – do I need to repeat that again? – no matter where, whether you competed or not, if you were there and you read a poem out loud, Scott Woods is looking for you. He”s put out the call for submissions to the 2006 National Poetry Slam Anthology.

Scott Woods knows what you”re thinking: “Scott, how can you put out a call for the 2006 anthology when the 2005 edition hasn”t come out yet?”

It”s simple: PSI is very close to pressing the 2005 edition, but waiting until it hits the streets to take submissions would throw off the production schedule of a planned late 2006/early 2007 street date for the 2006 edition. That”s right; late 2006/early 2007 street date for 2006 is PSI”s goal.

So… Yes, it”s time for the annual National Poetry Slam anthology collection!

Were you a performer at NPS 2006 in Austin and want to be published? Then the 2006 NPS anthology is calling!

- If you were on a team or competed as an individual; performed poetry at a day event/hotel cipher/taxi cab/parking lot; or wrote a cool Slam-related essay, then SUBMIT!
- Any poem performed in Austin is eligible!
- Essays may be submitted! Their subjects must be about Slam: judges, poets, poem subject matter, scoring, history, quality of work…whatever!

Starting RIGHT NOW you can submit your poems (up to 2) and/or essay (1 essay limit, max. 3000 words, previously published OK with proof of clearance) by email to me directly at:

sewoods1 @ yahoo.com

Or mail hard copies to:
Scott Woods
c/o PSI Anthology 2006
11462 East Lane
Whitmore Lake, MI 48189

DEADLINE: December 20
Questions? Email Scott Woods at: sewoods1 @ yahoo.com

Yes, you can submit both poems and essays.
Yes, you can submit attachments (but if you send me a virus, I won”t publish you!).
Yes, volunteers are eligible.
Projected release date: December 2006/January 2007.

I”m not often one to follow media hype to something slick and commercial. I”m always the last one on the block to read the current bestseller out of sheer stubbornness – and this press release that showed up in my mailbox really nicked at my resistance to commercializing art. Then again – it”s a poem a day project so I had to check it out.

Sonibyte, a producer of digital sound content for the web, launched it”s Poem of the Day podcast in June, and was featured in iTunes “New and Notable” section. To date, there have been over 100,000 downloads of the Poem of the Day. That”s not too shady for a series that features professional actors and academics reading works of literature and poetry. It certainly puts a kick in the teeth to the belief that poetry is dead.

Sonibyte”s Poem of the Day podcast features a new poem every day, downloadable to your iPod or other listening device – including your computer – via RSS or iTunes feed. The service is a free subscription – but the producers are currently offering commercial advertising sponsorships at auction on eBay. Yep, that”s right – they”re auctioning commercial airtime on the Poem A Day podcasts at eBay auction. It”ll be interesting to see what companies think that advertising to poetry lovers is worth, won”t it?

Meanwhile, if you”re interested in getting a new poem downloaded to your iPod each day, you can subscribe to the podcast at this page, or just add this http://www.sonibyte.com/rssfeed/4.xml into your favorite podcasting tool. You can also subscribe to it via .

Like to get a poem a day, but don”t do the pod thing yet? (BTW, stay tuned on that. I -did- attend PodCamp last weekend, and I”m excited about the chance to put some audio/video up here over the next few weeks. I”m just working out all the logistics now.) Drop by All Things Human, where Robert Huntington, an attorney, chess player and self-admitted former (bad) poet, posts a new poem every day. Just a very quick perusal of his latest entries turned up several of my all time favorites – poems that I”d tucked away and forgotten – Leigh Hunt”s Rondeau (better known as “Jenny Kissed Me), Santayana”s Cape Cod. He has a liking for the older British poets – Donne, Marvell, Thomas Hardy – and the poems are well-chosen. Drop by, leave a comment, enjoy.

On September 12, 2006, the much-anticipated literary anthology Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families, will be published by Random House. Drawn from the acclaimed National Endowment for the Arts program and edited by the best-selling author Andrew Carroll, the anthology includes nearly 100 letters, poems, stories, and memoirs of service and sacrifice on the front lines and at home.

Those are the words that greet you on the National Initiatives page of the National Endowment for the Arts. The project, Operation Homecoming, has been two years in the making. Launched in 2004, the project offered workshops in writing at 25 different domestic and overseas military installations, and sent out a call for submissions to troops who have served in any branch of the service since 9/11. That call drew over 10,000 submissions for inclusion in an anthology. All of those submissions will be permanently archived by the federal government.

The workshops were conducted by writers and poets who included Tom Clancy, Mark Bowden, Bobbie Ann Mason, Tobias Wolff, Jeff Shaara, and Marilyn Nelson. They encouraged servicemen and their families to open up and write honestly and creatively about their experiences during wartime – and the result, according to those who have seen advance copies of the book, is nothing less than stunning.

The anthology is edited by Andrew Carroll, the editor of War Letters, a collection of letters written by soldiers during various engagements. Beginning September 16, Carroll will be doing a 30 city tour to promote the book Operation Homecoming. For tour dates, visit Book tour dates.