So cool: ACM Chicago has commissioned composers and musicians to set my poems to music.
UPDATE: Here’s a writeup from the The Columbia Chronicle.
So cool: ACM Chicago has commissioned composers and musicians to set my poems to music.
UPDATE: Here’s a writeup from the The Columbia Chronicle.
Texas Poet Twists Newsprint Into Prose | PBS NewsHour | Sept. 14, 2010 | PBS
The folks from PBS Newshour came out in July and filmed a segment for their Poetry Series, and it finally ran tonight!
Thanks very much to producer Mike Melia and videographer Dave Frederick for their awesome work. Here’s a shot of them eating BBQ after our 5-hour shoot.
That’s right: 5 hours! Mike told me you get about a minute of footage for every hour you shoot. Mike’s very good at pitching questions in the interview so that the subject ends up narrating the piece:
Here’s a bonus shot of Milo (who has a cameo in the piece) sniffing the camera equipment:
I was pretty thrilled when The Austin Museum of Art asked me if I wanted to do a Newspaper Blackout event. We got to display a mini-exhibit of originals and prints, and I led a 90 minute blackout poetry workshop. It was a great time, and we had a terrific turnout.
More photos on my Flickr and AMOA’s Facebook page.
Here’s some video Anne Heller (@annevid) shot of the talk:
Big thanks to AMOA and everyone who showed!
I am so excited to announce that my friends at Wire & Twine are handprinting our first-ever Newspaper Blackout t-shirt. I’m a customer, so I know their impeccable design taste and the high-quality of their products, but I also know that they’re good Ohio folks, based out of Oxford, a small town where I spent four of my favorite years.
“Creativity is subtraction.” It’s not a poem, it’s a rallying cry.
These tees are handprinted on American Apparel triblend atheletic heathered gray t-shirts. Which are super soft. (Meg and I own several.)
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