Speculative Poetry: Past, Present, and Future

[crystalwizard]

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[lin]

Very interesting article, mon.

What future to see in this?

One thing that occurs to me is the lack of oral/performance tradition there. Tor or somebody should hold a specpoem open reading/Slam somewhere with book prizes and hoopla, see who salutes.

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[SJHigbee]

And that is an excellent suggestion! Maybe, with the growth of YouTube and various technologies surrounding podcasts, etc - it could be a held over a period of time, with people posting recordings of their performances...

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[RHFay]

Okay, you've dragged me onto the forum again, for a brief moment, anyway...

Some speculative poets actually do create performances of their poetry. I think Mike Allen (http://www.descentintolight.com) has done some of this (I believe he is a performance artist as well as a poet). Also, the Science Fiction Poetry Association (http://www.sfpoetry.com/) has an annual on-line Halloween poetry reading. And I do know a college student once performed one of my poems in one of her classes, which made me proud to no end.

Still, performances of speculative poetry may be rarer than those of mainstream, especially in certain regions. When I read my poetry at an open mic at a local coffee house here in Upstate New York, I got the impression that speculative poetry was something new to those present.

"I'm going to do what the warriors of old did. I'm going to recite poetry!"

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[SJHigbee]

So... whose up for performing their speculative poetry online, then?

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[crystalwizard]

SJHigbee said...
So... whose up for performing their speculative poetry online, then?

I can't answer that, but I can tell you that Abandoned Towers is interested in anyone that has audio recordings of their poetry that they would like to submit for inclusion on the audio page.

[lin]

Cool.
Is there a video page?

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[crystalwizard]

lin said...
Cool.
Is there a video page?

There's a book trailers page. The link to it is in the middle black area near the bottom.

Got book trailers you'd like me to consider adding to that page? Send me a link to where you have them online.

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[RHFay]

crystalwizard said...

SJHigbee said...
So... whose up for performing their speculative poetry online, then?

I can't answer that, but I can tell you that Abandoned Towers is interested in anyone that has audio recordings of their poetry that they would like to submit for inclusion on the audio page.

If I can figure out how to do it, I might just consider recording something for your use on the AT site.

"I'm going to do what the warriors of old did. I'm going to recite poetry!"

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[lin]

Well, so far I don't have book trailers for SF/F books.

But I wish somebody would start having eZines with sections for videopoems.

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[crystalwizard]

lin said...
I wish somebody would start having eZines with sections for videopoems.

*waves hand*

I can't host 'em but I'll be more than happy to create a section in AT and take submissions as long as you can upload them to somewhere I can link to (and I accept 'em).

email me if you have some you want me to consider.

[Meriall Blackwood]

I bought a microphone and I'm planning to read the sample scenes from my epic poem in progress. I'm also planning to read William Morris' unabridged Sigurd the Volsung, which I'm hosting on my site. I haven't been satisfied enough with my technique to post any of my recordings yet, though.

If I read too slowly, I lose the energy of the piece. If I read too quickly, and I risk losing the listener. I haven't settled on the right pace yet.

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[Dr. D]

All of my poetry (And I've written a LOT over the last 60+ years) is written to music in my head. Some of it is background music, but most of my poems are really songs. I have no idea how to record things on a computer, even though my last four computers all came with microphones or teeny little holes that had mics inside them. But I would love to perform them...the songs, I mean, not the holes.

[erazmus]

My own poetry tends to be much more effective when I read it aloud, not that I'm often invited to do so. So do my stories, come to think of it. But I'm such a technical doofus I've never gotten my computers to record an audio file, I'll put it on my to do list, but that may not help.

Mike

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