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The Adventures of Book Waitress Caught in the Act: The Making of a Live Poetry + Music CD, by Whitman McGowan How to Make a CD: A Poet’s Perspective Keeper of the Mimeo Flame & the Flaming Mimeo Mediaization, Democratization, Popularization Mimeo / Cordel The Mount 95 Theses: Mission of the Machines Old-Skool and New Media Painted Bride Quarterly Tossed Across Earthside Cyberstoops Poetry in a Time of Fire Resurrection of a Mimeo Press So You Wanna Host a Poetry Reading Series? A Word To the Wise: On Entering Your Poems in Competition You Do It Because You Love It
Eve Stern tells the story of National Poetry Month in the Peace Corps, teaching Literature as a Foreign Language in Suburbia.
Whitman McGowan recounts his experience producing a live poetry performance CD, from its genesis in the dream of a European performance tour through collecting recordings and permissions to designing the CD package, selecting & mastering the audio tracks, and enduring the glitches in the actual CD manufacturing process.
Bob Holman’s notes on the genesis of his first CD: “First, make up poems for twenty-odd years... look on CD, like book, as a vehicle for Poem’s Wild Ride... How finished the book feels! unlike the ever-ongoingness of the poems. With a CD it’s different... Mind dances, under the headphones, to poetry on CD.”
An interview with Alan Horvath, poet & homemade publisher who has just reissued a series of d.a. levy’s books.
Poetry Makes Its Move Move... reclaiming its oral roots.... That is the way we begin to respect all our individual voices: by hearing the poet in each of us.
Alternative distribution means of poetry, from the mimeo revolution of the 60s to Brazilian literatura de cordel, “poetry on a string.”
A behind-the-scenes tale from the making of The United States of Poetry, guaranteed to incite insight into that most delicious of contempo marriages: Poetry vs. Television.
Modern-day Martin Luther of poetry & P.T. Barnum publisher Marc Awodey posts his manifesto on the electronic cathedral.
Self-distributing your poetry at the millennium: Jason Pettus offers a guide to the next step after you’ve become a self-publisher. “How do you take your zines, your chapbooks, your Microsoft Word documents, and actually get them into the hands of your audience?”
Museletter correspondent Marj Hahne talks with the editors of the venerable PBQ about its reincarnation on the Web in the year 2000 (its 27th year of publication).
Chris Mansell recounts her adventures in the small press wilderness: “This is a piece on why I started PressPress and how I’m going about it and what the hell I think I’m doing wasting my time on other people’s work when I should be doing my own.”
An interview with poet/Telephone Books publisher Maureen Owen: Did I just call typing stencils romantic!!!?... To eat, sleep, dream, and sweat the work as one puts the book together. . . .
PoeticLicense founder & Museletter correspondent Larry Jaffe speaks from experience on how to get started hosting a poetry reading series.
Our friend Kurt Heintz has some sage advice for the poet who asked this question: "What is the reliability of the hundreds of poetry contests being run on the Net? Is it prudent to submit manuscripts to them?"
The idea of competition in poetry remains a perennial debate topic... and we think our friend S.A. Griffin’s recent comments on the PoetsAllOver Yahoo mailing list are worth rereading.
