Inspiring Other Poets “I want Poet Tips to be so successful in helping people connect meaningfully to the language arts that I don’t have to overhear the phrase, I don’t get poetry ever again.” Interview with poet Robert Peake How did you come to writing poetry? The creative arts were always encouraged in my family; I…
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Poetry as Film
Visual Poetry By Robert Peake A film-poem by Valerie Kampmeier and Robert Peake. Text of the poem and process notes available here: See his poetry in Vol. IV #5 of The Woven Tale Press
Retreat West
Creating the Writing Retreat I Wanted by Amanda Saint [dropcap]I[/dropcap]t all started when I went a bit mad. London life had got to me. Insomnia for two long years, extortionate rent, no proper darkness, endless noise. So when I flipped out one day over a minor issue–we’re talking wailing, screaming, throwing and kicking things (very…
WTP Vol. IV #5
click on cover to go to issue “The Woven Tale Press is arguably the finest literary and art magazine to have come on the scene in several decades.” –Elisabeth Shackelford, author of Don’t Sit Here
River Love—Ndaba Sibanda
Audio Poetry for your Listening Pleasure River Love Flow flow with fury With buckets and buckets Of love sweet love for my lover Fall fall for me fall for all time`s sake Rain on me fire none to put out Each time l slap my eyes on you slow I feel like pouring pouring my…
WTP Writer: Sophia Blackwell
“My audience is always smarter than me.” Interview by Jo Ely, Literary Editor Sophia Blackwell was born in Newcastle. She read English at Oxford, where she started performing poetry with Hammer & Tongue. Now an established performance poet, her poetry has been anthologized by Bloodaxe, Nine Arches, The Emma Press, Sidekick Books and The Woven…
Interview with David Loret de Mola
Performance poetry and so much more Guerilla Poetry Month was initiated in 2014 —street performance poetry by a group of artists from Zero Forbidden Goals (ZFG). Can you tell us a little about ZFG and how Guerrilla became an offshoot? Well, ZFG started as a collection of hiphop artists who came together to perform in…
Listen to Kirstin Maguire
Audio Poetry: The Writing Life By Kirstin Maguire https://soundcloud.com/kirstinmaguire/the-writing-life [dropcap]K[/dropcap]irstin Maguire produces her poems in audio at SoundCloud as well as publishing them in numerous publications and collections, including Every Day Poems, The Guardian, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine and Cannon Poets. Her debut collection was a collaboration with Artist Jane Moore— the Sketch A Day…
David Loret De Mola — Guerrilla Poetry
What is guerrilla poetry? Sit back, watch and listen to a bit of WORD performed by David Loret De Mola during a guerrilla poetry reading in California. Take the poetry to the streets! Take the poetry to the streets! Poetry to the People! Inspired? Read on. Down below the line, there’s a link where you…
Poet Activists
Poets Speak Out By Michael Dickel [dropcap]A[/dropcap] few years ago, poet activist Michael Rothenberg contacted me. He asked if I would be willing to organize an event for the world-wide 100,000 Poets for Change (100TPC) Day. He and his partner, Terri Carrion, began 100TPC organically five years ago, which means a couple of years before…
A Poem from Natasha Head
Failed Enough Natasha Head I’ve failed enough times to know Good intentions don’t win gold stars I’ve fallen enough times to know Gravity trumps God I’ve lost enough times to know Hanging on Only serves to steal your strength And hope may be a thing with feathers But is more likely to show up As…
Poet Charles Bane, Jr. | Video
In Paris—Charles Bane, Jr., Reading [dropcap]C[/dropcap]harles Bane, Jr., publishes occasional fiction, but his writing life is devoted to poetry and its advocacy. His first book of poetry came to the notice of Past U.S. Poet Laureate Donald Hall, who corresponded with him for a year. These letters were donated to The Paris Review and University…