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General Discussion / Re: 2012 WoWPS Finals Streaming LIVE
« on: March 20, 2012, 01:00:45 AM »
so people should email Abbey? Thanks Jesse!
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General Discussion / Re: 2012 WoWPS Finals Streaming LIVE
« on: March 11, 2012, 04:39:33 AM »
Hey guys - I received two reports from people on opposite sides of the country that the sound on the streaming was so garbled and echo-y they couldn't understand a word of what was being said. Is there a way we can offer refunds?
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General Discussion / Re: 2012 WoW COMPETITOR LIST
« on: February 22, 2012, 10:36:52 AM »
All y'all who are saying "don't let the waitlist in" - you're right. I know you're right. I've argued your position in the past. I'm just sad and grumpy about it this week. Move along. I'll jump in, ready to host (Suzi, who should I talk to about hosting? Erik? Bill? Someone else?) my ass off and cheer my people on.
That said, Rachel, doesn't a past championship guarantee you a spot? Isn't that one of the prizes?
Also, Omni: right on, about not making Abbey the poor goat that has to have this all come down to her.
That said, Rachel, doesn't a past championship guarantee you a spot? Isn't that one of the prizes?
Also, Omni: right on, about not making Abbey the poor goat that has to have this all come down to her.
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General Discussion / Re: call for submissions - Biblical anthology
« on: February 21, 2012, 03:15:06 AM »I have one all ready to go. I'll send it out soon. Thanks. Cool project.
Steve - we still want it!
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General Discussion / Re: 2012 WoW COMPETITOR LIST
« on: February 18, 2012, 06:03:15 PM »
Adding 24 poets to the roster would be a totally unfair burden on the host city and committee because they'd have to find/secure more venues. $3600 is jack squat when throwing an event of this size. Much as I want us all to be let in, there's a reason we cap wowps and iwps at 72 people. The cities that take on these events aren't designed or equipped to handle anything much bigger.
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General Discussion / Re: 2012 WoW COMPETITOR LIST
« on: February 18, 2012, 05:41:31 PM »
Lesson to self: next time, list literary accomplishments instead of writing "I like beets" in my bio.
Sigh. It's a good lesson - to take everything seriously, be professional, etc.
Several of the people on the waitlist this time have long service records to PSi as slam masters and event volunteers. How much does that count against geography?
Sigh. It's a good lesson - to take everything seriously, be professional, etc.
Several of the people on the waitlist this time have long service records to PSi as slam masters and event volunteers. How much does that count against geography?
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General Discussion / Re: 2012 WoW COMPETITOR LIST
« on: February 18, 2012, 03:39:01 PM »
I see two storms from Portland, and none from Seattle. Can we talk about what went into this decision? If Portland and Seattle can be considered equidistant from Denver, shouldn't there fairly be one from each?
(No disrespect to the Portland poets, who all deserve to compete, or to the decision-makers, who surely have been through this many, many, disgruntled times, and should not have to put up with the nonsense of grumpy waitlisters.)
(No disrespect to the Portland poets, who all deserve to compete, or to the decision-makers, who surely have been through this many, many, disgruntled times, and should not have to put up with the nonsense of grumpy waitlisters.)
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General Discussion / call for submissions - Biblical anthology
« on: September 21, 2011, 02:25:13 PM »
Submission Solicitation
In the Biblical Sense: An Anthology of Apocryphal Poetry
WANTED: Poems re-imagining or re-telling stories from the Bible. Ideally, we would have a poem for every book of the Hebrew and Christian Bibles, with few repeats, although a single poem could cover several books. Characters and stories that usually get less attention will be prioritized. The main focus of the poem must be the Bible story or character, although it can be placed in a modern setting.
Example:
Acceptable: Bible character speaks to Planned Parenthood protesters.
Unacceptable: Planned Parenthood protester quotes Leviticus a lot.
After assembling the collection, we will pitch the book to several poetry presses. We’ve been advised that this is the smartest way to go. All rights will revert to authors, always. Just let us know if you’ve managed to publish that piece elsewhere so we can credit it and congratulate you.
SUBMISSION INFO
Submit to: inthebiblicalsenseanthology@gmail.com
Your submission should contain:
- up to 3 poems, up to 90 lines each, pasted in the body of the email
- the alluded Bible chapter and verse, as well as what text you’re working from: original Hebrew, original Greek, King James, New Standard, Marriott, Hyatt...
- a subject line that follows the following format: name-title-submission (example: DaneKuttler-TheTreeOfKnowlege-submission) DO NOT put your name anywhere else in the submission. We're flying blind, and we like it that way.
We don’t want bios or cover letters right now. Isn’t that easy?
PROMPTS!
Rewrite a story from the perspective of minor characters, particularly women. Examples: Obadiah, Ruth, Naomi, Sarah & Hagar, Miriam, Mary & Martha, Jezebel, etc. . .You may make up names and backstories for unnamed characters.
Employ a well-known Biblical verse form in a context that is relevant to you (Lamentations, Song of Songs, Psalms, Job, the begats in Genesis)
Use a Bible story as an extended metaphor for a present-day phenomenon.
Focus on a specific moment. What did it sound like, feel like?
Resurrect a character in your city. How do they react? How do people treat them?
Put two characters or events in conversation with each other. In some cases, we might take a Biblical character in conversation with a non-Biblical character.
Write a haiku death match between two Biblical rivals.
In the Biblical Sense: An Anthology of Apocryphal Poetry
WANTED: Poems re-imagining or re-telling stories from the Bible. Ideally, we would have a poem for every book of the Hebrew and Christian Bibles, with few repeats, although a single poem could cover several books. Characters and stories that usually get less attention will be prioritized. The main focus of the poem must be the Bible story or character, although it can be placed in a modern setting.
Example:
Acceptable: Bible character speaks to Planned Parenthood protesters.
Unacceptable: Planned Parenthood protester quotes Leviticus a lot.
After assembling the collection, we will pitch the book to several poetry presses. We’ve been advised that this is the smartest way to go. All rights will revert to authors, always. Just let us know if you’ve managed to publish that piece elsewhere so we can credit it and congratulate you.
SUBMISSION INFO
Submit to: inthebiblicalsenseanthology@gmail.com
Your submission should contain:
- up to 3 poems, up to 90 lines each, pasted in the body of the email
- the alluded Bible chapter and verse, as well as what text you’re working from: original Hebrew, original Greek, King James, New Standard, Marriott, Hyatt...
- a subject line that follows the following format: name-title-submission (example: DaneKuttler-TheTreeOfKnowlege-submission) DO NOT put your name anywhere else in the submission. We're flying blind, and we like it that way.
We don’t want bios or cover letters right now. Isn’t that easy?
PROMPTS!
Rewrite a story from the perspective of minor characters, particularly women. Examples: Obadiah, Ruth, Naomi, Sarah & Hagar, Miriam, Mary & Martha, Jezebel, etc. . .You may make up names and backstories for unnamed characters.
Employ a well-known Biblical verse form in a context that is relevant to you (Lamentations, Song of Songs, Psalms, Job, the begats in Genesis)
Use a Bible story as an extended metaphor for a present-day phenomenon.
Focus on a specific moment. What did it sound like, feel like?
Resurrect a character in your city. How do they react? How do people treat them?
Put two characters or events in conversation with each other. In some cases, we might take a Biblical character in conversation with a non-Biblical character.
Write a haiku death match between two Biblical rivals.
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General Discussion / Have wowps storm poets been notified yet?
« on: February 07, 2011, 10:36:23 PM »
And if not, when might that happen?
Thanks!
~Dane
Thanks!
~Dane
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General Discussion / Re: The Next Big Thing: WOWps 2010
« on: March 09, 2010, 08:46:43 PM »
From Marty McConnell's essay "You Say You Want a Revolution"
(From Word Warriors, an anthology of women in spoken word, (c) 2007 p. 313-317)
"What troubles me is the idea that in order to be supportive, we must be laudatory across the board. Those of us who curate venues should never turn down a fellow female poet for a feature, even if her work is not a good fit or ready for the audience. That we should expend our energies praising one another for our bravery as women performers rather than for our hard work at developing our craft. That the best thing we can do for each other is say you go, girl."
Marty's (excellently crafted) essay goes on to suggest a new rubric for women writers - one that insists on rigor, cooperation, and space that honors current and historical tradition.
In the first two years at WoWps, Dee Matthew's "Getting Ugly On Stage" workshop sought this kind of rigor with performance skills, rather than writing, but the principle was there: hard work. Let's do it. Was it a supportive environment? Absolutely. Did the phrase "that's not working for you; try something else" get thrown around a lot? Yes! Did everyone walk out of the workshop with some modicum of improvement? Eh, maybe. I know I did. Point is, it wasn't about cheerleading.
This year, Dee won't be doing Getting Ugly at WoWps, because the organizers felt it wouldn't be fair to ask a competitor to lead such a long and (sometimes grueling) workshop. Lindsay Miller and I are taking it on and doing it ourselves. Because we don't have a venue-sized space, we'll spread people in smaller groups across hotel rooms, attempting to get at least one 5+ year veteran in each room. The rules will be simple: Insist on rigor. Push each other hard. Don't be gratuitously mean.
Workshop will happen Friday morning starting at 10. Meet in the lobby of the host hotel, so we can organize, split up, and work from there.
(From Word Warriors, an anthology of women in spoken word, (c) 2007 p. 313-317)
"What troubles me is the idea that in order to be supportive, we must be laudatory across the board. Those of us who curate venues should never turn down a fellow female poet for a feature, even if her work is not a good fit or ready for the audience. That we should expend our energies praising one another for our bravery as women performers rather than for our hard work at developing our craft. That the best thing we can do for each other is say you go, girl."
Marty's (excellently crafted) essay goes on to suggest a new rubric for women writers - one that insists on rigor, cooperation, and space that honors current and historical tradition.
In the first two years at WoWps, Dee Matthew's "Getting Ugly On Stage" workshop sought this kind of rigor with performance skills, rather than writing, but the principle was there: hard work. Let's do it. Was it a supportive environment? Absolutely. Did the phrase "that's not working for you; try something else" get thrown around a lot? Yes! Did everyone walk out of the workshop with some modicum of improvement? Eh, maybe. I know I did. Point is, it wasn't about cheerleading.
This year, Dee won't be doing Getting Ugly at WoWps, because the organizers felt it wouldn't be fair to ask a competitor to lead such a long and (sometimes grueling) workshop. Lindsay Miller and I are taking it on and doing it ourselves. Because we don't have a venue-sized space, we'll spread people in smaller groups across hotel rooms, attempting to get at least one 5+ year veteran in each room. The rules will be simple: Insist on rigor. Push each other hard. Don't be gratuitously mean.
Workshop will happen Friday morning starting at 10. Meet in the lobby of the host hotel, so we can organize, split up, and work from there.
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General Discussion / Re: The Next Big Thing: WOWps 2010
« on: October 22, 2009, 11:44:19 AM »
Brilliant! Shame on me for not looking there first.
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General Discussion / Re: The Next Big Thing: WOWps 2010
« on: October 21, 2009, 09:14:08 PM »
*correction
By "scheduling", I mean: figuring out what time to run this workshop so as to cause the least amount of interference with official WoWps programming
and by "securing a venue"...well I meant that. Is there a day venue that we could use that wouldn't be in use during aforementioned time slot?
Or should we create a network of hotel rooms, with 10 people in each, all doing the same workshop?
By "scheduling", I mean: figuring out what time to run this workshop so as to cause the least amount of interference with official WoWps programming
and by "securing a venue"...well I meant that. Is there a day venue that we could use that wouldn't be in use during aforementioned time slot?
Or should we create a network of hotel rooms, with 10 people in each, all doing the same workshop?
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General Discussion / Re: The Next Big Thing: WOWps 2010
« on: October 21, 2009, 09:11:53 PM »
Excellent. So, to whom do I talk about scheduling, securing a venue, etc?
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General Discussion / Back to Getting Ugly...
« on: October 21, 2009, 05:13:58 PM »
I volunteer to be a logistics organizer for a DIY version of Getting Ugly. Linds, you with me?
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General Discussion / Re: The Next Big Thing: WOWps 2010
« on: October 06, 2009, 01:14:36 PM »
I just went and checked out the WoWps site. It looks fantastic! Great job, organizers - I can't wait to be there!
Just one thing - I don't see any "Getting Ugly On Stage" a.k.a. "Dee's Fantastic Community-Building Critique Workshop" I'll really miss that if it doesn't happen.
Cheers,
~Dane
Just one thing - I don't see any "Getting Ugly On Stage" a.k.a. "Dee's Fantastic Community-Building Critique Workshop" I'll really miss that if it doesn't happen.
Cheers,
~Dane