The interview on KBOO’s Bread and Roses show didn’t end up allowing me to read any poems, but it was a great time anyway. I got to meet Nicole Vulcan, who is quite a gal — she has all kinds of interesting, humane projects going as a caring feminist. And I got to meet VoiceCatcher President Carolyn Martin and Associate Editor Kristin Berger — great gals with great energy, who love poetry. And I had fun getting to promote Big Tent Poetry!
I practiced reading quite a bit before Friday night. Another impulse to improve that skill was the need to provide qarrtsiluni with a sound file of a poem for the upcoming “Modern Classics” edition, which I am thrilled to be a part of. You can’t hear that quite yet, but I also recorded another poem, one I wanted to read, previously published by the good women of Ourboros Review.
The cool thing is that I recorded it using my cell phone via Cinch (because of a tip on qarrtsiluni). It’s an easy way to record and the quality is much better than my laptop (and this current laptop is way better than my old one, which was inhabited by crickets, which I like, but not as part of a recording).
You can listen here at Cinch. You can also create your own account. Then we can all share our oral works!
I’m not sure the show will be archived on the KBOO Bread and Roses web site, but if it shows up, I’ll let you know.
Happy May poeming!
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oh, i hope they do archive it. :) and congrats on the new classics publication. can’t wait to hear it.
and, just so you know, i miss you. looking forward to summer!
Me, you, too. xxoo
I can use that shot, myself.
I’ll listen when I have some spare time, but I had a look at the site and I don’t think I can create audio files from New Zealand. Not without making an expensive toll call, anyway. There seems to be a lot of stuff on the net which assumes everyone lives in the US :(
I should have mentioned that it does require a call to a New York number, so yes, it makes it expensive for you. Bah! If I ever hear of other resources that aren’t so americentric, I’ll be sure to tell you.
:-(
I’ll be looking forward to your modern classics piece too. Congratulations.
I started dabbling with audio on my blog earlier this year (but dispensed with it for April) after recording a few for qarrtsiluni. I was shocked by how easy it was.
I started doing it a year ago, but my then laptop was an impediment. Then I got onto other things. So many distractions.
Yeah. It’s pretty easy, if can read your work well. :-)
That’s something I need to do better.
Hey there — thanks for giving me the shoutout! I wish we would have had more time for you and Kristin to read some poetry — but that was just the way it went…
I should have the audio up sometime in the near future, though with my trip to Haiti coming up in a couple days, it is going to be longer than i would like it to be! Thanks again for being on. I’m going to try to do more women writer shows in the future, so keep in touch.
Hey there back!
It all worked out and maybe another day we’ll be able to reconnect. I’d like it! I’m sure Kristin would, too.
Your Haiti project sounds incredible. Best of luck with travel & the project.
Cinch does an amazingly good job reducing noise, and is 100% easier to use than GCast was — it’s well named.
Be sure to download and save the audio, too, if you haven’t already. I’d be sort of surprised if they don’t clean out older files on their servers in a few years.
Good idea. I forget to follow up on that kind of thing sometimes.
Very cool. Love the poem.
Thanks for listening, Jan!