Category: poetry reading

Poetry Reading – One Thing Left In Oklahoma by Carolyn Reese

Poem performed by Michelle Alexander

Get to know the poet:

What is the theme of your poem?

Lost love?

How would you like people to respond when they read or watch your poetry reading?

I’d like for them to want it to be sung or put to music.

How long have you been writing poetry?

.Since I was nine years old.

Do you have a favorite poet?

Emily Dickinson/ee cummings

What influenced you to submit to WILDsound and have your poetry performed by a professional actor?

My script entry had its chops busted and was refused for performance, so I thought I would try a poem.

Do you write other works? scripts? Short Stories? Etc..?

I write scripts but am probably going to take all the scripts I have written and turn them into or back in to short stories since they don’t seem to impress anyone.

What is your passion in life?

To be paid regularly for fiction I write. I would say writing but I am going to write no matter what, if it isn’t excepted, if it isn’t liked so maybe my passion is more like a goal.

Poetry Reading – ROGUE WAVE by Joanne Van Leerdam

Performed by Michelle Alexander

Get to know the poet:

What is the theme of your poem?

‘Rogue Wave’ is about the way life and stress makes us feel, especially when things build up and

How would you like people to respond when they read or watch your poetry reading?

I really hope that people will think about the imagery and be able to relate to the feelings and ideas that I’ve expressed.

How long have you been writing poetry?

I’ve been writing all my life, but I’ve taken my poetry really seriously for about three years now.

Do you have a favorite poet?

I like the work of many different poets and writers. My favourite poems of all time are probably Tennyson’s ‘The Lady of Shalott’ and Alfred Noyes’ ‘The Highwayman’.

What influenced you to submit to WILDsound and have your poetry performed by a professional actor?

I stumbled across the Festival for Poetry site and submitted one of my poems. After browsing around for a while, I decided that having my poetry performed might be a good way to reach a new audience and make my poetry more accessible.

Do you write other works? scripts? Short Stories? Etc..?

I have published a collection of poetry called ‘Leaf’ and a collection of short stories called ‘New Horizons’. Both are available on Amazon and iBooks.

I also wrote a play called ‘The Shakespeare Omelette’ for my students to perform, and both they and the audience enjoyed it, so I have self-published that, too.

What is your passion in life?

I really want to encourage people to see things from a different perspective than their own, or to consider different possibilities that they might not otherwise have done.

I do that through my writing, but also through my teaching and the stage productions with which I’m involved.

Poetry Reading: not me by Jose Carlos Peliano

Performed by Michelle Alexander

Get to know the poet:

What is the theme of your poem?

The theme of my poem is compassion: I looked at a children photo that taught the camera was a weapon and stood up her arms! (the photo is attached below)

How would you like people to respond when they read or watch your poetry reading?

Well, they’ll respond better if the photo comes with the poem print, but anyway the poem expresses a feeling of the way a person really wants to show itself to someone else!

How long have you been writing poetry?

I’ve been writing poems since my teen age

Do you have a favorite poet?

In the english literature Yeats and Eliot, in Spain Espanca and Lorca, in Chile Neruda, in Brazil Drummond and Moraes

What influenced you to submit to WILDsound and have your poetry performed by a professional actor?

I saw tweets of the festival, I’ve read some poems published and decided to submit

Do you write other works? scripts? Short Stories? Etc..?

Yes, I write also shot stories, chronicles and novels

What is your passion in life?

My passion in life is to live in passion

Watch the November 2016 Poetry Readings

AYLAN LIES FACE DOWN by Angelina Llongueras

DELIRIOUS by L.T. Garvin

TOM CAT by Barbara Anderson

WILL’S HOUSE by Martha C. Wallace

Delirious – Poetry Reading by L T Garvin

Poem performed by Val Cole

Get to know the poet:

What is the theme of your poem?

Unrequited love.

How would you like people to respond when they read or watch your poetry reading?

Remembrance of young love and burning passion that was not meant to be.

How long have you been writing poetry?

I actually wrote poetry as a child, but have just really concentrated on it within the past three years.

Do you have a favorite poet?

Many, but if I had to pick just one, it would be William Butler Yeats.

What influenced you to submit to WILDsound and have your poetry performed by a professional actor?

I would like to find an audience for my poetry, and I discovered the site via WordPress and enjoyed listening to some of the poems that were performed on the site.

Do you write other works? scripts? Short Stories? Etc..?

Yes, I currently have a children’s book out entitled, Confessions of a 4th Grade Athlete with Crystal Publishing, LLC. I also write short stories, some have previously appeared in Texas Writers Journal.

What is your passion in life?

Writing, family, my pets, and finding ways within my power to help others.

Will’s House – Poetry Reading by Martha C Wallace

Poem performed by Val Cole

 
Get to know the poet:

What is the theme of your poem?

The theme of my poem is family memories, based on my life as a young child visiting my grandparents.

How would you like people to respond when they read or watch your poetry reading?

I want people to recall warm wonderful memories in their childhood as they mentally are transported to my grandparents porch, hearing the crackle of the old transistor radio ( and incidentally Grandpa’s Cleveland Indians were in the World Series) to imaging pulling and tasting the sweet Concord grapes and mulberries.

How long have you been writing poetry?

I have been waiting poetry for around 5years while taking a creative writing workshop in college

Do you have a favorite poet?

I have many that I admire: Emily Dickinson, Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes, Pablo Neruda, Rita Dove, but maya Angelo tops my list.

What influenced you to submit to WILDsound and have your poetry performed by a professional actor?

My friend and editor Jen ran across your contest and encouraged me to enter. I value her judgement so I agreed to submit it.

Do you write other works? scripts? Short Stories? Etc..?

I have written a food memoir ( nonfiction)and a few short stories which are fiction.

What is your passion in life?

To write, travel, and learn as much as I can about other places and people. To spread smiles through my words and cooking.To always be a compassionate advocate for the underhand and underserved.

 

Aylan lies face down – Poetry Reading by Angelina Llongueras

Poem performed by Val Cole

Get to know the poet:

What is the theme of your poem?

The effects of the NATO war on Syria on children, and on planet earth. Refugees, heartbreak, death, exploitation of resources, the death of the sea

How would you like people to respond when they read or watch your poetry reading?

I would like them to feel saddened, and appalled at the people who engineer these wars that are destroying humanity and our planet for the benefit of a few oil companies. I would like them to commit to world peace by any means necessary.

How long have you been writing poetry?

For a looong time.

Do you have a favorite poet?

I have several favourite poets…in English, Blake, Shelley…in Spanish Lorca, Machado…in Catalan Miquel Martí Pol, Vicent Andrés Estellès…

What influenced you to submit to WILDsound and have your poetry performed by a professional actor?

I am a professional actor and a poet. Everyone I have read this poem I have seen people have become quite emotional, I am curious it sounds in another person’s lips…

Do you write other works? scripts? Short Stories? Etc..?

I write and have published plays, essays and journalistic articles.

What is your passion in life?

My passion is theatre, as an actor, a voice actor, a playwright, a director, a professor, and a researcher…My other passion is travelling, never as a tourist, always to contribute something, usually something artistic.

Tom Cat – Poetry Reading by Barbara Anderson

Poem performed by Val Cole

Get to know the poet:

What is the theme of your poem?

Love.

How would you like people to respond when they read or watch your poetry reading?

I would like people to respond by posting their comments to the poetry reading by telling the viewers the things they loved or loved doing as children.

How long have you been writing poetry?

Less than a year.

Do you have a favorite poet?

No.

What influenced you to submit to WILDsound and have your poetry performed by a professional actor?

I was influenced to have my poetry performed by a professional actor so as to achieve visability with the viewers of wildsound and to promote my poetry.

Do you write other works? scripts? Short Stories? Etc..?

Yes. Movie scripts, short stories, fairy tales, poetry.

What is your passion in life?

To be successful as a writer.