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Flame – Poetry Reading by Carolyn Hucker, Poetry performed by Jason Martorino

Watch the Poetry Reading of FLAME

Get to know poet Carolyn Hucker:

1) What is the theme of your poem?

Desire and being taken out of reality by that desire. Being utterly at one your lover.

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

I would like them to have for a moment that feeling of being completely lost in someone else – that feeling where two souls become one, out of time and place.

3) How long have you been writing poetry?

A few years

4) Do you have a favorite poet?

Not specifically, but I love Wilfred Owen, Hugh McDiarmid, W.B.Yeats, Coleridge and a wonderful local poet, Liz Berry who writes evocative, beautiful poetry about the Black Country, where I live at the moment.

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

I have been writing bits of poetry for a few years but only for my own pleasure (or maybe as therapy). I have never had anything published. I thought it would be nice to see what other people thought of some of the things I do, positive or negative – it’s all feedback.

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

Sometimes – I am an inveterate scribbler. Bits of poems and stories pop up all the time and just tend to get scribbled down.

7) What is your passion in life?

Generally being creative – I write, sing, make jewellery, paint a little and play ukulele.

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Morning’s Music Never Dark – Poetry Reading by Dr Todd Harris

Watch the Poetry Reading: MORNING’S MUSIC NEVER DARK

Performed by actor Jason Martorino

Get to know poet Todd Harris:

1) What is the theme of your poem?

The poem touches on the multiple dimensions of nature affecting human senses upon awakening.

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

I want the reader to recognize the broader role nature plays in humanity’s awareness of time and space and the emotional dynamism of our interconnected reactivity sphere.

3) How long have you been writing poetry?

I have been writing poetry for almost 40 years.

4) Do you have a favorite poet?

Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams

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

The desire to share my words.

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

My poetry and music garnered a grant from the Irvine Foundation In 2008 – the resultant project can be found at:
ToddHarrisSubitoGrant2008.com. My latest book, “The Lyric Flutist” was commissioned by and published in 2015 by Wingert-Jones.
As a physicist, poet and composer I explore fresh approaches to thought and functionality, uncovering fundamental lyricism, and discovering what founds, surrounds and impassions sensory space-time.

Deadline: FREE POETRY Festival – Get poem made into a MOVIE and seen by 1000s. Three options to submit:
http://www.wildsound.ca/poetrycontest.html

Schrodinger’s Cat’s Bird – Poetry Reading by Gina Williams

Watch the Poetry Reading: SCHRODINGER’S CAT’S BIRD

Performed by actor Jason Martorino

Get to know poet Gina Williams:

1) What is the theme of your poem?

The theme of my poem is dark humor and the idea that every day in this fragile is a thought experiment, especially when cats are involved.

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

I hope I can make people laugh, as well as think about the philosophy of life — the philosophy of their life.

3) How long have you been writing poetry?

I started writing poetry and stories in grade school.

4) Do you have a favorite poet?

My favorite poets (couldn’t pick one) are Raymond Carver, Pablo Neruda, and Alice Walker.

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

There are no other opportunities like this that I have seen — I really love the unique nature of the project and appreciate the work you are doing on behalf of art and artists.

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

In addition to poetry, I write essays and short stories. I’m also a visual artist.

7) What is your passion in life?

My passion in life is to share a unique view of the human condition and the miraculous nature of life on earth via my art, to live big, and in the words of Emile Zola,  “Live life out loud.”

Deadline: FREE POETRY Festival – Get poem made into a MOVIE and seen by 1000s. Three options to submit:
http://www.wildsound.ca/poetrycontest.html