Second try.
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Posts tagged spoken word saturday
Third Word
Sean Nagamatsu
One Word a “Day” - Third Word (Spoken)
I haven’t done one of these for awhile. I think I ran out of original writing to read. I did Sylvia Plath, Chekhov, and Amiri Baraka. I’ve been writing more, though. Maybe I’ll do a Draft Project reading at some point. For today, here’s a reading of all the “third word” pathways for my One Word a Day (Even though it’s hardly every day anymore) project.
Fourth Word
Sean Nagamatsu
One Word a “Day” - Fourth Word (Spoken)
I’m still not sure which one of these I’m going to use. For now, here they are for your listening pleasure. Or something. It’s kind of long.
Here are the fourth word pathways, by the way. I got some reaction on these, which is nice. Thanks for reading and liking and reblogging! I also got some nice feedback from whatwasiexpecting, which was very much appreciated. Thanks again, everyone!
So Thanksgiving break is here for some of us which means lots of free time to hang out on Tumblr and maybe a little time to spend with your family.
If you’re lacking on reading material I would suggest following Spilled Ink Prose and maybe checking out the archives. Spilled Ink, the main site, is for everything: poetry, prose, spoken word videos/audios, projects, etcetera. Spilled Ink Prose is strictly that: prose. So, if that sounds like your kind of blog feel free to go take a look.
If you’re lacking on things to write about, check out our recent post right here about some of the projects (lord knows a post with all of them would be infinite…) going on in the community currently.
In particular Spilled Ink has put out two projects for the month of November that are still going on. Appreciation of the Future and Become the Tree. Check out the links for more information!
You can also visit this page to see other blogs we suggest you follow. Some offer more reading material on your dash, prompts, cues, projects, and some even accept submissions. If you haven’t followed BurningMuse in particular yet, we definitely suggest doing so.
Spoken Word Saturday. Here is a list of last Saturday’s participants. How about spending a little bit of your night catching up and giving them some love. :)
All links go directly to their Spoken Word Saturday post! Links are listed in order of time they were posted, from earliest to latest.
So the weekend is here and Thanksgiving break is coming up for some of us which means lots of free time to hang out on Tumblr/with your family.
If you’re lacking on reading material I would suggest following Spilled Ink Prose and maybe checking out the archives. Spilled Ink, the main site, is for everything: poetry, prose, spoken word videos/audios, projects, etcetera. Spilled Ink Prose is strictly that: prose. So, if that sounds like your kind of blog feel free to go take a look.
If you’re lacking on things to write about, check out our recent post right here about some of the projects (lord knows a post with all of them would be infinite…) going on in the community currently.
In particular Spilled Ink has put out two projects for the month of November that are still going on. Appreciation of the Future and Become the Tree. Check out the links for more information!
You can also visit this page to see other blogs we suggest you follow. Some offer prompts, cues, projects, and some even accept submissions. If you haven’t followed BurningMuse in particular yet, we definitely suggest doing so.
Spoken Word Saturday. Here is a list of yesterday’s participants. How about spending a little bit of your Sunday catching up and supporting them. :)
All links go directly to their Spoken Word Saturday post! Links are listed in order of time they were posted, from earliest to latest.
Something that Starts with the Letter E (A Love Ballad)
Captain J. Moses
“Something that Starts with the Letter E (A Love Ballad)” by Captain J. Moses
So the weekend is here and Thanksgiving break is coming up for some of us which means lots of free time to hang out on Tumblr/with your family.
If you’re lacking on reading material I would suggest following Spilled Ink Prose and maybe checking out the archives. Spilled Ink, the main site, is for everything: poetry, prose, spoken word videos/audios, projects, etcetera. Spilled Ink Prose is strictly that: prose. So, if that sounds like your kind of blog feel free to go take a look.
If you’re lacking on things to write about, check out our recent post right here about some of the projects (lord knows a post with all of them would be infinite…) going on in the community currently.
In particular Spilled Ink has put out two projects for the month of November that are still going on. Appreciation of the Future and Become the Tree. Check out the links for more information!
You can also visit this page to see other blogs we suggest you follow. Some offer prompts, cues, projects, and some even accept submissions. If you haven’t followed BurningMuse in particular yet, we definitely suggest doing so.
Remember to keep participating in Spoken Word Saturday!
Spoken Word
“I Listen To Jazz While I Shave”#Spokenwordsaturday
Very enthusiastic! Please everyone, participate in Spoken Word Saturday and tag it properly! If you don’t tag it properly you basically have to get lucky to get reblogged. Not really lucky, but I have to see your post on my dash and I really don’t follow a lot of people. -B
You’re better than I think you are (by TheEcho4charlie)
“Penance” written and spoken by me
Hi there Spilled Ink followers! We are getting a lot of great participation for Spoken Word Saturdays. If you’ve missed out on the recent published audios and videos, check out our brand new page that keeps all spoken word submissions together for easy exploring! We want to keep up the number of people deciding to join in on the fun, and we want you all to show them some love!
So what do you need to do to participate? Create an audio or video of you reciting poetry or prose. It could be your own work, or another Tumblr writer’s (with permission), or it could be from an author or poet from outside of the site. Or all three! It’s up to you, we just want this day to be about spoken word!
Tag your work with #spokenwordsaturday so that we can find it. Please do not submit it to us, just post it on your own blog, tag it properly, and we’ll find it!
It’s already Saturday in many places. Let’s get to creating and posting those audios and videos please.
Monologue from The Seagull
Sean Nagamatsu
Monologue from Chekhov’s The Seagull
translated by George CalderonSomething different for this week’s Spoken Word Saturday. I don’t really enjoy my voice all the time, but I do think it’s good to practice literature in as many forms as possible.
I went to the youth poetry slam today, judged. I don’t like judging! I want to give everyone 10’s! We have the interscholastic slam next week too, and I’m…I don’t know, a bit angst-y about it. So, with so much poetry and none I wanted to read myself, I thought I’d do part of a play. I just read Ionesco’s The Future is in Eggs, or It Takes All Sorts to Make a World, but there aren’t really big hunks of that that can be read by one person.
I saw ofyourshadow’s post of Chekhov reading The Seagull, and looked up the Trigorin monologue. Kind of fitting for NaNoWriMo, in which, by.the.way., I’ve fallen pitifully behind. Anyway, that’s this week’s “submission.”
Day and night I am obsessed by the same persistent thought; I must write, I must write, I must write… . No sooner have I finished one story than I am somehow compelled to write another, then a third, after a third a fourth. I write without stopping, except to change horses like a postchaise. I have no choice. What is there brilliant or delightful in that, I should like to know? It’s a dog’s life! Here I am talking to you, excited and delighted, yet never for one moment do I forget that there is an unfinished story waiting for me indoors. I see a cloud shaped like a grand piano. I think: I must mention somewhere in a story that a cloud went by, shaped like a grand piano. I smell heliotrope. I say to myself: Sickly smell, mourning shade, must be mentioned in describing a summer evening. I lie in wait for each phrase, for each word that falls from my lips or yours and hasten to lock all these words and phrases away in my literary storeroom: they may come in handy some day.
I decided to draw, from a hat-like object, to choose the poem I would use. The winner was picked by yyyzzzpersona:
Lost In Thought
Life is short
That’s what I keep hearing
Life is fast
That’s what I keep learning
And I,
I can’t decide—
Well, that is all.
I can’t decide.
What’s it worth
When life is cut short?
When no one knows my name?
When I’ve stopped speaking?
When my words stop bleeding?
When no one seems to give a damn?
But I keep on living,
Leaving breadcrumb trails
As far as anyone can see.
I keep on living,
Desperately clinging
To hopes of happiness—
The happily ever afters
That I know I can find
If I can find a little more money
If I can find a bigger house
If I can find a better job
If I can find the perfect words
If I can find…
But by the end of it all,
I finally realize
I’ll always keep searching
And I’ll never know whyAnd the contenders:
- Constant Motion (chosen, also, by yyyzzzpersona)
- Apology #4 (chosen by thevagabondking)
See? You get recognition for participating. So vote for next week’s spoken word! You have from now until noon (CST) on Friday to choose from pieces I’ve already posted.
reading my original piece “i’m not dreaming”.
YA WELCOME DENNIS
Dennis, The Vagabond King, asked me to read something tonight. I thought it would be best to get something up now, before I get to deep in whiskey. It’s an old piece I wrote called, Domesticated by a Wild Ass.
