Poet: Helen Gregory Location: Bristol, UK Biography: Helen is a poet and academic, which means that she not only lives in an ivory tower, but can describe it using vivid imagery and interesting metaphors. She works on both stage and page and has released her own CD and chapbooks, as well as being published in [...]
Glastonbury Festival Poetry&Words Coordinator Speaks, Part 1
Poet: Helen Gregory Location: Bristol, UK Biography: Helen is a poet and academic, which means that she not only lives in an ivory tower, but can describe it using vivid imagery and interesting metaphors. She works on both stage and page and has released her own CD and chapbooks, as well as being published in [...]
Pushcart Winner Talks Spoken Word with Speak 2B Free
Biography: Afaa Michael Weaver is a spoken word poet, playwright, short fiction writer, translator, editor, and journalist. He received his M.A. in Creative Writing (1987) from Brown University, where he worked with Alan Trueblood in translation. Afaa has been a Pew fellow and taught in Taiwan as a Fulbright scholar. His tenth collection of poetry(2007) is The Plum [...]
Guide to online reputation management for professional speakers
If you are in the public eye and speaking for profit you should have an online reputation management strategy. Simply because the first thing that most people will do before they hire you is: Google you. I Google people all the time, so it makes sense that people will Google me as well. And it [...]
Canada’s top literary festival builds a community for poets
Canada’s literary festival, Canadian Festival of Spoken Word (CFSW), draws over 100 different poets from the US West Coast and Canada, 18 teams; not counting sacrificial poets and other poets that are going to be participating. The festival is the Canada’s pre-eminent literary festival focused on spoken word and slam poetry. CFSW 2010 Ottawa is [...]
