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You're absolutely right. A good narrative or speaking voice can really accentuate any reading material, not just poetry ( my all-time favorite orator has always been Orsen Wells! ) By the way, loved your new word . . . snew! 
posted by
JimmyA
on January 30, 2013 at 1:32 PM
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I love to read poetry aloud. I read most of the Blogit poems aloud to myself.
posted by
TAPS.
on January 30, 2013 at 12:39 PM
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It snew here too....still is off and on.
posted by
TAPS.
on January 30, 2013 at 12:37 PM
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Ciel
RIt’s going to reach 60 soon here love and then it’s going to rain terribly hard tonight and bring the temperatures back to the 30s tomorrow. This is similar to winter in California. Lol love. BC-A, Bill’s R®st
posted by
BC-A
on January 30, 2013 at 8:36 AM
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Perfect, Ciel!! Delighted for you!
posted by
adnohr
on January 30, 2013 at 6:30 AM
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Color me green...
The writers group I belong to has turned into the occasional coffee klatch, a get together to watch Jane Austen movies. Frustrating to me. A poetry slam like you had yesterday is more like it!
posted by
Pat_B
on January 30, 2013 at 3:59 AM
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You do have great ideas Ciel , I don't like swearing in verse, but that is just a preference. 
posted by
C_C_T
on January 30, 2013 at 12:01 AM
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Sounds like a great idea... the sharing of your works... the workshops... I am sure it will be fun :-) xoxoxo
posted by
Sinome
on January 29, 2013 at 5:24 PM
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Re: Naut,
I imagine that was due to the long, long tradition of oral history in times when nearly no one was literate. Could be we had better start practicing our oral history-telling again.
posted by
Ciel
on January 29, 2013 at 5:02 PM
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Re: you have just found your Niche for the next phase of life.
A niche and a cranny to put it in... And I agree!
posted by
Ciel
on January 29, 2013 at 5:00 PM
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Ciel
Sounds like fun, and very interesting! And about the reading of poetry - did you know that there is some evidence (which I won't get into here, LOL) that silent reading is a (relatively) recent development? That, at the beginning, the written word was always a spoken word as well?
posted by
Nautikos
on January 29, 2013 at 4:55 PM
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you have just found your Niche for the next phase of life.
i would love to attend your poetry sessions. no poem is ever given justice until it is read. Not recited, read and preferably by the author.
posted by
Kabu
on January 29, 2013 at 4:52 PM
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