One aspect of poetry workshopping that no one seems to be taking advantage of yet is sound. Gaz tried it briefly a few years back. I know I talked about it on pffa.
Using sound files really emphasizes the sounds in a poem. Reading your own work aloud makes a huge difference. I wish one of the big forums would embrace sound now that so many people have the ability to listen to streaming audio on our superfast internet connections.
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“The Boards” are disk bound. Sound and video take up monster amounts of space.
“The Boards” are paper bound and arrogant. Most of them are stuck in last century’s paradigm. Most don’t even realize what the tool, the internet, is capable of. Many don’t have the Audio/Video skill or the programming skill to get it accomplished (or the money to pay tech people to do it for ’em).
Many just don’t have the performing skill. They came to poetry from books, ink on paper, and only know it from that perspective. Some don’t know enough of the traditions of poetry.
Mostly, I think, they’re Luddites, frightened they’ll get lost in the future’s roar.
-blue