Dave Bonta

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• Dave Bonta wrote on their own wire:   1 month ago
  

  From the the submission guidelines for > kill author, http://killauthor.com/submit/ : “Work should not have been previously published either in print or other online magazines, though it’s fine if it’s appeared on a blog or personal site. (For the record, we think magazines that reject even those sources are taking themselves far too seriously and

• Dave Bonta posted on the forum topic Six Word Poem Challenge Fun in the group Micropoetry:   1 month, 1 week ago
  

  Plastic mantis in the collection plate.

• Dave Bonta and Andy Sewina are now friends   1 month, 2 weeks ago

• Dave Bonta wrote on their own wire:   1 month, 2 weeks ago
  

  I just published a how-to article that might be of interest to WordPress users, “Literary Podcasting Made Simple with WordPress.com,” based on our experience at qarrtsiluni:
  http://www.vianegativa.us/2010/01/literary-podcasting-made-simple-with-wordpress-com/

• Dave Bonta and pamela sayers are now friends   2 months ago

• henry Stead and Dave Bonta are now friends   2 months, 3 weeks ago

• Dave Bonta wrote on the wire of the group Micropoetry   2 months, 3 weeks ago
  

  Interesting interview with Dylan about tiny words at Basho’s Road: http://bashosroad.outlawpoetry.com/d-f-tweney-in-conversation-with-norbert-blei/d-f-tweney/haiku/

• Dave Bonta wrote on the wire of the group Video Poetry   2 months, 3 weeks ago
  

  @Henry – Very striking use of lighting, projection and props, and I liked the music. Couldn’t get a great sense of the text on first listen, but I’ll watch again. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

• Dave Bonta and Zouxzoux are now friends   2 months, 3 weeks ago

• Dave Bonta posted on the forum topic Got some news you want to share. Post a comment in this thread. in the group Read Write Poem News:   3 months ago
  

  @radames – My channel? Oh, you mean my YouTube channel? All my better stuff is actually at Vimeo, http://www.vimeo.com/davebonta but I do use the YouTube subscription feature to keep up with many of the videopoetry makers there.

• Dave Bonta commented on the blog post read write prompt #104: how to write the sex poem right, by nick carbó   3 months ago
  

  I’ve read it. But the Portuguese poet Eugenio de Andrade has a much more innocent and beautiful poem about his first love, a nanny goat.

• Dave Bonta posted on the forum topic Got some news you want to share. Post a comment in this thread. in the group Read Write Poem News:   3 months ago
  

  I like it! Especially the mannequin-hugging and the spiral clock. The only thing I would change is to up the volume of the reading a little bit.

• Dave Bonta commented on the blog post read write prompt #104: how to write the sex poem right, by nick carbó   3 months ago
  

  What a great prompt! This definitely makes me want to go out and buy some of Carbo’s work (hint to other celebrity poets to unwind a little, too). I might have to write that poem about how, as a farm boy of 6 or 7, I was aroused by a sheep. (That’s true.)

• Dave Bonta commented on the blog post read write interview: beth adams and dave bonta   3 months, 1 week ago
  

  That’s interesting. I hadn’t heard that reaction. I wonder if part of their objection might not stem from the fact that some chapbooks cost as much as a full-length paperback?

• Dave Bonta posted on the forum topic Found Poetry Tuesday — Nov. 24 in the group Found Poetry:   3 months, 2 weeks ago
  

  That’s weird. I had a word in brackets, as it appeared in the newspaper article, and it disappeared. Let’s try this again with the brackets removed. IN THE FOYER OF LIFEAhmed and Shereen (whose nameshave been changedat their request) sip teaacross from eachother. Shereen gigglesas Ahmed anxiously jiggleshis leg. In the foyer of Life,a marriage

• Dave Bonta posted on the forum topic Found Poetry Tuesday — Nov. 24 in the group Found Poetry:   3 months, 2 weeks ago
  

  IN THE FOYER OF LIFEAhmed and Shereen (whose nameshave been changedat their request) sip teaacross from eachother. Shereen gigglesas Ahmed anxiously jiggleshis leg. In the foyer of Life,a marriage office in downtown Cairo,the young Egyptians are meetingfor the first time underthe watchful eye of Life’s secretary.Both are lookingfor a spouse. Sometimes arevery limited. There

• Jeannine Hall Gailey and Dave Bonta are now friends   3 months, 2 weeks ago

• Dave Bonta wrote on Dana Guthrie Martin’s wire:   3 months, 2 weeks ago
  

  My “other” way is that you told me about it. But you told me because I had been a Poetry Thursday participant. I wonder what percentage of people here used to do PT prompts?

• Dave Bonta commented on the blog post read write prompt #102: memory recipes   3 months, 2 weeks ago
  

  I fear I have become that uncle! (Well, at least I keep my nose hairs trimmed back.)

• Dave Bonta commented on the blog post member dave bonta details his revision process on a his latest poem   3 months, 3 weeks ago
  

  Hey, thanks for the link! (Looks like you’ve got an errant “a” in the post title, though.)

• Tina Celio and Dave Bonta are now friends   3 months, 3 weeks ago

• Dave Bonta and Clare L. Martin are now friends   3 months, 3 weeks ago

• Dave Bonta commented on the blog post considering the other: i hereby confer upon you the title of poet   3 months, 3 weeks ago
  

  For an example of what can be done with high school English students using advanced web-based tools, check out what Peter’s been up to.

• Dave Bonta commented on the blog post considering the other: i hereby confer upon you the title of poet   3 months, 3 weeks ago
  

  We like to think of poets as being a bit akin to shamans. (The Greek word “poetes” means “maker,” and had thaumaturgic overtones.) The problem with that is that true shamans almost never seek the role, but have it thrust upon them as the result of an extreme spiritual or existential crisis. And as Ren

• Dave Bonta commented on the blog post the poetry ecard contest is just about to go into the judging phase   3 months, 3 weeks ago
  

  I forgot to enter! Nuts. But I’d be happy to judge. I don’t have any relevant degrees, but I’ve seen a lot of red-tailed hawks at close range. (If it seems too incestuous to have the guy you name-dropped in your initial annoucement acting as one of the judges, though, no problem — I’m

• Dave Bonta commented on the blog post considering the other: i hereby confer upon you the title of poet   3 months, 3 weeks ago
  

  Love this meditation, Ren — I feel I could’ve written it myself (though it probably wouldn’t have been as entertaining if i had). Thanks.

• Dave Bonta joined the group 2010 Poetry Resolutions   3 months, 3 weeks ago

• Dave Bonta joined the group Revisionaries   3 months, 3 weeks ago

• Dave Bonta posted on the forum topic Tom Konyves in the group Video Poetry:   3 months, 4 weeks ago
  

  To be clear, the video haiku I was mentioning earlier have no connection to actual haiku poems; they’re simply art films consisting of three scenes of five seconds’, seven secends’, and five seconds’ duration respectively, based on the popular conception of haiku as a three-line poem with 5-7-5 syllables. (That is a silly and limiting

• Dave Bonta posted on the forum topic SEE THE VOICE: Visible Verse 2009 in the group Video Poetry:   3 months, 4 weeks ago
  

  Thanks for the notice, Heather! I hope everyone in Vancouver and the Pacific northwest will consider making the trip.