{"id":73,"date":"2016-02-10T19:27:10","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T19:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paoprod.com\/Blog\/?p=73"},"modified":"2024-04-11T19:18:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T00:18:42","slug":"my-association-with-the-local-literary-and-spoken-word-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paoprod.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/10\/my-association-with-the-local-literary-and-spoken-word-community\/","title":{"rendered":"My association with the local literary and spoken word community"},"content":{"rendered":"My association with the local literary and spoken word community goes back to 2002, when I received my first exposure to the scene by way of a \"Tantric Valentine's Day\" reading at Paperbacks Plus.  This introduction was followed by a few visits to the open mics at Deep Ellum's Insomnia coffee house, which, upon their demise, led directly to the series at Bill's Records from 2002-2004.  A sporadic series of readings back at Paperbacks Plus (some sponsored by WordSpace or The Writer's Garret) came next, and ultimately came Johnny O's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madswirl.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mad Swirl<\/a> gatherings and my creation of the Open Mic Project.  From inauspicious beginnings, my relationship with the poetry\/literary community has morphed from little more than that of performer\/spectator into a series of much more involved collaborations with purveyors of the spoken word.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<p>\r\nThe first of these collaborations took place in April 2008, when I produced a DVD of an event at Paperbacks Plus entitled \"Fusion.\"  This event featured local poetry luminaries <a href=\"\/projects\/open-mic\/mh-clay\/\">M.H. Clay<\/a> and Chris Zimmerly with live instrumentation provided by fusion jazz group Swirve.  Involving the recording of sound and video, as well as post-production work, this was one of my first ever attempts at creating an entire multimedia project from the ground up.  <i>Fusion<\/i> was followed shortly thereafter by a second, similar event in May of the same year known as \"ROAR!!!\"  Featuring <a href=\"\/projects\/open-mic\/desmene-statum\/\">Desmene Statum<\/a>, <a href=\"\/projects\/open-mic\/opalina-salas\/\">Opalina Salas<\/a>, and <a href=\"\/projects\/open-mic\/jolee-davis\/\">Jolee Davis<\/a>, this collaboration also resulted in a DVD (see the <a href=\"\/video\/\">PAO Productions Video Page<\/a> for clips from these first two projects).  Associations with WordSpace, Mad Swirl, Knife Six Productions, and open mics at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BillsRecordsAndTapes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bill's Records<\/a>, Poets on X+, and the Mochalux Coffee House followed.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"My association with the local literary and spoken word community goes back to 2002, when I received my first exposure to the scene by way of a \"Tantric Valentine's Day\" reading at Paperbacks Plus. 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