“Crash Course” – A Prose Essay by Daniel Hees
In this essay, Daniel recounts the life-changing accident that brought him to the edge of death and back.
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The Poetry Art Gallery: A Look-Back One Year Later
It’s been a year since producing Los Angeles’ very first poetry art gallery. It seems that even till today I’m still marinating on the event, but here’s what I can admit and reveal about our (overly?) ambitious project, The Poetry Art Gallery.
(Re)Introducing: The Poetry Clash
Is poetry slam the end-all, be-all spoken word competition format? Five years ago we tried to address this, but would soon leave the idea to pursue building the Pen Clique podcast. But with lock-down giving us ample time to develop ideas, it’s time we reintroduce to the world: The Poetry Clash.
Creating a Memorable IG Live Experience
Instagram Live can be pretty hit or miss. But what makes it miss? In this video we identify the weakness of IG Live and how we can imrpove upon them.
Tutorial: Photo Editing & Typography Basics + Adding Handwritten Text In Canva
In this poetry poster tutorial, we’ll cover some Canva basics such as editing a photo, selecting a proper font, and adding text. To take it up a notch, we’ll also add REAL handwritten text!
Poetry “Slam” In The Quarantine Era
Virtual open mics and slams via IG live: Not great. The video quality, audio quality, lack of atmosphere, and most importantly the live aspect are all stripped away. My question is: What would the ideal digital open mic and slam look like in the quarantine era?
Tutorial: Intro To Making Poetry Posters With Canva
Ever wonder how to make a visual poem, but didn’t know where to start? Is it even worth learning to do? In this article, we show you how (and why) we made a whole visual poetry poster FOR FREE with Canva.
Let’s Design Poetry: How to Make Visual Art From Poetry
Originally live-streamed 5th of August 2019, we took the text of a poem and went through the design and build process of turning poetry into a visual for Instagram. This was our first time live-streaming a Photoshop work session, so we’re still learning how best to present and record this type of content. That being said, thank you for bearing with the low-res footage and look forward to us doing this again hopefully on a weekly basis!
How (and Why) We Built a Podcast Studio
WE’RE BACK! During our hiatus, we’ve been building a whole podcast studio to record audio, AND shoot both video & photos, as well as upgrading our podcast gear, all in prep for the relaunch on July 10th, of the most poppin poetry podcast in the GALAXY! (Purchase links included to all gear)
Episode 11.5: The Catch Up
While the Clique’s been building a studio and Kuya been out cracking knuckles with IG’s most popping poetry presence, we high-key left the pod audience hanging longer than 2k D’Angelou fans waiting for black messiah. So we back real quick before season two launches in quick catch-up style to let ya’ll know what’s good!