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On Inception, The Passage, and Writing in The Obama Era
The weakness of “It’s all a dream” — why we hate that, why we feel cheated when narratively anything is revealed to be all a dream — is that you’ve just asked me to spend so much time and emotional...
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Don’t Be a Writer, Be a Creator
You know what’s never, ever happened to me as a transmedia writer? Rejection! Nope, I’ve never, ever received a transmedia rejection letter. That’s because there is no gatekeeper for the internet. You...
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Wrestling With Words: Defining Transmedia
"Wrestling Sideways - Really" by Timothy K. Hamilton “Transmedia isn’t new; it’s the current iteration of interactive storytelling. Now there’s more media.” -Craig Engler/SyFy @ NYTVF’s Digital Day Ask...
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Seven People in My #Transmedia Neighborhood
I’ve been using this quote in internal and external presentations on audience development for so long, I’d forgotten its original source. The 2009 Tools of Change Conference was the first I’d ever...
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2011: Are You a Writer or Creator?
“Great storytelling starts with a great idea, not the platform.” –Lisa Hsia, SVP, Bravo Digital Media, NBC Universal New media, social media, transmedia… the landscape for writers has changed...
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DIY’s Great, But WHO Are We Doing it For?
The "On the other hand" selfportrait (bw outtake) By dhammza “Business begins with ‘yes’, art begins with ‘no’… It’s our responsibility to lead culture where we want it to be.” -Ted Hope @ DIY Days...
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Ebook Project: Handmade Memories (Part I)
There’s a rumor going around that you can get rich by self-publishing ebooks, so I decided to finally throw my hat in the ring and follow my own advice, putting together a manuscript of favorite poems...
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A Poem Ain’t a Poem Until It’s Been…
“A poem ain’t a poem until it’s been read out loud.” I can’t find the source for that quote, and am likely paraphrasing, but I associate it with Bob Holman and vaguely remember hearing it on The...
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Entry Points, Accessibility and Transmedia Potential
BEHIND WHICH DOOR, by marc falardeau, via Flickr For years, Hollywood has tried and failed to get video game publishers to let them license their most popular titles (like Call of Duty and Grand Theft...
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The Unbearable Stiffness of Formal Poetry and Writing for the Page
Bird Cage Theatre by Loren Javier, via Flickr [Helen Vendler] knew about gardens and nightingales, Grecian urns and Christian theology, but not about hip-hop or comic books, and these provide the...
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Story Chairs, Pocket Poems, and the Fickle Flame of Inspiration
I was honored a while back when Tina Hoggatt invited me to participate in her intriguing Story Chairs project, and I’m thrilled to have two poems included in the installation: Story Chairs, a project...
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You Can Go Home Again (louderARTS: Where the [he]Art is)
Fifteen years ago, I founded a little reading series at Bar 13 called “a little bit louder,” and after 4 years, turned it over to a group of close friends and fellow poets, including Lynne Procope,...
View ArticleMozer, Bethea and Me (for Veteran’s Day)
It’s been six months since I’ve been regularly attending poetry readings again, and after an initial flurry of new writing, the well dried up a bit as the day job got crazy and my attention drifted...
View ArticleWriter Dads: A new column for VQR!
I’m excited to announce that starting on November 13th, I’ll be writing a monthly column for Virginia Quarterly Review (VQR) entitled “Writer Dads,” an online series of interviews with professional...
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Falling Back In Love With the Poetry Slam
love/hate by Patrícia Lobo Eleven years ago, I very publicly and definitively stepped down from running louderARTS (back then, still a little bit louder) for the second time, frustrated over the state...
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6Qs: Tobias Buckell, Traversing Publishing’s Diverse Fantastic
“It was a roller coaster, and it was more work than I expected. But at the end of it, I have another book, one that in a prior age might never have been written.” One of the good (and bad) things about...
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BioShock Infinite’s Ambitiously Flawed Perfection
Games are still in a place where you can say, “Oh, a sneaker! Cool.” –Ken Levine “Wow…” That was my whispered, slack-jawed reaction to the final 30 minutes of BioShock Infinite, arguably the most...
View ArticleWe never look up anymore…
i. Don’t be fooled by the cul de sac the gingerbreading the German engineering you can’t see into empty corners from manicured lawns, intricate patterns cobwebs on ceilings closets bursting discarded...
View ArticleLet Poetry Be
I've always been fascinated (and frustrated) by poetry's "delicate snowflake" status, and how such a diverse variety of forms, styles, and voices often gets lumped into such a generic, cavernous...
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