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Sideshow: Dave Bonta on Fair Use for Poetry

February 2, 2011
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Dave Bonta, Big Tent Poetry Sideshow Barker

Despite the lack of “scruffy poetry bloggers” on the panel of consultants that helped develop the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Poetry, Dave Bonta indicates that, as a first step, he likes most of the conclusions in the document.

He was “especially cheered by the recommendations for epigraphs” but calls the section on remixing (and found poetry) “murky.” He shares with his readers part of the “poetry online” recommendations which “suggests a standard for people who like to blog entire poems from others without explicit permission.” These issues — use of epigraphs, found poetry and quoting poetry — surface fairly regularly here and on other prompt sites, and so we encourage you to read not only Dave’s post but also the standards themselves.

Dave hopes the document at the very least opens a discussion and helps develop a second version of the standards, and a part of him also seems to hope the poetry populus will rise up and define its own standards. He writes,
And nothing prevents a bunch of us hoi polloi from convening ourselves, consulting with some intellectual property experts, and trying to build support for another set of standards via a more open process. Since these initial, suggested community standards are, by the report authors’ own admission, incomplete, maybe that’s indeed what needs to happen next, six months or a year down the road.
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Sideshow: About Reading Poetry for an Audience

November 16, 2010
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Dave Bonta, Big Tent Poetry Sideshow Barker

Dave is a contributor for a new poetry site that is all about reading poetry aloud.

Voice Alpha is a “companion site to the audio poetry journal Whale Sound; a repository for thoughts, theories, suggestions, likes and dislikes and anything else related to the art and science of reading poetry aloud for an audience.”

The site is new, and is sure to bring lots of great material to poets. Add it to your reader, or go visit often. Thanks to Nic Sebastian for creating a(nother) terrific resource. Or repository. Either way it is A Good Place.

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Sideshow: So What About the Epigraph?

September 21, 2010
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Dave Bonta, Big Tent Poetry Sideshow Barker

Dave weighs in on a very recent essay by David Orr in a New York Times Sunday Book Review on the epigraph. Orr posits the epigraph is used to place the poet within a specific canon of work, and Dave thinks it has a place in modern poetry meant for a general readership. Read them both and see what you think. (Dave links to the Orr piece.)

… I’ve always thought that my most valuable attribute as (ahem!) a thinker is my ability to point out the obvious, so here goes: epigraphs are a convenient shortcut to alterity, a way of letting other voices in. They are sometimes integral to the original inspiration, and at other times simply a by-product of writerly enthusiasm, but in either case, they situate the poem not merely in a tradition but also within a kind of network of shared wonder at similar phenomena, ideas, or linguistic perversities.

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