Monday, August 13, 2007

New Site

The new site is being switched to, and this site will continue as before under aucklandpoetry.blogspot.com

There is no need for users to change anything - just keep on posting poetry on this blog and it may one day appear on the main site.

Bernie has suggested we should edit the content - so I have installed a content management system and this will now be phasing in - and new content will be managed by an editor or a number of editors with more AucklandPoetry.com and we hope a continued standard of publishing excellence by our valued contributors.

The new site is simple - just register and it you can write and publish articles. I will decide what is the front page. Go to it. Register and use the site, visit as often as you may and most of all, enjoy.

The Literatti

The Literatti @ The Wine Cellar 14th September, 8 pm.

Get a full hit of the show that had the Whangarei Midwinter Arts Festival raving. The Literatti presents a poetry minestrone of spoken word, music and theatre. Audiences will experience multiple poetic voices combined in this new evolution of poetry set to a back beat. Limited capacity.

Tickets $10 on the door or $5 pre-sale.

Contact creative director Miriam Barr on mims_53@hotmail.com to reserve your tickets or for further details.

Thursday, August 09, 2007

Auckland Poetry

We are creating a new version of AucklandPoetry.com.

We always intended AucklandPoetry.com to be a live poetry site featuring films of poets reciting and recordings of poetry that sit alongside the written word.

Over the past two years we have invited poets to publish their own work and send contributions for this site. Some have done amazing things (check the Poetry Blog sites or use the search box above to find lots of excellent poems. For example to find my poems, search for my name, etc).

I would like to hear from poets who read live poetry in Auckland and who:

a) want to publish on AucklandPoetry.com
b) have their readings filmed by AucklandPoetry.com
c) contribute art, music and voice recordings to the site.

Interested? Watch this space and get yourself involved.

COMING SOON: Live Readings

Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Live Video

On the new main site we are featuring video. We will use the Live Video account for uploading these because we want poets to realise that to get page views they will have to use their myspace/bebo/digg/delicio.us or other networking pages and to be very clear here are the terms and conditions. The new front page part of the site does not replace the blog site - you are still invited to contribute to this, the blog site, from which content for aucklandpoetry.com is created. Poets published there - we track the hits via subtle google links which are attached to an income stream. If you have a real hit on your hands, we will pay you royalties. That is the game. Producing art on the internet. Let me know what you think.

Here are the terms of LiveVideo from their terms on livevideo.com. My account is called nalex


5. Harsh Words About Ownership of Content / Limited License to LiveVideo.

A. We consider all content uploaded to LiveVideo servers the property of the person who uploaded it. Therefore, you should ONLY upload content that you have created, you own, you have a license from a third party to upload the specific content on the internet, or content that is in the public domain. Content includes, but is not limited to: texts, images (both moving and still), photographs, music, and sounds. You assume all risk and responsibility for determining whether the content uploaded meets with the requirements of this paragraph.

B. You hereby grant LiveVideo a limited, non-exclusive, perpetual, worldwide license to encode, distribute, and display your content over the Site and to use such content for advertisement purposes as LiveVideo sees fit, in any medium, in its sole and absolute discretion, without any compensation to you. You represent and warrant that you are authorized to grant to LiveVideo all rights set forth in the preceding sentence. In order to revoke this license granted to LiveVideo, simply remove your content.