Where can you find M. D. Friedman perfoming his poetry?

Thursday, April 7th in Lodo Denver:

  • The MAC SPA & ART PIMP PRODUCTIONS presents “The Long Conversation”  Paintings and Poetry group art show. April 2nd  through 29th 2011 at The MacSpa 1738 Wynkoop, Suite 103 Denver, CO 80202.
  • “The Long Conversation”  Paintings and Poetry  -  Public Reception will be onThursday , April 7th, 6 - 9pm.  All artists will be present during the reception on April 7th.   Besides the artwork on display we will also be showing videos of the artists performing their poems.) All the featured artists in “the Long Conversation”  are poets/painters or photographers.  Artists include Janet Glovinsky, M.D. Friedman, Rosanne Sterne, and Kyle Banister.
  • April is Poetry month and “The Long Conversation” is a small art show inspired by poet, artist, and gallery owner Janet Glovinsky and will focus on the age old relationship of  poetry and painting.  (Janet Glovinsky is also April’s featured poet for Denver Art Talk)
  • "Painting is silent poetry, and poetry painting that speaks."- Attributed to Simonides by Plutarch in his De Gloria Atheniensium.
  • As part of the on going MacSpa First Thursday Reception tradition, Curator Eric Matelski will be on hand, grilling up fresh treats and serving up artistic wit.
  • This grilled menu will stuff you: Chorizo Stuffed Peppers, Turkish Stuffed Eggplant, Caprese  Stuffed Mushrooms & Blueberry Stuffed Peaches!

Friday, April 8th in Loveland:

 


Welcome to M. D. Friedman's Poetry Page Where You May:

  • Listen or download free recordings of my experimental audio poetry:
  • My work has appeared in numerous small press publications and online magzines including the Improv Magazine, Hiss Quarterly , Wired Art from Wired Hearts, Kookamonga Square, Job's Turkey, Arcade, The Green Horse and The Dry Creek Review.
  • Contact M. D. Friedman to do readings or workshops.


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Poetry Books by M. D. Friedman

"Where We Reach is passionate, well-crafted, and deeply insightful poetry. [ M. D.'s] control of sound and language is excellent. … a particularly unique, very powerful voice and set of insights as well: …[His] understanding of the cross-connection of the arts, and … ability to read artists of other genres, is both extraordinary and very, very moving." -- Jared Smith


Click on the book cover to view a full free pdf preview version of each book.

Click to preview Body of the Mind

The Body of the Mind

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(an "interlocking medley" of twenty of his "most purposeful poems")

Also available as a "Print & Listen" e-book.

Click to preview From Here to Here

From Here to Here

(an “involuntary exploration of the polarity of love and loneliness”)

Only available as a "Print & Listen" e-book.

Click to preview Nothing Else Matters

Nothing Else Matters

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(runs the gauntlet from the comic to the tragic, from the political to the sublime)

Also available as a "Print & Listen" e-book.

Click to preview Where We Reach

Where We Reach

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(with brutal honesty and sometimes acrid humor, M. D. soars and stumbles from confusion to love)

Also available as a printable e-book

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You can also order from Amazon, Kindle or Smashwords.


Digital Poetry by M. D. Friedman,  A New Genre of Poetics

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  • The Word" (2007) is the first digital poem  I ever created.   It's the dada fusion of all my creative pursuits at once.  It represents a new genre of poetics, fusing my experimental sound art, digital art, photography and animation with original spoken word poetry. This piece deals in a humorous way with the difficulty of expressing transformational experience in written language.


Click to view Know Where to Go Crazy

Now on I-Tunes!

  • Original poetry, sound art, visual art, photography, and animation by M. D. Friedman highlight this ground breaking video short. This work showcases a growing mastery of M. D.'s combined talents to produce experimental, experiential, electronic literature fusing several multimedia elements into a new genre of poetics. Featuring state of the art 3D animation, "Know Where to Go Crazy" (2009) is a two voice poem with the second voice heard animated into the viewer's head.

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  • "Forever Trespass” (2007) is a digital poem exploring the question, "Does the poem own the poet or the poet own poem?" The sound art for this piece was constructed from the 2D (2 directional) poem, "Forever Trespass". The "normal" voice is reading the poem vertically (down the columns) and the "harmonized" voice is reading the same poem horizontally (across the rows). The video was made by animating my photographs and digital art and integrating it with the original sound art.

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  • "The Kill" was M. D. Friedman's first 2D (2 directional) poem composed in the Spring of 2007.  M. D. Friedman is reading the poem vertically (down the columns) & Mariamne Engle Friedman is reading the same poem horizontally (across the rows).  A live performance of this poem was recorded in April of 2008.  It was then enhanced with original sound art, animation, and visual art to produce this experimental poetry video in the Fall of 2010.

Please go to my Lulu Store Front to download these video files for your I-Pod or Zune video players. You may also purchase these digital poems on I-Tunes or at http://www.rlxv.com/members/78/. Thanks for supporting this new form of poetics!

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Our March 2, 2008, the Poets' Co-op TV Show broadcast featured The Disobedient Poets - Part 3 featuring M. D. & Mariamne Friedman You may:

  • Download the above excerpt from the show with poets, M. D. & Mariamne Friedman performing poems from their upcoming book, Two as One, as well as M. D.'s 2-D (2 directional) poem, The Kill. (an I-Pod ready m4v video -8 min 32 sec),
  • Or watch or download the entire 30 minute show.

 


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