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

Thursday, May 20th, 7:00 pm

Part of the Green Fuse Poets Performance at the LIPS reading at the Lyons Town Hall at 432 5th Ave. in Lyons, Colorado 80540.

(303) 823-5585

Saturday, July 24th, starting at 7:00 pm

Featured Reader at Stage C at the Mercury Cafe at 2199 California St. in Denver, CO 80205

(303) 924-9281

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

Check out Know Where to Go Crazy by M. D. Friedman, the first ever digital poem video to be available on I-Tunes!!!
Read a great article about my 2010 Poetry Month Poetry in Action Performance at the Broomfield Library. Thank you Dylan!!
Read Robert King's interview with me about digital poetry as published in the Colorado Poets' E-Words Issue #6 (Spring 2009).
Read my poem, "Bedside Manner," that won Second Place in the Columbine Poets of Colorado 2009 Award contest in the Free Verse Category
Listen to my audio poem, "A Good Dog," winner of the Book Habit & New Zealand Poetry Society 2008 Poetry Contest (Dec. 2008).
Just (Feb. 2009) published in the fantistic debut issue of Jane Crown's new e-zine, Heavy Bear ( http://www.heavybear.janecrown.com/HB1/Numbered.pages/20.html )
Listen to my audio poems as published in Toxic Poetry E-Zine.
Join me as I commits to posting a new poem every week on my Blog at mdweekly.blogspot.com.
Over the last many years I have been featured at the Lincoln Center & Avogadro's Number in Fort Collins, the Rialto Theatre & the Loveland Museum in Loveland, Golden Foothills Art Center, Yellow Pines in Boulder, the Cannon Mine in Lafayette, the KRFC's Poetry Radio Show, the Poets’ Co-op TV Show, the Broomfield Independent Film Series, the Broomfield Library's Poetry Poetry In Action Poetry Month 2010 Celebration and the Mercury Café & Ziggies in Denver. Please come see me live at one of my upcoming scheduled poetry readings.
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Listen or download free recordings of my experimental audio poetry:

Time for Gertrein Strude for Gertrude Stein (a double tracked tribute tribute to Mama Dada)
Slow Blues in A What? (what would happen if a harmonica could write poetry)
Against My Will (my first experiment)
The Kill (A "2-D " or2 directional poem by M. D. Friedman with M. D. Friedman reading the poem down the columns and Mariamne Engle Friedman reading the same poem across the rows. Sound art also by M. D. Friedman.)
Over 40 live audio recordings of me reading my work at the Internet Poets' Cooperative open readings.

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.

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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.

The Body of the Mind

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

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

From Here to Here

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

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

Nothing Else Matters

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

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

Where We Reach

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

Also available as a printable e-book

You can also order from Amazon, Kindle or Smashwords.

“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.

"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.

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.

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!

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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