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:

• History Composed: A Poet Guided Tour Opening Reception will be Friday, April 8, 2011 from 6 – 9 pm.
• Celebrate National Poetry Month (April) and National Historical Preservation Month (May) with a unique twist on historic poetry. Colorado poets M.D. Freidman, Jared Smith and SETH were commissioned to each write original poetry on several objects in the Loveland Museum/Gallery’s history collection. The opening reception will feature a live tour and performance by the poets through the history galleries. Poetry will then be featured on a cell phone tour. The Loveland Museum is at 503 N. Lincoln Ave., Loveland, CO  80537.

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 commit to posting a new creative piece 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.

• Contact M. D. Friedman to do readings or workshops.

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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.

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.

"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.

"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!