Allyson Whipple

Category: video

  • Poetry Formatting Tutorial for Online Submissions

    Submissions for the 2016 Texas Poetry Calendar are already flying in, and each time I check out a fresh batch of poems, I feel honored to be trusted with this project.

    Dos Gatos Press went to online-only submissions a few years ago. For the Poetry Calendar (and for most publications I’ve encountered), your poems must be submitted in one cohesive document, with a different poem on each page. Every submission cycle, there are poets who have questions about how to put everything into one document.

    To help those poets out, I shot a brief tutorial. I use Word 2013, but this technique has worked in every word processor I’ve used, including OpenOffice. Check it out below, and feel free to share!

  • Neighborhood Dogs

    I don’t always post Jon’s demos on my blog…but when I do, it’s because it’s one of the best songs I’ve ever heard. So without further ado….

  • Video from Spoken & Heard

    I had a fantastic time as the featured poet at Spoken & Heard this past Sunday. I had a couple of good friends in the audience, and Jon managed to get some of the poems on video. I thought I’d share some of my favorites from the evening.

    Reading “Come Into the World Like That”

    Paying tribute to Mary Oliver by reading her poem “Wild Geese”

    Yes, I wrote a poem about visiting the dentist

    Reading “Love Song to a ’94 Honda” and “Lizard”

    Reading “ICU”

    Reading “Goldfinch”

    Thanks again for the members of Spoken & Heard for featuring me, to the great baristas at Kick Butt Coffee, and to my friends who came to watch.