••• The Mad Gallery ••• “Stay Syrbarite Stay” (above) by featured artist Paula “Pd” Lietz. To see more Mad works from Pd, and our other contributing artists, please visit our Mad Gallery. “Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.” ~ Lucille Clifton ••• The Poetry Forum ••• This last week in Mad Swirl’s Poetry Forum… we …
Mad Swirl Open Mic : 07.01.15
by Johnny O on June 23, 2015 :: 1 commentJoin Mad Swirl this 1st Wednesday of July (aka July 1st) at 8:00 sharp, when we will swirl it up madly in the LIVE way that we do every month now for OVER 10 years! This month we are featuring the dynamic musical duo of John Kelley & Stefan Prigmore! After our feature set we urge you stick around to …
The Best of Mad Swirl : 06.20.15
by Johnny O on June 20, 2015 :: 2 comments
“Impulse” (above) by featured artist Paula “Pd” Lietz. To see more Mad works from Pd, and our other contributing artists, please visit our Mad Gallery. “That’s one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one’s little turn – that you’re just part of the great crop, as it were.” ~ Paul Muldoon ••• The Mad Gallery ••• …
Featured Artist: Paula “Pd” Lietz
by Madelyn Olson on June 18, 2015 :: 1 comment
Mad Swirl is proud to bring back longtime Contributing Poet & Artist, Paula “Pd” Lietz. Pd isn’t a newcomer to our Mad Gallery (3x now), but she certainly keeps us excited each time we get to sneak a peak! This time around, we sense a loose theme – lots of wings & allusions to nature & trees. But like usual, …
The Best of Mad Swirl : 06.13.15
by Johnny O on June 13, 2015 :: 8 comments
“Technicolor Thought” (above) by featured artist Brett “BA” Ardoin. To see more Mad works from Brett, and our other contributing artists, please visit our Mad Gallery. “The work of art is a scream of freedom.” ~ Christo ••• The Poetry Forum ••• This last week in Mad Swirl’s Poetry Forum… we attempted an atomic bond, bombed instead; we succumbed (again) …
An Editor Abroad, “goedemiddag”
by MH Clay on June 12, 2015 :: 5 commentsGreetings, Swirlers! MH again; still hanging out in Rotterdam at Poetry International Festival 2015. <hanging out is a poor choice; better to say, diving in> A grand experience, these last three days; full expectations for more great poetry and poets to come. This is a fine gathering to be; creative synapses are being disconnected, challenged to realign in different ways. …
The Best of Mad Swirl : 06.06.15
by Johnny O on June 6, 2015 :: 1 comment
“In Lightened” (above) by featured artist Brett “BA” Ardoin. To see more Mad works from Brett, and our other contributing artists, please visit our Mad Gallery. “Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.” ~ Bill Moyers ••• The Poetry Forum ••• This last week in Mad Swirl’s Poetry Forum… we nipped never in its blundered bud; we arrested …
Notes of Gratitude to the Mad Ones : 06.03.15
by Johnny O on June 4, 2015 :: 1 commentOh what a night it was in the land of Swirl’n mic Mad-ness! We were Skype’n, UStream’n, and word around the Lounge, Periscopin’ too! Why all this video streamin’? We needed to get the Emerald Isle closer to Dallas because we featured Irish Poet Brendan McCormack! And what a feature it was… As Swirve started their jazzy madness, the crowd …