'Whale Sound' hiatus

It’s been a terrific year at Whale Sound but it’s time to take a break. Going forward, we may occasionally solicit a poem for reading, but we will not be accepting submissions for the foreseeable future. Activity on this blog and on Facebook/Twitter activity will slow down as well.

A few highlights from the Whale Sound year:

- Whale Sound started up a year and one month ago in August 2010
- Published readings of poems by 212 poets
- Published 7 audio chapbooks in multiple formats – website, e-book, PDF and print – most of them free
- Coordinated and participated in 8 group readings
- Established Voice Alpha, a group blog focusing on the art of reading poetry aloud for an audience (I will continue to post here occasionally and hope my fellow contributors will do the same)
- Collaborated on two videopoem tryptich projects with film-maker Swoon – Night Vision and Propolis (the latter also with Kathy MacTavish)
- Established videpoetry channels on You Tube and Vimeo (videpoetry is an area that continues to fascinate us and we will continue to post at these channels)

Meanwhile, these are the 20 Whale Sound posts receiving the most listener clicks – check them out!

1. ‘If You Were A Bird‘ by Aditi Machado
2. ‘Infinity‘ by Tess Kincaid
3. [a group of jellyfish is called a ‘smack.’ a group of lapwings is called a ‘deceit.’] by Chella Courington
4. ‘Something Brighter Than Pity‘ by Carolina Ebeid
5. ‘A Different Leaving‘ by Terresa Wellborn
6. ‘A Week Before You Die, You Are Singing’ by Erin Elizabeth Smith
7. ‘Sometimes I Still Dream About Their Pink Bodies‘ by Kelli Russell Agodon
8. ‘Lament‘ by Jill Alexander Essbaum
9. ‘The Trains‘ by Adele Kenny
10. ‘A Bigfoot Poem‘ by Dave Bonta
11. Group reading: ‘The Slender Scent’ by James Robison
12. ‘Ode to Drunkenness and Other Criminal Activities‘ by Rebecca Loudon
13. ‘At Ruby’s Diner‘ by Sherry O’Keefe
14. ‘Sink or Float [quick fix witch]‘ by Juliet Cook
15. ‘How To Fall In Love‘ by Susan Elbe
16. ‘The Way Back‘ by Kathleen Kirk
17. ‘In Which Christina Imagines That Different Types Of Alcohol Are Men And She Is Seeing Them All‘ by Christina Olson
18. ‘For The Woman On The Boulevard‘ by Emma Trelles
19. Group reading: ‘Acceptance is to her a phenomenon’ by Ann Bogle
20. ‘About a Fish‘ by Ana Božičević

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