Classical Poets Live (CPL) with Andrew Benson Brown – Episode 1: Why Classical Poetry? The Society April 28, 2023 Classical Poets Live, Interviews, Poetry, Video 16 Comments . This inaugural episode features an interview with Society of Classical Poets’ co-founder and editor Evan Mantyk who talks about the founding of the SCP and its growth. He also discusses the FoFG Poetry Competition, which has a quickly approaching April 30 deadline and no submission fee. Audio version available here: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7nbFbs2YtvlgZ2B4RtQOcG Apple Music: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/classical-poets-live/id1685283102 . . NOTE TO READERS: If you enjoyed this poem or other content, please consider making a donation to the Society of Classical Poets. The Society of Classical Poets does not endorse any views expressed in individual poems or commentary. 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For all those interested, or who don’t have the time to watch, the podcast is now available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7nbFbs2YtvlgZ2B4RtQOcG https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/classical-poets-live/id1685283102 The audio is also smoother in these formats. My video-editing software is AI-based and it is frankly just not that good at creating smooth transitions when you cut out fillers. Reply Paul Freeman April 28, 2023 Happy birthday for tomorrow, Andrew, and thanks for the informative interview with Evan, the best editor of poetry I’ve come across. Many’s the improvement from his perusal. How about a catchphrase competition for when you sign off? ‘Keep your verse rhythmic and your couplets iambic’. On second thoughts… Reply ABB April 28, 2023 Thanks for listening, Paul. You’re right, I do need to work on a signature closing phrase. Will definitely take your suggestion into consideration! Reply Joshua C. Frank April 28, 2023 Happy birthday Andrew! I enjoyed the video and learning more about the Society and about poetry in general. Please keep on making more of these! Incidentally, my 40th birthday will be this year, too. Reply ABB April 29, 2023 Thanks Joshua, glad you enjoyed. Yes, hoping to continue with this thing and promote the SCP’s mission of truth, beauty, and goodness to counteract the dominant woke narrative. While officially being among The Middle-Aged, we can hopefully maintain a youthful spirit and be old souls at the same time! Reply Damian Robin April 30, 2023 Please continue with your urbane and great urn of persona poet confidence, ABB. I hope you make many more podcasts and poems and birthday celebrations. You had a great talking torso to start off with in Evan Mantyk, President of SCP, the fine, upstanding, outstanding Society of Classical Poets, a community of learning and creating unparalleled in our day. Shine on for 40 more, and more, years and as many years of podcasts if they are all as gentle, proficient, and interesting as this launch. Reply ABB May 2, 2023 Thanks, Damian. Yes planning on continuing this with many more episodes, and hopefully the coming years will be kind. Reply Margaret Coats April 30, 2023 Happy birthday, Andrew, and best wishes for many more! I’ll be back to comment on your material when I can hear or view it without disturbing a traveling companion. Having learned multi-track recording in theory, I can sympathize with your editing tasks. Just like a poem, it’s not over when it’s over, but when you see diminishing returns on making it better. Reply ABB May 2, 2023 Look forward to your astute observations, Margaret. I think the editing will get easier as I get into more of a routine and the learning curve levels off. Reply jd April 30, 2023 Hello Andrew, I just watched the podcast and enjoyed it. It was good to get to know Evan better and I thought you did a very good job. Best of wishes for your 40th year! Reply ABB May 2, 2023 Thank you, jd. Am sure will have Evan back on at some point. One thing I’m going to start incorporating is having guests read their work, and I regret not doing that with him. Doesn’t make much sense to have a poetry podcast where nobody reads any poetry! Reply Mark Stellinga May 1, 2023 Great job, Andrew, on a rather complicated undertaking. After doing 250 audio files of my better pieces, I know how intimidating a digital project can be at times. It was nice that you launched with Evan, touting the SCP is worth your every hour of frustration. Any idea when we can expect pod-cast #2? Reply ABB May 2, 2023 Appreciate your viewership, Mark. My plan for right now is to release a new episode every two weeks. I already have three more guests queued up, and for episode 2 it will be none other than Susan Jarvis Bryant! Expect that to drop end of next week. Reply Mark Stellinga May 3, 2023 ABB – An interview with Susan will be tough to beat, my friend, I consider her one of the SCP’s most intuitive and talented members. Great choice, and thanks for what you’re doing…Mark Patricia Allred May 4, 2023 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GLAD I FOUND THIS, AWESOME. Reply Leave a Reply Cancel ReplyYour email address will not be published.CommentName* Email* Website Captcha loading...In order to pass the CAPTCHA please enable JavaScript. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. Δ This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.
James Sale April 28, 2023 Happy birthday 40 tomorrow ABB!!! Nice and friendly chat and good root around various aspects of classic poetry – Ben Jonson was a bricklayer indeed! Good there is no hard sell – just join us! Reply
ABB April 28, 2023 Thanks for the wishes, James. While this is an exciting project that was fun to record, I wasn’t prepared for how exhausting the editing process is! So about to go relax for a bit with the fam. For all those interested, or who don’t have the time to watch, the podcast is now available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7nbFbs2YtvlgZ2B4RtQOcG https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/classical-poets-live/id1685283102 The audio is also smoother in these formats. My video-editing software is AI-based and it is frankly just not that good at creating smooth transitions when you cut out fillers. Reply
Paul Freeman April 28, 2023 Happy birthday for tomorrow, Andrew, and thanks for the informative interview with Evan, the best editor of poetry I’ve come across. Many’s the improvement from his perusal. How about a catchphrase competition for when you sign off? ‘Keep your verse rhythmic and your couplets iambic’. On second thoughts… Reply
ABB April 28, 2023 Thanks for listening, Paul. You’re right, I do need to work on a signature closing phrase. Will definitely take your suggestion into consideration! Reply
Joshua C. Frank April 28, 2023 Happy birthday Andrew! I enjoyed the video and learning more about the Society and about poetry in general. Please keep on making more of these! Incidentally, my 40th birthday will be this year, too. Reply
ABB April 29, 2023 Thanks Joshua, glad you enjoyed. Yes, hoping to continue with this thing and promote the SCP’s mission of truth, beauty, and goodness to counteract the dominant woke narrative. While officially being among The Middle-Aged, we can hopefully maintain a youthful spirit and be old souls at the same time! Reply
Damian Robin April 30, 2023 Please continue with your urbane and great urn of persona poet confidence, ABB. I hope you make many more podcasts and poems and birthday celebrations. You had a great talking torso to start off with in Evan Mantyk, President of SCP, the fine, upstanding, outstanding Society of Classical Poets, a community of learning and creating unparalleled in our day. Shine on for 40 more, and more, years and as many years of podcasts if they are all as gentle, proficient, and interesting as this launch. Reply
ABB May 2, 2023 Thanks, Damian. Yes planning on continuing this with many more episodes, and hopefully the coming years will be kind. Reply
Margaret Coats April 30, 2023 Happy birthday, Andrew, and best wishes for many more! I’ll be back to comment on your material when I can hear or view it without disturbing a traveling companion. Having learned multi-track recording in theory, I can sympathize with your editing tasks. Just like a poem, it’s not over when it’s over, but when you see diminishing returns on making it better. Reply
ABB May 2, 2023 Look forward to your astute observations, Margaret. I think the editing will get easier as I get into more of a routine and the learning curve levels off. Reply
jd April 30, 2023 Hello Andrew, I just watched the podcast and enjoyed it. It was good to get to know Evan better and I thought you did a very good job. Best of wishes for your 40th year! Reply
ABB May 2, 2023 Thank you, jd. Am sure will have Evan back on at some point. One thing I’m going to start incorporating is having guests read their work, and I regret not doing that with him. Doesn’t make much sense to have a poetry podcast where nobody reads any poetry! Reply
Mark Stellinga May 1, 2023 Great job, Andrew, on a rather complicated undertaking. After doing 250 audio files of my better pieces, I know how intimidating a digital project can be at times. It was nice that you launched with Evan, touting the SCP is worth your every hour of frustration. Any idea when we can expect pod-cast #2? Reply
ABB May 2, 2023 Appreciate your viewership, Mark. My plan for right now is to release a new episode every two weeks. I already have three more guests queued up, and for episode 2 it will be none other than Susan Jarvis Bryant! Expect that to drop end of next week. Reply
Mark Stellinga May 3, 2023 ABB – An interview with Susan will be tough to beat, my friend, I consider her one of the SCP’s most intuitive and talented members. Great choice, and thanks for what you’re doing…Mark
