Poems with a political bent about Hurricane Katrina & its aftermath. Special guest poet: New Orleans resident Dione Porche. Plus hear a talented UK poet put his powerful Hellicane poem to song.

The first Hellicane BlogTalkRadio show caught the ear of no less than BlogTalkRadio CEO Alan Levy! The next day he invited Hellicane founder PodPoet to be a guest on his own show to discuss Hellicane and present some more great Hellicane poems. Here the exchange now.

NEW! The Hellicane BLOGSHOW
The first Hellicane show on BlogTalkRadio show launched Tuesday, August 29, 2006 - the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's landfall. Even with a broken Internet connection, the show came to life over the phone and via the Gabbly Chat interface on the Hellicane Web site, with many great Hellicane poems being shared with listeners from all over. A huge thanks to the special Hellicane poets whose works were featured on the show and to all the listeners.

As featured on Cloudy Day Art #21 - Hellicane with PodPoet. Podcasting is such a wonderfully smallWorld. Just last week in my interview with Simon from Slam Idol we discussed a poetry podcast that we had not heard from in a while. Listen in to the show to see how this all came together. Here’s this week’s breakdown:

01:08 Slam Idol Podcast voting promo
04:02 Poem “Is This My Country” by Steve Shultz
06:18 Three degrees of separation aka How it all came together
07:25 Steve explains the origins of the “Hellicane” website
10:56 Positive and negative reactions to the site
16:16 How you can submit your Katrina related poetry
20:06 Spreading the word across the world
23:58 Discussions of the creative process
26:22 The beginnings of the PodPoet poetry podcast
31:44 Steve’s poem “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”
33:34 Steve’s poem “Little Fly”
36:07 The politics of poetry. Why does it seem so many poets are politically on the left?
42:14 Promo: The Learn Out Loud podcast

As featured on Cloudy Day Art #21 - Hellicane with PodPoet. Podcasting is such a wonderfully smallWorld. Just last week in my interview with Simon from Slam Idol we discussed a poetry podcast that we had not heard from in a while. Listen in to the show to see how this all came together. Here’s this week’s breakdown:

01:08 Slam Idol Podcast voting promo
04:02 Poem “Is This My Country” by Steve Shultz
06:18 Three degrees of separation aka How it all came together
07:25 Steve explains the origins of the “Hellicane” website
10:56 Positive and negative reactions to the site
16:16 How you can submit your Katrina related poetry
20:06 Spreading the word across the world
23:58 Discussions of the creative process
26:22 The beginnings of the PodPoet poetry podcast
31:44 Steve’s poem “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”
33:34 Steve’s poem “Little Fly”
36:07 The politics of poetry. Why does it seem so many poets are politically on the left?
42:14 Promo: The Learn Out Loud podcast