Video Poems
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WATCH a great YouTube interview: WINTER IN AMERICA poets respond
I am grateful to have participated in a far-reaching interview of poets from the anthology WINTER IN AMERICA (AGAIN; one of the editors spoke with several of us: https://paulenelson.com/2025/07/20/resistance-as-writing/ How can one write poetry about current political events without resorting to invective or rhetoric? Why is this important? Poetry is a use of language that
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Blue Light Press Reading with Dane and Two Other Fine Poets
I was featured in the Blue Light Press reading series hosted by Diane Frank of San Francisco. Along with two other fine poets, you can find my segment at about the 19:10 minute mark of the YouTube recording. I read from both Deep Travel, and Nine Volt Nirvana. Enjoy! Blue Light Press Reading
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DMQ Salon Reading Series NINE VOLT NIRVANA
Sally Ashton was gracious enough to include me again in the DMQ Salon Reading Series, where I share the virtual stage with two other fine poets. The seven-minute YouTube video includes poems from my new book, Nine Volt Nirvana. It will be posted for the month of JUNE 2025, then will be available in the archives https://www.dmqreview.com/salon
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YouTube Video of SADDLE ROAD PRESS reading
The YouTube link to my reading from Deep Travel in the Saddle Road Press series was just posted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHExo0Hm8_8 My fellow poet in the reading is Amy Holman, from her book Captive; and the reading is hosted by editor Ruth Thompson. We each read for about 10 minutes, then switch back and forth….with some interesting
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New Video: Dane reads again in the Stockbridge Library series
I was featured in another Stockbridge Library online poetry reading this month (January 10th, 2024), reading poems from several books and highlighting anthologies from Sixteen Rivers Press. You can link to the YouTube recording here: Dane Cervine on YouTube You can also Google the Stockbridge Library reading series on YouTube for other fine poets.
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Two Poems reviewed by Kenneth Salzmann in Substack column
This issue of Kenneth Salzmann’s “How to Grow a Poem” includes two older poems of mine that vary greatly in style (yet both winning awards). His column focuses on the writing process of a wide range of poets each week or so, and is worth the read. This particular column also includes a YouTube link
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Poetry Flash Reading Series: Dane Cervine & Stella Beratlis
The two new books from Sixteen Rivers Press this year, but myself and Stella Beratlis, were captured in a video reading via POETRY FLASH in Berkeley, co-sponsored by Moe's Books. You can access the reading via You Tube on the Poetry Flash series page, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlEDrE-uE-c The World Is God's Language is the title of
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Two Poem Video for National Poetry Month 2021
After reading in the Stockbridge, Massachusetts virtual poetry series, we were asked to submit two-poem videos to celebrate National Poetry Month in 2021. Here's a link to two poems I read, from my new book The World Is God's Language. The poems include "Presidential Mask", and "The Dreams of Antelope": https://www.tribute.co/stockbridge-library-2021-national-poetry-month-tribute/?video=0dfa4d8d-d6e8-bfe6-c631-e806f4cc955a
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VIDEO READING of New Book, THE WORLD IS GOD’S LANGUAGE
Here's a marvelous reading and discussion of my new book The World Is God's Language (Sixteen Rivers Press – 2021), recorded during the Stockbridge Library & Archives series on March 24th, 2021 in Massachusetts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89jm2XpzOD8&t=356s
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YouTube VIDEO poems from the Gateless Gate at Poetry San Jose Well-RED Series
It's fun to periodically look online for poems that surface without me knowing about it… Robert Pesich of Poetry Center San Jose's Well-RED series filmed me reading "Abandoned Old Woman", from the book The Gateless Gate – Polishing the Moon Sword. You can enjoy watching it on YouTube here: Abandoned Old Woman YOUTUBE video There's also a