Pulitzer Remix for National Poetry Month

For National Poetry Month, I will be writing/remixing poems based on the 1944 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction - Martin Flavin's Journey in the Dark - every day for the month of April. Stay tuned for my poems...

Please check out:

1) An interview with me about the Pulitzer Remix project HERE.

2) The Pulitzer Remix website HERE.

3) The Pulitzer Remix project press release HERE.

4) An interview with Pulitzer Remix and The Found Poetry Review founder, Jenni B. Baker HERE.

Happy National Poetry Month!

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Haters Wanna Be Me Remix

Okay, so this music video by the rapper Krispy Kreme is ridiculously awesome. I can't tell if this kid is serious or if he's parodying "thug life." Either way, he's a lyrical genius. He makes me wanna write more poetry.

Below is a "poetry remix" I wrote using the lyrics to his song. I did not add any words of my own (except for the title), and only used words found in Kreme's song.


Bravado or Watch Your Back, Chuck Norris

I killed
a great white shark
with my fist

I killed
an anaconda snake
500 times

I knocked out
1 million
teeth

I swallowed
a fireball
I ripped out his heart


from Krispy Kreme's “Haters Wanna Be Me” remixed by Greg Santos 

Word life!

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More #poetrybyemilydickinson

Please check out a remix I did featuring America's sweetheart Taylor Swift HERE and an original poem featuring poetry's sweetheart, Emily Dickinson, HERE.

Thank you, Steve Roggenbuck.

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Greg Santos Reads Poems for harold and kumar 2 USTREAM

Missed my pre-recorded reading from last night's "harold and kumar 2" live streaming party?

Do not fret, dearies, here it is for your viewing pleasure.

Thank you, Johnny Vulpine, once again for inviting me to read.

For a thoroughly thorough write-up of the event by Beach Sloth , please click HERE.

Hugs,

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Britney Spears Remix

I've remixed Britney Spears on A Blog of Remixes of Exceptional Quality, y'all.

Please read "Baby, I'm Scared of You" by Greg Santos, y'all.

It's based on Brit Brit's classic, "Sometimes", y'all.

It's part of my continuing series on the tentative theme 'women of the music industry', y'all.

In case you missed it, check out my Lady GaGa remix, ya'll.

Madonna remix coming soon, y'all.

Thank you, Michael Hessel-Mial, um, y'all.

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I GaGa

I have a new "poetry remix" based on Lady GaGa's song "Bad Romance" up on A Blog of Remixes of Exceptional Quality.

Please check it out here.

I'm working on a couple other remixes by Madonna and Britney Spears.

That's how I ra-ra roll.

Thanks again, Michael Hessel-Mial.

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3 Remixes, yo

I have three poetry "remixes" on A Blog of Remixes of Exceptional Quality.

Please check them out here.

1) "How the Poet Laureate Spends His Days" is a cento (a work composed of another author's verses rearranged into an entirely new piece) made from poems from the book Ballistics

by Billy Collins. Have you ever noticed that Collins tends to do nothing but sit and gaze out his window in the majority of his poems?

2) "What, Me Worry?" was composed using poem titles from During My Nervous Breakdown I Want To Have A Biographer Present by Brandon Scott Gorrell.

3) "To Whom It May Concern" is also made from poems titles but from Sometimes My Heart Pushes My Ribs by Ellen Kennedy.

Once again, you can check out my remixes here. You can also view remixes by the awesome likes of Crispin Best, Ryan Manning, Zach Zimmerman, and DJ Berndt.

Thanks, Michael Hessel-Mial for being so Michaelicious.

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