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Hello everyone!
Today we are truly live again. Today we run in a little different way. We are live on Google Meetup from when the bar opens at 3PM EST.
So please link up as usual and we will start the Open Link event as soon as people have gathered and everyone who wants will get the opportunity to read their poem. I will go call you by the list you link up but if you only want to listen that’s OK as well.
It should be easy to join and no software needs to be installed (but as usual you should remember to unmute when it’s your turn).
If this works out well, every second OLN will be live for the first 90 minutes.
I am also considering if this should be recorded, so those who miss it will be able to listen later, but this time we will keep it truly live.
So go ahead and link up your one poem, read and comment as usual.
Leave a comment below, and grab a drink and join us by clicking the microphone below.
dVerse 
Hello all… please link up and then join us live
Thank you Bjorn for making that A/V poets’s conference happen. So nice to see and hear those that I read.
So nice to see you as well Rob
Hi Bjorn! With the the rhetoric and squabble here the USA about whether or not to wear a mask for Covid-19, thought I’d introduce masks of a different type.
https://meet.google.com/fvd-hfyz-fup?authuser=0 join us here
You can reach us by clicking on the picture of the microphone.
I am feeling a bit overwhelmed at the moment – haven’t been able to do anything new – so I’ve linked up an old poem that seems very relevant at the moment.
I hear you! It is intense around here with VA being a high infection state. No debates here about whether to madk or not! You keep safe.
Our church does regular recording of their services so you can view it at any time. I have found this is a regular practice of recordings of live events. I am going to be posting a poem later but will not be participating in the live feed. You all have fun.
Would love to be there live but I am working. Will be nice if next time you could record it!
4 weeks from now it will happen again.
Hi there Bjorn and everyone,
Trust you are all well and are managing to come through the current crisis largely unscathed … It’s certainly quite a world we live in, right now…
This week marks the release of my second unpublished poem since the recent runaway success of my latest published poetry collection Pranic Poetry earlier in the year. It’s a more personal piece this time round. Hope you enjoy and really looking forward to catching up with everyone’s work a little later tonight. Have tried several times to link up to the performance side of things (shy as I am!) clicking on all I think I’m supposed to – but to no avail… Better luck next month, I guess. Have only just learnt how to master Zoom, so more practice deffo needed for an otherwise dreamy technophobe like myself….
Hello Scott, so nice to have you here, Hope you will be able to join live next time…
Sorry, it didn’t work again. I could see you and hear you but you couldn’t hear me. Never mind. have fun!
OK… if you have a mobile phone you can down load the app for Google meetup.
I have phonophobia. I use mine for phoning, that’s all. And I avoid Google where possible.
Thanks again for hosting, Bjorn! I really loved listening to everyone read, and tomorrow when I read everyone’s poems I will be able to hear all of your voices – and put faces to them: lovely 😊
The same Ingrid… I hope next time it will be even better
It was good to see and hear people. Thanks for hosting, Björn!
Great to have you live…
This was so much fun! 😀 Thank you so much for hosting, Bjorn. I am off to make my rounds now 💝
I will do the same
Wonderful to see fellow poets live today. Thanks Bjorn. It went so smoothly. Looking forward to more. Again, sorry for the lack of inspiration at the moment, but writing from the darkness today was therapeutic. I am appreciative of a forum that welcomes our joyful writing spirit as well as our moments of sorrow.
Your therapeutic writing worked so well …
Kudos, thanks and gratitude Bjorn for conceiving and creating these “live” events. It still has some rough edges, but still ikt was a very joyful experience for the14 participants and 55 listeners.
I would love to expand on this… we are still so happy just to see each other… but I love the performance part of poetry.
Hearing the poet read their work is the nectar in the flower,! Thank you for starting these”live” events. That was sincerely the most communal pleasure I have enjoyed since this damned Covid-19 thing started. Those very first multiple USA nursing home Covid-19 deaths began Feb 29th, only four (4) blocks from my home, here in Kirkland WA. I have been self-quarantined since March 1st. I‘ve left my home-lock-down only once, on May 6th, for emergency oral surgery at Seattle Swedish Hospital. I was given the full, nasal-swab, Covid -19 drive-up, “brain-stab” test 2-days before, and again 2-weeks after — both negative. I am not leaving my home until there is a “scientifically proven” vaccine, that is proven safe for a 73-year-old with multiple susceptible health issues. So — dVerse MUST keep these wonderful “live” OMN events going! 🙂
It’s now dark and late… I will try to find time tomorrow to read and go round.
Hello Bjorn and All. It was so much fun to see everyone who was there and to listen to your poetry live. The vibe was very welcoming and a refreshing change from the ongoing solitude. Really hoping even those who aren’t used to or inclined to do it to push beyond their comfort zone and give it a try. I had no sound this time (microphone works fine when I use it for duolingo) but Sanaa suggested I download the “google meet” app on my cell phone which I have now done so should be all set for next time. Bjorn, great idea on the live poetry readings and friendly chat.
We will make sure that everything works great next time… I will need to put it together even better.
Hi Bjorn and everyone, sorry I missed – sleeping here (I vote yes to recording). Looking forward to a good read once sun gets up.
I will need to see how recording will work… It seems not to be available with recording in the free platform… but I guess I can try to get an external screen recording app to work’
I was working at 3:00, but had now idea it was happening. Was it announced on Tuesday?
It was announced on Monday… but we will make it something every second OLN
Thank you. I missed the announcement somehow!
Every fourth week will be live. If you like the our facebook page I will put the event including the link..
Here is the facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/dversepoets/?ref=bookmarks
I have liked the d’verse page several times, but each time I come back it says follow again. It does not seem to take!
How great! I was not aware you had a Facebook page! Thank you. I put a like on it!
Hello All! Thanks for hosting, Björn. I am grateful to have a place to share my experiences in verse– a blessed night to everyone! Happy writing! Peace&Love, Jason
Hello Jason… great to have you here
I guess I gotta get out more. Sheeesh.
🙂 it’s great to be out… maybe next time you can join the bar from a great spot in the woods.
The timing didn’t work for me today but I’ll catch one in the future.
four weeks from now.
Darn, missed it again. It’s nice to still have a job, but on the other hand…
Every second OLN… If you follow the dVerse facebook group I will make sure that there is an event created there.
Oh, I missed it! Wish I’d known about it in advance so that I could have made time for it. 😦 Well, next time!
We did an announcement on Monday… and I created an event in the facebook group..
I am having quite the battle with NEW blogger, please excuse the fact that there is no link …. I barely got it published. !!!!!!! grrrrrrrr
Didn’t know they changed on blogger as well. Many people struggle with the new WordPress editor.
Hi Bjorn, I am sorry I missed this but, now that I know the schedule, maybe, I can join next time. Am I able to join after 3:30? I work.
We will try to keep open from 3 to 4:30 EST… so that should be possible. Every second OLN will be live.
Bjorn,
This sounds awesome. I am sorry I missed it.
Next time… in four weeks from now. 3 PM EST
Thanks I will mark it on my calendar.
Sounds great, Bjorn! Thank you for arranging this and hosting OLN.
It was great… it will be recurring for every second OLN.
ahh, I missed it too for lack of knowledge. We are starting our loal open mic again this week, albeit online. I hope to join you for next one.
Four week from now… we are still trying out.
Hello… and sorry for not getting back earlier… Friday and Saturday is not optimal for my blogging schedule … so here is Sunday afternoon and now I’m making my rounds.
I will try to gather some experiences on what works well and what doesn’t … if anyone has any tips that work we will try to gether that.