Microcast Notes: Poetry Readings and Writing Updates

Here are some writing and poetry related microcast episodes I’ve done, so far.

I’m aiming to record more poetry readings.

Once I have enough, I’ll move them over to their own show notes post :)

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Episode #34 Notes: Dragon Poetry Update (old and new) / 21 March 2025

Planning on making some recordings where I narrate my older poems.
Exciting to revisit some of them, because I wrote most of them when I was a young teenager.
Some of them I don’t quite like very much anymore, but I’ve still kept them online because it was part of the writing I was doing at the time.  There are a few others which I think were pretty good conceptually, if I may say so.
New ones are likely going to be set in a more modern setting or context.
I like high fantasy poems, but I don’t like reading too many poems about dragon slayers and such because I prefer if the dragon stays alive.
New ones explore jealousy, inner strength, a winter poem involving a dragon and its ice cavern, and one that compares anger to fire.
Most of these poems are not in a polished state just yet, but I’m open to sharing works in progress just for the accountability and to keep the momentum going.
Learn More: My dragon poetry book

Episode #32 Notes: Poetry Reading (“Make Way for More”) / 16 March 2025

Wrote this eco-poem in 2023.
Recorded a reading of it that year and sent it to The Coalition.
Just realized the I never shared it on this microcast.
Reflects my feelings on something I felt very strongly about while living in Florida.
Read the poem: Make Way for More

Episode #30 Notes: New Year, Dragonsinn, and poetry / 3 Jan 2025

Oops, haven’t posted or recorded anything in several months.
Had some interesting events in the past few months, which I’ve shared on Dragonsinn:
- Artwork appearing in German Dragon Museum
- One of my dragon poems was shared at an artist’s opening event, for her baby dragon sculpture (Marin Murakoshi)
Did a lot of thinking over the holidays. I kind of miss writing poetry and have been writing to do more dragon poems for a very long time, so I’m going to try and make some progress on that this year.
I did spend some time cleaning up the Dragonsinn website. With AI search results being a thing, I feel like going back to my roots with the website, which was very focused on personal research, books, and artwork.
May also slightly shift focus of this microcast (spend more time on creative project updates, to stay motivated to complete them).
I got tired and frustrated forcing myself to finish some stories in terms of word count. Sometimes I like the brevity of poetry better.

Episode #22 Notes: Quitting a Creative Project / 27 March 2024

Episode #19 Notes: 2023 Writing Recap / 21 Feb 2024

I was in a bit of a rush, so I narrated one of my recent blog posts (instead of speaking without a script, like a voice note).

Episode #10 Notes: Poetry Reading (“I Should’ve Known” / 3 Oct 2023

Episode #8 Notes: Tongue Twisters / 30 Sept 2023

One of my short and early recordings to accompany my profile on PW.org.
Appreciate the literary journals and small presses that have published my material in the past several years.
Recently got my debut poetry chapbook published by Bottlecap Press.
Was recently traveling, gonna see to the marketing stuff asap.
Trying to be more intentional with creative projects. Would like to focus on some short story collections.
Been doing more reviews as well.
Would like to continue micro casting. It’s like an unpolished version of a podcast. Each episode is 1-5 minutes long.
I used to work for a podcast company. It can be very labour-intensive to polish and edit a full-length podcast episode.
My main motivation for micro casting is to slowly overcome my occasional speech anxiety. This is something that has been bothering me for some time, especially if I have to speak up at work or for a presentation.
Follow my ups and downs with improving my verbal communication skills here.