The Road I Go, Alone

Ingee Kim's Poem of Quiet Strength

Jul 05, 2025

Going Alone

Last week I had the pleasure of representing Forest Woods Media Productions at the celebration of the anthology, Songs in a Second Language at the DC Arts Club. I concluded my discussion of my role as book manager with a reading of one of the poems from the book, Ingee Kim’s, The Road, I Go Alone.

Reading Ingee’s poem inspired me to create a video poem of the work. Poems are, firstly, scripts for a performance. That’s the way they’ve been in the West since Homer. Like the ancients, today we can add music, in this case a solo trumpet with cinematic backing. For visuals, I added a stock footage montage.

I hope you enjoy my experimentation with these short videos in Everyday Poet. For me, it’s a way of heightening the emotional intensity of a poem.

Quick Tech Tip for Poets

You can find Keep in your Google app launcher. I keep a Keep icon on the launch screen of my phone and all I have to do is tap once, speak my thought, and put the phone back in my pocket. It works great on hikes and even on a bike ride.

There is literally nothing to do but speak into the device and then put it away. Later on, you can open it up from a computer or other device and see all your entries and manage them accordingly.

We All Live Under the Same Sky

My poem Chyron was featured in the recently released e-book, We All Live Under the Same Sky. I was glad to see this work find a home in an anthology featuring creatives from around the world. Most importantly, a hundred percent of proceeds from the sale of this anthology will support the Road to Recovery Project, an organization helping transport injured Palestinians to Israeli hospitals.

You will be able to find Chyron in my forthcoming collection, Screens. I’m working on a video reading which I’ll put up on Everyday Poet

Coming Up

Monday, July 7, 2025, at 7:00 pm, at the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland, and online in Zoom, Café Muse Literary Salon will feature poets Adam Chiles, Eileen Sirota and Majda Gama.

Have a reading or event coming up? Let me know and I’ll pass it along. And as always, feel free to email me with questions or comments at henrycrawfordpoetry@gmail.com. Use the subject “Coming Up” Stay creative!

If you’d like me to list an upcoming poetry event in Everyday Poet, please let me know by emailing me at henrycrawfordpoetry@gmail.com. Use the subject: “Coming Up”.