Ever wonder what happens when a mind can't stop writing poems, especially when those poems turn into songs? You're about to find out. This collection is a peek into a unique journey – from pondering the vast "Be in the Universe" to getting very, very specific about "What You're Looking For" (spoiler: it's rarely what you expect). Prepare for dreams, unexpected insights, and a slight chance of humming along.
Here are some of my published poems made into poem song videos
Flowa: Free the Verse July 2025 Issue 14: Louder https://www.free-the-verse.com/
Be in the Universe: Oddball Magazine, https://oddballmagazine.com/poem-by-janan-young
Evening Sky: Poetry Flash
Gumballs Drop: tight (Ann Erickson’s poetry journal volume 4, number 4, August 1993)
Hike High: Sopris West Language! Literacy Curriculum: Jane Fell Greene
Lost in SF: Enterzone 10, http://ezone.org/ez/e10/articles/janan/internal.html
Potatoes: Recursive Angel
Soil: https://www.poetrysuperhighway.com/psh/psh-poets-of-the-week-517/
The Spot: https://www.eclectica.org/v6n3/platt.html
What You're Looking For: The chapbook Tiger's Milk https://litkicks.com/AugustHappening/
Woman -- A Terza Rima: https://web.archive.org/web/19990220155924/http://morpo.com/v2i5/woman.html
Congratulations, you've survived the full poetic-song cycle! If your head is now cheerfully boggled by the interconnectedness of everything from gumballs to the Evening Sky, you're not alone. This collection was born from the irresistible compulsion to capture the weird, wonderful, and utterly human. Thanks for coming along for the ride.
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Here is a link to a collection on one act Xdrom.com plays (written real-time, improv-style, in an online chat area, using a prompt provided by Thom Williams to the Xdrom players/writers/performers): https://web.archive.org/web/20000818011106/http://www.xdrom.com/
Performed June 21, 2001
https://tomato-nadia-2.tiiny.site/
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The concrete, visual poem “Crossword” by Janan Platt Young © is mentioned in the book Modern Visual Poetry by Willard Bohn, University of Delaware Press, 2001 - Here (embedded on the right side of this page) is "Crossword" made into a poem song video >>>>>>>