http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/12/singing-the-digital-age-blues/ A blog from the Poetry Foundation where contemporary poets debate classic and contemporary poetry from America and around the world. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:27:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/12/singing-the-digital-age-blues/#comment-6574 Karen Peralta Fri, 26 Dec 2008 00:19:46 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=1203#comment-6574 The thing that's nice about the Internet is I can dash off a quick twenty line poem about my past good old days bicycling in Ohio, polish it up in Word, and then post it to my poetry blog, publish it over at Poetry Publishers, submit it for the monthly contest at Poetry.com and submit it for potential publication at several online literary publications, all within half an hour of time. Yay, yay, yay for the World Wide Web! The thing that’s nice about the Internet is I can dash off a quick twenty line poem about my past good old days bicycling in Ohio, polish it up in Word, and then post it to my poetry blog, publish it over at Poetry Publishers, submit it for the monthly contest at Poetry.com and submit it for potential publication at several online literary publications, all within half an hour of time. Yay, yay, yay for the World Wide Web!

]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/12/singing-the-digital-age-blues/#comment-6573 Michael Walker Thu, 25 Dec 2008 19:18:43 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=1203#comment-6573 When a line for something I'm working on hits me while at work, I scribble it down on a yellow post-it, then fold it in half so the adhesive won't stick in my pocket. When I get home I transfer it to the digital original of which I, too, have no hard copy. I'm going to stop throwing away the post-its now, maybe find a nice box for them. We lose a little something with progress, perhaps a lot of something. Sorry for yours. When a line for something I’m working on hits me while at work, I scribble it down on a yellow post-it, then fold it in half so the adhesive won’t stick in my pocket. When I get home I transfer it to the digital original of which I, too, have no hard copy. I’m going to stop throwing away the post-its now, maybe find a nice box for them. We lose a little something with progress, perhaps a lot of something. Sorry for yours.

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