Fitter-web

Poet Rob Fitterman has made much of his published work available for free, in PDF format, on his personal website. While it’s not unusual for artists and musicians to create websites to promote their work, poets are generally morally allergic to the idea of seeming self-promotional. They prefer, apparently, to get the word out through blogs and relentless Facebook updates—which almost seems more narcissistic, in a way, eh? Anyway, Fitterman’s site features a generous selection of his work, along with links to reviews and interviews and whatnot. It’s a nice consolidation of an author’s work, allowing the curious to explore the poems from the comfort of their own cubicle, without seeking out a bunch of hard-to-find small-press books.

In other Fitter-news, Rob’s Word Shop, a shop which physically existed, and in which words were sold, literally, has its own YouTube channel. The videos posted document the customer interactions, which range from awkward to giggly to deadpan to awkwardly giggly to deadpanly deadpan. Weird commercial enterprise as poetic project? Yes, please.