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Archiving Is The New Folk Art April 19, 2011: The digital theorist Rick Prelinger has proclaimed that archiving is the new folk art, something that is widely practiced and has unconsciously become integrated into a great many people's lives, potentially transforming a necessity into a work of art. Now, at first thought it seems wrong: how can the storing and categorizing of digital (or [...]
Asian Vampire Sensuality and Other Problems April 5, 2011: Barbara Jane Reyes: "My question is about women of color publishing now. Why so dispersed? Why so defanged? Why so reticent, so deferential to others’ authority?" Quick answer: The body. To write the diasporic body — the race-class body — female body... is... so horrible, I can't even tell you. This sentence functions as evidence. [...]
David Pogue finally gets with the Tuscan Milk literary phenomenon December 17, 2010: Yesterday's Pogue's Posts proves that sometimes you have to forgo the latest in technology for a proven, if years old, winner. The comments section on Amazon.com's Tuscan Milk has become an unintentional literary community, playing host to thousands of writers inspired by this "one gallon paperweight" that makes a "baby’s new face burst into [...]
Toronto poetz r in ur gum machines December 3, 2010: Maisonneuve reports that in Toronto you can now get poetry that comes with its own stick of gum. This isn't just a mere marketing gimmick where your efforts for digging deep into the poetic Cracker Jack box are rewarded with a prize. The gum has a more practical purpose: providing the necessary weight to aid the poetry in its passage through one [...]
What’s a poet laureate to do? August 24, 2010: Two months into his four-year tenure as the state poet laureate of Colorado, Dave Mason is turning to the public for ideas. The Colorado College professor and author of the acclaimed verse-novel Ludlow wants to bring poetry to every corner of the state, but the question is how. Mason wrote an open letter to the public fishing for suggestions about [...]
The mystery of West Virginia’s Midnight Poet August 11, 2010: Some residents of Morgantown, W. Va., have recently awoken to find unsolicited poetry strewn on their doorsteps and porches. The poems are all signed by “The Midnight Poet” and are left without warning (the surreptitious culprit lurks in darkness). Police consider the poems "hard to explain'' and have yet to define a motive. Though the poems [...]
Philip Larkin posthumously gets his own wheels July 7, 2010: In an article entitled “Buses are a fare way to celebrate city poet,” (get it?) The Yorkshire Post reported that bus passengers in Hull have recently been granted the pleasure of reading the poetry of Philip Larkin en route: Poems by the poet and former Hull University librarian have been placed inside an East Yorkshire Motor Services [...]
Bill Murray (and friends) take it to the bridge June 8, 2010: (Bill Murray in Groundhog Day) From the LA Times: On June 14, the Poets House in New York hosts its annual benefit poetry walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. As participants cross the bridge, they'll be treated to readings by work by Langston Hughes, Marianne Moore, Brooklyn poet Walt Whitman and others. Who's reading? Notable poets Galway [...]
Poetry of the streets May 13, 2010: Minnesota Public Radio announces the winners of the third annual twin cities sidewalk poetry contest: Poetry is alive and well on the streets of St. Paul. The Sidewalk Poetry Project, now in its third year, invites community members to submit their poetry. Those poems selected by a judging panel are then stamped into new sidewalks around the [...]
Poetry goes public May 6, 2010: Jennifer Karmin makes a three hour walking poem for the city of Chicago over at How2: I wanted to navigate a city using writing as my map. During October 2006, I sent out a call for submissions with the goal of gathering writing about walking in cities. I specified that the writing could be about any city and take any shape or form. In [...]