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Game poems, contemporary art, cliches and the promise of digital poetry December 7, 2010: At NewScientist's CultureLab, Jim Giles takes a look at the various emerging forms of "digital poetry." Hypertext and electronic literature are nothing new, people have been capitalizing on the interactivity of code to add media to their text (or text to their media, or text to their text) since the discovery that everything sounds cooler when you [...]
Ghost (of Arthur Rimbaud) in the machine November 22, 2010: Next time anyone accuses you otherwise, you can tell them you know exactly what it takes to make a miniature sculptural automaton of Paul Verlaine being visited by absinthe fairies and the Exorcist-worthy ghost of Arthur Rimbaud.
You’re not rude, you’re just a close reader November 16, 2010: The face of someone you once met long ago at a party may have been supplanted by the latest issue of Poetry. Science: Doing its part to give you high-brow excuses for social faux pas. [MRI brain scans] scans firstly confirmed which regions of the brain are associated with reading: as expected, the visual word form area, which is known to [...]
Word science October 5, 2010: Britain's National Poetry Day inspires a genetics professor to dwell on the art form's scientific DNA. In the 1700s several poems appeared that passed on a scientific message. The best known is The Loves of the Plants, by Erasmus Darwin, who in 1791 set out in verse an account of the sexual habits of the vegetable world. He used heroic [...]
Light as a feather August 27, 2010: A man runs, and so does a nose. There’s fall, can’t get up, and then there’s fall, crisp air and auburn leaves. Words are more than their shape and texture, and that’s the idea behind “Words,” an innovate YouTube video created in conjunction with an episode of the WNYC radio series Radiolab. “Words,” which Steven James Snyder at [...]
An essential poetry app as addictive as raspberries August 19, 2010: This morning, the New York Times rounded up poetry smartphone apps and we were quite flattered to find our app listed as "essential." The article made special mention of the app’s “spin” feature, which allows users to pair moods and categories like “joy” and “family” to see what the poetry slot-machine magic comes up [...]
What would Wordsworth do? July 13, 2010: A recent debate in the UK over the use of polytunnels in The Wye Valley had a judge and a journalist both channeling Wordsworth. The Valley, a bit of countryside on the border of England and Wales deemed an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty by the UK government, prompted novelist and journalist Tim Relf to write an eco-conscious poem in the [...]
The spoken word cure July 7, 2010: Forget popping Prozac. Try the healing powers of the spoken word instead. The Reader Organisation, a British charity, is tapping into the nurturing sound of the human voice intoning words on a page with an anthology of prose and poetry meant to be read aloud. So drop the shrink. "Bibliotherapy" might be all you need. From the [...]
Can poetry help patients with Alzheimer’s Disease? July 6, 2010: The Orlando Sentinel delves into the mystery of how and why poetry seems to help Alzheimer's patients: The Alzheimer's Poetry Project, founded by New York poet Gary Glazner, is not built on the traditional, stand-at-the-podium-and-read poetry recital. Rather, it uses the simple rhymes typically learned in childhood or whimsical works created [...]
How you can help clean up the Gulf June 5, 2010: In addition to the work being done at Poets for Living Waters, Facebook tells us that a number of poets are making arrangements to travel down to the Gulf Coast to help clean up the wide-ranging effects of the BP oil spill. For anyone interested, here is a list of organizations taking on volunteers: • Louisiana's St. Tammany Humane [...]