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“Please do not ask me to talk about the quake:” More poetry reporting from Haiti January 27, 2011: A few weeks ago, PBS aired an interview with Kwame Dawes who has been reporting from Haiti in poetry since the earthquake last year. Arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown and Joanne Elgart Jennings follow that up with a broadcast on The PBS Newshour, paying a visit to a community of young poets at the "street level" who have been sharing work with one [...]
Video and poetry meet in Italian festival January 14, 2011: Trevigliopoesia's La Parola Immaginata is "a festival dedicated to poetical words and video images with the aim to reach a mix of art expressions through new strategies, conceptions and methods. Video poetry means poems connected with all kind of images. And videoportraits, videodocumentaries and animation about poets and poetry." To [...]
It’s like YouTube 2, but not… January 13, 2011: Jupiter 88 is a brand new video journal blog magazine thing edited by CA Conrad. We don’t know what the name of the journal refers to (a sloppy google search revealed only the existence of a band by the same name, to which we assume Conrad is not referring but who knows, maybe it's a car? Like the Delta 88?), and we don’t know how regularly [...]
Poetry and spoken word at The White House, minus Green Eggs and Ham January 12, 2011: When The White House invited James Earl Jones to perform poetry for An Evening of Poetry, Music, and Spoken Word earlier this year, his first instinct was to go for either Dr. Seuss or Shakespeare. Knowing that he could never top Jesse Jackson's rendition of Green Eggs and Ham, he settled for Othello. Other clips from the same evening are [...]
Ghostface Conrad January 11, 2011: Watch CA Conrad's creepy/funny/sexy new video on his Philly Sound blog.
The cubicle is no place of rest for Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz January 10, 2011: Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz talks at TEDxPhilly about "how you can turn nerdy obsessions into things that can transform your life," but not without working for it. Aptowicz spent eight years working in a cubicle (the same cubicle) and writing, publishing, and touring on the side before making the decision that she was going to live the life of [...]
Kwame Dawes reports from Haiti in poetry January 10, 2011: Minnesota Public Radio's Bob Collins has an answer for last week's very serious question: Does poetry matter? Collins cites Kwame Dawes and his travels to Haiti over the past year documenting the "human side" of the earthquake's effects as irrefutable evidence in poetry's favor. The PBS NewsHour, in partnership with USA Today and The [...]
Patton Oswalt dedicates his death wattle to poetry January 6, 2011: In honor of one of Harriet's favorite comedians launching his first book this week, let's revisit this classic bit:
Some poetry from Grandaddy to start your day January 4, 2011: Thanks, Emerson.
Reading and FEELING with Chuck McCarthy December 29, 2010: Since 2008, comedian Chuck McCarthy has been providing the world with ideas for inventions he will never make. He reveals his poetic side in this video, though he doesn't get much further with his poetry than he's gotten with any of his inventions. Inspired by the classics (Poe, Frost.... Poe and Frost), his kitchen and The Sugar Hill Gang, [...]