Poetry News

Poetry app round-up

Originally Published: July 13, 2011

We've already written about the POETRY, Kerouac, and Poetry Everywhere apps, and Brian Spears reviewed said POETRY app (while listing a host of others) a while back, so what's a few more?

This one, mentioned in Spears' review, recalls a story we reported a few months back. Behold iPhrase, "the game for creating random, hilarious or emotional phrases or poetry from a selection of words."

Poem Flow delivers the same poem to thousands of phones every day, "creating an instant, invisible community of simultaneous readers."

We're Mpressed by LetterMPress, an iPad app for letterpress enthusiasts. One website explains:

LetterMpress gives you the experience of producing your designs on a letterpress — placing and arranging type on the press bed, inking, and then turning the hand crank to make a print. Every step in the printing process is replicated on the iPad, to give you an authentic, interactive experience.

Authentic? We're not sure, but we'd love to give it a go anyway. Screenshots of this handsome app available here.

Keep it coming, app-makers! Like the Little Mermaid, we want more.