Next time you have a few minutes of downtime and are in need of a creative escape you might want to consider a visit to HaikuJAM. HaikuJAM is a new free app that lets you create poetry with strangers. Just hit the "Jam" button and your off, either by starting your own poem or photo story, or by joining one already in progress. That's right, if your not feeling wordy you can create a haiku comprised of three photos! Pretty cool. [vimeo width="640" height="300"]https://vimeo.com/113214410[/vimeo] App is available in the iTunes app store and Google Play. Create beautiful poetry with strangers...
And a happy new year…Holiday Cards by Poets
Postcard by Alice Notley. Photograph: Courtesy of Raymond Danowski Poetry Library, MARBL, Emory University As the 2104 holiday season wraps up let's finish the year with a look at how some of our most beloved poets shared the holiday love. Winter Wedding: Holiday Cards by Poets currently on view at Poet's House features over 40 works by poets who included creative correspondence as a component of their offerings. "Holiday cards, valentines, birthday greetings, rare booklets, and more from some of the last century’s most beloved poets, including Langston Hughes, Alice Notley, Ted Berrigan, Seamus Heaney, and Sylvia Plath. Ranging...
For Your Listening Pleasure: New Technology Rescues Poets from Old Vinyl
The Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University just might be the closest thing we have to a poetry heaven on earth. Yes, there is the extensive collection of 20th and 21st century English-language poetry books and "an encyclopedic array of poetry journals and literary magazines" but the crown jewel of the collection is their collection of sound recordings, "one of the largest poetry-specific sound archives in the world". And, as you can imagine, many of the older vinyl recordings are simply to beat-up to listen to. That is, until now. The folks at WBUR, Boston's NPR station, take us behind the scenes and...
Poetry Returns to the Buses of Seattle
The bus is a unique public space—rich with stories, character and poignant vignettes. It’s a space where, for a short while, all of us are going in the same direction After a 7 year break poetry is back on the buses of Seattle and it has returned in grand style with the theme of "Writing Home" leading the way. 850 people packed the (re) launch party that featured a slew local poets. Poems were read in English, Russian, Somali, Spanish and Vietnamese. A true poetic celebration to the diversity that makes Seattle a special place. The poems are "written by the person across the...
Of Interest: The Forgers, Windows on the World, Homeland and Philosophy, Collected Translations of David Wevill
"The forger has but one chance to get it just right" The Forgers by Bradford Morrow is a bibliomystery soaked in the juices of the antiquarian book trade. It begins when a collector is found dead in his home on Long Island, his hands severed, and parts of his collection of books and manuscripts vandalized beyond repair. The victim's sister, a bookstore owner in Greenwich Village is distraught and her boyfriend Will, a convicted forger with A level book genes (his dad was a we ll known collector and a Sherlock Holmes devotee), takes center stage to help her through her grief. ...