Poetry in Buses

I have been seeing these more and more in the buses… Not a bad thing to see something other then university and product ads.

Bus Shelter Poetry

5 Poetry Blogs

1) Firmly Rooted
This blog is by a woman from Delhi, India. She teaches mathematics and writes on the side. This woman uses this blog as a way to express to herself and write about really anything. She speaks about her everyday life and whatever comes to mind. Any inspiration she gets, she shares.

Here is a link to her blog. It would be a good idea if you check it out.
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.ca/



2) Chicano Poet
This blog is by a writer from Papalote, Aztla. His poems have been published in such places as Place of Herons Press. He also has many books printed with his work. His poetry is more contemporary then most writers. He is not afraid to use fowl language, which makes his ability to share his thoughts easier. "My life a big because."- a line from his poem called "The Water".

His blog link: http://chicanopoet.blogspot.ca/



3) The Blog of Lewd Enlightenment
Steve Caratzas is the writer of this blog from the United States. He has been blogging since way back in 2004. His poetry is very urban and uses a variety of language techniques to write them. Caratzas uses punctuation and even all caps to emphasize his his text when he feels it is needed. I like his poem called "Checklist: How We Fall Out of Love". You can read it below.

Main Blog: http://theblogoflewdenlightenment.blogspot.ca/

He has a couple of different blogs that you can check out:
http://shitonastickcentral.blogspot.ca
http://driftingman.blogspot.ca
http://thegreencynic.blogspot.ca
http://illustrationfridaynight.blogspot.ca
http://ipeed.blogspot.ca
http://pastpresentsuture.blogspot.ca



4) Tuesday Poem
This blog is pretty known in the blogger world of poetry. It is worked on by many poets from places such as the US, UK, New Zealand, Australia, Italy and Lesotho. They put up something called the "Tuesday Poet Blog Roll", where they share poetry. These poets put up mostly their own work but sometimes showcase works they like from other poets. Any one can join and have their poems shared to others. Its a great blog to sit back, relax and listen to different kinds of poetry.

Link: http://tuesdaypoem.blogspot.ca



5) Peony Moon
This is a blog run by Amy Key who co- edits "Poems in Which", which is an online journal. This is a blog about her contemporary poetry and the books she has published. Her most recent collection of poems is in a book called "Luxe", which means luxury in french. Key has also filled this blog with posts of her inspirations such as Madonna and fun quotes she finds around her city. It is quite a good site to look back to every now and then.

Amy Key's blog: http://peonymoon.wordpress.com

A quote from Tanya Davis' poem, "How to Be Alone"

Check out Tanya Davis, a poet from Halifax and read her poem called How to Be Alone. I enjoy reading her work, so check her up on pinterest.

http://www.pinterest.com/tinabean225/tanya-davis/

Happy on Def Jam Poetry By: Maggie Estep

Explore IPad Minis

Poetry App: 

This app allows the reader to view his or her favourite poems. There are two horizontal scroll bars at the top of the page that tells you different themes such as boredom, contentment, nostalgia, etc. Each theme is coloured differently to represent an emotion. The left side has a side bar with options and the right side has a list of poems chosen. This app is extremely straightforward and each to use.

Poetreat App:

This app allows the reader to write his or her very own poem. This app has the typical side bar that shows your poems but, it has a left swipe option that allows you to have rhyming options. It has A, B, C, and D buttons to colour code your poems.

Verses Poetry App: 

This is a game like app that allows the user to make and rearrange text and create new poetry. There is a word drawer that you write and store words. There is a fun mix-tionary button that allows you to chose the different words and the number of words allowed per category type. 

Visual Poetry App:

This app has the option at the top left corner to chose the visual style of how you want your poem to look on the page. It is an interactive type of app for the user. You can create your own poems; customize designs and typefaces, etc.

Visual Poet App:

This app allows the user to create their own poetry. They can publish their work and design the layout of the design. It reminds me of a scrapbook which means it can be personalized.

Spine Sonet App:

This app is a bit hard to use. It took a while to find out how to work with it, so this might become a problem for those users who do not use iPads much. You have to double click on the screen to go back to the original page. Overall, this app is to view different poems by clicking on a book spine. It is not a very practical app in my opinion. 

Interactive Apps ( Choice, Speak, Know, Rattlesnake and Migration):

These are interactive apps which means they are fun user friendly apps. You touch the screen full of moving type and text. Then it pulls out words and phrases to create your poems.

Werdsmith App: 

This app allows you to create your own text or poetry and save it. It reminds me of the note pad on a mac device. It is pretty simple to use.

Recording a Poem

Recorded on Harriet Sound Cloud

Click link to listen to Rainbird in the Annex by: Desi Di Nardo

Rainbird in the Annex

I make my way to MacEwen's salient red door

to catch some remnants of her

a faint scent lifting into old familiar skin

her unbendable pronounced lightness absorbed by sky

deliquescent words lost to the sun

her cordless poetry smothered by wind

I float on

forgetting why I came and

become caught in Atwood's wide-brimmed hat

I nestle in

and burrow seeds

surrounded by other flight

By: Desi Di Nardo

Noah Kaplan - I Dreamt You Saw Me

Reoccuring Theme on Silliman's Blog

Link to Beat Poetry on Ron Silliman's blog
http://ronsilliman.blogspot.ca/search/label/Beat%20Poetry

This type of poetry was created back during the 1950's, when people wanted to share their thoughts on the isolation or alienation of the standards of society of that time. So writers would rebel with beat poetry with this type of new style. The vocabulary was taken from the jazz musicians because of their hip and urban style. On Silliman's post, he put up books, films, documentaries and much more to elaborate more on the beat poetry topic.

The Xenotext Eperiment by Christian Bok

Christian Bok worked on an experiment called the Xenotext Experiment. Bok wanted to implant a poem into DNA and implant it into a bacterium called deinococcus radiodurans, to create "living poetry". He would then document and record all the proceedings for his publication. This concept was fascinating for many people grasp to. He wanted to combine both loves of his life to bridge science and poetry together. Bok's goal was to create a way to keep his literary work alive and outlast human life. This would work to maintain this text so that when humanity would seize to exist, that the work would continue on.

http://www2.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/script-ed/vol5-2/editorial.asp

Such a Touching Quote...

"I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul."

Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

Interesting Find

Journal of Poetry Therapy
(June 2012), Vol. 25, No. 2, pg. 123- 124

Poetry 

Family Journal

The old folks were in polyester
flowered shirts and saggy pants
pretending to be ordinary people

pretending to know us 
when God knows who 
they thought we were

the servers, the chefs, the caterers
they ate with gusto the chicken,
the bright peas, the lemon meringue pie

they wanted iced tea with no ice
so they got their money's worth
not knowing the price of the meal

we answered their questions
their over- and- over questions 
each of us in turn

giving different answers
to the same questions
we made up answers

we made up stories 
we showed photos of grandchildren
they pretended to remember

fathers and brothers and dogs
still alive for those who had outlived them 
who counted the cost of ice

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I shared this poem and some people had perceptions of it saying how people are disconnected and how we fake to impress others. I thought these were interesting ways of understanding this poem.

What do you think?

Hello

Welcome to my blog for the EAC 601 Creating Vision: Using Technology to Make Poetry. I hope you all enjoy my posts and entries.