Quote Fruit

(Pulled from the vine of John Gallaher's blog (which is great))

I like an authoritative gasp of the absurd. I don’t want to be a sad little adorable poet in a big confusing world. I want my poems to be the big confusing world.

Hot Potato

Today's Hot Potato link, passed on by Justin Marks on Twitter.

Twitter is a media form which I have resisted due to information overload. However, the ability to discover new information (feel free to substitute "connections/perspectives/magic/art") through the physical flow of your day is crucial for artists in general and writers (poets) specifically. In a world of increasing individualism driving the further introspection of poetry, you can still find wonder and discourse through The new media. Think of it as an adaptation of Gift Culture from Lewis Hyde's The Gift. This interesting article suggests what authorship means in new media (Twitter specifically):

If information discovery plays such a central role in how we make sense of the world in this new media landscape, then it is a form of creative labor in and of itself. And yet our current normative models for crediting this kind of labor are completely inadequate, if they exist at all.

Q: Can the artful "curation" of Twitter be poetry?

Read more @ niemanlab.org

Bonus butter link:

Is Twitter writing, or is it speech?

Line Collector 1

Line collector is a new project working in conjunction with Poem Projector to expand on authors I enjoy. Each Line Collector is a week-long twitter feed comprised of selected lines from the author's work. Feel free to follow @LineCollector or check the Line Collector section on my blog sidebar.

This week features Joe Hall, author of Pigafetta is My Wife, published by Black Ocean. Ill be posting at least one selection a day until next Sunday.

Enjoy!

Jeremiah


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