Poetry Now Smart Mob

In the past, our poetry events have always been for self-selected audiences. People come who already like poetry. The result, over time, is a smaller and smaller (but more and more passionate) audience for poetry. What I want to see happen -- and this goes for all the arts -- is to move poetry out into the real world. And i think cell phones are the medium for that. You know how wherever you are -- in the grocery store, the coffee shop, the bookstore -- you are a captive audience to whatever cell phone conversations are going on near you.

Why not use that to bring poetry to the world -- or at least the Mat-Su Valley and Anchorage. Sign Up for the Poetry Now Smart Mob Performance Thingamagig: So here’s my proposal: You, dear reader, and whoever else you can get to join in, agree to carry a poem with you everywhere you go for the month of April. You tell me how to text message you. I send you a message at least three times during the month, and when you get the message (It will say "Poetry Now") you say, "Excuse me I have to take this" and you read or recite your poem into the cell phone as if you were having a conversation. And there it is, a public display of poetry. Is anyone willing to join in? Email me at poetrynow@goodbooksbadcoffee.com

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