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Poetry For All
From:
The Washington Post
| Date:
May 9, 1998| Author:
Amy Schwartz
| Copyright 1998 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information
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The once improbable-seeming marriage of poetry and technology
continues to flourish. Its latest champion is Poet Laureate Robert
Pinsky, who is wedding the new possibilities of the Web to the more
durable tools of video and audio to create an archive he calls The
Favorite Poem Project. The name tells the story: Through a Web site
and other thrown nets, Pinsky has been trolling for Americans who
have a favorite poem -- any poem -- and asking them to read it or
recite it on camera.
The...
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