Website prods poets to seektheir 15 minutes of creativity

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: June 26, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

At ancient Greek festivals, poets competed alongside athletes, matching verse with quick-tongued rivals in public battles of wit and wordplay. Two millennia later, you find QuickMuse.com, the modern descendant of those ancient Greek poetry jousts. For the past year, QuickMuse has been asking pairs of well-known writers to create poems on a shared topic and posting the results online.

"It's not a competition like a fight to the death," with clear winners and losers, QuickMuse founder Ken Gordon says. "It's a competition like a bunch of jazz musicians improvising together and playing different ...

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