As a poet, would you differentiate yourself from the Belieber subculture (for example) and how they utilize social media to communicate? I guess I'm asking if you feel more connected to links to plain-text poems or to hashtags written by Beliebers? Additionally-are pop culture and humor also democratic tools to share poetry with a wider audience? You could kind of be both those things, but you seem removed from being either. LD: The democratization of communication and language is apparent in the content of your work too-if someone came across your YouTube channel they could think you are a motivational speaker or maybe a Belieber. i think social media represents the biggest set of new opportunities for poetry since the printing press.ĪN INTERNET BARD AT LAST!!!" (ARS POETICA) (2013) i have no publisher, i've only been working at this for ~3 years, and my poems reach thousands of people each. the tools to make our language visual and auditory have been democratized the ability to maintain actual relationships with hundreds of our closest readers across the world is now a reality. my message is this: if our job is to move people with our language, these platforms give us endless and powerful new ways to do that. but the poetry world has largely been ignoring social media, mainly just using twitter and facebook to post links to standard, plain-text poems. corporations are trying to learn how to make money from them, families are trying to learn how to stay connected through them, everyone is asking "what value can there be in a 6-second video?" and it's all moving so fast, Vine blew up to 40 million users in its first 7 months. SR: the importance of sharing this message now is that our whole society is currently struggling to determine the role of these social platforms. Why is it so important for you to share this message at this time? You talk about the importance of poets harnessing social media as a powerful way to change the life of someone else, anywhere in the world. LD: You recently posted AN INTERNET BARD AT LAST!!! (ARS POETICA) on YouTube about your vision of poetry on the internet. See the full list of Artist Profiles here. The latest in a series of interviews with artists who have developed a significant body of work engaged (in its process, or in the issues it raises) with technology.
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