Some poets

Erica Hunt is a poet from San Francisco, who regularly uses technology in her poems. Hunt has several audio mp3’s available to listen to online that allow the reader to absorb the feel and tone of her works. Recordings of her reading the poems almost connects the listener with her and creates a strange bond. When you aren't relying on your ability to think of the contents tone yourself and are provided with that original intention its a fairly different experience. Subjectively easier or harder depending on the readers strengths. Hunt also does many visual art combinations in her work such as the film “evidence” which is an Eighteen minute film that starts out black and eventually fades into a silhouette of Hunts profile. Hunt reads her poem evidence for this time and similar to the audios it allows the viewer to focus on the words being said. It is also interesting to see the words themselves leaving her mouth and her mouth creating them. Erica Hunt uses technology to create a closer connection with her readers by allowing them to hear her original intent using her voice and recording devices.

Tuli Kupferberg was a  poet born in the 1920s. He was a musician as well as a poet and frequently mixed the two and did a lot of beat poetry. The mixture of instruments and written poetry has a very nice effect if done well. Tulis work still lives on and is sung by other artists to memorate the passing of Tuli. There are videos on youtube of Tuli reading his poems and speaking about embracing the beats in beat poetry. Although Tuli wasn’t the best singer, his poems still make you think and his vocalizing makes it easy to pick up his clever satire. Tuli was a pacifist and he was a little crude. The use of technology in Tuli’s work made him more accessible to people who didn't just read poetry, his beat poetry and music invited them to explore the possibilities of poetry.

Jacob Sam-La Rose is a slam poet and educator who uses music and poetry to help teach children literacy. Using interesting ambiance and background additions to his words, his beat poetry has its own language and can be slightly distracting if you don't pay full attention. Some portions of ambiance can give you a ominous feeling while paired with the slam poetry. His poems are often long and recorded. Rose uses the internet and its social networks to share his work and host them for others to see.

Briar Wood is another poet who uses audio recordings to further aid her poetry. Its interesting to read a poem of hers yourself and then listen to her reading it back to you and seeing if you had gotten the same tone and inflection as she did. The new zealand native like many writers and poets also uses her past experiences within her poems and they are more evident or maybe relatable when you hear her read her poems. Through her tone and way of speaking she gets caught, although slightly, on specific words and you get a fuller sense of the feeling than by just reading it.

Daniel Beaty is another def jam poet who uses technology in his work, his recordings are strong and emotional, you get pulled in by his forceful but soft words, his deep and personal mood and his infliction of heart. Beaty is able to share with you some of his deep thoughts and personal feelings with written words and spoken. His recordings are extraordinary and worth listening to.

Works Cited

"Erica Hunt." PennSound:. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Dec. 2013.

"Foundation for Contemporary Arts." Erica Hunt ::. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Dec. 2013.

"Hello, World." Hello World. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Dec. 2013.

"JACOB SAM-LA ROSE - WORDSMITHS & CO." Vimeo. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Dec. 2013.

"Kupferberg, Tuli." [WorldCat Identities]. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Dec. 2013.

"Tuli Kupferberg M-O-T-H-E-R." YouTube. YouTube, 02 May 2013. Web. 08 Dec. 2013.

"Tulifuli." YouTube. YouTube, n.d. Web. 08 Dec. 2013.

Sharin time

I think def poetry is wicked cool. WIICKED

its very strong, and you get to hear the tones and thoughts of the individual and that's neato!

found this link on http://technotopoem.blogspot.ca/ !!

Here's another cool thing! Some slam poetry (laughs i almost wrote slap, wouldn't that be a thing, slap poetry)

I like the emotions being portrayed mostly. The power behind the words!
They are really into the words, saying them with conviction!
That to me is more important than the message, which is also important but needs that conviction for anything to be happening in the future!

well that wasn't the one i wanted to link....

BUT SILL!!!

same thing for this one for definatelys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXk3uhlhAVY

is the one i was trying to link, i feel its a bit more powerful, but this one is still strong ye.

Throwbacks

These poems were totes from the first day o class, makes you think of the good ole days don't it.


They were the erasure poems we did ( or I did anyways.)

Past passing, like a bird
Conjoured from a retiring cloud
Burned horizon
Rest its stern
a deity, pedaling past the crests.



the light
tangy, ripening leaves
the hours
become something else

water from a hill's highest point
pollen, touching everything

loss

yourself, on the light and the birds


singing forever






((super deep I know I know))

Some Surreal soot

EEEEey, who doesn't like new information huh?? Surrealist Poetry                     

Surrealist poetry is a dialect of poetry where the artist would attempt to express and interpret the inner workings of the subconscious mind. It was said to be formally started with the publication of the Manifesto of Surrealism by André Breton in 1924. The 20th century movement originated in the space between the two World Wars and some believe that its a reflection of the troubled politics during that time. The movements goal was to create images and juxtapositions to represent dreams and unconscious thoughts and to achieve this, unexpected juxtapositions and chance effects were used to reflect the dream like quality of these poems. Sometimes the juxtapositions would just be the sizing of the words, other times the meanings. Depending on the intention or goal of the specific poem, a writer could either throw seemingly disconnected words at the reader to slow them down and give them a stunted process or to throw words that in usual contexts would belong and flow together out of the blue to create confusion about the meaning of the words. So in turn, relaying an experience or feeling of a dream to give the reader something they can either relate to or get a base level understanding of. Using surrealist poetry we get a small window into a writer's mind, whether or not we understand it; the intention and feeling of the poem is usually if not always clear to the reader looking in the right places. There are several different ways people choose to express their intended image, a couple of popular techniques people use are the automatism technique, or self-induced hallucinations. Self-induced hallucinations are not usually mentioned but become evident in some writers works, usually only for the inspiration and not finalized poems as to have a semblance of cohesiveness. Therefore the importance of the unconscious mind or feel of unconsciousness as a source of inspiration is central to the base nature of surreal poetry.

The automatism technique is the most widely used technique where the writer just writes without forethought so it has an almost instinctual and disorienting quality to it., it also has several subcategories within it that include the Decalcomania technique; in which the writer or artist randomly places a word or feeling in a sequence, there is usually little to no planning of this and an attempt to be instinctive and reflect the subconscious. The various other techniques are usually used in painting but can also be applied to writing as well. This is usually taken advantage of to help further the experience of the poems but can sometimes cause the poem to be too disorienting or confusing. The usage of the technique depends on the writer as some writers consider automatism to only be a source of inspiration, whereas others  argue for them to only be used as starting points for finished works. Some even consider the poems created through automatism to be finished works without need for further improvement. A good example of the later would be “echolike” by Pablo Saborío; “Look at the fountain, how it stretches its arm-like foam and spurting bouquets of gurgles; it leaves no echo in the sunlit conception.” Pablo uses vivid imagery to give us an uninterrupted swirl of sequences. He ends his poem with, “I can’t imagine how to end this, this sick exercise of automatic writing.” to further outline the lack of forethought and automatic technique he used. The automatism technique outlines the importance of the unconscious mind and feeling of unconsciousness as the base of surreal poetry.

A poem that reflects the importance of the underlying unconscious mind would be Sleep Spaces in A la mystérieuse 1926, where even just reading the first four lines, “In the night there are of course the seven wonders of the world

and greatness, tragedy and enchantment.

Forests collide with legendary creatures hiding in thickets.

There is you.”, we get wild visuals that spiral us into a “thicket” of things we can visualize and interpret differently as individuals because of the dream like quality of the spacing and placement of words. To be able to make a reader visualize words and create an almost subliminal influence on how the reader will interpret the words to relay the intended surreal feel. The pattern continues as we read through other surrealist poems, for example Federico García Lorca’s poem Dawn, “Those who go out early know in their bones

there will be no paradise or loves that bloom and die:

they know they will be mired in numbers and laws,

in mindless games, in fruitless labors.”, we get an understanding of this section even though in most contexts these words together wouldn't make an image. We get that this part of the poem could either be interpreted as a life and death explanation, where “going out early” would represent dying, and “there will be no paradise or loves that bloom and die” would be someone's interpretation of the afterlife and that there isn't much to look forward to. Or alternatively it could be talking about sleep itself, when you know that after you are done sleeping there is an end to it and life continues “mindless games, in fruitless labors” could be seen as the day to day life habits of people and the repetitious way people lead their lives.

The importance of interpretive, visual, expressive words, and placements of said words are, solidified  in surrealist poetry because it builds the basis for what the writer intends the reader to understand or feel. Surrealist poetry helps the reader have incite within the writer's mind and shares the innermost self of who that writer may be.Therefore the importance of the unconscious mind or feel of unconsciousness as a source of inspiration is central to the dormant nature of surreal poetry.

Works Cited

"Automatic Techniques." Automatic Techniques. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Nov. 2013. <http://www.ithellcolquhoun.co.uk/5263/>.

"A Brief Guide to Surrealism." Poets.org. Academy of American Poets, n.d. Web. 07 Nov. 2013. <http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5673>.

Desnos, Robert. "SURREALISM-PLAYS." Surrealist Poetry. N.p., 1926. Web. 07 Nov. 2013. <http://www.surrealism-plays.com/surrealistpoems.html>.

Gullette, Alan. "The Theory and Techniques of Surrealist Poetry by Alan Gullette." The Theory and Techniques of Surrealist Poetry by Alan Gullette. N.p., 1979. Web. 07 Nov. 2013. <http://alangullette.com/essays/lit/surreal.htm>.

"Herbert Marcuse and Surrealism." Herbert Marcuse and Surrealism. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Nov. 2013. <http://www.marcuse.org/herbert/pubs/70spubs/73surreal/arsenalindex.htm>.

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Saborío, Pablo. "Nihilistic Poetry." Nihilistic Poetry. N.p., 12 Mar. 2013. Web. 07 Nov. 2013. <http://nihilisticpoetry.com/2013/03/12/echolike/>.

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Bunch o poems

Doin some poem exploration and such!!

I tried using various technologys to make poems!!

Contemplation

Sometimes Iwonder

Aboutthe old days

If you wantless noise, but it wasthere,

Littlepeople

Sometimes Iwonder

Howold

Placewere nicetoo muchwe

Smalltype

Sometimes Iwonder

I wonderandsurprise

I remember it

We arestill growing

Sometimes Iwonder

I couldbeyou move,whyback

Forward

Pondering

sometimes i wonder

about the older days

where there was less noise

less people

sometimes i wonder

about the olden ways

where we were less nice

less kind

sometimes i wonder

i wonder and wonder

then i remember

we are still growing

sometimes i wonder

why go back when you can move

forward

I took the second poem through google translate, translated it to japanese and then back to english and got the first poem.Google translate can be used in many different ways but some tools are not as sharp, it doesn't help that some words cant be translated fully into other languages, but its interesting and, in this case, charming to see the outcome of those mistranslated words. I enjoy how the poem seems even more curious in this case, the extra words look genuine and thinking to me.

9 half 12 half

missed notes

3.6 thirds

asidic hopes

small carvings light tone

moss terrarium soapstone

soils needed music seeded

34.5 half

plants completed

5 thirds

For this poem I used the notes I left myself as reminders in my ipod, the first entry was 9 half 12 half,  which I think is a size of paper that I needed at the time. Mixing the ipod notes and the first entry I counted all the letters used in a stanza and added the half or third mark beneath it in smaller letters. The spacing of the text grouping itself is meant to be a sandwich of words with the main part being the halfway point. I enjoyed using the calculator to add to this poem and ill probably try something else with it as well. Most of my poems I try to get a feel of thinking in them and I think the numbers add to that. Even though I’m not one to think in numbers, I know some people are and I appreciate it more so now.

Tumbling

heavens and the stars

right exchange

racial microaggression

crying on the keyboard

big a money pinch

internal screaming

For this poem I scrolled through the media website tumblr and found a few words that sums up the majority of the website. Theres the positive motivational posts the political and economical posts and then the rest are people exaggerating their pains and other people relating to those exaggerations. This is an interesting trend because it shows up in most media sites. I wonder what that means about us as a people. Maybe the saying misery loves company is outlined here.

 

Addition

Happy Lovely

Day

Day Night

Plight

Plight Sad

Sight

Sight / Sound

Happy

For this poem I thought of a few words and then numbered the words, I started adding each number to the next (1+2=3) etc and got this poem. The fourth line I divided the numbers instead so I could get back to 1. The technology of the calculator gave it its almost mechanic sound in its reading but it almost has a sort of cycle to it. You start off happy, something bad happens, and you can get back to happy again afterwards when you apply a different solution.

Spellcheck

tsimes i right to make a good quareld

i make no                   attempt to forgantsm this wanst

we need baert         mastication and maybe we wiaa strive to bes acheter  

                                                                 beanpole

tsimes in e     ighth to help other people

sometimes i c  onsent to be sesl igsh

idm old human

but we can stri      ve to be besterfted

tsimes i right to    make a good quareld i

make no attempt to forgentum this wasn't

we need

              baertschi

For this poem I wrote out my poem with my hands purposely shifted to the right so i would misspell words. Its another out of translation feeling. I sort of relate to the poem as sometimes when someone of another language is speaking to you, you can make out some words in their sentences, sometimes you have an idea of what they mean, but ultimately you need to ask for them to either repeat themselves or you get to play a nice game of charades. I arranged the spacing to outline the obscurity of some of the words. like beanpole, which was supposed to be people, its like someone was very close to getting the word right but fell just short of it. Spellcheck try as it might, made a few mistakes here and there.

A bird

I, A bird

was walking , walking and i

(a, bird)

found a crumb ……………….

i ate ,

i ate the, crumb…………..  . .  .      .       

i a bird ate the crumb and was    , happy

For this poem I tried to combine commas and periods to sort of get the feeling of an pigeon. A popular internet meme did a similar thing and I thought I could use it. I imagined the bird moved its head to go with the commas and to pause and listen with the periods. I also imagine the periods could be the crumbs as well. I enjoy how the poem can be seen differently though as well. You could imagine a person finding happiness in a simple thing.

Do it right

They tell me tw dw it

Dw it right

Just dw it they say

They tell me tw wwrk hard

Wwrk harder

Better they say

They dictate they bwss

they cry when swmething gwes wrwng

ywu do it

ywu work hard

ywu be better

Its the wnly way YOU will grww

the wnly way ywu can be in control

do it

but dw it ywurself

For this poem, I used the replace tool to replace all the o’s with w’s, I went back and manually put back some o’s to emphasize my main idea behind the poem. The poem is about how some people won't be able to encapsulate what you envision, so in order to get that vision you want encapsulated you might have to do it yourself. It can be seen as many other things as well. Like how some people see the world differently, and they work differently. Its a pretty interesting concept. I also like how you still read the words, but maybe with a slight accent.

Groceries

Groceries

I’m gunna  -      

did     you           hear ab out the fire?

im going to go             sh-

skys pretty nice out today

                                                                   but

i m finaly going to

OH! I need some groceries

   better do that

better-

im going                   t

           im           goin

im

sleep

For this poem  using the spacing of the words, I tried to show either procrastination, forgetfulness or a small attention span, maybe all in one. I used an inconsistency of punctuation to underline the theme and kind of relate to it.

Looking back now I wished I had done a collage poem or some kind of poem not on the computer, but technology is the focus. Its interesting to see how poets can find ways to utilize certain medias and streams to make really cool works. I made the attempt and actually enjoyed it.