Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Quickmuse

Quickmuse

Improvisatory poetry is, mostly, pants. Quickmuse still has a lot of aforementioned pantage, but it's also quite entertaining. The basis premise is a face-off between two authors who have 15 minutes to write a poem. Quickmuse records the actual process of their writing; the deletions, the constant rewriting, and sometimes the general sense of a panicked reputation running delirious fingers over a keyboard. The end results are often dull and, strangely, predictable. But the process of seeing renowned poets working to a deadline is still worth the price of admission, which is free. Which is good.

You can find more information in this NY Times article.

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