Poetry Booth at Los Angeles Road Concerts: Sunday, Sept. 18th on Sunset Blvd!

We'll be at Sunset & Western from 1-4pm!

Check out the Los Angles Road Concerts Facebook Page.

Poems from April 7 installations coming soon!

I'll be scanning the poems from last nights' events in this weekend. If you wrote a poem at the booth, THANK YOU, and be sure to check back here to see it posted!

"Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted."

Happy Poetry Month!

Poetry is for everybody!

The Poetry Booth is a public, free, and mobile display and workspace for experiencing and creating poems with the help or guidance of practiced poets and educators. The booth will provide space (tables and chairs), supplies (paper, pencils, pens, markers, glue, scissors, typewriters), and poetic inspiration in the form of example poems and poetic objects, writing prompts, and activities. The available poetries and activities could include poetry games and puzzles, tactile and visual poetry, postcard poetry, collaborative poetry, traditional and invented poetic forms, performance poetry, poetry in translation, and book arts. All participants are invited to contribute the poems they create at the Poetry Booth for publication on the Poetry Booth blog. Poetry is for everybody!

pictured above: "Cleromancy Poetry Game" by Michelle Detorie; photo and staging by Helen White

Poetry Booth in 2011

I hope to be lining up some dates and locations for the Poetry Booth in the next few weeks. If you have any suggestions about where/when I might stage it, drop a note in the comments or shoot me an email at femmeferal at gmail dot com. Thank you!

What is the Poetry Booth?

The Poetry Booth will be an attractive, inviting, mobile, and free public facility for creating poems with the help or guidance of experienced poets and educators. The booth itself will provide workspace (tables and chairs), supplies (paper, pencils, pens, markers, glue, scissors), and poetic inspiration in the form of writing prompts and activities. The goal of this public art project is to invite the residents of Santa Barbara to participate in a collaborative, innovative, and collective literary community.