Let's see: 1) I have to ride the bus while, 2) reading amateur poetry. Pretty much my idea of hell:
For the next year, people riding on IndyGo buses will be able to enjoy “Shared Spaces/Shared Voices,” an innovative public art project that pairs public transportation with poetry written by Hoosiers.
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The project will kick off with live poetry readings on the buses Aug. 25 to Sept. 3.
Oh, even better. I get to listen to it, too.
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Live readings on public buses? They better be ready for prime time or I smell a busful of rotten tomato pulp dripping off a bad poet.
Often you will find that poets go to work with rotten tomato pulp dripping off them. It's like part of the uniform.
Don't get me wrong. I enjoy good poetry as much as and often more than a good song lyric. But there are far fewer talented artists than there are people who BELIEVE they are talented artists. Witness the American Idol try-outs, the Comic Standing try-outs, the Inventor try-outs... Imagine putting them on buses without so much as a qualifying heat...
About those poets on the buses -- how bout you give them a chance first? Point is, poets are NEVER heard from! Here's a chance to get the word direct, not committee-directed or sanitized. How about some on-the-spot poetry responses? How about a nation of poets instead of consumers?