This is the fourth in a five-part series to appear in The Atlantic about the value of verse in the 21st century. Read the first three installments here, here, and finally here.
In my last post, I looked at how "flarf" might help provide us with a new model of poetic "accessibility" for the 21st century. I'll now turn to another model: Slow Poetry.
Slow Poetry will refer less to any specific group of poets or kind of poem than to a different way of framing reading (read: consumption) practices. In the age of monocultural food production* (+ the age of growing awareness about the need for local, diversified food production)...how can poetry help us transition away from monocultural reading habits?
Slow Poetry; or, The Opposite of Airline Reading
Imagine: you've just gotten a job, and you're required, by this new job, to fly places. In your rush to pack clothes and make sure you have the right-sized toothpaste container, you forget your in-flight entertainment. So you stop in one of the airport stands, and purchase a book. And a banana.
Full piece at The Atlantic.
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