THE TUESDAY POEM

'Rives controls the internet' on Tuesday Poem today

"Apparently the words woot, sexting and textspeak have been added to the latest edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary." This is the opening of the Tuesday Poem post today, edited by Wellington poet Sarah Jane Barnett. She continues: "Personally, I try to slip woot into casual conversation. It is up there with squeegee in terms of pleasurable language."

Sarah explains that for her turn as TP editor, she wanted to feature a poet who makes everyday, or even ugly, language beautiful. "My high school photography teacher once said to me that it was easy to make a beautiful image of a beautiful object, but hard to make a beautiful image of an ugly object. That conversation stuck with me, and it's been my creative philosophy ever since. This is why I've posted a poem by Rives.So, who is this Rives guy? John G., to be precise, is an American performance poet and children's author."

Go to www.tuesdaypoem.blogspot.com and see Rives do his stuff. Then flip over into the sidebar for a host of other Tuesday Poem posts by poets from NZ, Australia the UK and the US including a Barbara Strang poem, Indigo, posted by Christchurch poet Helen Lowe.