The Academy Of American Poets recently announced their mobile poetry website, complete with numerous poems arranged by theme or occasion and by form. Now, if anyone accuses you of being shallow, you can call up Paul Celan’s “Fugue of Death” on your iPhone, recite a few lines, and quickly prove them wrong.
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Robert Peake's poems have appeared in Iota, North American Review, Poetry International, Rattle, and others.
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Damn. My years of remembering poetry have gone to waste…
Indeed, who needs memorization when now there is iPhone.
A good friend just emailed me this rather timely article on the social perils of instant knowledge:
http://tinyurl.com/2md5od
I was going to write something here, but I’ve forgotten it already.
Nice attention span you’ve got there. Get an iPhone.
*cry* I just got an iPhone, so now I’m shallow.
It isn’t my fault, it was a present.
Yeah, yeah. Go write a poem about how you and your $400 phone are so misunderstood.
Me? Write a poem? I guess stranger things have happened.
I didn’t covet.
Galled by my indifference,
he said, “iPhone time.”
That haiku should fit nicely on the small screen.