poetry
The e-book and Poetry, NOT. Beware name dropping.
I was lucky enough to slip in unnoticed two summers ago to an elite and rather expensive Summer Workshop in Southampton. Okay, so I wasn’t unnoticed. I came with vodka.
And this was the thing, I have never been one of those crazed band groupies, or even someone who thinks about celebrities more than, wow, they work hard for that money, look at all the privacy they give up. Passing a well known actress on the street, I may spend more time admiring her shoes than her wrinkle-free face, and if I ever see them dining, I want to be
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Video Game as Poetry
download here:
–Passage_v3_Windows.exe
–Passage_v3_MacOSX.dmg
control notes:
- Press any button (or key) to start the game.
- Use left analog stick (or arrow keys) to move character (up, down, left, right).
- F (on keyboard) to toggle fullscreen mode.
- B (on keyboard) to adjust screen blow-up factor.
- Q or ESC (on keyboard) to quit.
Spend 5 minutes in this game and you will probably cry. You may begin to understand the pull a video game can have on a child, on a lonely adult, on a teenager in college.
Or you may just think it is a silly waste of time, …
Some of my favorite men not only write but read, too.
More from the Decatur Book Festival, for your viewing and listening pleasure.
Billy’s new book of poems is Ballistics. Fantastic.Hear as Billy Collins reads
My friend Jack Riggs reads from his new book, The Fireman’s Wife. Watch for it early next year.
Robert Olen Butler read from his book, Intercourse. Great, as usual.
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