Poetry

Celebrate the launch of an international poetry postering event featuring US poets who will read some poems to toast the arrival in Seattle of the international poetry event that involves postering American, European, and New Zealand cities with poems by American poets(including Robert Pinsky and Marcie Sims) and New Zealand poets (including Sam Hunt). Cafe Vivace, 532 Broadway Ave E., Seattle, WA 98102 Wednesday March 31st, at 7:00 pm.

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The First instalment of Poem Posters to the World held at QEII square, Auckland mid 2009.

Special thanks to Michelle Leggott from Auckland University for producing this video.

Visit the NZEPC website  http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/features/phantom/index.asp

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This was a nifty little run with my cobber Brian Howard from the Citypaper again. It used to be that street postering had to have as an element of what Jack London called 'night-time as an essential condition.' For many years now I have worked in New Zealand on bringing street postering into the daylight. Street postering is an extremely important form of communication for the Arts. It is often-times a raw and extremely quick form of communication, but usually manages to maintain a very 'real' and 'authentic' feeling at the same time.

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There was a break in the weather after basically a month of snow and rain. We just don't get snow like that in New Zealand (a foot at a time), and it's kind of difficult to imagine and to get used to. It would be like trying to drive over the Southern Alps. That way you can imagine it. The streets looked like the Himalayas and after a while you get crazy to do a poster run. People in New Jersey talk about 'weather rage.' Everyone's cooped up and that's not good for anyone.

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This poster run happened in about mid February and I had the able assistance of Brian Howard who is the editor of the Philadelphia Citypaper www.citypaper.net Brian is a fan of New Zealand music and we had made contact because of this. He had seen 'The Clean' play in Philadelphia and was immediately impressed. We all are fans of 'The Clean' and will forever be. Brian had also highly rated the Chris Knox 'Stroke' album in the newspaper and this gladdened my heart.

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This poster run happened on Waitangi Day weekend. The Phantom crew did the run on the Sunday morning in temperatures of 18 degrees Fahrenheit (32 is freezing). We carried posters by Jay Clarkson, Sandra Bell, Michele Leggott, Janet Frame and others. I always try to have a Janet Frame Poem Poster nearby.

We attracted lots of good attention and made some strong contacts within the Baltimore Poetry Scene. Nothing seems to break the ice like putting up Poetry Posters. People always seem to relate to a Poem. Discussion always opens up.

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This small poster run of about fifty posters happened after a Phantom Billstickers delegation met with the good people from the Poetry Society of America. From memory, most of the posters were of Brian Turner's fine poem "Keep it Up." I just found it good fun to be out with a staple gun.

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A selection of poster poems published by Phantom Billstickers. Click on image for slideshow.

Enjoy!

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 New Hampshire & Vermont Poster Run

Thanksgiving Week November 23-27 2009

I'm from New Zealand so it's possible I'll get some of the towns and city names wrong that were covered on this Poster Run for NZ Poet Posters.

We stayed in Perkinsville, Vermont and travelled out to:

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