Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears

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I’m always interested in new and engaging ways to bring writing to people, so with that in mind, Diagram’s 10th Anniversary issue is out–well, it’s not an issue, exactly. It’s a deck of cards. But I bought it, and everyone I’ve shown it to so far has been impressed.

In that same vein, Poem Flow is a new app for the iPhone put together by the Academy of American Poets and TextTelevision which offers a different way of looking at poems. I did a more detailed write-up of the app at my personal blog, complete with screen shots.

Is Google Voice a poet?

“Poetry Society of America: insensitive, clueless, or just plain racist?” There’s more to it than that, but it’s a starting place at least.

Brian Spears


Brian Spears is Senior Poetry Editor of The Rumpus and the author of A Witness in Exile (Louisiana Literature Press, 2011). His poem “Upon Reading That Andromeda Will One Day Devour Triangulum and Come For Us Next” was featured in Season 9 of Motion Poems. More from this author →