{"id":2275,"date":"2010-07-20T10:47:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T14:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lanternreview.com\/blog\/?p=2275"},"modified":"2010-07-20T10:47:45","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T14:47:45","slug":"editors-picks-pop-up-poets-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/20\/editors-picks-pop-up-poets-in-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Editors&#8217; Picks: Pop-Up Poets in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following YouTube clip of a group of NYC poets surprising subway riders with guerrilla-style readings came to our attention via Issue 1 contributor Tamiko Beyer yesterday.\u00a0 I thought it was so absolutely freaking cool that I had to share it here:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"align\" value=\"center\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4Dgn0uBcOGw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1?rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4Dgn0uBcOGw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1?rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" align=\"center\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>These poets are part of a project called PUP, &#8220;Poets in Unexpected Places&#8221; or &#8220;Pop-Up Poets.&#8221;  They do exactly what their name implies: pop up in unexpected public locations (like the subway, the Botanic Gardens, a supermarket) to read poetry.\u00a0 You can read about some of their experiences on <a href=\"http:\/\/pupnyc.blogspot.com\/\">their blog<\/a>, in which they detail stories of people&#8217;s reactions to their performances.\u00a0 My favorite, I think, is <a href=\"http:\/\/pupnyc.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/goal-celebration-on-q-train.html\">their most recent post<\/a> about a Q-train ride in which one of the riders got up and started dancing, while the rest of the car clapped and cheered!\u00a0 Such unexpected joy in the middle of a city that is known for its public mask of anonymity (the summer that I worked in Manhattan, we were distinctly advised by our HR trainers to put on a confident, stand-offish &#8220;subway face&#8221; while riding public transit in order to avoid sticking out).\u00a0 I love the idea of bringing poetry to public spaces at unexpected times, of incorporating it into the everyday rhythms of life in playful and soul-filled ways.\u00a0 PUP thrives on the idea that poetry is (and may at any time) be all around us, and that its wild spontaneity and beauty is something to be celebrated, all day, every day.<\/p>\n<p>I love the idea of bringing PUP-style projects to other parts of the nation, too.\u00a0 Watching the video got me all revved up imagining what it would be like to have a PUP style group in quiet little South Bend, IN, or in my parents&#8217; tiny hometown in NJ\u2014wouldn&#8217;t it be cool if\u00a0 poets popped up in the middle of\u00a0 a bank lobby, or on the South Shore line or Riverline, or in front of the public library, or in the middle of a mall or a cafe or bar?\u00a0 Or even in the grocery lines at Costco or Meijer?\u00a0 Or in the different departments?\u00a0 You could have poets in all the aisles!\u00a0 Have you ever participated in a guerilla-style poetry project?\u00a0 If so, please  do share your experience with us; we&#8217;d love to hear your stories!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following YouTube clip of a group of NYC poets surprising subway riders with guerrilla-style readings came to our attention via Issue 1 contributor Tamiko Beyer yesterday.\u00a0 I thought it was so absolutely freaking cool that I had to share it here: These poets are part of a project called PUP, &#8220;Poets in Unexpected Places&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[15],"tags":[43,374,373],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2275"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2280,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275\/revisions\/2280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}