Poetry and technology

Deb Scott has drawn my attention to Paradise Tossed, a newish blog with the subtitle Technological is not Antithetical to Poetical.

Paradise Tossed is a blog for poetry and the people who love it. Because both poetry and the internet seek to reach out, it only makes sense that there be one (or several) central locations where poetry can be shared and discussed. This blog is designed to be one of those places. But what makes Paradise Tossed different, you may ask? It combines the poetry world with the tech world in new and exciting ways, beyond embedded video of readings and slams. By taking a look at all the different ways people are using the internet to play with words, Paradise Tossed hopes to uncover exciting new poetic outlets. Enjoy!

We notice this blog because it notices us at Open Micro as one of five notable web sources for poetry:

There are so many places out there to read or post poetry. A broad spectrum of web tools has been employed to help disseminate all the poetry out there, putting it into manageable chunks for us to happily digest. As the beginning of what I hope will be a long-standing tradition, I�d like to use the Wednesday post here at Paradise Tossed to list five poetry web sources that I think are worth checking out.

I’m sort of thrilled that the blog lists our site, so new-born that it is just a sort of trembling-kitten mew on the web, right up there with the Library of Congress.

So check out Paradise Tossed, which updates on Mondays and Wednesdays. And visit us at Open Micro.

Poetry is alive and well. Don’t be deceived by the fact that it Twitters.