by Richard Polt | Sep 10, 2023 | poetry, street typing
Follow Peripatetic Poets on Instagram or Facebook.While most topics were simple and upbeat—unexpected happiness, confidence, grandparents—Rose also wrote a poem on the topic “You are near” for a woman whose daughter had recently died.The word bowl was...
by Richard Polt | Nov 5, 2022 | street typing
by Richard Polt | Sep 25, 2019 | poetry, street typing
Xavier University’s Newswire just published a story about the “street typing” I’ve done with my colleague Tyrone Williams. We did it once in the spring (here’s my account), and again recently. This is a fine story except for the technical...
by Richard Polt | Sep 19, 2018 | street typing
Just a few examples of street typists I’ve seen on Instagram recently: Party Poet in Fort Worth, Texas: Shannon Monaghan at Burning Man … … and in Portland, Oregon: Ary Katz in Los Angeles (photo by Brady Leffler) Zachery Aaron Quale in New...
by Richard Polt | Jul 31, 2017 | poetry, repair, street typing
Chase Public is a Cincinnati cultural center that, among other things, organizes street typing events (they call it Short Order Poetry and Short Order Stories). I’ve had the pleasure of participating in street typing with Chase Public a couple of...
by Richard Polt | Jul 6, 2016 | London, street typing, typewriter music
On the way out from the Science Museum today (more on that later) I ran into street musician Massimo Tortella, who has created his own instruments using silverware, a tennis racquet, and a Silver-Reed typewriter. They sound great!
