A Poet's Time Machine

If you’re bummed you can’t make SXSW this week, so are we. Want to get even more bummed? Read on. This week we put on our street-worn Chuck Taylors and headed over to the festival — you know, virtually. The most important thing to us was seeing where poetry might fit in to this Music, Film & Interactive festival (by the way, according to the SXSW overlords, interactive means “compelling presentations from the brightest minds in emerging technology,” by which we’re assuming they mean Twitter). But where is poetry found on Twitter? Why, in a multitude of Twitter movements, of course. You see, these days, Twitter has its own subcultures and isms — just like Slow Food! –  that require directions and much explaining from a panel of witty Twitter users who sit around and talk about Slow Twitter — yum.

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Time To Get Free, People

Mind, body and spirit: One day in Berkeley Mario Savio tried to free them all. Revisit Savio’s reckless story of student revolt in The Nation. Martin Scorcese seeks out the lost mind in Shutter Island. But some audiences see only a shadow of what was once the filmmaker’s central power. Five women freed their bodies in The Naked Reading Forum, make the plunge and liberate your reading habits with them. Sexy readings are a springboard to further explore the body, specifically Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s in Memories of My Melancholy Whores, which gets its treatment from The Morning News’s satire. Finally, concluding our roundup of all things mind, body and spirit, we’re transcending space and visiting Guernica’s interview with Judith Butler. Yes, can you hear that? It’s your personal trinity saying it’s time to get free.  – Andrew Geer

Video: Salvo’s Mind, Body and Spirit