SXSW Poetry & A Suitcase Full of Snails

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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