…are staying at our house. If their names sound like the epitome of English, that’s because they’re visiting from England, and they are here to spread poetry to the people of America, including these people, last night, at an event for Need for Speed in Uptown:
Original Poetry Whore Tim is in the picture (left) and–credit where it’s due–Elliott took it. I’d attempt to explain all the subtleties of their endeavor, except Tim does a much better job over here on his blog. Semi-relatedly, my DePaul poetry students have just finished writing their midterms (and I’ve just finished grading them; heck yeah) in part on what impact technology had on their ability to memorize a poem, and to interact with poetry broadly speaking. Their essays were a pleasure to read because no two of them said exactly the same thing about the question. Having Tim and Elliott here at the same time as these essays were coming in has made me think that it would be unlikely that our guests would be staying with us were it not, to some extent, for social networking. Interesting.