Am I right to suspect, Doug, in that era when Canadians rescued those boxes they were looking for the chance free cigar for which poetry was probably a disappointing substitute?
And Hal, baby, I did not say you could cache my poems in your Brooklyn apartment!! GEO poem caching is supposed to be a public exercise. Well, OK, you are taking the opportunity to bait and switch and sell the GPS finders a poetry book or two. Correct?? If so, split the profits please!
Stephen
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--- On Mon, 11/16/09, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: GeoPoemCaching
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Date: Monday, November 16, 2009, 7:51 AM
Once upon a time, Stephen: Andy Suknaski, a Canadian poet, both in concrete & 'trad' forms, used to take Al Purdy's old cigar containers & fold poems in them than float them off down rivers....
Doug
On 15-Nov-09, at 2:37 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
> "Geocaching, an online game in which players use global positioning
> devices to track down hidden containers at coordinates posted on a Web
> site, is soaring in popularity"
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> Has anybody or group been doing with poems? I think it would be an interesting challenge/adventure to "cache" poems in tins or boxes - either new or classic ones - in environments that relate to the poem's contents. Say, different Wordsworth poems at various, appropriate GPS sites through the Lake District. Frank O'Hara poems on x GPS Manhattan sites. A particular parking plot for Spicer's poem in relationship to Robinson Jeffers. New poems written on and in response to particular sites. (David Chirot writes a poem at x GPS location and Milwaukee poets go on the search!) Found texts are then scanned, and the sites are photographed with a focus on the facts relate to the poem and then transmitted back to the host site (Class, online mag or what/where ever.).
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> I do wonder if anybody is doing this already????
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> Stephen Vincent
> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
> As active as ever, by the way!
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