Typewriter Poets' Roundtable Sept. 20

Learn more and register for free at this link. (The day is actually a Sunday.)

Typewriter poet hits the big time

He has half a million followers online.

50,000 copies of his new book are already in print.

Tyler Knott Gregson's poetry really took off

when he started typewriting it.

Wall Street Journal (!) story here.

Another story here.

Type Rider II

A new project from Maya Stein, with two typewriters and two poets, helping to build Little Free Libraries in small towns.

Support it on Kickstarter!

"The Privacy of Typewriters"

The Privacy of Typewriters

by Les Murray

I am an old book troglodyte
one who composes on paper
and types up the result
as many times as need be.

The computer scares me,
its crashes and codes,
its links with spies and gunshot,
its text that looks pre-published

and perhaps has been.
I don’t know who is reading
what I write on a carriage
that doesn’t move or ding.

I trust the spoor of botch,
whiteouts where thought deepened,
wise freedom from Spell Check,
sheets to sell the National Library.

I fear the lore
of that baleful misstruck key
that fills a whiskered screen
with a writhe of child pornography

and the doors smashing in
and the cops handcuffing me
to a gristlier video culture
coralline in an ever colder sea. 

Source (shared by Bryan Sherwood)

Typewriter Poetry's Internet Poem

Here's a creative idea that combines poetry (one line at a time), typewriters, and the internet: "a typewritten Internet Poem."

The typewriter poet is billimarie. Here she is, ready to work.

Find out more.