How Pedestrian is a video blog that seeks to make poetry more accessible to the general public.
We go out into the street regularly to bribe and beg people to read poems on video. We post one video a day, Monday to Thursday. We use poems by famous and not-so-famous poets alike. We use absurd poems and funny poems and sometimes even sexy poems. We hope this helps move poetry out of bourgeois sitting rooms (do those even exist anymore?) and back into the pubs and taxis where it belongs.
Extended Manifesto
Our basic idea is to invade everyday spaces with verse, making it, in a concrete sense, a part of everyday life. I suppose the question here is: if we literally take poetry to the street, can we figuratively make it something more ‘pedestrian’?
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We also want you to shoot video for us; we are always looking for different locations, different readers and different tastes in poetry. If you have a video camera, some poems and the guts to approach strangers, send us an e-mail at HowPedestrian.Info@gmail.com.
(via Jean Vengua)
