The Poetry Project

Yesterday 27 October 2009 I attended the 27 Dinner down at the ABYC where we discussed the advantages and disadvantages of social media sites like Facebook, Twitter etc. A really great upside to the 27 Dinners is that you meet some really interesting people and it also serves as a very good social tool to connect with other business owners.

One of the interesting people I met was a young lady that started a very interesting project called “The Poetry Project“. Personally I think it’s great initiative and a very effective way for new and unknown writers and photographers to get their work seen.

Here is a short excerpt from the site:

The Poetry Project is simple in concept. Tucked somewhere in boxes under our beds lie pages and pages of prose unshared with our fellow man; they remain forever hidden away under headings of falsely believed pointlessness. For some reason they don’t matter, simply because it is assumed so. The Poetry Project is asking you to share those pages. We would like to hear your voice and we would like to see through your eyes as you interpret your own words and the words of others from behind the camera. In a nutshell we’re all about forging an understanding and creating a louder voice for poetry by representing and interpreting it through the medium of photography. So far it seems to be working, but for it to continue to work I will need your help.