5-Poet research paper
George Szirtes:
George Szirtes is a british poet, born in 1948, who’s first published work “The Slant Door” came out in 1979. Szirtes’ “Reel” won a TS Elliot award in 2004, and now, when the mood strikes him, He writes poetry on Twitter. In an interview with Charlotte Cripps, who writes for The Independent, Szirtes was quoted as saying “I write in Twitter because I am interested to see what a form as short and as evanescent as Twitter can do: in effect, it does anecdote and shorten forms of poetry quite well, which is why I have written some 20,000 as an experiment.” When reading through Szirtes’ tweets, one is quick to notice that, amongst the stand-alone verse, Szirtes has managed to link his tweets up so as to weave a much larger narrative, all within the 140 character limit of the twitter format.
Faheem Najm:
Faheem Najm is an American rapper and winner of two Grammy Awards, and who is famous for popularizing Auto-Tune in the American rap community. His first single, “I’m Fucked up”, featured heavy use of auto-tune, and got him signed to the Konvict Muzik label. In 2009 he conceived of, and funded, the animated film “Freaknik: The Musical”, which was later published and broadcasted on MTV. Although Najm was not the first rap artist to use the auto-tune technology, he was the most successful, and so brought more attention to the method, and although auto-tune is a relatively simple system of pitch-shifting, innovations in the medium, such as wave-collision, came after increased scrutiny brought on by the attention produced by Najm.
Gary Snyder:
A poet of the original “Beat Gernation”, Gary Snyder was born in San Francisco, and has a distinguished resume including numerous ancient Chinese and Japanese translations, and employment at the University of California at Davis. Gary, as well as many other Beat Poets, used chemically synthisised LSD as a creative medium, and has admittedly used it during the formation of many of his poems, including “A Place in Space” and “Passage Through India”. Snyder’s use of LSD can be seen as a use of modern synthesis technology to experiment, and ultimately expand his consciousness, which would invariably influence his work, as the lasting physiological changes from psychedelic use would inform his choice in words, and perhaps even drive him to explore avenues which he might not have normally considered.
Don Pettit:
Don Pettit is an American chemical engineer and astronaut, who was aboard the International Space Station from 2002 to 2003. During his stay, Petti wrote several poems, which he read aloud on his series “Saturday Morning Science”. Although Pettit was not a professional or trained poet, the rare opportunity afforded to him should at least be taken into consideration when reading his work. I would argue that anyone writing a poem about the planet, would take a completely different angle on it, when actually being OFF the planet. In that regard, I would say that Pettit made use of his position aboard the ISS (being an advanced piece of technology itself) to inform and influence his minor poetic works.
George Szirtes:
George Szirtes is a british poet, born in 1948, who’s first published work “The Slant Door” came out in 1979. Szirtes’ “Reel” won a TS Elliot award in 2004, and now, when the mood strikes him, He writes poetry on Twitter. In an interview with Charlotte Cripps, who writes for The Independent, Szirtes was quoted as saying “I write in Twitter because I am interested to see what a form as short and as evanescent as Twitter can do: in effect, it does anecdote and shorten forms of poetry quite well, which is why I have written some 20,000 as an experiment.” When reading through Szirtes’ tweets, one is quick to notice that, amongst the stand-alone verse, Szirtes has managed to link his tweets up so as to weave a much larger narrative, all within the 140 character limit of the twitter format.
Faheem Najm:
Faheem Najm is an American rapper and winner of two Grammy Awards, and who is famous for popularizing Auto-Tune in the American rap community. His first single, “I’m Fucked up”, featured heavy use of auto-tune, and got him signed to the Konvict Muzik label. In 2009 he conceived of, and funded, the animated film “Freaknik: The Musical”, which was later published and broadcasted on MTV. Although Najm was not the first rap artist to use the auto-tune technology, he was the most successful, and so brought more attention to the method, and although auto-tune is a relatively simple system of pitch-shifting, innovations in the medium, such as wave-collision, came after increased scrutiny brought on by the attention produced by Najm.
Gary Snyder:
A poet of the original “Beat Gernation”, Gary Snyder was born in San Francisco, and has a distinguished resume including numerous ancient Chinese and Japanese translations, and employment at the University of California at Davis. Gary, as well as many other Beat Poets, used chemically synthisised LSD as a creative medium, and has admittedly used it during the formation of many of his poems, including “A Place in Space” and “Passage Through India”. Snyder’s use of LSD can be seen as a use of modern synthesis technology to experiment, and ultimately expand his consciousness, which would invariably influence his work, as the lasting physiological changes from psychedelic use would inform his choice in words, and perhaps even drive him to explore avenues which he might not have normally considered.
Don Pettit:
Don Pettit is an American chemical engineer and astronaut, who was aboard the International Space Station from 2002 to 2003. During his stay, Petti wrote several poems, which he read aloud on his series “Saturday Morning Science”. Although Pettit was not a professional or trained poet, the rare opportunity afforded to him should at least be taken into consideration when reading his work. I would argue that anyone writing a poem about the planet, would take a completely different angle on it, when actually being OFF the planet. In that regard, I would say that Pettit made use of his position aboard the ISS (being an advanced piece of technology itself) to inform and influence his minor poetic works.
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