Tiny in the physically small sense, actually.
The venerable Adam Deutsch is starting up a fun project for all of you! It is Glovebox Poems and they are many and they are small.
For you lazy people who do not simply want to go to the Glovebox Poems website, here are the details (obviously copied from the website like an asshole!):
Guidelines:
- For length, I’d love it if the piece fits vertically on half a piece of standard 8.5″ x 11″ paper in a font size that’s not too tiny for the average person’s eyes.
- Poems can be unpublished, but previously published poems are just fine too. If they are previously published, please tell me in what journal and what issue, so I can give credit. [I include this because there have been times when I've wished a revision could make it out there again. Because this is a different medium than a journal, and as long as rights have reverted back to you, I think it's all right. Besides, clearly I dig the taste of those previous editors, and am happy to promote their fine journal while I promote your kick-ass art.]
- Email them to adam.s.deutsch(at)gmail.com, with “Glovebox Poem by” in the title.
- I’ll be making these by hand with as many found materials as possible, so please be patient.
Because this is the first time I’m doing this, and have no idea how they’ll come out, I’m gonna just give them away. I’ll mail a free copy of the finished product to everyone who sends me their address in their submission. I’ll put a stack of them in the mail to the person whose poem I select to make the Glovebox Poem for. I’ll make as many as I can (shooting for between 50 & 100)
SO DO IT.
I am making banana bread like an 80 year old woman and thinking about writing a poem for this. I think it may be hilarious to write a poem about killing people or poems killing you. Or banana bread. Or prenatal vitamins. Or the moment when you look out there window and I am standing there wearing my bear-suit and waving HELLO.
So, you all should do it. It will be fun. Adam says it will be fun. Adam has never lied to you, though of course it is possible, who knows. Most likely if he were to lie to you it would just be that he plans to make these poems so he can then kill you with paper cuts. Who knows. Let’s have fun!
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For some more fun info on teeny tiny poems, check out Poems-For-All .
Love,
H.
p.s. tell me what you think about this as it is clearly quite scandalous.
Adam Deutsch said,
February 27, 2009 at 3:47 pm
Thank you thank you Lady H.
On the rocks is how I prefer my cries. I’m gonna add it to my blogroll…with two eggs, ham and cheese.
Gabriel Gadfly said,
March 1, 2009 at 3:09 pm
This sounds like a fun project. Heading over there to check it out now.