A VERY SPECIAL INVITATION to THE 3rd ANNUAL POETRY MONTH 30-on-30-in-30 SERIES
The Operating System is thrilled to invite you to participate in the 3rd Annual 30-on-30-in-30 Poetry Month Celebration! In this series, we invite creative people from a range of backgrounds to share a story about how their work has been influenced by a poet of their choice. The series has generated such an outpouring of goodwill and gratitude that we are doubly committed to making this year’s contributions better than ever!
If you are new or newish to The Operating System, and aren’t familiar with the series’ intentions, you can check out the inaugural announcement here, but
here’s the basic refresher:
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Over the course of Poetry Month The OS brings you 30 poets (+ writers, musicians, and artists) writing on 30 (+ a few extra) poets for 30 days (every day in April). The intention is simple, but crucial: to explode the process of sharing our influences and joys beyond the random. To create a narrative archive around that moment where we excitedly pass on the work of someone who has made a difference in our lives. And so, too, this is an opportunity for The OS to introduce our audience to the work of the people writing — who are invited to share work of their own that demonstrates that influence.
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Really, its an exercise in appreciation.
When I explain to participants what it’s supposed to feel like, I say,
“you know that moment when you realize someone you know hasn’t heard of a poet that blows your mind? It should feel like that”:
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OHMIGOD you don’t know POETNAMEHERE??!!! Wait, wait, I have something of his/hers right here. {reads poem}…oh wow I started reading him/her when I was XYEARSOLD and in THISPLACE ohmigod this happened and oh yeah and then… and then… and then…and oh yeah here’s something I wrote, inspired by him/her”…
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We’ve all been there, and that moment can be life changing for the person receiving that gift of introduction. This series is, well, that moment on steroids, archived so you can experience it again and again like poetry groundhog day. (you’re welcome)
The only limitation is that you choose a poet who has not already been profiled – but if you can, we encourage you to shine light on local and/or obscure and/or living poets and/or poets in translation — who others may be even less likely to have been exposed to. This provides a great service outside the canonical norms of familiarity and popularity.
Really, though, the best way to understand how this series works is to spend a little time getting lost in the SIXTY previous entries! Beware, you may enjoy yourself enormously and forget your to-do list for a few hours or more!
Email lynne@theoperatingsystem.org with your choice of poet asap! The calendar always fills up quickly.
Looking forward to hearing from you!
– Lynne DeSilva-Johnson, Series Coordinator/Editor
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[h4]30/30/30 — 2013[/h4]
- [Editorial] Inspiration, Community, Tradition: Series Overview //
Lynne DeSilva-Johnson on Noah Eli Gordon and Anis Mojgani - Gary Sloboda on Buck Downs
- Ryan Nowlin on Norma Cole
- Farzana Marie on Mikhail, Carpenter, Azzizada and Poetry in Social Conflict
- Andre Bagoo in Defense of DH Lawrence
- Uche Nduka on Friedrike Mayrocker
- Joel Allegretti on Leonard Cohen
- Montana Ray on Alice Notley
- Bibi Deitz on Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
- Chris Martin on Stephanie Gray
- Legacy Russell on Richard Siken
- Abigail Welhouse on Suzanne Gardinier
- Julian Gallo on Julio Cortazar
- Donna Fleischer on Lori Desrosiers
- Mel Elberg on Maureen Owen
- Jeffrey Grunthaner on John Forbes
- Caits Meissner on Yona Harvey
- Eliza Swann on Bernadette Mayer
- John Kropa on Clark Coolidge
- Michael Broek on Choosing and Creeley
- Luz Sanchez on Forough Farrokhzahd
- Matt Longabucco on René Ricard
- Juliet P. Howard on Pat Parker
- Elizabeth Clark Wessel on Grace Paley
- Matt Gano on Jack McCarthy
- Jay Grabowski on Frank O’Hara
- Ben Wiessner on Harryette Mullen
- Bud Berkich on William Carlos Williams
- Morgan Vo on Mina Loy
- Taylor Quilty on Kenneth Goldsmith
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[h4]30/30/30 — 2012 [/h4]
- [Editorial] Inspiration, Community, Tradition: Series Overview //
Lynne DeSilva-Johnson on Mina/Traver Pam Dick - Pete Reilly on Mary Oliver
- Bill Considine on Elinor Nauen
- Tishon Woolcock on Orhan Veli Kanik
- Caits Meissner on Adam Falkner
- Matthew Nelson and Jacob Perkins on Paul Legault
- Gregory Crosby on Kenneth Fearing
- Frank Ortega on Andrew Acciaro
- Maryam Parhizkar on Paul Violi
- Sarah Pinder on Libby Scheier
- Pamela Laskin on Samantha Reisner
- Frank Sherlock on Etel Adnan
- Lancelot Runge on Phillippe Soupault
- Daniel Owen on Bill Kushner
- Peter Milne Greiner on Stefan George
- Karen Clark on Marilyn Nelson
- Jim Lounsbury on Les Murray
- Ben Wiessner on Dean Young
- Jack Cooper on Hala Alyan
- Annaliese Downey on CA Conrad
- David King on Frederick Seidel
- Tony Hoffman on Vicente Huidobro
- Lauren Marie Cappello on Lorine Niedecker
- Elana Bell on Aracelis Girmay
- Ana Bozicevic on Marguerite Yourcenar
- Keetje Kuipers on Poets’ First Books (Olga Broumas’s Beginning with O, Richard Siken’s Crush, Sherwin Bitsui’s Shapeshift)
- Annie Paradis on Prageeta Sharma
- Roxanne Hoffman on Urayoan Noel
- Doug Van Gundy on Eamon Grennan
- Lindsey Boldt on Aimé Cesaire
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[h4]2011 (personal project on The Trouble With Bartleby)[/h4]
The series actually was born on my own blog, TTWB, in 2011 when I thought it would be a nice poetry month project to write about a different poet that had influenced me EVERY DAY for that month. Umm… needless to say it is less insane (and far more satisfying) to share the burden with 29 colleagues each April… you’re welcome to use any of these poets for your own tributes.
O’Hara, Sexton, Berryman, Billy Collins, EE Cummings, Ken Chen, Brenda Coultas, Beats: Kerouac, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Waldman; John Hedjuk, Montale, Borges, Rilke, Sufis: Rumi, Khayyam, Hafiz, Tahirih; Neruda, Sandburg, Hughes, William Carlos Williams, Jack Prelutsky.
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