How Pedestrian asks people on the street to read a poem for the camera. Here are some examples:
This fella does a nice job with Aigin Larki's "quiet clean."
I liked hearing Dante's Abandon All Hope in Italian.
These Japanese unicyclists are so brave and fun.
Achilles (for David Beckham) by Carol Ann Duffy
Side-note: As long as we're talking about football/soccer, did you know that a betting service in England had a poet-in-residence for the last World Cup? Gary Boswell wrote a poem for nearly every day of the competition.
Today's Poetry Friday round-up is at Picture Book of the Day.
Great project. Love the Japanese woman's expression going back and forth from concern to big grin, over and over. I sure couldn't read a poem in Japanese, so kudos to them!
ReplyDeleteLove the poet-in-residence at the World Cup, too.
A few years ago, here in Minneapolis, the paper did a feature of our baseball players (the Twins) reading haiku. It was great!
What a cool project. Now I want to visit Italy and Japan again. :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a terrific idea to have people on the street reading poems. I hope it got more people excited about poetry.
ReplyDeleteMy state is doing a poetry project. They had readings here last month at the library. I missed as I was away ... pitching.
ReplyDeleteLove seeing these projects elsewhere.
I'm hoping to film my students reading poetry when I get Poetry Friday up and running...
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