http://www.poetrybus.com The Poetry Bus Tour is a 50 day 50 city bus tour with poetry from over 200 poets sponsored by Wave Books. We proudly present video & audio podcast from the road. Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:30:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hello, Poetry Bus Enthusiasts! Though the Poetry Bus Tour has ended, we're still adding to this site. While you're here, you should look for expanded posts with new writing and photos from bus riders and readers, as well as newly discovered audio and video from the various stops ... http://www.poetrybus.com/12/04/days-1-52-poetry-bus-re-fueled/ UPDATE! More Photos From The Stranger From The Seattle Times **** Home after the dream or is home itself the dream? The bus back where we loaded it up with books, typewriters and snacks two months ago and me in the bed I left all hallowed out. Bill, a hand shake and a mountanous hug, a ... http://www.poetrybus.com/10/28/day-51-seattle/ UPDATE! More from Oregon! From the Oregonian From Studio 360 **** Five facts from Portland, OR: 1) In Portland, Oregon the Poetry Bus parked in front of Mississippi Studios, a wonderful sanctuary with the most amazing sound of anywhere we've been. 2) The wonderful Mississippi Studios had to turn people away from the door because more people ... http://www.poetrybus.com/10/26/day-51-portland/ UPDATE! More from Ashland! Emergent Forms! **** We've taken a lot of cabs on this trip, and we usually get a gruff no-response when we tell the cabbies what we're up to (e.g. Cabbie: "So what brings you to our fair city?" Us: "Yay! Poetry reading! Yay!" Cabbie: "uh . . . " Us: "We're doing fifty ... http://www.poetrybus.com/10/26/day-50-ashland/ UPDATE! More from San Francisco From The Believer **** The Make Out Room Edwin Torres at Club Deluxe Below are three lil movies from our amazing time in San Francisco. One of Andrew Joron reading with a backing band at Club Deluxe, one of Noelle Kocot getting her beatnik bravado on, and the last of Michael Zapruder ... http://www.poetrybus.com/10/25/day-49-san-francisco/ Poetry Santa Cruz **** We rode all night from Los Angeles, woke up to egrets, sea otters, hawks and finally 50 high school marching bands on the streets of Santa Cruz (the place poet Peter Gizzi lovingly calls "the Deep End") where a peculiar kind of exhaustion took over. We scattered throughout the ... http://www.poetrybus.com/10/24/day-48-santa-cruz/ UPDATE! From Chicken Corner The Machine Proejct Emily Lacy ***** At 3pm, when our reading at the Natural History Museum in LA had been scheduled to begin, the auditorium was empty. Juliana Spahr poked her head in despite my protestations and after seeing the pristine, untouched expanse of seating, she turned to me with her eyes ... http://www.poetrybus.com/10/23/day-47-los-angeles/ Even after a month or so of exposure, watching Linas skateboard around the bus with his camera still seems amazingly cool to me and everyone else on the bus, but, apparently, not to the police of Barstow, CA. On a long stretch of construction riddled highway from Las Vegas to Los ... http://www.poetrybus.com/10/23/day-46-los-angeles/ UPDATE! More from Las Vegas! **** I want to hear Elvis sing one more time so I keep pressing this button. I believe Elvis sees into my soul and he sees I am on a fundamental leval a loser so he gives me nothing, only takes more and more numbers from my tally on ... http://www.poetrybus.com/10/19/day-45-las-vegas/ UPDATE! More from Roden Crater More on Roden Crater More on Chris Cogburn **** Carrying a drum up a tunnel to the sunset, nothing is adequate to communicate the experience of awe except poetry. We could have taken pictures or videos or I could write about what happened in the most precise prose, but nothing would ... http://www.poetrybus.com/10/18/day-44-roden-crater/ UPDATE! More from Phoenix From the Arizona Republic From Stamped and Metered Flying Fish **** On the way to Phoenix from Gallup, we stopped the bus for a bathroom break in Arizona at an ostrich farm off of old Route 66 (now I-40) where Gazelle, the kinky haired proprietor, told us the bathroom didn’t ... http://www.poetrybus.com/10/17/day-43-phoenix/ UPDATE! More from Santa Fe **** A coyote and a catfish across the Rio Grande seen from a mineral bath in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico and then on to Santa Fe. We welcomed Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young on to the bus this evening, two poets involved in a collaborative project made specifically ... http://www.poetrybus.com/10/17/day-42-santa-fe/ UPDATE! More from Marfa! **** http://www.poetrybus.com/10/16/day-41-marfa-tx/ We left Austin re-fueled with breakfast tacos and biodiesel (yum!) with the hope of making it to Marfa, but we could only get to the Balmorhea Springs where we pitched a wang dang doodle around the Matvei stoked campfire (sorry no pictures). http://www.poetrybus.com/10/15/day-40-toward-marfa-tx/ UPDATE! More from Austin! Effing Press **** Sultry Woman’s Voice: It’s nighttime in the big city. The Poetry Bus sits in a cul de sac in Texas after a day at the Menil Collection in Houston and then at the Big Red Sun building in Austin. A grackle shrieks in a ... http://www.poetrybus.com/10/14/day-39-austin-tx/ UPDATE! More from Houston! Aurora Picture Show! The Menil Collection! Surrealist Lunch! More Surrealist Lunch! **** In Houston, the fourth biggest city in America, we traveled to a homey neighborhood called Houston Heights where Andrea Grover had turned an old Baptist church into an indie cinema house called the Aurora Picture Show. Across the street from the picture ... http://www.poetrybus.com/10/13/day-38-houston/ The VESTIGES Project  **** Five from New Orleans: 1) Café Du Monde, which is, no matter how full of tourists, the best place in America to read the paper and eat breakfast while listening to Dixieland Jazz, especially after a long drive through the night from Tuscaloosa in the bumpiest bunk known to poetry ... http://www.poetrybus.com/10/12/day-37-new-orleans/ UPDATE! More from Tuscaloosa! **** Hey there Tuscaloosa! T-Town! The Tusk! Could we have had more fun in Tuscaloosa? Maybe. If Bear Bryant and Stokely Carmichael had challenged us to a game of doubles Hi-Li, but otherwise probably not. How awesome is this? And this? http://www.poetrybus.com/10/11/day-36-tuscaloosa-al/ UPDATE! More from Athens! The Athens-Banner Herald! The Red and Black! Flagpole Magazine! **** In the fine tradition of Neutral Milk Hotel, Bubba Sparxxx, DJ Danger Mouse, Rumi, Hugh Kenner, Herschel Walker, the B-52s and John Cameron Mitchell, the Poetry Bus made a temporary home for itself in Athens, GA, not far from where I once ... http://www.poetrybus.com/10/11/day-35-athens-ga/ UPDATE! More Asheville! Malaprops! Emily Louise Smith! Fits of Strange Mercy! **** Asheville, the sleepy Southern town jittery Yankees move to with dreams of home ownership and porch lounging, introduced us to at the very least nine awesome things: 1) The full moon slipping into clouds. 2) Clouds hiding the full moon and reflecting the stadium lights from ... http://www.poetrybus.com/10/09/day-34-asheville-north-carolina/