Written by Jonterri Gadson on August 30th, 2009Hey all!
I’m Jonterri, a first year student in UVA’s MFA program for poetry. I’m fascinated by different ways that poetry is able to reach a wider audience, so the One Day Poem Pavilion thrilled me.
photo courtesy of Experiential Typography website
Jiyeon Song constructed the One Day Poem Pavilion as a Master’s thesis project. Over the course of 5 hours, as the light shifts throughout the day, new lines of the poem are revealed. I love this! I feel like this is an excellent way to get people to really experience poetry without thinking that what they are experiencing is poetry. If someone wanted to see the entire poem display they would have to watch it for 5 hours. That’s 5 hours focused on poetry! It’s like a poetic sneak attack.
The poem is a Sijo, a Korean form. I’d never heard of that form so that’s another reason to appreciate this project. Go to the Experiential Typography site and check out the time lapse movie so you can get the full experience.
Please feel free to share any interesting way that you’ve seen poetry reach more people. I’d love to hear it!
What a beautiful idea for a melding of sculpture and poetics. I like that it’s a light projection, a temporary, intensely viseral experience that then slips away, but then repeats itself. That’s how I experience many poems. I’ll read a poem, put it down, and then a few hours later a line will drift back through my mind.
UCSD also has a poetry sculpture (though admittedly a slightly less cool one) called the Green Table: http://stuartcollection.ucsd.edu/StuartCollection/Holzer.htm
that’s pretty amazing…
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I also like to make poems and read lots of books that is related to Poetry.:.~
poetry is the thing i like, i create poems during my spare time-`*
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it is easy to make great poems if you are very very inspired*;*
poetry has the power to affect our emotions by using words alone, i really love poetry ;*”
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