Event Type
Leap from page to screen and turn your words into beautiful, flowing images of language.
Share your poem online and go viral, or just keep it to yourself and your intimates.
This generative workshop will follow in the non-tradition of the Situationists and psychogeographers with a prompt reflecting on and animating the urban milieu. After locating our impulse, we will create live animated poetry tied to the immediate environment — to echo Baudelaire, where the world is a forest of symbols — using a locative web app, Geodes.
A workshop for those who are curious about the possibilities of digital work, and poets ready to explore alternative and multi-modal formats using the best distribution network of all time, the internet. You will have an opportunity to play with the elements of animation — timelines, pauses, font & color, FOV (field of view), viewer constraints, scrolling, and more — and to share with your social media feeds, on your websites, or across your digital communities.
Geodes is a free hybrid poetry + code web app that focuses your intent on what's 'here' and not 'there.' We locate our inspiration in the immediate environment using Geodes as an original space that removes political boundaries, for undifferentiating reflection, play, and personalization. The individual animates their city and leaves an historical trace.
Available to any poet with a phone, laptop or tablet, and for those inclined to dip into alternatives to the printed page, and multi-modal formats with text, image and audio. Bring your poems, pics and audio clips, or create them on the spot. All poems will remain after the festival for your sharing or private pleasure.
We may also create a New Orleans Poetry Festival 2026 collection if interests collide.
A few examples:
A timed text - https://geodes.scripter.net/stroke/roman-morning
A scrolling text - https://geodes.scripter.net/stroke/as-you-are
A click-through text - https://geodes.scripter.net/stroke/the-stand
