Poet in the Web |
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Poet in the Web is a website designed for secondary school students to acquaint themselves with poetry, using modern internet techniques for displaying background text, photographs, animations, audiovisual content and interactive assignments to learn more about selected poems. Students can use the site either in the classroom or multimedia centre, or at home. Poet in the Web makes poetry more accessible and attractive to teenagers and encourages them to voice their own opinions and interpretations of poems. The site is aimed at sixth-form or senior high school students. Read more |
Het gedicht is een bericht (The poem is a message) |
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They are a common sight on the streets of Rotterdam, the lines of poetry displayed on garbage trucks. They result from a joint project of the Poetry International Foundation and Rotterdam’s garbage collection service Roteb, begun in 1988. Poetry International selects the poetry lines for Roteb to paste on all its bigger garbage trucks. Thus, in some Rotterdam street one may find oneself looking at a garbage truck proclaiming: "At times I am a believer / or almost" (from a poem by the Frenchman Eugene Guillevic), or: "woe to him who never errs" (from the Chilean poet Nicanor Parra). |
Gedicht aan de reiziger (Poetry in transport) |
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Taking their cue from Paris’ "Poésie dans le métro", London’s "Poetry on the Underground" and New York City’s "Poetry in Motion", Poetry International and Rotterdam’s public transport service RET started their joint project “Gedicht aan de reiziger”. The first poetry posters and stickers appeared in the Rotterdam Metro on April 8, 1997. Since then a new set of six poems on stickers and A0 posters has been on display in the RET’s tram and underground railway cars and stations every four months, to be read by several hundred thousand commuters every day. |
Camera Poetica |
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On-location readings by poets who were guests at the Poetry International Festival over the years, filmed by Victor Vroegindeweij and Daniëlle van Ark. Read more |