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Tag: poetry
Poetry slam: 'BBC Question Time' pelted with mixed bag of satirical rhymes on Twitter
Television shows are no strangers to critics, but political program ‘BBC Question Time’ is feeling the heat in a special way, as dozens on Twitter are composing not-so-complimentary rhymes under the hashtag #WriteAPoemAboutBBCQT. The poets, and their corresponding works, range from clever to not-so-great. However, they all seem to share a common theme – BBC […]
Want to Reach an Airline’s Customer Service Team? Try Slam Poetry.
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The terse poetry of Alexis Kennedy’s Cultist Simulator card game
Most of Alexis Kennedy’s games gaze into the crystal ball of madness, and Cultist Simulator is no different. He’s best known as the founder of the indie studio Failbetter Games, where he created and wrote text-heavy titles like Fallen London and Sunless Sea. A little over a year ago, he left Failbetter to form Weather Factory, and […]
Jean Cocteau on Art, Poetry & Creativity
This weekend, Anthology Archives’ Essential Cinema Repertory series screens, featuring works by French author, artist, and filmmaker Jean Cocteau. During Cocteau’s 50-year career, he became a leader of the avant-garde, tackling the subject of the artist’s life as a solitary existence in films like Orphée and more. Cocteau has written extensively about what it means […]
Google Home gets an I/O action (again) and a poetry reader
The selection of voice apps available for Google Home has grown larger in recent weeks, and now includes a Google I/O action, a guess-the-startup-founder game show, and a service that features favorite poems as read by actors and actresses. Voice apps on Google Assistant are called actions. Microsoft’s Cortana and Amazon’s Alexa refer to these as […]
