«I BELIEVE MEDIA IS ART»

What do you call it when free verse meets online social networking? PoeTweet sounds about right.Poet and Wayne State University professor M.L. Liebler is teaming up with two younger poets, Cassie Poe and LaShaun (Phoenix) Moore, to write a collaborative poem about summer in the city. The twist is they're doing it, line by line, on the Scarab Club's Twitter account.
The experiment, which is part of literary month at the arts organization, lasts through June. The final version will be posted on the Scarab Club's Web site.Liebler says the poem is evolving and could go in different directions, "maybe narrative, maybe even more surrealistic.

Detroit Free press
June 22 2009