Automated Poetry Project
The team at Word Vancouver is thrilled to announce an innovative new festival event: the Automated Poetry Project. Word Vancouver will transform ordinary vending machines into poetry dispensers!
Poems will be placed in vending machine capsules and dispensed for just a toonie each. The machines will be in multiple locations in downtown Vancouver during the month of September 2013.
Impact of the Automated Poetry Project:
The Automated Poetry Project will help raise the profiles of Vancouver poets and bring excellent poetry to every day locations such as coffee shops. As a supporter, you will make a meaningful contribution to Vancouver’s literary community and will participate in an important aspect of Canada’s diverse, unique artistic culture.
Locations:
Following our fundraising efforts hosted on Indiegogo, the Automated Poetry Project raised $1,085. Thanks to this support, five Automated Poetry vending machines have been purchased, refurbished, and re-homed to locations in Vancouver.
- Bean Around the World (175 West Hastings Street)
- Paper Hound Bookshop (344 West Pender Street)
- Banyen Books & Sound (3608 West 4th Avenue)
- book’mark, the Vancouver Public Library store (350 West Georgia Street)
- Pulpfiction Books, (2754 West Broadway)
The following poets and publishers graciously supplied the poems for the Automated Poetry Project:
- Jordan Abel
- Yulia Aleynikova
- Reneltta Arluk
- Ghia Aweida
- Elizabeth Bachinsky
- John Wall Barger
- John Barton
- Denis Bolen
- Stephanie Bolster
- Tim Bowling
- Kate Braid
- Kim Clark
- Brad Cran
- Jen Currin
- Marita Dachsel
- Ruth Dato
- Amber Dawn
- Rodney DeCroo
- Henry Doyle
- Karen Enns
- Patrick Friesen
- Catherine Greenwood
- David Groulx
- Erold Harold
- Jennica Harper
- Mohamed Helaly
- Anne Hopkinson
- Michael Kenyon
- Cynthia Woodman Kerkham
- Larissa Lai
- GP Lainsbury
- Fiona Tinwei Lam
- Robyn Livingstone
- Nicole Markotic
- Sharon McCartney
- Andrew McEwan
- kevin mcpherson eckhoff
- Kim Minkus
- Andrea Nikki
- Arleen Pare
- Al Rempel
- Madeline Sonik
- George Stanley
- Susan Steudel
- Jacqueline Turner
- Ursula Vaira
- Calvin Wharton
- Rita Wong
- Jan Zwicky
- Anvil Press
- BookLand Press
- BookThug
- Brick Books
- Caitlin Press
- Coach House Books
- ECW Press
- Gaspereau Press
- Inanna Publications
- Invisible Publishing
- New Star Books
- Nightwood Editions
- Otter Press
- Palimpsest Press
- Talonbooks