Thursday, September 2, 2010

Berlin bombed with poetry

We have bombing, and love-bombing, but poetry-bombing? Now there's a new concept. Berlin's been the victim of an alphabetic assault this month, with millions of poems by German and Chilean artists raining down on the city... It's a CND wet dream. What better place to be poetically pulverized than Berlin, that cultural capital with its poetic edginess and (in)tense history...?

here's the story:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/aug/31/berlin-bombed-with-poetry
http://lyrikline.wordpress.com/