IN A BRAVE NEW WORLD: POETRY AS MEMES AND DABS, THE ODYSSEY HOLDING ITS OWN AS THE CONTINUING NEW THING IN TODAY'S CULTURE

In which we hear from Zappa Johns about new-fangled farfalle from the internet's video games of virtual physics for "interactive fiction" in the digital era (that would be now), including "Car Boys" and BeamNG.drive, the poetry in the news this week of the world's most daring free solo climb up El Capitan, Bob Dylan's under-the-wire Nobel Prize lecture on the roots of his lyric balladic contributions to Literature (think Odyssey), Robert Creeley's meditation on rain (definitely a dab), W.S. Graham on morning ("listen"), and Nate Cameron's reflections on his own bold climb of poetry beginning with poetry's El Capitan, the Odyssey. We're board hanging, putting on morning, making it last, with the Poetry Slow Down.Further readings on Car Boys:On Car Boys, Which Changed EverythingGame Realities, McElroys, And The Power Of Meta-Narrative© Barbara Mossberg 2017