Typewriter Rodeo: Real People, Real Stories, Custom Poems

by Jodi Egerton, David Fruchter, Sean Petrie, Kari Anne Holt

Overview

What began as a playful idea among friends has made its way around the world, inspiring laughter, high-fives, hugs, and tears from New England to Brazil. Typewriter Rodeo celebrates poetry, spontaneity, and above all, the power of human connection.

Both a visual feast and a reference book in the style of Brandon Stanton’s Humans of New York, Typewriter Rodeo collects custom, typewritten poems from “rodeos” worldwide, portraits of recipients, and their personal stories. Typewriter Rodeo began in Austin, Texas, when four poets brought their typewriters to a maker fair and began offering spontaneous, custom-composed poems to an enthusiastic crowd. The event quickly blossomed and rodeos began popping up all over the world.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781449487003
Publisher:	Andrews McMeel Publishing
Publication date:	04/03/2018
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Jodi Egerton holds a Ph.D. in English from UT Austin and is the founder of the editing, workshop, and mentor service Write Good Consulting.
 

 

David Fruchter is the producer and host of “Slappy Pinchbottom’s Odd Preoccupation,” a long-running radio show in Austin devoted to spoken word and other literary arts.
 
 

Sean Petrie has an MFA in Writing for Children from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a law degree from Stanford. He is represented for his fiction writing by Erin Murphy Literary Agency.
 

Table of Contents

Introduction vii

The NITTY-GRITTY of poem-typing 1

Poem of LOVE 16

Poem of WHIMSY & FAVORITE THINGS 35

Poems of VULNERABILITY 63

Poems of FAMILY (including PETS!) 92

Poems FOR KIDS 117

Poems of INSPIRATION 132

Poems on the FEISTY side 177

About the AUTHORS 190

About the TYPEWRITERS 193

Photo credits 194

Editorial Reviews

Typewriter Rodeo is an exciting project that implicates perfect strangers in the business of poetry by spontaneously writing a poem about them.  It’s not that the composers think revision is for pantywaists, they just have to get on to the next person in line!  And here in your hands is a lively, collage-form gathering of poems, photos, and back stories, which puts the work of these mad, ambush-style typists on colorful display.  Who said poetry need be limited to the library and the classroom? (Billy Collins, Two-term Poet Laureate of the United States)

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