john mortara

Apr 30

today i have a poem on Everyday Genius. check it out!

Apr 19

ANNIVERSARY GIVEAWAY!
Voicemail Poems is turning 1 years old!

Dawwww.

To celebrate our 1 YEARS of EXISTENCE and the last weeks of National Poetry Month, we will be making some care packages (including CDs, letters, and random stuff John finds around his living room) to 3 callers who dial in a poem and 3 people who reblog this by April 30th!

(910) 703-POEM

Do it NAOWWW.

Mar 26

theneweryork:

A poetic Paper Fortune Teller by John Mortara http://theneweryork.com/paper-fortune-teller/

origami poem! i encourage you to print, fold, and try it out! and if you do, send me a photo.

Mar 21

the-new-library:

AND EXTRA!

The New Library is extremely proud to present an exclusive video poem from the minds of John Mortara and Sebastian Lubbers: THE WILD AND SPINNING SUN.

We very much hope you thoroughly enjoy this next-level gift. Happy Holidays. Make wise decisions.

video poem i did with sebastian!

(via johnisdead)

Mar 20

hypocrite-lecteur:

“and how can you know for sure
if you are heavy rain on someone’s shoulder

or a puddle in their palm?”

John Mortara and Rachel Hyman, from
“If You Hold Your Breath, You Will Sink To The Bottom”

(via johnisdead)

Mar 16

every year at the AWP bookfair, i collect leaflets, postcards, bookmarks, and other random ephemera and make poems out of them.

this is my finished poem for AWP 2013 in Boston. hope you enjoy!

Feb 28

things i will be doing at awp 2013

johnisdead:

1. talking to people / trying to talk to people

2. pretending i don’t notice you because i’m afraid

3. trying to talk to editors / remind them of who i am again?

4. buying all the fucking books (hey table x and table y imma lookin at yew)

5. working at the booth for lookout books

6. drinking too much coffee / going to too many panels / eating very little

7. going to some off-site events but currently unsure of what off-site events to go to / if you are going to an off-site event and want me to be there you should tell me about it

8. i will be doing another awp found poem because why not

9. sarah and i will be peer-pressuring people into writing a huge weird-ass poem with us because why not

10. i will be passing around flyers for voicemailpoems.org and trying not to seem desperate but really call me and read me poems that’s all i want out of life

Feb 27

i have a poem in the very rad 7th issue of Vinyl Poetry.

basically, imagine your life is a text adventure and i was in a weird mood when i wrote the parser program for the text adventure of your life.

Feb 9

johnisdead:

sarah and i will be starting a gigantic exquisite corpse poem throughout the AWP 2013 Conference in boston. if you’re going to be in the area during March 6-9, you should totally join in!

more info at our facebook event!

do it!

Feb 5

sarahjeanalex:

Issue 2 of Parlor is out today, featuring blind exquisite corpse poetry from Jackson Nieuwland, Stephen Tully Dierks, John Mortara, Rachel Hyman, Zachary Schomburg, Natalie Chin, Theo Thimo and Noah Cicero.

Thank you to Natalie Chin for the beautiful site redesign.