Quick Muse - Who is the Cleverest Poet on the Internet?
Quickmuse.com is an exciting web service where two well known poets battle it out for composition glory. It works this way, two well known poets are given a subject. The subject can be an image for example. With the subject at hand, the two poets have 15 minutes to compose a poem. No very exciting, is it? Well it gets better because for the whole 15 minutes you watch both poets battle it out. That’s right, you get to watch as each poet type letter by letter. Some times they misspell words, sometimes they backtrack. Other times you watch in amazement as the poet bursts out with a verse of total brilliance. You never know what to expect in this live battle for muse supremacy.
As stated on the about page of Quickmuse, “QuickMuse is a cutting contest, a linguistic jam session, a series of on-the-fly compositions in which some great poets riff away on a randomly picked subject. It’s an experiment, QuickMuse, to see if first thoughts are indeed the best ones. We’re not entirely sure about this, but we suspect QuickMuse will bring readers closer to the moment of composition than they have ever been before.” [1]
Battles are scheduled every couple of weeks. If you miss a battle, don’t worry, you can watch a recording of the live battle.
August 12th, 2006 at 2:04 pm
That’s pretty cool I was just checking out the site and it looks fun to watch.
August 12th, 2006 at 5:06 pm
Yup. I am not sure but I think that the battle starts at night. I can’t seem to be able to find the time that the whole thing starts.