By David Gecic

David Buddha-Hargarten has just announced the return of the Poetry Bomb! Since 2007 the Poetry Bomb has been terrorizing the streets of Chicago. The brainchild of two weirdos, David Buddha-Hartgarten and Esteban Colon. Esteban’s original concept was to blanket Chicago in poetry. He wanted to have a poet on every corner so you couldn’t escape it. David molded it into the event is is now.

It takes place on Sunday, April 26th at 3:30 PM. The concept of the bomb is to show people that poetry and poets are all around them. Show people that you are a poet or poetry fan and raise your voice at 3:30 on the last day of poetry month.

This year it’s a social media event. Post a poem on-line. Do a poetry live-stream. Post a recording of a poem. Do a Facebook live. Tweet, Facetime, LinkedIn, Instagram, just – everywhere anyone may look. We still have an audience. At 3:30 let’s fill up the internet with poetry.

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