{"id":8160,"date":"2014-09-01T21:18:56","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T01:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=8160"},"modified":"2014-09-02T13:51:53","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T17:51:53","slug":"podcast-the-peace-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-the-peace-poet","title":{"rendered":"Podcast – The Peace Poet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Virtual Memories Show: Charles Bivona\u00a0– The Peace Poet<\/a><\/p>\n

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“I think people are experiencing a lot of things in America that they just don’t have the words for. If I’m going to run around and wave this POET flag, then my job is to jump into the difficult situations and try to put them into words.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Charles Bivona<\/a>‘s business card reads, “Poet, Writer, Professor,” but he’s a lot more than that. Over the course of an hour, we\u00a0talked\u00a0about what it means to be known as NJPoet<\/a>, his theory on the transmissibility of PTSD (based on\u00a0the first-hand evidence of his father’s Vietnam War trauma being visited on his family), the value of building a massive<\/em> Twitter network, the lessons of growing up poor, how Walt Whitman saved him on one of the worst days of his life, the virtues of a gift economy, and why getting bumped out of academia for blogging may have been the best thing for him.<\/p>\n

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“I think the core of my project is asking you, ‘What do you think your children think about what you’re doing right now?'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We also discuss\u00a0the role of poetry in America today and the poets who saved him in his youth, why he doesn’t publish poetry online,\u00a0whether Twitter is more like The Matrix<\/em> or The Watchmen<\/em>,\u00a0how his responses to Occupy Wall Street and Hurricane Sandy elevated his online presence, and why it’s important not to\u00a0put yourself in an ideological cocoon.<\/p>\n

“If you relax your ego, and say, ‘I’m here as a student and a teacher,’ you’ll get a lot out of social media.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Enjoy the conversation!<\/a>\u00a0Then check out\u00a0the archives<\/a>\u00a0for more great episodes! Related conversations:<\/p>\n