Animated GIFs and Poetry

Happy New Year, everyone!  Maribeth here.  During my holiday travels I came across a discarded copy of Wired magazine.  One of the articles was all about the history and staying power of animated GIFs--

One part of the article struck me in particular.  The bolded words here:

In the age of YouTube and cameraphones and TiVo, we’re increasingly inundated with moving images. But the animated GIF lets us stop and ponder a single moment in the stream, to resee something that otherwise would zip by unnoticed.

Seems that sentence could just as easily say poetry lets us stop and ponder a single moment in the stream, to resee something that otherwise would zip by unnoticed.

Thought I'd share here, in going with the "what a poem can be" theme of the workshop.  See the rest of that Wired article here.

See you next week!