Poets With Websites

Cordite Poetry Review believes "words are bullets". So do I. "Moses Iten" is proudly listed on Poets With Websites. That's why I occasionally post something purporting poetry.

Cordite Editor David Prater (pictured above in photo by Kim Hyun-tae) is currently on an Asialink Residency in Seoul, and was just recently written about in a feature for the The Korea Times by Bridget O'Brien:

Over the course of two months Prater has visited a different PC bang in Seoul every day and wrote about an ``imaginary city’’ in each one. As he says, PC bangs are imaginary places: Business people go there to shoot aliens, gamble and check out Cyworld homepages.

His project was initially influenced by Italo Calvino's book ``Invisible Cities,’’ in which Marco Polo described a series of fictional cities (all of which were really Venice) to the Emperor Kublai Khan. "For me this book, with its meeting of East and West, says a lot about the Western imagination and how it projects its own view of the world upon ``the other,’’ whether this be Asia or any other alien place. So, instead of writing about invisible cities, I decided to write about imaginary cities.’’

Of course Invisible Cities has been covered before on this blog, right here.