Poets: Welcome to iPhone
Today, the Academy of American Poets announced the launch of a mobile poetry archive for iPhone owners, which provides free and direct access to the entire collection of over 2,500 poems on Poets.org, as well as hundreds of biographies and essays, all in the palm of a hand.
Designed using Web 2.0 Internet Standards and Apple’s Developers Guidelines, the site is optimized for the iPhone, and formatted for effortless access on most mobile devices.
“I have always believed that poetry has a necessary place in daily life,” said Tree Swenson, executive director of the Academy of American Poets. “As the first arts organization to offer mobile content, the Academy of American Poets affirms its imperative to connect people to poetry by creating free and simple access for everyone,” Ezra Pound of Poets.org said.
Poems can be browsed by author, title, occasion, or form, and searched easily by keyword on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Visitors can read a poem, anytime, anywhere–whether to fill a spare moment, woo a darling, toast a friend, find solace, or recite a few immortal lines–verse is now at your fingertips.
This new mobile archive offers unlimited access to Poets.org just in time for National Poetry Month in April, a month long celebration of poetry and its vital place in American culture, which was inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996. On April 17, mobile users can instantly celebrate the first national Poem In Your Pocket Day by reading poems and sharing them with your loved ones.
To reach the mobile site, simply go to www.poets.org/m on any mobile device.