From http://www.nydailynews.com
Media, arts & prose are on mind of boro's poet
BY Leigh Remizowski
Tuesday, June 29th 2010, 10:18 AM
THE WORDSMITH who was recently named Queens' newest poet laureate plans on spending much of his time in the honorary position debunking notions that poetry and technology don't mix.
By fusing multimedia platforms like film and the Internet with words, Sunnyside resident Paolo Javier said, he hopes to make poetry more accessible to the borough's aspiring writers.
"It's a shame that more people aren't comfortable with talking about poetry," he said.
Javier, a native of the Philippines, was chosen from a pool of more than 20 poets from across Queens as the borough's fifth poet laureate - a three-year nonsalaried position.
"Paolo is a wonderful choice for poet laureate," said Borough President Helen Marshall, who reviewed the candidates chosen by a panel of judges.
"He characterizes himself as an interdisciplinary poet, and that will help him as he fulfills his ideas about how to engage our borough's youth through multimedia platforms," she said.
Javier, 35, plans to begin his tenure by organizing workshops that will teach writers not only how to craft poems, but how to combine them with audio and video components. He will draw from his experience as creator and editor of an online poetry journal, 2nd Avenue Poetry, as well as his stints in the film industry, theater and journalism.
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