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Welcome to the poetry lab. A portfolio of current, past, and future projects developed by the gPP.
The Global Poetics Project is an experimental archive, co-working space, & production studio invested in developing resources & tools for the studying & writing of poetry & poetics.
Please click on the title of a project to engage with it
An interactive mapping of poets writing in English (or in translation) from the 1940s to the present day. Features pop up profiles.
Future updates: a timeline slider
Status: GPP currently has a backlog of 20,000+ poets from around the world.
A network model of 1960s-1980s poetic coteries. Featuring, poets from Umbra (NY, USA), Afro-Soul (CA, USA, and Afro-diasporic), Berliner Festwochen (Germany, Afro-diasporic).
This is based on Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu’s dissertation, so networks coalesce around mediums of communication and engagement. This model supports chapters one and two.
Date: 2020
Status: Completed
Type: Project | Network Model
A research tool featuring network models, mapping, and profiles will accompany a digital exhibit of Transition magazine.
Status: The Transition exhibit will be released in Spring of 2024.
A digitization of Okyeame Magazine, published in Ghana (West-Africa) in the 60s. This exhibit also features short analyses by scholars and teaching aids for classrooms and independent learners.
Status: N/A
An essay published in Modernism/Modernity Print+ that engages with the Poet Map as a method for engaging with world literature and global poetics. This essay also details part of the genesis of the map.
Date: 2020
Status: Completed
Type: Article
Poetry Marketplace is GPP’s way of giving back to the poets who engage with and populate our database. As a site digital space interested in engaging with the Global South, we about support structures for poets. Although we currently don’t have the funds for residencies or fellowships, we are offering this database of magazines, fellowships, and opportunities.
Status: BETA trials will begin in 2022.