The Outdoor Journals feature poetry broadsides posted in various locations around Baltimore and Nashville. Typical spots to find a page include light posts, abandoned buildings, shopping carts, bus benches, bulletin boards, public restrooms, and so on. It is the contention of the Outdoor Journal that being read outside changes the experience -- confuses the reading and makes it deliberate.
This website is the documentation of the project, but it is no subsitute for the actual thing. Here you can read the poems, but you cannot hear the cars, smell the busted sewer pipes, and feel the strangeness of encountering the poem in an unexpected environment.
Check out the MAP pages to get a small sense of Baltimore and Nashville.
The "Is Reads" project is edited by Adam Robinson from the chapbook press, Publishing Genius,
and Peter Cole from the journal, Keyhole. Click here for submission guidelines.