Yesterday I joined a group of fellow poets for the first Human Micropoem event in support ofOccupy Chicago. The idea is a variation of the Human Microphone method of passing important information along to large groups of people without the use of electronic or mechanical amplification. To be a human microphone, you listen and speak--listen to the information spoken by the Microphones ahead of you, and repeat the information in your strongest voice for the people behind you. The person or people beginning the process calls out, "Mike check! |
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