006: What Poetry, Prison and Algorithms have in common




Using the Whole Whale Podcast show

Summary: We talk with Roland Legiardi-Laura the ED of PowerPoetry.org about how they became the largest teen poetry site in the US. Find out what the literacy gap has to do with incarceration in the US and how we can use algorithms to begin to quantify poetry. To Be Heard - Documentary that inspired PowerPoetry.org Please check out the full documentary of To Be Heard - its incredible. Additional resources Poetry Wars - Twitter App that rates tweets Blog covering Power Poetry Data Sumall Foundation details about the poetry algorithm