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Daniel Joseph Wolfe posts poems in his native Baltimore, MD. He is a doodler and and enjoys the company of people who moan with joy over home cooked meals. A sample of his work can be found at sadbumblebee.wordpress.com and internetpoem.tumblr.com. Since I live in Baltimore, too, I found it especially interesting to hear his perspective on taping up poems in our city.

I noticed you posted some poems in Fells Point, which is a pretty heavily trafficked area of town. Did anything funny happen while you were doing it? Did anyone look at you funny?
Did I post pictures in Fells Point? I was pretty afraid to actually. See (like most people), without a companion, these things (posting haikus) can be tough for the exact reason you specify: the funny looks. So, with my back pocket full of poorly cut pages, I drove my brother's Honda Accord down those damned cobblestoned paths, while giving my recently-moved-here friend a relatively bubble'd tour. I mean, I chickened out (even with a companion!) FP was very trafficked. There were many people. I start to sweat when there are a lot of people out laughing and walking, and (as a result of my parent's miscegenation {i'm half vietnamese}) I don't usually sweat!

What other parts of Baltimore did you hit?

Christopher Newgent posts poems in Indianapolis, IN, where he writes and works in bike advocacy. You can read more about Christopher at his blog, http://theidiom.net. We asked him some questions about Indianapolis and about posting poems.

How would you describe the part of Indianapolis that you posted poems in?
Most of the poems I posted in Broad Ripple Village, one of the 3 art districts of Indy. For my first time out posting, I decided to go to a place where they'd be a bit more receptive to the project. Bripple is a strange part of town though, because as much as it's known for its art scene, it's known for its club scene, so on the weekends, there's a really strange mix of people, from crusty buskers to shiny, sun-drenched college girls.

Thanks for checking out the isReads blog.

This is the first post. It's a meta-post.

This post is to tell you to keep an eye out for cool features like interviews with contributing editors.

Contributing editors are the people who do the real work -- they bring the poems to the streets in cities across the US.

Do you want to bring the poems to the streets? Contact us at editors -at- isreads.com.

This is also to say keep an eye out for the next issue. It's going to be all haikus.

If you have a really awesome haiku, send it to: editors -at- isreads.com.