PEDDLING AROUND THE PANDEMIC

The project went very well. Changing the project to be citywide and with many poets in residence on the bike made it an open source project that will continue long after this funding has expired. The novelty of the typewriter on a bicycle engaged people and got them thinking about bikes in the city as well as the role of poetry in new ways.

The Storycycle: Typewriter Bike and accompanying bike bag for convenience and supply toting were created and

eight people held residencies. They rode, wrote, and engaged a diverse group of communities. They themselves were a pretty diverse group of individuals: poets, a photographer, a mother, “serial-entrepreneur,” college students, musicians, majority people of color, a spectrum of genders, etc.

Their work, bike rides, and engagements were shared online via Instagram. This made things shareable, taggable, supportive of multiple creative mediums, and a bit more interactive for the online audience, than a static online zine. WWW.WAVEPOOLO.ORG