Calendar Poetry is a live critical media intervention where I use a digital calendar as a canvas to build poetry. In a public digital calendar, I foreground the subdued personal dialogues and latent narratives that inspire me as a poet.

Calendars are designed to bring order to our lives. I subvert this norm by repurposing calendrical affordances to build a chaotic mesh of poetry embedded in time. In particular, I use event time, duration, frequency, overlap, location, description, and color as levers to encode poetic meaning.

This is a live intervention. In the calendar below, content is visible starting on January 1, 2026 at 12:00am. The end date of this intervention is indeterminate as of now, since the intervention is still in progress. At any given point of time, I may be adding and editing events into the past, present, and future, so my audience will witness the changing spectacle of Calendar Poetry whenever they visit this project. (What you see as today, today, may not be what you see as today, tomorrow!)

Projecting my inner dialogues and thoughts into the calendrical frame and bringing them to a public landscape is a vulnerable performance. I call on my audience to interrogate what we choose to document, what we tend to forget, and what we never even fully experience because it doesn't fit cleanly into representable units of time. I invite you to reflect on the structure of time and what narrative identities it serves. The live nature of this intervention also remarks on the ephemerality of each moment of time as we witness it in the present, the unreliable nature of memory and recollection of the past, and the unpredictability of the future.

Calendar Poetry is a digital collage of ideas, thoughts, phrases, poems, and fragments of web artifacts. In this intervention, a more whimsical and disorderly liveness supersedes the typical corporate, sanitized character of the calendar interface. As the artist, I feel an urgency and freedom to document many fleeting thoughts, often in fragments, and I hope my audience is able to derive meaning from the confluence of these impressions.

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* Unfortunately the event colors are not visible to Google Calendar embed viewers.