What is PoetiCal?
PoetiCal is an online collaborative publication that uses a calendar as its medium. Anyone can submit texts through the website, and if selected, they are published on a shared calendar for subscribers to read on the date chosen by the author.
Why did you make it?
I built it out of fascination with the web and its endless possibilities as an expressive space. I'm also drawn to subverting tools and bending them in ways they weren’t intended, something I explored in two of my recent projects, Book Saboteur and Enfont Terrible; though there, what I altered and played with were the produced objects, not the tools themselves. And then there's an idea I find irresistible: if you subscribe to this publication, poetic texts will inhabit a space typically reserved for work meetings, anniversaries, medical appointments, and bill payments.
Who or what inspired you?
I was inspired by many online projects and communities like Rest Notes, Special Fish, Are.na, an early version of Carly Ayres' famous Google Doc website, and a project I worked on in 2009 called Oficina Nacional de Asuntos Temporales (or National Office for Temporal Affairs), where people could claim a day and invent a fake anniversary for it.