This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Ayodele Heath shows us how we can all be poets through a new medium that melds the rules of Exquisite Corpse, an old French parlor game, and the global reach of social media to create digital poetry and a new form of collaborative authorship.

M. Ayodele Heath is a poetry ambassador who believes there is a poet living in everyone of us. He is editor of the anthology, Electronic Corpse: Poems from a Digital Salon and is the recipient of fellowships to Caversham Centre for Artists and Cave Canem.

A top individual 10-finisher at the National Poetry Slam, he holds a Master of Fine Arts in poetry from New England College and was a McEver Visiting Chair in Writing at Georgia Tech.

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