What an extraordinary opportunity, especially since I'm American! When I learned about the project, and knew I'd be living and teaching at Worcester College, Oxford, I was thrilled that I might have an opportunity to participate. For my hour I would like to do something connected with poetry. I am a poet, and poetry scholar, who has three published books and uses digital media production to make digital poems. What the exact "something" is, I am not yet sure. Perhaps I might use Twitter or some other online networking service to write short poems inspired by what people say to me while I am on the plinth; doing so would allow me to also respond to people in the U.S. who could also give me ideas for poems. Since I'm a very active blogger and twitterer, I'd like to use technology if possible.

My biographical information is as follows (if it is useful to you):

Karen Head is the author of Sassing (WordTech Press, 2008), My Paris Year (All Nations Press, 2009) and Shadow Boxes (All Nations Press, 2003). Her poetry appears, or is forthcoming, in a number of national and international journals and anthologies, and has been invited to present her work in the U.S. and Europe. As a scholar of contemporary American poetry, she has begun to explore the connections between traditional text-based poetry and digitally-enhanced poetry, an exploration that involves her in a number of creative projects being conducted in the Wesley Center for New Media at Georgia Tech. Her first digital poetry project, Poetic Rub, was featured at the E-Poetry 2007 festival in Paris. Head is the Graduate Communication Coordinator and Special Advisor to the Writing and Communication Program at Georgia Tech. Additionally she serves on the Poetry Atlanta Board, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting poets and promoting poetry in the Atlanta area. She founded and is developing The Peachtree Review as a venue for both traditional and digital poetry.

Twitter: @poetphd

Blog: http://karenhead.blogspot.com/