Publishing Genius

I shot a job for Baltimore Magazine on Adam Robinson. He turned out to be a pretty cool guy with some unique interests. One of his interests was poetry. Robinson is basically a poetry outlaw who goes around cities and puts his poems up on lamp posts, signs and other random places he thinks they will get noticed. The idea has caught on in other cities now and taken on a life of it's own as other people now have turned urban areas into notebooks. He even has a book of pictures of the poems hung gorilla style around cities. You can see them here at IsReads

Adam also started a publishing company, Publishing Genius  and has published the works of nearly a dozen authors. Even cooler the first novel his company ever publish, Light Boxes by Shane Jones was bought for republication by Penguin, sold out and then the film rights were bought for it by Spike Jonze. 

You can also read Adams blog here. 

We took these pictures in Baltimore City at Patterson Park on the South East side of town. The building behind Adam in the first shot is the Pagoda. For some reason there are cannons and statue of kids surrounding an asian style building in the middle of Baltimore. Yeah, I don't totally get city planning. Of course I had the idea to basically defile the statue of children with some poetry. Adam was game, so away we went. 

The last picture I believe is the one that ended up running for the article, POETRY MAN (man man man man)!! I like it. Nothing like a hipster professor by day and English language super hero by night. Fighting against the evils of bad punctuation, spelling and dull prose!