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The title of the thread comes from the last line of a poem by Joseph Harrison
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I read that the phrase came from John Updike.
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I can’t think of many contemporary poems that use language, ideas or images from the technology that now governs so much of our lives.
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It's rather odd. Even yearly anthologies can be lacking. Trying to be timeless, to write for posterity, is understandable, but not at the expense of insulating oneself from the present and things that we all share. I'm surprised how few cell-phones appear in poems, given that people use them hours a day. Here's my haiku contribution
"Lonely Hearts"
Seeking Formalist.
Must be SA, must have used
iPad in a sonnet.