Rives (poet)
American poet, storyteller, and author (born 1968) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Rives (born 1968) is an American poet, storyteller, and author. He appeared on Seasons 3-6 of HBO's Def Poetry Jam[1] and was a member of Team Hollywood, which won the 2004 National Poetry Slam. His best-known poems include "Kite,"[2] about waking up alone in a new lover's apartment, and "Mockingbird," which he performs differently every time, incorporating the words of other poets and speakers in the program.
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Born | (1968-10-31) October 31, 1968 (age 55) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Occupation | Poet |
Nationality | American |
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In 2008, Rives hosted the television special Ironic Iconic America with Tommy Hilfiger and Bar Refaeli, examining how pop culture has influenced American tastes and styles.[3] In October of that year, he began appearing as the "first 2.0 poet" in a series of ads for telecom company Orange S.A.[4]
Rives has made multiple appearances at the TED Conference[5] and is the regular co-host of TEDYouth. His multimedia performances touch on themes of connectedness, wordplay, and romance. In 2013, Rives began curating the Museum of Four in the Morning,[6][7] an online crowd-sourced collection of references to the time, 04:00 am, in art and popular culture.
Rives has written and paper engineered several pop-up books for children and adults.[8] Early in his career, Rives worked at Intervisual Books, under the leadership of Waldo Hunt.[9] Two pop-up books, with paper engineering by Rives, were finalists for the Movable Book Society Meggendorfer Prize for Best Paper Engineering: The Consummate Cigar Book in 2000[10] and If I Were a Polar Bear in 2002.[11]