[lit-ideas] Re: Inaugural Poetry
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:39:55 -0500
Donal: Could even play a game of what certain poets
(Eliot, Auden) might produce if given a set task
Auden managed to write "Under Which Lyre" as a
commencement ceremony poem. There are some successful
occasional poems. Here are some less-successful
possibilities:
*Charles Bukowski's poem celebrating World Cup
Soccer.
*John Berryman's poem celebrating National Health
Awareness Week.
*Anne Sexton's poem for the National Right to Life
Association.
*Philip Larkin's poem for the (US or UK-equivalent) PTA.
*Chatterton's Ode to Copyright
*The newly discovered poem by Quintus Horatius Flaccus,
"Arse Poetica," which blows the lid on mutual blurbing,
good-buddy grant hogging, and MFA mafia corruption by
bards.
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