Where am I? I'm submerged in essay hell, that's where I am. I'll take the 30th. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have three hours to edit, three hours to add, three hours to memorize, and three hours to come up with something brilliant to say about Hegel. You see why I put that one last, right? Right? Back around the 13th, Erin. ----- Original Message ----- From: Ursula Stange To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 8:36 AM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: National Poetry Month exercise? I'll take the 3rd. If my contribution falls flat, people will just say that Geary was a hard act to follow. Ursula Mirembe Nantongo wrote: >I'll take the first then (if the cap fits....) Mike has the second and Eric >the 15th. If we exclude April's four Sundays (to avoid interrupting any >regularly scheduled poetry services) that leaves only 23 more days left. >Come on, guys! Andreas, Robert, Judy, David, Mike Chase, Julie, Ursula, >John, Veronica, Bill, Carol, Harold, Marlena, all of you - how about it? And >Erin, where the heck is Erin? What about Jorge Luis? What has happened to >JL?? > >http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2005/3/emw221248.htm > >Poetry Month Defined by "New Poets" >Rhyming poetry is making a comeback. > >(PRWEB) March 25, 2005 -- April is National Poetry Month, and is being >celebrated by a new genre of poets. These "new" poets are bringing back old >traditions of rhyme and meter, after years of prose poetry that started with >the language poetry of the 1970's. > > > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 9:18 PM >Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: National Poetry Month exercise? > > > > >>I chose April Tooth, not wanting to be known as the Fool -- too late, you >>say? I am tannist to the Oak. Alas. Then I shall have vengeance on the >>second day of the fourth month. >> >>Mike Geary >> >> >> >> >> >> >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Mirembe Nantongo" <nantongo@xxxxxxxxx> >>To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 12:45 PM >>Subject: [lit-ideas] National Poetry Month exercise? >> >> >> >> >>>April, which starts next Friday, is National Poetry Month. Would anyone >>>like to participate in a poem sharing exercise? Nothing fancy -- just >>>pick >>>an April day and on it post a poem you love and tell us why. Reasons can >>>be technical or not, personal or cosmic, even personal *and* cosmic, or, >>>come to that, defy articulation. If you would like to participate, just >>>post your April date of choice on this thread. I undertake to collate the >>>list and post it so everyone knows who is to post on what day. Something >>>nice for the archives and perhaps also for our own poetry horizons? I >>>know >>>I have been exposed to dozens of poems via this list (and its previous >>>incarnations) that I would never have known otherwise. Greedy in Tunis, >>>MN >>> >>>------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, >>>digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html >>> >>> >>------------------------------------------------------------------ >>To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, >>digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html >> >> >> > > >------------------------------------------------------------------ >To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, >digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html