One might argue that if Richard Wilbur thinks contemporary poetry is too personal, that rhyming poetry is too Hallmark. Anybody have any examples of Hull's poems? $14.95 is too much for rhymed profundity about the relationship between the spiritual and physical worlds. What the hey, it's a livin'. Enough time killing. See ya. > [Original Message] > From: Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: 3/26/2005 8:38:28 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