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| rus bowden
Member Username: rusbowden Post Number: 107 Registered: 12-2003 |
Dear Poetry Fans, Poetry & Poets in Rags The Guardian's Poetry Workshop headlines, with Tony Curtis making comment on the select poems, IBPC ones included. Congrats to Brenda Tate and Chris O'Carroll on their villanelles! And I have a feeling that we have one or two in or around our IBPCommunity with poems there also, names I did not recognize out of context. Let me know, please. Check out the new block: The Writers Block Welcome to the biggest regular issue of Poetry & Poets in Rags ever: 16 articles. The reason is simple. It was the week of the most high-quality articles issued onto the web on poetry and poets since our beginnings. I knew it was big when I got home from work last night and began working like crazy--still am. All week, I had pared down page after page like never before, of hundreds of Google pages, thousands of Google blurbs, to 77 fine articles, the most ever. In addition, sometimes there are so many articles on a subject, I look them up separately at the end of the week, usually one, maybe two of these separate searches, but this week the subjects were Paglia (once again), "Voices in Wartime", "Tennessee Williams" (once again), Oxyrhynchus, Rodolfo 'Corky' Gonzales, Cummings plagiarism, and Julia Darling. I hadn't used the Tennessee Williams story last week, decided to wait for this week to see if an article would be written with some depth, and an e-mail from Peter Garner (Thanks, Peter) reminded me how much of a blockbuster story that is in its essence. Oh, I said "blockbuster"--how about the our back page story. That's from the "Oxyrhynchus" search. Our culture will change because of an extraordinary new scientific capability, that has researchers now working feverishly. My thanks to Michael Virga for sending a marvelous NYT article I couldn't use--the second to last one cut (then went the Kerouac-in-Florida one to get where we have our final 16). But, he sent a link to the Slate article that was one of our eleven of last week. Slate's second in that same series from Pinsky is in the mix for this week too, as is the second in the Kooser series. One quick note, and I'll let you get to reading. I love the way the poets in the news get profiled this week. Each has an individual greatness that comes from a certain singularity or focus: Plath, Cummings, Gonzales, Darling, and more--each so different from each other. Enjoy, and thanks. Yours, Rus Our Links: IBPC: Celebrating Poetry Month Poetry & Poets in Rags IBPC Home IBPC Newswire | ||
| Michael MV
Advanced Member Username: michaelv Post Number: 835 Registered: 11-2003 |
LETTER to the EDITOR: Wow, Rus, your dedication is admirable, all the more reason I'm happy to send something useful, or that might assist in your research & scouting. And, as an appreciative reader, it's not too unsual that in the weeklies there is something that is especially relevant to my own poetry life. Just this very day, yes this afternoon, I unexpectantly was invited to lunch, where a friend presented me with Snyder's Danger on Peaks. Now this evening, it is a joy to find you have included the article & interview . . to go along with the book  I'll have to share this with her; she'll surely appreciate it - also, she's the aunt of a published poet(Sarabande Books). Now this has been a day for the meeting of poetic sensiblities. got ta love the ee, too good to see mm did 2 misfits meant to match I wrote my senior thesis on him. I would have loved to have had this quote(and article) those many years ago): "A painter as well as a poet, Cummings wrote poems for "the excitement of the eye" as well as the ear." ^^ But it is relevant to some of my current creative projects, including my recent concrete poem & its public present this Easter. And how keenly uncanny, the relevance now of that then experimental e e new sp aper in our cyberculture. And talk about the past(18thC) making present t(s)ense, Pope's quote: "as awful as bad poetry is, bad criticism is even worse." is a valuable guideline for these boards. I better close now, before I comment on each of the 16, but not before I say, now, here in the middle of NPM: Keep on sailing with this worthwhile project you have launched. You return each week w/ an enriching e-dition to the valuable resource you have established and made available to the IBPC. ain't mis be fittin in MV | ||
| rus bowden
Member Username: rusbowden Post Number: 108 Registered: 12-2003 |
What a terrific comment! The whole thing. Thanks, Michael. | ||
| Gary Blankenship
Advanced Member Username: garyb Post Number: 3293 Registered: 07-2001 |
Rus, let me second MV. Fine work and great dedication. Thanks. Gary Come read the April FireWeed, here at last. Go in through http://www.mindfirerenew.com/ to get to the issue in a couple of clicks | ||
| rus bowden
Member Username: rusbowden Post Number: 109 Registered: 12-2003 |
It's good to know you're clicking in. Thanks, Gary, for leaving such a note behind. |
