| Author | Message | ||
| M
Board Administrator Username: mjm Post Number: 35423 Registered: 11-1998 |
A rather fascinating project. If you live in the NY area, I envy you your access to a place like this: Poets House In the article, this was quoted: "Marie Howe, a poet and professor at Sarah Lawrence College, said she planned to bring her students to Poets House. “They should have a huge sign outside: ‘Rest is here. Safety is here. Nourishment is here,’ ” she said." I'd like to think the same could be said of Wild. How about we all try to accomplish that? Our mission here at Wild, first and foremost, is the poetry. Please keep your eye on that prize. Thanks. Love, M | ||
| LJ Cohen
Moderator Username: ljc Post Number: 11425 Registered: 07-2002 |
Wow. That's beautiful! I may have to make a trip to NY just to visit this cathedral to poetry. Who wants to come with me?? xo ljc Once in a Blue Muse Blog "Chop Wood, Carry Water" | ||
| Emusing
Senior Member Username: emusing Post Number: 8044 Registered: 08-2003 |
Oh Honeypot I love this!!! What a way to start the day: "The goal of the place is to make everyone feel that poetry belongs to them,” Stanley Kunitz, a founder of Poets House in 1985, said, “I dream of an art so transparent that you can look through it and see the world.” We should all meet there! Been a good 5 years since I've been to NY. Yes Wild is our Poetry House, the church of the word. Praise the poem and pass the purple pannie hat. Love, E Word Walker Press; Moonday Poetry; Kyoto Journal "Knowledge is the new currency." Lester Brown | ||
| Lazarus
Senior Member Username: lazarus Post Number: 5782 Registered: 10-2005 |
"The staircase is wired for sound, so when people pass, a motion sensor might trigger a spoken line from a poet like Robert Frost. But on a recent afternoon before Poets House had officially opened, the pristine space was missing something. “It needs a human presence,” Mr. Hirsch said. “It’s only a building, and it’s only an organization. It needs the warmth of poetry itself, and it needs the warmth of people who come together in the spirit of poetry.” I wonder if this is on the agenda for the Poets Forum in October. I have thought about taking a day trip and checking that out. Anyone interested there are still tickets: Poets Forum site -Laz | ||
| Cornelius Vanvig
Intermediate Member Username: corneliusvanvig Post Number: 551 Registered: 08-2005 |
Looks way too nice to be a poet's house. A poet's house should be a disheveled cabin in the woods somewhere with a only a wood stove for heat, a hand-crank pump outside for water, and hand-hewn planks for bookshelves. Without suffering there is no poetry. This place looks like a museum. Museums are built for dead things, and poetry is still alive for the most part, the heart seems to be faintly beating. C (Contrary as always) | ||
| Dan Tompsett
Intermediate Member Username: db_tompsett Post Number: 837 Registered: 07-2007 |
"A poet's house should be a disheveled cabin in the woods somewhere with a only a wood stove for heat, a hand-crank pump outside for water, and hand-hewn planks for bookshelves." And with no power to run a PC, right? "People who believe a lot of crap are better off." Charles Bukowski | ||
| Fred Longworth
Senior Member Username: sandiegopoet Post Number: 6833 Registered: 05-2006 |
I admire the use of glass, to signify the poet's roles as both a window on the world and an observer of the world. (See above Kunitz quote, as cited by e.) ********** I do not think that an individual poet's house should have a special look. That plays into the cultural obsession with appearance over essence, to wit, that to really be a poet one must dress in a certain way and have a domicile with certain rustic, scholarly, or emotionally enriching attributes. Rubbish. ********** I would like to see PBS do a special on this, with a camera wandering through the place, diving into this and that. But I suspect they would rather pay homage to a lesser god: SLAM -- which, by the way, for all its simplistic form and appeal to prejudice embodies more emotional truth than 10,000 puzzle poems from Poetry. Fred | ||
| Judi Brannan Armbruster
New member Username: judia Post Number: 17 Registered: 10-2009 |
Cornelius I live like that, with wood heat, but we do have city water and sewer, and of course power - most of the time, anyway! We have to have generator back up and use it several times a year. | ||
| Kathy Paupore
Moderator Username: kathy Post Number: 12353 Registered: 12-2003 |
I'll go with you Lisa. And M, I couldn't agree with you more, our mission here is poetry. Kathy You're invited to: Wild Flowers Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.~Robert Frost |
