Where Are We Now?
The image to the left it Caspar David Friedrich’s painting “The Wanderer Above
the Mists”: that quintessentially Romantic image. In it, the solitary, heroic
individual stands with his back to civilization, facing
poetry
In Praise of the Book
This is the age of the Shuffle, the Snippet, the Selection, the Single Movement,
and the Mashup. I’m not talking about dance styles — which might be exciting! —
but about how we nibble
Technology: good for poetry?
From the Telegraph: The Internet is causing a poetry boom
[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/4863351/Internet-is-causing-poetry-boom.html]
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> Poetry reading groups – known as “series” – are becoming stronger thanks to
Q & A with Elizabeth Alexander
From Newsweek: Inauguration poet Elizabeth Alexander – “The arts have a place
in
conversation” [http://www.newsweek.com/id/180264/]:
> What message do you think Obama is sending by including a poet in
Letter to a Young Poet
So vast was my fanboy admiration of Billy Collins when I was in college, so
unencumbered by facts my ambition, and so shameless my neophytic insolence, that
I wrote the Poet Laureate of