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Big Bang Poetry: Poets in Action
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Reinventing the Life of a Poet in the Modern World. Mark Doty Visits Albuquerue and D.H. Lawrence. Doty connected him to Walt Whitman and William Blake and praised his directness, intensity, willingness to rage, and admired the time Lawrence allowed to spend studying something, (rather, looking at something), in a poem. Doty stated that ordinary poetry workshops would chop Lawrence up today. This is a good time to plug Mark Dotys Dog Years. The Elephant is Slow to Mate. By DHL (great sex poem). Then Doty...
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Big Bang Poetry: Lifestyles of Poets
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Reinventing the Life of a Poet in the Modern World. Poetry is on the move! There have been lots of marches, op eds, memes and poems produced over the past four months. Here is a collection of some of whats Ive come across or been sent. First off, I read the book. Writing to Change the World. Poets on the March. The good news is poets are being including as cornerstones in many activist events going on around the country, if not the presidential inauguration. Mary Oishi ( a poem. I came to you. We were sa...