Comments on: Living Poetry, Living Poets http://www.radioopensource.org/living-poetry-living-poets/ Christopher Lydon in conversation on arts, ideas and politics Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:09:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: CrackWilding http://www.radioopensource.org/living-poetry-living-poets/#comment-74567 CrackWilding Tue, 30 May 2006 20:00:56 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=531#comment-74567 Check it out: The New York Times did a piece yesterday on a website called QuickMuse (http://quickmuse.com) that invites poets to improvise on a topic for fifteen minutes. The results are stored and can be played back as they originally unfolded. You have to take a look to fully understand, but it’s pretty neat, and the poets are top-notch — Paul Muldoon and Thylias Moss were recent participants; Robert Pinsky and Julianna Baggott are due up tonight. Check it out: The New York Times did a piece yesterday on a website called QuickMuse (http://quickmuse.com) that invites poets to improvise on a topic for fifteen minutes. The results are stored and can be played back as they originally unfolded. You have to take a look to fully understand, but it’s pretty neat, and the poets are top-notch — Paul Muldoon and Thylias Moss were recent participants; Robert Pinsky and Julianna Baggott are due up tonight.

]]> By: January O'Neil http://www.radioopensource.org/living-poetry-living-poets/#comment-74566 January O'Neil Thu, 18 May 2006 01:07:22 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=531#comment-74566 Wonderful show--had the chance to listen to it on my long commute home. I'm familiar with Pinsky's work but had not heard Dietz or Chiasson before, and was pleasantly surprised with their poems. Loved the elephant poems! Wonderful show–had the chance to listen to it on my long commute home. I’m familiar with Pinsky’s work but had not heard Dietz or Chiasson before, and was pleasantly surprised with their poems. Loved the elephant poems!

]]> By: RicHard Ryan Anderson http://www.radioopensource.org/living-poetry-living-poets/#comment-74565 RicHard Ryan Anderson Wed, 17 May 2006 21:08:56 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=531#comment-74565 A Poem: the night was dark the sky was blue and through the sky a toilet flew a man was hit! a scream was heard! a man was killed by a flying turd. - thank you A Poem:

the night was dark

the sky was blue

and through the sky

a toilet flew

a man was hit!

a scream was heard!

a man was killed by a flying

turd.

- thank you

]]> By: spacebo http://www.radioopensource.org/living-poetry-living-poets/#comment-74564 spacebo Wed, 17 May 2006 16:20:06 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=531#comment-74564 jon--the poems of my May 16th post are indeed by Wendell Berry---sorry for the misunderstanding---(today's is my own)---and thank you for explaining 'Three of us...."and for the for the link to "wordplay" with your Whitman essay and your conversation with Robert Pinsky about Walt Whitman on Open Source. You seem very interested in the role of the blogger in society beyond what you call a monolog--you have provoked my thinking about this too--and makes me wonder if blogging in its present nascent state has not yet evolved into being "ART" where the making of the commonplace universal endures. Robert Pinsky's response about the importance of the physicality of Whitman's writing startles us in its truth and simplicity. Truth lies in our behaviors, our actions; words are cheap after all. You would make a great "live" guest on the next poetry show. jon–the poems of my May 16th post are indeed by Wendell Berry—sorry for the misunderstanding—(today’s is my own)—and thank you for explaining ‘Three of us….”and for the for the link to “wordplay” with your Whitman essay and your conversation with Robert Pinsky about Walt Whitman on Open Source. You seem very interested in the role of the blogger in society beyond what you call a monolog–you have provoked my thinking about this too–and makes me wonder if blogging in its present nascent state has not yet evolved into being “ART” where the making of the commonplace universal endures. Robert Pinsky’s response about the importance of the physicality of Whitman’s writing startles us in its truth and simplicity. Truth lies in our behaviors, our actions; words are cheap after all. You would make a great “live” guest on the next poetry show.

]]> By: Hypnomary http://www.radioopensource.org/living-poetry-living-poets/#comment-74563 Hypnomary Wed, 17 May 2006 15:56:56 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=531#comment-74563 Isn't it fabulous the interest poetry is getting these days? I have been so inspired by the talent I see, not just among those who have been fortunate enough to publish, but the people who show up at local open mic readings. The number of teenagers I see showing up at these, rather than "hanging out" or getting into trouble, has lifted my spirits. I leave you with one of my own: We Write "...to taste life twice", Anais said and surely she would know who tasted much, chose her morsels with gutsy grace in times when one had space, time to chew on elegance, dip crust into mulligan stockingless for a taste of bittersweet truth. Love amidst the ruins, feasts in silken gowns, creative conspiracies, typed regurgitatons more flavorful than ever, fed to those more hungry than small birds for life they'd savor if only it were on their menu or in tin lunch boxes. Mary Curro Isn’t it fabulous the interest poetry is getting these days? I have been so inspired by the talent I see, not just among those who have been fortunate enough to publish, but the people who show up at local open mic readings. The number of teenagers I see showing up at these, rather than “hanging out” or getting into trouble, has lifted my spirits. I leave you with one of my own:

We Write

“…to taste life twice”, Anais said

and surely she would know

who tasted much, chose her

morsels with gutsy grace

in times when one had space,

time to chew on elegance,

dip crust into mulligan

stockingless for a taste

of bittersweet truth.

Love amidst the ruins,

feasts in silken gowns,

creative conspiracies,

typed regurgitatons

more flavorful than ever,

fed to those more hungry

than small birds for life

they’d savor if only

it were on their menu

or in tin lunch boxes.

Mary Curro

]]> By: Jon Garfunkel http://www.radioopensource.org/living-poetry-living-poets/#comment-74562 Jon Garfunkel Wed, 17 May 2006 13:14:43 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=531#comment-74562 spacebo -- forgive me, it didn't jump out at me that you were the author of the poem you submitted, I thought it was Wendell Berry. The "Three of us are on our own" was referring to people their own verses. I was also looking for poems "of the moment", this being a *live* medium, after all. Thank you for yours. spacebo — forgive me, it didn’t jump out at me that you were the author of the poem you submitted, I thought it was Wendell Berry. The “Three of us are on our own” was referring to people their own verses.

I was also looking for poems “of the moment”, this being a *live* medium, after all. Thank you for yours.

]]> By: spacebo http://www.radioopensource.org/living-poetry-living-poets/#comment-74561 spacebo Wed, 17 May 2006 13:03:35 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=531#comment-74561 Please excuse my typos---annoying to read I know--sorry.- Please excuse my typos—annoying to read I know–sorry.-

]]> By: spacebo http://www.radioopensource.org/living-poetry-living-poets/#comment-74560 spacebo Wed, 17 May 2006 12:59:54 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=531#comment-74560 As interesting as last ight's poetry show wa i had hoped one of the guests would have been a non-professional poet to give courage and encouragement to other people for whom poetry is just part of living and interpreting life...maybe next time.One of the strongest parts was Chris' immediate visceral reasponse to teach poem read-- such a good model for so many who may be timid to react to poetry from the inside of one's soul. I like allison's idea of random Acts of Poetry. Jon Garfunkel., I am sorry you think there are only 'three of you on your own here''.....I must have misinterpreted what you wrote...instead,just enjoy ..January O'Neilpost...or Mary 's post..I think our individual lives and perceptions of those lives are as important to the collective humanity as is the sound of the sun rising after eight days of rain...and here is a poem for today Listen stepping through wet meadow grasses before light this earliest morning without rainfall you hear hedgerow rustlings louder than the mourning dove's reminder and then there it is sliding upward in a fury of song the sun you can hear the sun rise, you know, as easily as the moon tonight will croon its roundest melody All day and forever these sounds will stay in your day and night. you won't hear the world otherwise you never have. .. As interesting as last ight’s poetry show wa i had hoped one of the guests would have been a non-professional poet to give courage and encouragement to other people for whom poetry is just part of living and interpreting life…maybe next time.One of the strongest parts was Chris’ immediate visceral reasponse to teach poem read– such a good model for so many who may be timid to react to poetry from the inside of one’s soul. I like allison’s idea of random Acts of Poetry. Jon Garfunkel., I am sorry you think there are only ‘three of you on your own here”…..I must have misinterpreted what you wrote…instead,just enjoy ..January O’Neilpost…or Mary ‘s post..I think our individual lives and perceptions of those lives are as important to the collective humanity as is the sound of the sun rising after eight days of rain…and here is a poem for today

Listen

stepping through wet meadow grasses before light this earliest morning without rainfall

you hear hedgerow rustlings

louder than the mourning dove’s reminder

and then there it is

sliding upward in a fury of song

the sun

you can hear the sun rise, you know,

as easily as the moon tonight

will croon its roundest melody

All day and forever these sounds will stay in your day and night.

you won’t hear the world otherwise

you never have.

..

]]> By: January O'Neil http://www.radioopensource.org/living-poetry-living-poets/#comment-74559 January O'Neil Wed, 17 May 2006 12:12:42 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=531#comment-74559 I just donwloaded the show as a podcast--sorry I didn't hear it live. The amount of poetry being written and published online is simply amazing. What I respect about the Internet is that it allows people like me, a wife and mother with a full-time career, to keep up with some of the best contemporary writing today. Poetry is like ivy, it can thrive almost anywhere. Here is a link to my blog, <a href="http://poetmom.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">Poet Mom</a> and my new current favorite, <a href="http://www.poetrythursday.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Poetry Thursday</a>. Both sites are attempts to continue the poetry conversation beyond the classroom. One of my favorite poems is by Tess Gallagher: I Stop Writing the Poem to fold the clothes. No matter who lives or who dies, I'm still a woman. I'll always have plenty to do. I bring the arms of his shirt together. Nothing can stop our tenderness. I'll get back to the poem. I'll get back to being a woman. But for now there's a shirt, a giant shirt in my hands, and somewhere a small girl standing next to her mother watching to see how it's done. I just donwloaded the show as a podcast–sorry I didn’t hear it live.

The amount of poetry being written and published online is simply amazing. What I respect about the Internet is that it allows people like me, a wife and mother with a full-time career, to keep up with some of the best contemporary writing today. Poetry is like ivy, it can thrive almost anywhere.

Here is a link to my blog, Poet Mom and my new current favorite, Poetry Thursday. Both sites are attempts to continue the poetry conversation beyond the classroom.

One of my favorite poems is by Tess Gallagher:

I Stop Writing the Poem

to fold the clothes. No matter who lives

or who dies, I’m still a woman.

I’ll always have plenty to do.

I bring the arms of his shirt

together. Nothing can stop

our tenderness. I’ll get back

to the poem. I’ll get back to being

a woman. But for now

there’s a shirt, a giant shirt

in my hands, and somewhere a small girl

standing next to her mother

watching to see how it’s done.

]]> By: Jon Garfunkel http://www.radioopensource.org/living-poetry-living-poets/#comment-74558 Jon Garfunkel Wed, 17 May 2006 04:26:19 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=531#comment-74558 Caught the second half of the show just now. Chris quoted wordbuzz's quote of Kunitz. But I guess the three of us are on our own here. We're writing verses, because of the groundswell of "citizen's media" movements. Many years hence, people looking for the Great Flood of 2006 will have <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/weather/gallery/readers_rain_photos" rel="nofollow">many 'reader photos'</a> from Boston.com to look through. But how many observations will they have of the sun finally emerging after the first time in almost a week? That's why I interjected that little Dickinsonian verse above. And also that's why why Adam Gaffin at Universal Hub gamely <a href="http://www.universalhub.com/node/4315" rel="nofollow">found a couple of local blog posts</a> of the moment-- though neither of them aimed to be poetic. Caught the second half of the show just now. Chris quoted wordbuzz’s quote of Kunitz.

But I guess the three of us are on our own here. We’re writing verses, because of the groundswell of “citizen’s media” movements.

Many years hence, people looking for the Great Flood of 2006 will have many ‘reader photos’ from Boston.com to look through. But how many observations will they have of the sun finally emerging after the first time in almost a week?

That’s why I interjected that little Dickinsonian verse above. And also that’s why why Adam Gaffin at Universal Hub gamely found a couple of local blog posts of the moment– though neither of them aimed to be poetic.

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