| Feature Articles, 1998 |
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12/22/98 - Some Questions, Some Answers 12/15/98 - Merry Christmas. Chappy Chanukah. Kool Kwanzaa. 12/08/98 - The Rothko: A New Poetic Form 12/01/98 - Ain't it time for a poem? 11/24/98 - To Feel the Poem Dance 11/12/98 - The San Francisco Bay Area Book Festival 11/03/98 - Society of Underground Poets Festival, Lexington, KY 10/27/98 - SemiCento, Part II 10/20/98 - SemiCento, A “Stitched Together” Poem 10/13/98 - Janet Hamill's Three Rules for Performance Poems 09/30/98 - Travelers' Guide / Coming Home 09/22/98 - Fernando Pessoa: Poet as Poetry 09/12/98 - Back To School Special 09/01/98 - Poetry in China Today 08/25/98 - Slam Grows Up As It Blows Up 08/18/98 - The Dream of the World of Poetry 08/11/98 - Preface to A Rebirth Announcement Haiku 08/04/98 - Just A Moment: Paul Blackburn... 07/28/98 - A Community of Poets: Fact and Myth 07/21/98 - How the Ginsberg Memorial That Didn't Happen... 07/14/98 - Why Slam Causes Pain and Is a Good Thing 07/07/98 - Rinaldo Rasa & Alan Sondheim 06/30/98 - Road Tripping with Poetry Alive! 06/23/98 - Patricia Smith, Journalism & Poetry 06/16/98 - New Heavyweight Poet Crowned! 06/09/98 - Tapping My Own Phone: poems & stories 06/02/98 - How to Make a CD: A Poet's Perspective, Part II 05/26/98 - How to Make a CD: A Poet's Perspective, Part I 05/19/98 - Zen and the Art of Poetry: Parables by Mike Topp 05/12/98 - “If I Were Chubby Checker,... 05/05/98 - David Thomas' DISASTODROME, Part II 04/28/98 - David Thomas' DISASTODROME 04/21/98 - Mimeo Cyber Po: Paul Copeland & Rinaldo Rasa 04/14/98 - It's Always National Poetry Month! 04/07/98 - My First Poem 03/31/98 - Poets Work 03/24/98 - Creative Cursing: A Poet's Disstionary 03/17/98 - Poetry Flash from Deutschland: Till Müller-Klug 03/10/98 - Making Real Yeats' Gyres 03/03/98 - RIP, Brother Man, Jack Micheline 02/24/98 - From Tyler to XYZ 02/17/98 - The Mount 02/10/98 - Why I Love Anne Elliott Is Revealed 02/03/98 - SLAM! A Raw Poem of a Movie 01/27/98 - Cantos to Blood and Honey: Taste Joy! 01/20/98 - “Home Is Where the Music Is” 01/13/98 - Technological Report 01/06/98 - Dance With This Man!
On “the spoken word movement of the 1990's”... A slow slouch towards Utopia. When we're all poets, the politicians will have to look for a day job.
Yes, 'tis the season to try to figure out what to BUY for everybody. We must all do our part. So, this year, why not give the gift of poetry?
Call 'em haikus. Naw, call 'em Rothkos... and get those colors in there while you're at it, like a tic-tac-toe.
How About “Sex With a Famous Poet”? The best Poem of the Day online is dished up by Anastasios Kozaitis... and Denise Duhamel is one of poetry's most raucous unstoppable young voices.
A report from the First International Poetry Olympics held in Stockholm, Sweden last month via email interview with Gary Glazner, individual champion.
Poetry sustained by community: The event was overflowing with an anarcho, dedicated-to-lit energy that mirrors the City by the Bay's centrality to US poetics history.
Report from the front: This year's SoUPFest was a stunning example of poetry's continuing engagement with the daily life of the nation's citizenry.
Serial Poets Kill 4,000 at Bookfair Dinner: A report of the premiere performance.
When the Frankfurt Buchmesse turns fifty, and Bob Holman is commissioned to write the occasional verse, voila!... the poem gathers poets from all cultures and times to say Happy Birthday, What Is a Poem?
Rhythm, hooks, simplicity. Three keys for a poem that will work in performance. Thanks, Janet!
Poetry can bring us together; a poem that allows us inside as we move, mutually, towards a center called love is rare indeed.
More than any other human, he lived life solely in his poems, his life a shell for the literary movement that was himself.
Professor Bob Holman's “Exploding Text: Poetry in Performance”: Our intrepid PoGuide takes up residence as Visiting Professor of Writing at Bard College this semester.
“Tea House Rappers, Crusification and the Slammer”: A letter sent home by our friend Gary Mex Glazner, who is midway in his year of circling the globe as a wandering poet...
A report from the 9th annual National Poetry Slam in Austin, Texas: It was a treat and a tribute, a coming of age and a Headbanger's Ball.
Remarks by Bob Holman at the XXth Biennale Internationale de la Poésie: Poets of the World, Rewrite! I mean, Unite! I take off my hat to you.
For Amiri Baraka, on birthday numero sesenta: Deeper'n'deeper'n'deeper'n'deep / Voice, where you lead us? / The way out Way Out / Song itself sings itself...
And the fragmentation of the New American Poetry: He was a walking exponent of the oral tradition...with the word at the center and poets breathing them in and out... First the Poem. Then, the Theory.
A clatter of poets. A scatter of poets... As individualistic as writing is, in practice writers have always helped each other. To a point... It's time to push the point.
...Happened: A report from the trenches of the future from Birgitta Jonsdottir of Reykjavik, Iceland.
A poetical explication of Slam phenomena by Bob Holman: Because Slam is Unfair. / Because Slam is too much fun. / Because poetry. / Because rules. / Because poetry rules....
Poems take shape on the screen: We see a poem on a screen as a poem, a connector of linguistic holistic hooliganisms, a shameless shaman sham'n'truth shake.
Tour doodles from Wendi Loomis.... I walk into tomorrow's school armed only with poetry, hoping I have enough ammunition to get out alive.
Shall we meditate on Truth? As the nation's foremost Slam poet, she speaks the voices of those who have not been heard.... As a journalist, Patricia Smith is a great poet -- she gets at the truth under the skin.
The one and only SofaSurf Poet Extraordinaire, Miz Juliette Torrez reports from the Taos Poetry Circus. Poetry Channel #46 was so chockfull of noize that we had to Feature it... the BIG news is a brand-new Heavyweight Champeen -- read on!
Ron Whitehead's new CD reviewed: Appalachia in all its lost-in-the-holler glory and the Beat zone of poesie in full utopian regalia....
How finished the book feels! unlike the ever-ongoingness of the poems. With a CD it's different.... Mind dances, under the headphones, to poetry on CD.
First, make up poems for twenty-odd years.... look on CD, like book, as a vehicle for Poem's Wild Ride.
Mike “The Spinner” Topp's parables allow for a truth, but only when ROTFL....
..., How I Would Change the World”: A meditation on a passage from Eldridge Cleaver's Soul On Ice by Steve Greenberg.
“Refine yourself in the fire of the moment,” says Man to Mirror. “Burn baby Burn!” replies Mirror... Off you go then. Stand by, Earthman. Where?
The Poet reports from backstage, on stage, front row center: I had the perfect Olympian vantage point for this Masterpiece of Spontaneous Creation.
We at About.com Poetry have a bent towards mimeo cyberpo, the lo-tech arrangement of characters and words into a concrete, graphic representation. And we love showing off our far-flung poets.
The Po-Year-In-Review, from the end of the Beat era through Nike ads, slams & festivals, to the year's best poetry recordings....
Before I wrote my first poem I heard my first poem... one of those mythical schoolyard rhymes, handed down by who knows how many children....
Here's a journey into the dailiness of the lives of the poets -- how do we make a living?
Poets Bite! And Daniel Zimmerman's got a word bead on ya.... floats word bombs that invite snortin' retortin' and gaffe-in' guffawin'.
German Cyber Slammer, he has been known to perform at his home club in Berlin, SO36, using only the light from a reindeer cigarette lighter for illumination.
An account of a program of opposites, Lucie Brock-Broido reading with Bob Holman... & something tectonic was bound to happen.
Jack Micheline, painter, poet, the guy next to you at the bar, boho, true spirit, grizzled guzzler of all U.S. could offer, pappy, sappy, smart sass and free-flow po.... No one can keep you out of Heaven.
Mike Tyler & Emily XYZ: two of our favorite poets get down with a million eyes and a few yi-yis.
A behind-the-scenes tale from the making of The United States of Poetry, guaranteed to incite insight into that most delicious of contempo marriages: Poetry vs. Television.
An email interview with Anne Elliott, terrific poet & the publisher/editor of Big Fat Press, who with Big Soul and Talent, tiny bucks and fantastic art (design) sense has made some of the loveliest books of the past few years.
...wins best feature at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. This is the recipe for a movie for a new millennium.
Here's the language mix that puts Miami in your eye.... Read the words of Adrian Castro, new poet singing like a cucu and bopping flesh back to life.
A review of Victor Hernandez Cruz' Panoramas: Here's the latest fresh roasted off Coffee House Press, perhaps the best “small” press in the country, stepping to the heartbeat of la poesia nueva.
Announcing the new Built-in Orderly Organized Knowledge device called B.O.O.K.: Once again, an anonymous Genius Grant Deservee has created a solid-state mania reconfig of the void.
Slim Moon's Kill Rock Stars label is the great hope both of indie records and poetry's purity and more than that, it rocks.
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