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Archipoetry 101 The Authoritative List of Schools of American Poetics Back To School Special 1998 Bad Poetry Seminar by Sparrow The Center Cannot Hold: Slam, Academia & the Battle for America’s Bourgeoisie. Victor Infante writes on the generational cycles of poets & poetic institutions, class & politics in American poetry, slam poetry’s evolution into a new establishment.
Dante & the Response Poem The First Rule of the Internet Is Access -- But What About Children? Found Poems: “What’s the Hipster to the Slammer?” Griottes & Griots Herman Berlandt’s International Poetry Museum The Limit Is Limitless: Edwin Torres on Performance Poetry in the Digital Age Multivoice Poetry Ensembles Notes Towards Exploding “Exploding Text: Poetry Performance.” Painted Bride Quarterly Tossed Across Earthside Cyberstoops Poetry & Political Comment: Stranded? Poets Way: Boulder Blazes a Poetic Trail The Pollock: A New Poetic Form Re: ACCESS The Real Chancellors of American Poetry Remembering Poetry: Learn’t by Heart Reviews That Should Have Been Written: Poetry, The Press, and Public Space The Rothko: A New Poetic Form SemiCento, A “Stitched Together” Poem So You Wanna Host a Poetry Reading Series? Sparrow’s Mathemetrics Spree The Teenage (R)evolution of Poetry; The Poetic (R)evolution Of Teenagers: James Kass of Youth Speaks writes about bringing poetry into the schools, because “the next generation can speak for itself!”
The Three Tenets of Imagism Translating Ginsberg’s Queer Shoulder: Raymond Federman’s Tiny Essay The Ultimate Rejection Letter Unblock! Ten Rules To Write First Time, Every Time Victor Hugo’s Best Stanza WebSter’s All New Collegiate Poetry NetZine Wm. Blake & 3 Li’l Voids
Gary Mex Glazner explores community building with Albuquerque poets & architects... & Poet’s Plaza becomes a reality.
When we ran across Bob Grumman’s post on the Language list, we knew we’d stumbled into a major black hole.
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.
There is a Bad Poetry Explosion... and you can be part of it! Join Sparrow’s Bad Poetry Seminar.
We’re all for Formalism, especially when you make up the forms... David Shapiro & Frank Lima create another kind of collaboration, the Response Poem.
Poetry is always on the front of the profanity issue. So when we are called on it here at About Poetry, we reply, best we know how.
As we move into a new millennium, let’s remember Poetry Everywhere... the ever-opening relevance of found poems is up to you, Dear Readers!
A review of Thomas Hale’s book & more -- how the griots, keepers of the oral tradition, are at once witnesses to history, arbiters of the present, and seers into the future....
Coming soon to a dream near you... Marj Hahne invites us to envision the reality of “Museum: a shrine to the muses” materializing now in San Francisco.
Asked to respond to “The move away from the orthodoxy of the book and printed page -- towards what? Poetry in the age of Story Space and Disney...,” he says “The limit is limitless...”
Universes / i was born with two tongues: These groups turn the poem into a communal act... they punch a hole in the future, a sweet opening for a new literature -- people-driven, with searing content, and not afraid of beauty.
From a Prof who straddles the abyss between Academe & Slam: some notes on how to take Action within the Ivory Tower.
Museletter correspondent Marj Hahne talks with the editors of the venerable PBQ about its reincarnation on the Web in the year 2000 (its 27th year of publication).
Speaking on “The Future of Poetry,” Mark Strand preaches political indifference at UC Irvine & our own Victor Infante offers a response.
Project Director Michael Evans-Smith outlines the development of a public art project that brings Poetry to & into life, poets’ voices “in the footprints of time, engraved in the sandstone that visitors will walk upon.”
John Yau’s “830 Fireplace Road (2)”: The Pollock takes its place beside our previous feature the Rothko as a new poetic form inspired by a painter.
All we are is a poetry Web site with the idea that poetry can change the world, ok?
In a discussion of the various crises of the Chancellorships at the Academy of American Poets, we challenged Jeff McDaniel to create a whole new Academy and he gave us this total crossover roster.
A step-by-step how-to by Bob Holman: You memorize because you have to... You have to make this poem your own.
Marj Hahne reports the lively discussion between poets Charles Bernstein, Amiri Baraka, Eileen Myles & Jennifer Moxley, and reviewers Alan Golding & Steve Evans at the May 2000 Philadelphia symposium.
Call ’em haikus. Naw, call ’em Rothkos... and get those colors in there while you’re at it, like a tic-tac-toe.
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?
PoeticLicense founder & Museletter correspondent Larry Jaffe speaks from experience on how to get started hosting a poetry reading series.
Having conquered the worm of Dirty Words in his Bad Poetry Curriculum, Sparrow, former Presidential candidate and full-time Poet Laureate of Comic Relief, has invented a new poetic form: Mathemetrics.
Professor Holman’s “Exploding Text” presents... “Nay, whatever comes / One hour was sunlit...”
Something’s lost in the translation -- is that the poetry? And something’s gained -- the illusion that homo sapiens actually communicate... These are the queries in Raymond Federman’s “Reflections Concerning the Translation of Poetry.”
An open letter from Poetfest editor/publisher Robert J. Tiess about the state of the art of poetry.
Bob Holman has the tools to open our poetic taps for the new millennium -- “Never forget: writing is the application of the seat of one’s pants, to the seat of one’s chair... So stand up!”
A translation by Bob Holman: When asked to choose, Valéry responded “Isn’t this like the way children eat cakes -- picking out the almonds to crunch, feeding the rest to the dog?”
ManifeStationary!! “I proclaim no I! / Language itself weaves the Web...”
I love you, the greatest sentence of them all. My best friend has steadfastly refused to say these words his whole life....
