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I, David Ignatow to the International Drag Poets Ball

David Ignatow
David Ignatow was the kind of poet most poets wish they could be -- his heart-rich poems have been called “deceptively plain-spoken.” The tribute at the Poetry Society of America site, written by Harvey Shapiro after his death, contains both one of Ignatow’s poems & a poem written for him by Karen Swenson.
Bowerbird Intelligentleman
Bowerbird Intelligentleperson makes flying forays onto the Net from his Boomerang Soup! If you don’t know Sr. Oiseau, we must forewarn: he’s the truest conceptual self-created po-maven this planetside, whose camera pen and screen paper would send Warhol screeding to the Joke Factory. If he were alive, that is. (Life is a precondition to screeding.)
The International Drag Poets Ball
The place to be to be scene is sans doute and sans everything. Step Back and Spit Out the Tongue of Poetry at the International Drag Poets Ball!

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