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2 Poetry Events in Hyannis This week!!
Started Mar. 26, 2008
Will we dance at the end of the world? - a poem
Replied Mar. 10, 2008
If Obama Was White
Replied Mar. 2, 2008
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- Yarmouthport, MA
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- About Me:
- Poet, Biker, Journalist, DJ, Activist, Educator, Carpenter. AA in Liberal Arts (Cape Cod Community College); BA English Lit & Creative Writing (UMass Dartmouth); MFA in Poetry (New England College). Host of online radio program, "The Poets Corner" 92.1-Fm Provincetown and www.womr.org (every Thursday afternoon 12:45 to 1:00). Co-host of poetry venue "The Poets Corner" out of The Black Spot Cafe, Hyannis, MA, last Thursday of every month; editor/publisher of The Cape Poet literary journal (quarterly) and journalist/writer (including author of "The Meter Man" monthly poetry column), The Barnstable Patriot newspaper. Editor of the anthology "Dancing On Water" (Cape Cod Community College 2002) and editor of Biker Poetry anthology, "Rubber Side Down," 2008. Author of 2 poetry chapbooks WHAT WE DO (Salt Winds Press, 1997) and GINSBERG IS DEAD (Cape Cod Community College 2000). Named Massachusetts POET OF THE YEAR 2001 Cambridge Poetry Awards and producer of BEST POETRY EVENT OF THE YEAR 2001 Cambridge Poetry Awards for shows "Generations of Black Male Voices" (w/ Amiri Baraka, Corey Cokes, Everett Hoagland & Gary Hicks) and "Independent Female Voices" (w/ Staceyanne Chin, Marie St. Hilaire and Mary Ellen Redmond), to benefit Cape Cod's battered women's shelter, INDEPENDENCE HOUSE.
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- (in no particular order) Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka, Anne Waldman, Alicia Ostriker, Martin Espada, Marge Piercy, Sharon Olds, Joy Harjo, Sherman Alexi, Ernesto Cardenal, Lawrence Ferlinghettit, Dennis Brutus, Gwendolyn Brooks, Yusef Komunyakaa, The Negritude Poets such as Aime Cesaire, Russian poets Anna Ahkmatova and Vladimir Khlebnikov, Fernando Pessoa, Walt Whitman, Pablo Neruda, Frederico Garcia Lorca, Jorge Luis Borges, Elizabeth Bishop, Mumia, Langston Hughes, The Portuguese Surrealists, Claude McKay, Etheridge Knight, Elizabeth McKim, Charles Coe, Richard Cambridge, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Natasha Trethewey, Carolyn Forshe, B.H. Fairchild, HD, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Jack Kerouac, Lamont Steptoe, Corey Cokes, Colorado T. Sky, J. Barrett Wolf, K. Peddlar Bridges, Patricia Smith, Regie Gibson, Jeff Streeby, Michael Waters, Jeff Friedman, Ross Gay, Gerald Stern, Maxine Kumin, Anne Marie Macari, Paula McLain, Ilya Kaminsky, Chard DeNoird, Iyeoka, Oz, Larry Jaffe, Sara O'Rourke, Danny Solis, Molena Morling, Rebecca Howell, Jina Huh, Lea Dechennes, Lea Banks, Truth Thomas, Stephan Delbos, Cinnamon Stuckey, Dorinda Wegener, Jennifer Monroe, Taryn Corrina, Karie Friedman, Charles Mencel, Nigel Bowen-Morris and all the poets of the Cooncooket River School of Poetry!
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Espada - Political Poetry at its best
At a recent poetry reading in Cambridge, I overheard a poet in the audience tell another, “I’ve had it with poems on Iraq, enough Iraq poems already.” The poet went on to explain that if you’ve heard one Iraq War poem, you’ve heard them all. He continued discussing the problems with political poems in general, speaking to the craft of poetry, seemingly more concerned with the craft rather than the content.
Arguably, there is plenty of political poetry out there these days that… Continue
Posted on February 18, 2008 at 9:01pm —
Whitman, Protest & The Rant; An American Tradition
Posted on February 3, 2008 at 10:40pm —
In Search of Emily Dickinson
Posted on February 3, 2008 at 6:12pm — 1 Comment
Political Cultures & Poetry
Nowadays it has become commonplace to frown upon political poetry. I was once told by an audience member at a poetry and politics panel discussion, “the problem with political poets is most them know nothing about writing in proper form.”
In all actuality, this may be true. A more valid point may be the impact any poetry has on soc
… ContinuePosted on February 3, 2008 at 3:32pm — 4 Comments
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was terrific! Also I have really enjoyed reading Rubberside Down.
Regards,
Edward.
Have a nice day!
Thanks for the friend invitation!
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Sandeep
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