Subject: Re: Portfolios
From: Jim Rovira (jrovira@drew.edu)
Date: Fri May 10 2002 - 14:46:58 EDT
righto...that's exactly the problem. Everyone wants everyone else to read
THEIR poetry, but no one reads the poetry of OTHERS. That was a real
problem in the writing group I ran too. It's pretty self centered. And
when you have self centered poets, you have bad poets...people tend to
think that because they're writing with deep feeling, deep feeling will be
communicated through their work. People tend not to think it's also a
matter of discipline and study and concern for what readers are interested
in reading.
Oh well :).
Jim
Cecilia Baader wrote:
>
> --- Jim Rovira <jrovira@drew.edu> wrote:
> > heh...nothing's wrong with poetry. :) I read it too too much. Just FAR
> > MORE people write it than can write it. Reading bad poetry is like
> > listening to knock knock jokes by a four year old. It goes on forever
> > and never gets any better...
>
> Ah, but sometimes it's good. Damn good. The trouble is, almost nobody
> reads poetry anymore, and even fewer people publish it. Everyone,
> however, appears to write it.
>
> Billy Collins, the United States poet laureate, is sponsoring an
> organization which is trying to bring modern poetry back to schools. To
> this end, they've put together a website called Poetry 180. The idea is
> that you can read a poem a day with your class.
>
> You can access the poems through this page:
>
> http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/p180-list.html
>
> Do yourself a favor and click on "The Blue Bowl" by Jane Kenyon.
>
> Regards,
> Cecilia.
>
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