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The Battle of The New Yorker: A Diary 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.
A Community of Poets: Fact and Myth The Dream of the World of Poetry Fast Approach to a Turning Point How to Make a CD: A Poet’s Perspective, Part I How to Make a CD: A Poet’s Perspective, Part II If You Can’t Beat ’Em, Join ’Em, or How the Beat Chicks Hatched Mediaization, Democratization, Popularization Mimeo / Cordel The Mount My First Poem Once Again, Poetry Is Dead? Piñero & the Poet’s Life Poetry in China Today Poetry In Times Like These The Poetry Kids from Pittsburgh Poetry Snapshot: The State of the Art 2000 Poets Laureate of the U.S.A. Poets Work Po-Year-In-Review 1997/8 Three Generations in the 70’s
In 1995, Sparrow & the Unbearables descended on The New Yorker with poems, chants & slogans: “GIVE OUR POEMS HOEMS.” Sparrow is our National Town Crier; here is his journal of that time.
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.
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.
Approaching millennium winter, a big round-up of fall 1999 poetry doings -- CDs, chaps, anthologies, shows & poets are quitting their day jobs....
First, make up poems for twenty-odd years.... look on CD, like book, as a vehicle for Poem’s Wild Ride.
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.
Marj Hahne writes on seeing the women of the Beat generation doing poetry at Beatfest -- “Thank the Goddess... they persisted in spite of their invisibility.”
Poetry Makes Its Move Move... reclaiming its oral roots.... That is the way we begin to respect all our individual voices: by hearing the poet in each of us.
Alternative distribution means of poetry, from the mimeo revolution of the 60s to Brazilian literatura de cordel, “poetry on a string.”
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.
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....
Victor Infante offers a rebuttal to Bruce Wexler’s article in Newsweek, “Poetry Is Dead, Does Anybody Really Care?”
Michael Salinger talks with Dahveed Ben Israel of the Last Poets after a screening of the poetic biopic, Piñero -- fertile ground for a conversation about the poet’s lifestyle, the relation between suffering and creativity, poetic communities and the arts’ affirmation of life.
“Tea House Rappers, Crusification and the Slammer”: A letter sent home by our friend Gary Mex Glazner, from midway in his year of circling the globe as a wandering poet.
An essay by Victor Infante on the place of poetry in time of crisis: “...while many Americans hied themselves to church to find solace, I found myself... at a poetry reading.”
A Report from the Front of the Poetry Wars: Here comes 19-year-old Jasin from Pittsburgh to remind us why we write ’em, and how the “Sullen Art” (Dylan Thomas), the Solitary Muse, is going pop, communal, active...
A composite photograph of the state of the art of poetry all across North America right now, during National Poetry Month 2000, taken through the lenses of our network of Museletter correspondents.
A Net-annotated list.
Here’s a journey into the dailiness of the lives of the poets -- how do we make a living?
It’s Always National Poetry Month! A review since the last NatPoMo, from the end of the Beat era through Nike ads, slams & festivals, to the year’s best poetry recordings....
Memoir of a Chicago Po-Renaissance: “I lived in the basement of the Whole Earth Store, spending the days reading all the poetry in the store and ordering more.”
