Category: Poetry
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Poetry is dying. Actually, it’s pretty dead already for all intents and purposes and the rise of performance poetry slams is doing nothing to help matters. I know, I used to be a performance poet. The first poetry slam competition was held in Chicago in 1984. Named after a brutal wrestling move, the slam saw…
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I have met them at close of day Coming with vivid faces From counter or desk among grey Eighteenth-century houses. I have passed with a nod of the head Or polite meaningless words, Or have lingered awhile and said Polite meaningless words, And thought before I had done Of a mocking tale or a…
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THE NEW VERSE MOVEMENT HAS ARRIVED THE “NEW VERSE MOVEMENT” HAS ARRIVED. THE SCHOOL OF NIGHT OPEN MIC FOR POETS, POETRY & WRITERS RETURNS TO DOWNTOWN ALBANY, NY ON THURSDAY, APRIL 11TH The Pearl Street Pub & Dirty Martini Lounge In Albany NO RULES. NO SCORES. NO AGENDAS. JUST YOUR WORDS ARE REQUIRED. 7:30pm Sign Up…
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Poetry, John Timberman Newcomb believes, has lost status in recent years. In the introduction to his new book, How Did Poetry Survive? The Making of Modern American Verse (University of Illinois Press), Newcomb argues that American poetry has been “segregat[ed] … from modern social experience” — with the result that poetry is hardly even considered “literature”…
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PLEASE BUY THE NEW BOOK FRANK HIGHLY RECOMMENDS IT
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THE ZERO YEAR Trans-ferance. Voice Of Angels Voice Of Nothing Voice Of Prophets Voice Of God The Voice Of Self The Waiting, (The Dead) Receptacles…Shells Of No Certainty. Never`Land. Stuck in denial, Traffic, Chaos To tell the tale, Trans-MIT dim echoes Of ancient lies, eternal Of night-sleep Obscuring~Blinding Dark. For Forever Is Never A Forever…
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I am waiting for my number to be called and I am waiting for the Salvation Army to take over and I am waiting for the meek to be blessed and…
