Category: R.M. ENGELHARDT, THE RESURRECTION WALTZ
R.M. ENGELHARDT, THE RESURRECTION WALTZ WEBSITE www.rmengelhardt.com
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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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Edward Thomas : The Poetry Foundation. Edward Thomas 1878–1917 Adlestrop BY EDWARD THOMAS Yes. I remember Adlestrop— The name, because one afternoon Of heat the express-train drew up there Unwontedly. It was late June. The steam hissed. Someone cleared his throat. No one left and no one came On the bare platform. What I saw Was…
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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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By Donald Hall Some days, when you read the newspaper, it seems clear that the United States is a country devoted to poetry. You can delude yourself reading the sports pages. After finding two references to “poetry in motion,” apropos of figure skating and the Kentucky Derby, you read that a shortstop is the poet…
