Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "Populist Manifesto No. 1." Poets, come out of your closets. Open your windows. Open your doors. You've been holed up too long. No time now for our little literary games. No time now for our paranoias and hypochondrias. No time now for fear and loathing. Time now only for light and love. Poets, … Continue reading I Am The Door …
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The Last Real Poet
The Last Real Poet By R.M. Engelhardt THE LAST REAL POET The last real poetSits alone by himselfSomewhere in a cabinIn Upstate NYAround the age of 95 Still alive But they all forgot about himYears Ago The prizesThe many lives manyLoves he had once His memory fadesFrom time to timeUnsure if it was all real … Continue reading The Last Real Poet
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POEMS : R.M. ENGELHARDT
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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry ~ Kerouac
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The Mystery of Vachel Lindsay
How did the most visible poet in America—and a father of the Beats—become nearly forgotten? Vachel Lindsay Photograph by Victor George. To readers who have enjoyed these monthly “Classic Poem” discussions: In order to keep them going while not driving the poetry editor over the edge and at the same time to introduce some … Continue reading The Mystery of Vachel Lindsay
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War All The Time
“This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The … Continue reading War All The Time
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KEROUAC
JACK KEROUAC 12 march 1922 - 21 october 1969 A poet is a fellow who spends his time thinking about what it is that’s wrong, and although he knows he can never quite find out what this wrong is, he goes right on thinking it out and writing it down. A poet is a blind … Continue reading KEROUAC
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