[New-Poetry] International Poetry Museum

[Helen Ruggieri]

I knew there were some magazines that served as poetry museums but I didn't 
realize there was an
actual building.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Cervantes" <cervantes.james at gmail.com>
To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &amp,Views" 
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Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 8:52 AM
Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] International Poetry Museum


> On 8/7/06, Anny Ballardini <anny.ballardini at tin.it> wrote:
>>
>>
>> July 18, 2006
>> source: International Poetry Museum press release
>>
>> The International Poetry Museum, the first of its kind in the world, has
>> established its headquarters in San Francisco by way of the National 
>> Poetry
>> Association, to promote an active dedication to poets and poetry. Both
>> Poetry Flash and the American Poetry Review along with 40 world class 
>> poets
>> have supported the campaign for the creation of the International Poetry
>> Museum. Not only poets but notables such as mayor, Gavin Newsom, US
>> Representative, Nancy Pelosi and a list of others are in hearty support. 
>> The
>> expanding library, currently holds volumes of poetry from over 50 
>> countries,
>> from Afghanistan to Zambia.
>>
>> http://www.internationalpoetrymuseum.org
>> info at internationalpoetrymuseum.org
>>
>
> Why is the library space so small?  And why "museum" instead of
> "library" or "archives"? And why has it rained so much in El Paso?
>
> -- Jim
>
> "The weaknesses are that some want the river and others want the
> pseudoparadise. Steve and Lupe represented both and went about
> achieving their dream by redefining the world one entry at a time, A
> to Z, and with considerable links to their past lives. When they
> weren't hard at work, they loved to talk about who would inhabit
> pseudoparadise.  But that always ended in an unsettling silence when
> they had to admit that no species lives forever." - fr. Frogs,
> Woodpeckers, Owls, & Couples, A.A. Stemple
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