[New-Poetry] International Poetry Museum

[Anny Ballardini]

Let me continue, please,

I knew there were some poets who were museums, _matusalemmi_ decrepit 
fossils
(I am not talking of age: what are we but a whiff of opaque smoke in the 
dense smog)

From: "Helen Ruggieri" <hruggier at localnet.com>
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 6:37 PM


>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" 
> <new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
> 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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