[New-Poetry] Poetry gets uppity and some folks don't like that...

[cralan kelder]

mmm, puerto rico is sometimes referred to as the 51st state?

I think because puerto ricans are  entitled passport holders...maybe us
virgin islands 

not 100% sure on this, being a poet and all. my guess is that 51st state is
kinda derogatory, a way to describe places under us jurisdiction, but not
admitted into the club, cause we¹d have to change all those flags,
in slam poetic terms, it seems nicer & inclusive.





On 6/9/07 11:29 PM, "Linda Sue Grimes" <suelin7184 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Would someone please tell me the name of the 51st state?
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>> Subject: [New-Poetry] Poetry gets uppity  and some folks don't like that...
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>> http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1630571,00.html
>> Poems  for the People
>> Thursday, Jun. 07, 2007 By LEV GROSSMAN  Enlarge  Photo
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>> Champion students representing all 51 states, stand on stage at the  Poetry
>> Out Loud Competition at George Washington University in D.C., May of  2007.
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>> In 1876 an American Civil War veteran named Eli Lilly founded a
>> pharmaceutical company. He did pretty well for himself: you can thank Eli
>> Lilly & Co. for, among other things, methadone, Cialis and Prozac. But
>> Lilly's reclusive great-granddaughter Ruth is apparently more interested in
>> poems than in Prozac.
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>> Chances are, you don't read much poetry, at least not the new stuff.  Don't
>> feel bad, hardly anybody does. To hit the best-seller list for verse, a  book
>> has to sell only around 30 copies. Poetry is the spinach in America's  media
>> diet: good for you, occasionally baked into other, tastier dishes (like  the
>> cameo that W.H. Auden's Funeral Blues made in Four Weddings and a Funeral)
>> but rarely consumed on its own. In the hierarchy of cultural pursuits it sits
>> somewhere just below classical music and just above clogging.
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