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

[Jason Quackenbush]

Ted Berriganland
Linda Sue Grimes wrote:
> Would someone please tell me the name of the 51st state?
>  
> lsg
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>     *From:* JforJames at aol.com <mailto:JforJames at aol.com>
>     *To:* new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu <mailto:new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
>     *Sent:* Saturday, June 09, 2007 2:59 PM
>     *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
>      
>     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.
>      
>     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.
>      
>     ---
>      
>     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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