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

[Chris Stroffolino]

I keep thinking of that song by a british "punkish" band from the 80s,
"we're the 51st state of america"

(though maybe mr. GROSSMAN meant canada, or the district of columbia



On Jun 9, 2007, at 2:29 PM, Linda Sue Grimes wrote:

> Would someone please tell me the name of the 51st state?
>
> lsg
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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
>
> 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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>
> See what's free at AOL.com.
>
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