[New-Poetry] Info request on ONE LESS journal Nikki Widner
Alexander Jorgensen
jorgensen_a at yahoo.com
Fri Mar 9 13:49:30 EST 2007
Am trying to obtain information on ONE LESS and,
better yet, its editor Nikki Widner. Please
backchannel if you might be able to provide some
information. ONE LESS is/was a wonderful journal out
of Williamsburg, Mass.
Regards,
agj
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> 4. Re: Todd Davis from the Writer's Almanac (Anny
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> story (though I'll
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> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 12:38:31 -0500
> From: "Suzanne Burns" <queenmouse at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] bad blurbs by others:
> Dorothy Parker
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> I think Ms. Parker also wrote in a particularly
> scathing review:
> "So-and-so's poetry will be read long after Homer,
> Shakespeare, and Keats
> are forgotten-- but not until then."
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> :-)
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> From: Alexander Dickow <alexdickow9 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [New-Poetry] poetry degrees
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> "And my Harvard / degree didn’t help"
>
> Ain't that the truth? I much prefer my Halvard
> degree.
> Amicalement,
> Alex
>
> www.alexdickow.net/blog/
>
> les mots! ah quel désert à la fin
> merveilleux. -- Henri Droguet
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> Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 14:05:06 -0500
> From: jforjames at aol.com
> Subject: [New-Poetry] a book that takes pride in its
> imperfections
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> The Strains of Inspiration
> by JONATHAN R&EACUTE;E
> [from the March 12, 2007 issue]
>
> Samuel Taylor Coleridge made quite a splash with his
> first book, a small volume of Poems on Various
> Subjects printed and published in Bristol in the
> spring of 1796. He was a young man, 23 years of age,
> well-known in the Bristol area as a lecturer and
> dissenting lay preacher, and notorious as a
> political radical, or--to use the language of the
> time--a "democrat" and "liberty man." He now took
> the opportunity to expatiate in verse on his
> commitment to "equality," his "joy" at the blood-red
> French Revolution, his longing to live in a
> community without "individual property" and his
> hopes of moving to America with his democratic
> friends to "follow the sweet dream,/Where
> Susquehannah pours his untam'd stream." He
> compounded the provocation with a long philosophical
> poem in which his energetic Christianity was
> harnessed to the heretical themes of Unitarianism
> and pantheism and further onslaughts on private
> ownership as the root of all evil. But what really
> stirred up Coleridge's re!
> aders, at a time when poetry was debated with as
> much passion as politics or religion, was his
> peculiar literary style.
>
> Poems on Various Subjects is a book that takes pride
> in its imperfections.
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> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 20:39:28 +0100
> From: "Anny Ballardini" <anny.ballardini at tin.it>
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Todd Davis from the
> Writer's Almanac
> To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &
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> Re: [New-Poetry] Todd Davis from the Writer's
> AlmanacIt's incredible, isn't it?
> From: Elaine Brown
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 2:21 PM
>
>
> Thank you for posting that, Anny!
>
>
> On 3/8/07 6:39 AM, "Anny Ballardini"
> <anny.ballardini at tin.it> wrote:
>
>
> Poem: "Prayer Requests at a Mennonite Church" by
> Todd Davis from Some Heaven. © Michigan State
> University Press. Reprinted with permission. (buy
> now
>
<http://www.elabs7.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=fj6,2gis,dv,4kje,g9f8,3hrs,fxvj>
> )
>
> Prayer Requests at a Mennonite Church
>
> Pray for the Smucker family. Their son
> Nathaniel's coat and shirt were
> caught in the gears while grinding grain.
> Nothing would give, so now
> he is gone. We made his clothes too well.
> Perhaps this is our sin.
>
> Pray for the Birky family. Their son Jacob fell
> to his death in the
> granary. He was covered in corn before they
> could stop the pouring~
> chest crushed by the weight, seed spilling from
> his mouth. We hope
> something will grow from this, besides our
> grief.
>
> Pray for the Hartzler family. Their youngest has
> left the church and no
> longer believes that Christ died for her sins.
> She buys clothes at the
> mall. Tongue pierced, nose as well. Her shirt
> shows her belly where a
> ring of gold sprouts. We pray she will remember
> that her Lord's side
> was pierced, that His crown held no gold, only
> the dried blood of His
> brow.
>
> Pray for the Miller family. Last week their
> daughter, who lives in
> Kalona, lost her baby at birth. Child only
> half-formed: head turned the
> wrong way; heart laid on the outside of her
> chest; one leg little more
> than an afterthought. Lord, help them know that
> life may come again,
> that we are all made whole in heaven.
>
> Pray for the Stutzman family. Their son fights
> in the war. We call him
> back to the Prince of Peace, to our Savior who
> knelt to gather the
> slave's ear, brushed the dirt away, lifted it to
> the side of his flushed face.
> May we leave no scars. May we ask no blessing
> for the killing done in
> His name.
>
>
>
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> http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/
>
> http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome
> http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html
> I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to
> give birth to a dancing star!
> Friedrich Nietzsche
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> Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 15:49:07 -0500
> From: Elaine Brown <hawkbrwn at msn.com>
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Todd Davis from the
> Writer's Almanac
> To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &
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> Yes! It¹s powerful, slow building (but engaging
> right from the start),
> moving.
>
>
> On 3/8/07 2:39 PM, "Anny Ballardini"
> <anny.ballardini at tin.it> wrote:
>
> > It's incredible, isn't it?
> >>
> >> From: Elaine Brown <mailto:hawkbrwn at msn.com>
> >>
> >> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 2:21 PM
> >>
> >>
> >> Thank you for posting that, Anny!
> >>
> >>
> >> On 3/8/07 6:39 AM, "Anny Ballardini"
> <anny.ballardini at tin.it> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> Poem: "Prayer Requests at a Mennonite Church"
> by Todd Davis from Some
> >>> Heaven. © Michigan State University Press.
> Reprinted with permission. (buy
> >>> now
> >>>
>
"><http://www.elabs7.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=fj6,2gis,dv,4kje,g9f8,3hrs,fxvj
> >>> >
> >>>
>
<http://www.elabs7.com/c.html?rtr=on&amp;s=fj6,2gis,dv,4kje,g9f8,3hrs,fx
> >>> vj> )
> >>>
> >>> Prayer Requests at a Mennonite Church
> >>>
> >>> Pray for the Smucker family. Their son
> Nathaniel's coat and shirt were
> >>> caught in the gears while grinding grain.
> Nothing would give, so now
> >>> he is gone. We made his clothes too well.
> Perhaps this is our sin.
> >>>
> >>> Pray for the Birky family. Their son Jacob fell
> to his death in the
> >>> granary. He was covered in corn before they
> could stop the pouring˜
> >>> chest crushed by the weight, seed spilling from
> his mouth. We hope
> >>> something will grow from this, besides our
> grief.
> >>>
> >>> Pray for the Hartzler family. Their youngest
> has left the church and no
> >>> longer believes that Christ died for her sins.
> She buys clothes at the
> >>> mall. Tongue pierced, nose as well. Her shirt
> shows her belly where a
> >>> ring of gold sprouts. We pray she will remember
> that her Lord's side
> >>> was pierced, that His crown held no gold, only
> the dried blood of His
> >>> brow.
> >>>
> >>> Pray for the Miller family. Last week their
> daughter, who lives in
> >>> Kalona, lost her baby at birth. Child only
> half-formed: head turned the
> >>> wrong way; heart laid on the outside of her
> chest; one leg little more
> >>> than an afterthought. Lord, help them know that
> life may come again,
> >>> that we are all made whole in heaven.
> >>>
> >>> Pray for the Stutzman family. Their son fights
> in the war. We call him
> >>> back to the Prince of Peace, to our Savior who
> knelt to gather the
> >>> slave's ear, brushed the dirt away, lifted it to
> the side of his flushed
> >>> face.
> >>> May we leave no scars. May we ask no blessing
> for the killing done in
> >>> His name.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Anny Ballardini
> >>> http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/
> >>>
> http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome
> >>> http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html
> >>> I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to
> give birth to a dancing
> >>> star!
> >>> Friedrich Nietzsche
> >>>
> >
> >
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> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 20:16:21 -0500
> From: "TheOldMole" <tad at opus40.org>
> Subject: [New-Poetry] Helping Frost out
> To: "NewPo" <new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
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> >From the current Harper's, this list of ideas from
> Frost's notebooks.
>
> Story of the cigar box and the
> counterrevolutionary.
>
> Story of the unhappy child at the amateur
>
> theatricals.
>
>
>
> Story of not being chosen by the eagle for Jove's
> cup bearer.
>
>
>
> Story of Darwinian suicides and Marxian
>
> murderers.
>
>
>
> Story of the very poor man on fifteen a week
>
> for forty years.
>
>
>
> Story of the very rich man in the Pullman car.
>
>
>
> Story of the man who wouldn't let himself be
>
> lost by one fatal mistake. Blood poison,
>
> tetanus, syphilis.
>
>
>
> Story of the equalitarian who thought it would be
> all right to use your literary reputation to get the
> better of an officious official.
>
>
>
> Story of the campaign speech in favor of slavery.
>
>
>
> Story of planned economy on Easter Island where the
> population was limited to nine hundred by killing
> either the newborn at one end or an old person at
> the other.
>
>
>
> Story of the one-armed teacher who became first
> citizen of Glastonbury.
>
>
>
> Story of the encounter with the man who thought too
> well of humanity to despair of its becoming Utopian.
> Not just our faults, but our virtues stand in the
> way of the perfect state.
>
>
>
> Story of Tristan da Cunha and the Circumnavigators.
>
>
>
> Story of Joseph Albany's singing daughter.
>
>
>
> Story of the hard drinker's disbelief in
> disinterestedness.
>
>
>
> Story of the man who originated the slogan, No
> rivers to the sea.
>
>
>
> And, since Frost is no longer around to turn these
> ideas into verse, it seems to me that it falls to us
> to help him out. So I propose that we each take a
> turn in writing up one of these in the style of
> Robert Frost. I'll get the ball rolling.
>
>
>
> STORY OF THE CIGAR BOX AND THE
> COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY.
>
>
>
> I'd just come from the field, pulled off my boots,
>
> And settled in before the fire, when
>
> Discovering I was fresh out of cheroots,
>
> I told myself, "I must go out again."
>
>
>
> An empty box at the tobacconist's:
>
> El Rey Havanas, with a list of contacts
>
> Whom I suspected might be Communists
>
> >From north of Boston to the Adirondacks.
>
>
>
> Well, truth be told, I'd contacts of my own,
>
> Dick Nixon, Parnell Thomas, Martin Dies;
>
> I rang up Central on the telephone,
>
> Gave her a number: 'twas the FBI's.
>
>
>
> Here in New England, we can't be too wary:
>
> Poets are counterrevolutionary.
>
>
>
> Tad Richards
> www.opus40.org
> http://opusforty.blogspot.com/
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> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 19:24:10 -0600
> From: "Skip Fox" <skip at louisiana.edu>
> Subject: [New-Poetry] Setting idea for poem or
> incident in short story
> (though I'll bet it already exists):
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> A mugger on his cell phone (telling his girl friend
> he loves her or asking
> her to pick up beans at the store) while robbing
> someone.
>
> Maybe this has actually happened?
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 8
> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 22:13:03 -0500
> From: "TheOldMole" <tad at opus40.org>
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] a book that takes pride in
> its imperfections
> To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &
> Views"
> <new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
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> I've often imagined the difference in two national
> literary traditions if Coleridge had moved to
> America. And Keats, for that matter, to join his
> brother.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: jforjames at aol.com
> To: new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 2:05 PM
> Subject: [New-Poetry] a book that takes pride in
> its imperfections
>
>
>
>
http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20070312&s=ree
>
> The Strains of Inspiration
> by JONATHAN R&EACUTE;E
> [from the March 12, 2007 issue]
>
> Samuel Taylor Coleridge made quite a splash with
> his first book, a small volume of Poems on Various
> Subjects printed and published in Bristol in the
> spring of 1796. He was a young man, 23 years of age,
> well-known in the Bristol area as a lecturer and
> dissenting lay preacher, and notorious as a
> political radical, or--to use the language of the
> time--a "democrat" and "liberty man." He now took
> the opportunity to expatiate in verse on his
> commitment to "equality," his "joy" at the blood-red
> French Revolution, his longing to live in a
> community without "individual property" and his
> hopes of moving to America with his democratic
> friends to "follow the sweet dream,/Where
> Susquehannah pours his untam'd stream." He
> compounded the provocation with a long philosophical
> poem in which his energetic Christianity was
> harnessed to the heretical themes of Unitarianism
> and pantheism and further onslaughts on private
> ownership as the root of all evil. But what really
> stirred up Coleridge! '!
> s readers, at a time when poetry was debated with as
> much passion as politics or religion, was his
> peculiar literary style.
>
> Poems on Various Subjects is a book that takes
> pride in its imperfections.
>
>
>
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> Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 08:08:17 -0600
> From: "Linda Sue Grimes" <suelin7184 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [New-Poetry] Poem ID
> To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &
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> Dear New-Poetry Listers,
>
> I have received the following question where I
> volunteer, and I cannot think what poem this might
> be. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank,
> Linda Sue
>
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
>
> Question:
> I am trying to identify an 18th or 19th century
> narrative poem I read as an adolescent, whose
> essence is this: A wealthy, admired, handsome man,
> perhaps a judge, is travelling down a country road,
> where he encounters a peasant girl in the adjacent
> fields. Does he ask her for water for himself or
> his horse? Perhaps. In any case, although the
> interaction, whatever its nature, is exceptionally
> brief it has an emotional impact on both that belies
> its apparently triviality. Each instantly and
> intensely imagines himself (herself) rescued from
> their societally-decreed destiny, he to forsake a
> demanding and artificial life to live as a simple
> farmer, she to be lifted from the dusty drudgery of
> the peasant existence to be the mistress of a manor.
> My faint recollection is that their ardent yearnings
> were NOT simply a general desire to be transported
> out of their current lives but included a fair
> measure of old-fashioned boy-girl attraction,
> perhaps heightened by the impossibility!
> of its being consummated. And indeed it was not-
> each goes on to do exactly what is expected of them
> , however regretfully. (Although I recall thinking
> when I read it that the poet, in simultaneously
> presenting these two essentially contrary fantasies,
> might have been suggesting that neither way of life
> was inherently satisfying (or stultifying) and had
> either attained their desire they would eventually
> have been as dissatisfied with their new existence
> as they were with their old, due to "human nature"
> or their own particular natures.) But what poem is
> this, whose name and author have eluded the fumbling
> attempts of this novice researcher to ascertain
> them?
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