[New-Poetry] Re: optimistic poems

[Anny Ballardini]

"our ability to change"

I (sorry for this boasting trumpeting I) just put together :
"Instruments of Change"
http://lowres.uno.edu/classes/poetryworkshop/07spring/anny/poemsballardinianny.html

what occured to me is (because I have it fresh in my mind, it will last for 
just about a couple of weeks...)
Ronald Johnson's ARK

especially for a Sculptor!
if you wish see here:
http://lowres.uno.edu/classes/poetryworkshop/07spring/anny/ballardinijohnsonark.html

(mistakes included....:-(

From: "Skip Fox" <skip at louisiana.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 8:59 PM


> Whitman would be the obvious choice (_Song of Myself_). Sandburg on the
> resilient progression of the lower classes (_The People, Yes_). Marianne
> Moore on the Allied sacrifice in WWII ("In Distrust of Merits," "'Keeping
> Their World Large," "We Call Them Brave," though the last is problematic),
> and Hilda Doolittle on defying the Nazi aggression ("These Walls Shall Not
> Fall" in her _Trilogy_).
>
> I'd certainly not turn him onto the likes of Ella Wheeler Wilcox or even
> Longfellow.
>
> It's easy to see some poems by poets like Hart Crane, Robert Duncan, Ted
> Berrigan, Richard Brautigan, and Gary Snyder as optimistic (and even some
> good ones by Emily Dickinson), but not in the social historical sense of 
> the
> query.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: new-poetry-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu
> [mailto:new-poetry-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu] On Behalf Of Barry Spacks
> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 1:32 PM
> To: new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu
> Subject: [New-Poetry] Re: optimistic poems
>
>
> Had the following post from a local sculptor today --
> any suggestions available for him in his search for
> optimistic poems?
>
> ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
>
>  I am working on a project and would love some references for poetry
> on shaping
> the future.  It is important that the poetry or prose focuses on our
> ability to change
> things for the better. Any help or recommendations would be much
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks for anything you can supply (optimism lately in short supply),
>
> optimistically,
>
> Barry