[New-Poetry] 100 Poets You Should Know

[Halvard Johnson]

Hm, I memorized that Padgett poem too, Jason. The other poem
I've memorized is "Crickets" by Aram Saroyan.

Hal

Sal si puedes.

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On Nov 21, 2007, at 11:16 PM, Jason Quackenbush wrote:

> It's an interesting point. The question I'd like to ask you is  
> visible to whom? If you're talking about contemporary performance  
> poetry, they don't get much more visible than Buddy Wakefield or  
> Miguel Algarin. Tom Raworth, while not particularly visible on this  
> side of the atlantic, is more visible in Great Britain than I think  
> a number of the people on your list are. I'll withdraw the  
> suggestion though and in his place offer Jim Carroll: the only  
> living american poet of import to have penned a alternative rock  
> anthem; one that still gets airplay on independent "underground" and  
> alternative radio. Plus there was a movie about him, which is  
> something you can't say about Jorie Graham, thank Christ. I didn't  
> notice this was an american list. As for anthologies, I think it  
> depends on whose anthologies you read. I don't know for sure, but  
> I'd be willing to bet Clayton Eshleman and Jerome Rothenberg have  
> more anthologies between them, both as editors and as poets and  
> translators than a good portion of your list combined. Anselm  
> Berrigan, aside from being brilliant and a blood heir to the New  
> York School also is still the director of the Poetry Project at St.  
> Mark's Place, which as far as I know is the longest running spoken  
> word series on the east coast.
>
> As for Ron Padgett, true, he's maybe not the most visible figure and  
> is maybe an emotional choice. but nevertheless he's one of the few  
> poets I've ever memorized, and I think I probably own more  
> anthologies that he's in than I do anthologies that Maya Angelou is  
> in. But then, I don't generally buy THOSE kind of anthologies. So  
> yeah, I guess he can go too. Still, i think he's a poet everyone  
> should know.
>
> Nothing in that drawer
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> ~Ron Padgett "Nothing In That Drawer"
>
> yrs,
> JQ
> jforjames at aol.com wrote:
>> I can see Alice Notley bumping onto the list...but my list is based  
>> on 'visibility' (which I'd loosely define as appearing on
>> contents pages of major anthologies, media mentions, book reviews,  
>> public readings, etc.) and I'd be surprised if some
>> of your other replacements, worthy as they may be, could bump a  
>> Gioia or a Jorie, a Dove or an Angelou, etc.
>> Say it ain't so about Hayden...I thought he was hanging on in small  
>> house in upstate New York. But, yes two list
>> criteria are living and U.S. based long enough to be considered  
>> 'American' by most. Finnegan
>>    it's a good list there are a few people you left off that i would
>>    definitely have replaced Rita Dove, Billy Collins, and Ai  
>> with.          Actually here are my substitutions           
>> Include:          Padgett Ron     Notley Alice     Berrigan  
>> Anselm     Eshleman Clayton     Rothernberg Jerome     Algarin  
>> Miguel     Wakefield Buddy     Raworth Tom          in turn  
>> remove:     Ai     Angelou Maya     Dove Rita     Giovanni  
>> Nikki     Gioia Dana     Graham Jorie     Levine Phillip     Lee Li  
>> Young
>>
>>
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