[New-Poetry] Buddy Wakefiled was 100 Poets You Should Know

[Jason Quackenbush]

Well if he's flown under your radar then let that stop now:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=EweFcBdD1zo
http://youtube.com/watch?v=tIr4pL9P0SA&feature=related
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zL0y2WR0wZs&feature=related
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zL0y2WR0wZs&feature=related
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3W1U_zotSFo

JforJames at aol.com wrote:
> Certainly the list is subjective, an visibilty is based on one line of 
> sight. The list is an invitation, for those so moved, to suggest and 
> lobby for other choices, as you have. Also, 100 is an arbitrary round 
> number. Could easily balloon to 105, 1120,,,
>  
>  I think my choices of Bob Holman and Patricia Smith are good ones for 
> the performance vein of American poetry. Wakefield has flown under my 
> radar; but Algarin makes sense to me. Berrigan, Eshleman, Rothenberg, 
> Padgett, all good choices for the Jason 100.
> Finnegan
>  
> In a message dated 11/22/2007 12:16:37 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
> jfq at myuw.net writes:
>
>     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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