[New-Poetry] 100 Poets You Should Know

[Jason Quackenbush]

Indeed.

Anny Ballardini wrote:
> I agree on much of what you are saying. I also appreciate the fact 
> that you mention Alan Sondheim, I am a supporter of his work.
>
> From: "Bob Grumman" <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net>
> Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 1:48 AM
>
>
>> Here are ten for your list, Jim, each of whom is at least as 
>> important a poet as anyone on the original list: John M. Bennett, 
>> Crag Hill, Geof Huth, Carlos Luis, K.S. Ernst, Scott Helmes, Carol 
>> Stetser, Guy Beining, Karl Kempton, mIEKAL aND.  They aren't 
>> necessarily the best ten living American visual poets I know, just 
>> the first ten whose names occurred to me.  I'm too lazy to keep 
>> going, but I know I could list twenty more, none of whom is inferior 
>> as a poet to the majority of poets on the other list. And that's 
>> sticking to poets whose forte is visual poetry.  There are many I 
>> consider at or near the level of these in other overlooked 
>> schools--such as what I'd call the Modern Haiku school of American 
>> haiku, because most of the best writers of conventional haiku are 
>> published in Modern Haiku. And there are P. Inman, Clark Coolidge and 
>> other language poets.  Endwar and other infraverbal poets.  Alan 
>> Sondheim would have to be on the list. I'm not sure what school he is 
>> most prominently in, but he's certainly prominent in several computer 
>> and computer-language schools, with several others I don't know much 
>> about.  I'm glad you put Bob Holman on your list, but there are a 
>> good many other important performance poets--and sound poets.  All 
>> these poets I've been mentioning are important for poetry because you 
>> can learn things from them you can't learn from the poets of the 
>> fifties and their current very visible imitators.  I wouldn't call 
>> Coolidge obscure, but most of the others are, certainly by Rita 
>> Dove/Billy Collins standards.
>>
>> --Bob G.
>>
>
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