[New-Poetry] Calling Dr. Giggles

[Anny Ballardini]

Re.: Tad's:
a certain feeling that rhyme and
meter are the more natural metier for light verse, free verse the more
 natural for the serious stuff. I know this is a wild oversimplifcation

I always thought that. In Italian it becomes really funny if you have your 
lines rhyming

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> It occurred to me that mehitabel is also the godmother of my muse Sookie.
>
> I love the line of reasoning that went into Marquis' creation of archy. 
> Making him a vers libre bard meant that marquis could type just a few 
> words per line, and filling up a column would be easier. Making him a 
> cockroach who couldn't use the shift key and didn't use punctuation meant 
> less work for Marquis, as well.
>
> Marquis was unusual for his time in the use of vers libre for light verse. 
> At the time when the vers libre movement was revolutionizing poetry, there 
> were also brilliant light versifiers like Parker, Nash, Armour, Ford, who 
> used rhyme and meter, and I wonder if their influence hasn't continued to 
> the present day -- a certain feeling that rhyme and meter are the more 
> natural metier for light verse, free verse the more natural for the 
> serious stuff. I know this is a wild oversimplifcation.
>
>
> Skip Fox wrote:
>>
>> Don Marquis! Fantastic. (e.e. cummings’ father. cummings even got the 
>> idea for the “excessive” use of lower case from Archie, the cockroach who 
>> couldn’t use a shift key while typing down another).
>>
>> If I was in the area, I’d come. For Marquis, Marvell, Herrick, and you
>>
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>> a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry andpoetics
>> *Subject:* [New-Poetry] Calling Dr. Giggles
>>
>> Calling Dr. Giggles: a Laff Riot for Young and Old
>>
>>
>>     *Tad Richards*
>>
>> *In an evening of the comic in poetry and song*
>>
>>
>>           *Featuring his own work and that of*
>>
>> Andrew Marvell
>>
>> Annie Finch
>>
>> Billy Collins
>>
>> Don Marquis
>>
>> Dorothy Parker
>>
>>
>> Fred Koller
>>
>> John Prine
>>
>> Ogden Nash
>>
>> ROBERT HERRICK
>>
>> Sheb Wooley
>>
>> Tom Lehrer
>>
>> And selections from his new book, /Take Five: Poems in 5/4 time/
>>
>>
>>       *Wednesday, Oct. 3*
>>
>>
>>       *6:30 PM*
>>
>>
>>         *Humanities 312*
>>
>>
>>         *SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY*
>>