[New-Poetry] Calling Dr. Giggles

[Halvard Johnson]

"Dearth" is a wonderful word. So much in there besides "death"
and "earth." There's "heart" and "art" and "heat" and "dear."
Oh, "dart" and "ear" as well. And I've probably forgotten
some.

Hal

"Imagination is more important
  than knowledge."
		--Albert Einstein

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On Sep 6, 2007, at 8:35 PM, jforjames at aol.com wrote:

> Tad,
> I'm afraid dearth is one my words. A word that I like to think has  
> wedded death to earth.
>
> Anyway, David Graham knows the whole story. I think he wrote a  
> letter to her (I think
> her name is Emily, you could check the masthead) citing a number of  
> contemporary
> poets who were no strangers to the comic. I'm sure she was probably  
> right
> if the measurement was a random sampling of her slush pile.
> Finnegan
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TheOldMole <Opus40-01 at opus40.org>
> Bcc: jforjames at aol.com
> Sent: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 8:22 pm
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Calling Dr. Giggles
>
> If he uses words like "dearth," no wonder he doesn't get much funny  
> stuff.
>
> jforjames at aol.com wrote:
> > One of the asst. editors of Poetry (in the special Humor issue) >  
> complained that there was dearth of comic poetry among the many >  
> submissions they get each year.
> >
> > Finnegan
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: TheOldMole <Opus40-01 at opus40.org>
> > Bcc: jforjames at aol.com
> > Sent: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 7:32 pm
> > Subject: [New-Poetry] Calling Dr. Giggles
> >
> > Anyone have any sense of what literary publications are more  
> likely to > be welcoming to humor, satire, parody or buffoonery in  
> poetic endeavor? > >
> >  
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