[New-Poetry] Calling Dr. Giggles

[jforjames at aol.com]

Suzanne, there is no aversion. I was saying the editor of Poetry wanted to see more humorous poems
submitted to poetry...she stated that she wasn't seeing enough of them.
http://www.poetrymagazine.org/magazine/0706/

David Graham tried to point out to her in a letter, as I recall,?that there were quite few poets who regularly published funny poems. 

But I thnk the Poetry?editor was correct...by & large we poets are a dour lot. Jack Gilbert has a short poem that goes something like, 'The Greek sailors don't play on the beach and I don't write funny poems'. (But he has frolicked a few times.)

Recently there was a special feature in Jacket on humor & poetry that came out various discussions on the HumPo list.
http://jacketmagazine.com/33/humpo-discussion.shtml

Finnegan

The total absence of humour from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

?
--Alfred North Whitehead

quoted in Price's Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead





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From: Suzanne Burns <atelierjewelweed at gmail.com>
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On 9/6/07, jforjames at aol.com <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



What is this big aversion people have to funny, witty poems?? I have never been able to figure that out. ? I think humor is one of the highest forms of intelligence.? Its a kind of emotional transcendance, an ability to break through the bullshit and defalte it with laughter.??? What could be more valuable in a poem?? A lack of a sense of humor just stinks of cowardice.

Someone explain this to me please.

Suzanne Burns







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