[New-Poetry] "political poetry" (was new on wordstrumpet)

[Linda Sue Grimes]

Tad,
I serve as Feature Writer in Poetry at Suite101.com, and from time to time, 
I like to offer a feature about poetry and politics.  I read your blog post 
with interest but have a question.  Would you please explain the following 
claim?: "this should be required reading for the Bush administration."

Thanks,
lsg


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rachel Loden" <r_loden at sbcglobal.net>
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Cc: "'TheOldMole'" <Opus40-01 at opus40.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 12:15 PM
Subject: [New-Poetry] "political poetry" (was new on wordstrumpet)


> Thanks, Tad --  and I was very intrigued by your post "A Low Dishonest
> Decade":
>
> http://opusforty.blogspot.com/2008/01/low-dishonest-decade.html
>
> I agree with Forster, for the most part, but not with the usually astute
> Johnny Cash. Folk song and politics are inextricably mixed, unless we want
> to deep-six "This Land Is Your Land" or "Silver Dagger" just for example.
>
> It always makes me laugh when people say they're not interested in (what
> they like to call) "political poetry." Did they imagine there was another
> kind? Some fish don't see water, but they're swimming in it.
>
> On the other hand, I'm not much interested in what often *passes* for
> political poetry -- agitprop and sloganeering, I mean.
>
> Rachel
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: TheOldMole [mailto:Opus40-01 at opus40.org]
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 8:20 AM
>> To: r_loden at sbcglobal.net; NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry
>> News &amp; Views
>> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] new on wordstrumpet: nixon vets the
>> candidates &c.
>>
>> As a faithful wordstrumpeter, I had read this and loved it.
>>
>> Rachel Loden wrote:
>> >
>> >    http://wordstrumpet.blogspot.com/
>> >
>> >
>> >     * How Would Nixon Vote? Tricky D. Vets the Candidates
>> >
>> >     * A Poem for Primaries: Milhous as King of the Ghosts
>> >
>> >     * The Moist Lotus Open Along Acheron: Sappho, psychopomp &c.
>> >
>> >     * The Important Looking Men (with a Note from Mairéard Byrne)
>> >
>> >     * Speechless: Woody Allen on the WGA strike; the
>> "right-to-sing" state
>> >
>> >     * Rose, Oh Pure Contradiction: Knox, Manguso & more
>> >
>> >     * The More Things Change Dept.: Some Remarks on Humor
>> by E.B. White
>> >
>> >     * Susan Sontag: An Argument about Beauty
>> >
>> >     * Concord in the Sixties: Hawthorne, the Alcotts, the Civil War
>> >
>> >      * Poetry and the Theory of Heartbreak
>> >
>> >     *  A Fresh Face, Somebody Who Understands: Nixon and Rumsfeld
>> >
>> >     *  My Wicked Caddywumpus Ways: Blurb-Composition &
>> other confusions
>> >
>> >     *  A Page from the Dangerfield Playbook: the Stephen T.
>> Colbert Award
>> > for the Literary Excellence
>> >
>> >     *  Poetry, Grimness, and Gallows Humor: Mlinko, Brecht,
>> Lerner, Flarf
>> > &c.
>> >
>> >     *  Adventures in Heresiology: Patrolling the Perimeter of the
>> > Avant-garde
>> >
>> >     *  Academy of Fine Arts: Linh Dinh by Jonathan Hill
>> >
>> >     *  Poem in Spanish (with a Note from Paul Hoover)
>> >
>> >     *  M. A. Numminen Sings Wittgenstein
>> >
>> >      http://wordstrumpet.blogspot.com/
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>>
>> -- 
>> Tad Richards
>> http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/
>> http://opusforty.blogspot.com/
>>
>> The moral is this: in American verse,
>> The better you are, the pay is worse.
>>   --Corey Ford
>>
>
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