[New-Poetry] Celebrity Poetry

[TheOldMole]

Jewel wasn't all that bad, either. If I'd had her as a student in a 
creative writing class, I would have told her she had a lot of promise, 
and encouraged her to keep writing. But I wouldn't have told her to 
publish a book.

Jim Morrison was even worse than Leonard Nimoy. Viggo Mortensen is, I 
believe, pretty serious about poetry. NBA star Tom Meschery attended the 
Iowa Wokshop after his playing career, and wrote some very creditable stuff.

Rsgwynn1 at cs.com wrote:
> I wrote an article years ago about Suzanne Somers, Lionard Nimoy, 
> Richard "John Boy" Thomas, Buddy Hackett, and others as poets.  Nimoy 
> was terrible.  Somers was not too bad (at least there was some irony 
> there) and Richard Thomas was pretty good (Ashbery dedicated a book to 
> Thomas and his wife).  Hackett, well . . .
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Tad Richards
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The moral is this: in American verse,
The better you are, the pay is worse.
  --Corey Ford