[New-Poetry] Pirates

[Bob Grumman]

JforJames at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 10/5/2008 2:43:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net writes:
>
>     It's Dodie, isn't it?  Anyway, as I was searching the thing, I
>     wondered
>     if there were any list of living American poets.  It would be
>     useful, I
>     think--something for one of the establishment organizations to do. 
>     Alphabetized list of everyone mentioned in the Internet as a poet
>     shouldn't be too hard to make,  Maybe posted at Wikipoo so names
>     could
>     be added, and subtracted.
>
> Because I'm an inverterate list maker, I've got one. (I'm sure it 
> misses many
> poets. As I said on my blog the other day, "For every poet you know, 
> there are ten
> other crazy and beautiful ones you've never know." ) Also, keeping the 
> living
> and dead separated is not an easy task for the list maker. And the 
> distinction USAmerican
> is tricky, isn't it. How many years do you have to live here to get 
> that badge (and maybe
> some don't want it)?
> I'll post my list later. It's on my laptop.
> Finnegan
>
How about all poets who have published English-language poems in an 
American publication--with asterisks next to know non-Americans?  
Anyway, it would be a good step toward (heh heh) the classification of 
poets into my taxonomical boxes so as to get some idea of the peoplescape.

--Bob
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