[New-Poetry] The List

[Anny Ballardini]

The number of poets you were able to gather is anyhow impressive. With
inputs you can definitely improve it. I agree with several suggestions that
were previously made on this list, [I also noticed that nobody mentioned
_me_, Just very nice of you all.]
[I will never talk to you all]
[That is why I am writing in square brackets]
[Yours truly,]
[Anny]

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 9:04 PM, <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:

> It's hard to stake out hard & fast criteria for a comprehensive list. If
> the true number of poets is 100,000,
> then such a list is beyond my ability to compile. And keeping it updated
> would be a major undertaking.
>
> Just to give a background on how I put together the first 950 names:
> First, for no reason than general obssessiveness, one day I started to try
> to list every contemporary living poet
> I could think of. This went on in earnest for about a week until I'd
> exhasted my memory bank.
>
> Then, fitfully, for about three years I recorded other poet names that I
> would suddenly recall, or see on the web
> somewhere in transit, or encounter in print media.
>
> As poets would die, I coldly coded them 'x' for deceased. (Reginald
> Shepherd and Hayden Carruth got tagged
> that way recently, I'm afraid.) Since the list contains many obscure poets,
> poets whose obits won't get beyond
> their local newspaper, it's not going to be easy to keep the living sorted
> from the dead.
>
> So eventually I might give up the coding of the dead, put them all back
> into the list, and make it an idiosyncratic listing
> of all poets who were  'visible' to one person (or made visible with help
> of others, like NewPoetry members) who lived
> during a paticular period of time.
>
> I don't know if this is could be a Wiki type project or not. The only real
> joy I get from the list is when adding or updating
>  the list, I'll often run across the name of poet who haven't thought about
> in sometime or who is only vaguely familiar to me,
> and that provokes me to to try to find a poem or two he/she has written.
>
> Finnegan
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Jeffrey <jjeffreymail at yahoo.com>
> Sent: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 9:17 pm
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] The List
>
>   3000?  I'm not sure what you mean by "actively engaged in the art," but
> if it means writing, reading, publishing (or at least trying to publish)
> poetry, then I'd say we're talking at least 100,000.  Maybe even twice that.
>
> John Jeffrey
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: "jforjames at aol.com" <jforjames at aol.com>
> To: new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu
> Sent: Monday, October 6, 2008 5:54:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] The List
>
> Given that I had 950 names on that first cut, and
> several listers have noted the omissions are many, I wonder
> what the universe of living USAmerican poets is? Limiting it those poets
> who are actively engaged in the art,
> whether publishing regularly or not, 3000 would be my guess.
>
> Floyd Skloot was the only name on your list that I could definitely say I
> recognized.
> Finnegan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Graham <grahamd at ripon.edu>
> Sent: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 9:57 am
> Subject: [New-Poetry] The List
>
>  Erika Meitner
> Adrian Metejka
> Matthew Dickman
> Ashley Capps
> Kelle Groom
> Danielle Pafunda
> Jennifer L. Knox
> Sean Norton
> Jonah Winter
> Adrian Blevins
> Julianna Baggott
> James Armstrong
> Catherine Pierce
> Paul Guest
> Elizabeth Hadaway
> Floyd Skloot
>
>  Some of the poets listed have had long, multi-book careers already, and
> none are published by truly obscure presses, incidentally.
>
>  Just curious:  how many poets on the above list are on *your* radar
> currently?
>
>  And even more curious:  name a few "new" ones from your own reading, why
> don't you?
>
>
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