Post-Po' Gab
Last night's discussion was really engaging. It has a good chance, I think, of getting published. Some residual highlights:
*Do traditional forms -- sonnet, haiku -- have a place in modern poetic practice? Is their place purely aesthetic or does it also do urgent cultural political work?
*How does a contemporary poetics enter into dialogue with the "forms" of technological media -- television, newsprint, websites?
*How do you strike a balance between inviting your readers into yor work and prodding them beyond their own habits and blindspots? How do you strike a balance between challenge and alienation, welcome and coddling?
*Poetry has had a boom of venues in the past few years. Is that proof of its effect? Or proof of its being mutated and co-opted?
*Does poetry have the power to re-insert the intellectual-spiritual skills that our general populace has lost as a failure of education (attention span, concern for history, active and creative engagement, etc.)?
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Fat to chew on ... .
*Do traditional forms -- sonnet, haiku -- have a place in modern poetic practice? Is their place purely aesthetic or does it also do urgent cultural political work?
*How does a contemporary poetics enter into dialogue with the "forms" of technological media -- television, newsprint, websites?
*How do you strike a balance between inviting your readers into yor work and prodding them beyond their own habits and blindspots? How do you strike a balance between challenge and alienation, welcome and coddling?
*Poetry has had a boom of venues in the past few years. Is that proof of its effect? Or proof of its being mutated and co-opted?
*Does poetry have the power to re-insert the intellectual-spiritual skills that our general populace has lost as a failure of education (attention span, concern for history, active and creative engagement, etc.)?
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Fat to chew on ... .