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scottwoods

Home again

Jan 22, 2009 20:25

LITERALLY got in off the road just now. Very tired. Recommend Boston (Cambridge) the city highly; do not recommend the Boston to Columbus drive, no matter how many breaks you take.

Will post more later, but wanted to record the setlists. Thanks to Rewriting Ovid, I also have a new chapbook - "Fighting Weight" - that features all of my poems ( Read more... )

inaugural poet, boston, nyc, bowery poetry club, setlists, gigs

Comments 7

doctortina January 23 2009, 05:07:20 UTC

Poetry is doomed, indeed ( ... )

I vote A ext_85313 January 23 2009, 08:02:51 UTC

Obama asked Elizabeth Alexander to write an occasion poem in a few weeks and she came through to the best of her abilities. Her elocution was in the style of the poem ("Each day we go about our business"), matched the line breaks and theme of the the poem ("Someone is stitching up a hem, darning/a hole") and maintained the meter she was trying to execute ("On the brink, on the brim, on the cusp").

I also applaud the We she was embodying--one of work, struggle, sacrifice, arrival and hope. A poem befitting the occasion and person it was written for.

As for her performance it feels like she read it in the manner she is accustomed to readign her work. Again, Obama asked for an Alexander poem and recital and he got one ( ... )

sirenoftitan1 January 23 2009, 14:54:38 UTC

C. I thought it was boring at the time it was read. Looking at the text, I think it is ridden with cliches.

hmm... B. or C. smallfrenchman January 23 2009, 16:53:51 UTC

Although the poem looked okay on paper, I thought the delivery was AWFUL! The problem with the poem was that I thought it did have a lot of cliches, that it wasn't read well at all, and that, even given that the poet was chosen only a month or so ago, it wasn't a poem that was memorable or that I would necessarily want to hear read again. I'm leaning very much towards C at this point in time, because it didn't mark me at all, and I tried very hard to allow it to just sink in and resonate. I got nothing.

boo for the inauguration poet rialisticprose January 23 2009, 18:11:07 UTC

i thought she was terrible and everything stereotypical about bad poetry.

but who am i? just a poet with an opinion.

Re: boo for the inauguration poet rialisticprose January 23 2009, 18:11:59 UTC

oh yeah C by the way.