Thanks to Cindy at A Pen and Fire for reminding us that this is National Poetry Month, and one place to visit for links is The Academy of Poets website that will lead you to what’s going on to celebrate this literature form.
But then again, Charles Bernstein seems to be campaigning for an International Anti-Poetry Month, and suggests newspaper ads such as this:
Go ahead, don’t read any poetry.
You won’t be able to understand it anyway:
the best stuff is all over your head.And there aren’t even any commercials to liven up the action.
Anyway, you’ll end up with a headache trying to figure out
what the poems are saying because they are saying
NOTHING.Who needs that.
Better go to the movies.
In my own manner, usually a day late and a dollar short but in this case, the poetics flowed a month early in March and slowed down quite a bit through these first couple weeks of April. I shall have to seek Edgar’s assistance to get into mood, shed the heavy philosophical or at least direct it into stanza format, and break down and write a few poems today.
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