Creative Thought: June 2007 Archives
Performing the Academy:
Is what Harold Bloom said about poetry slams being full of Òrant and nonsenseÓ true, or can the academy and the slam community come together? In the first of a series, Jeremy Richards talks with Susan Somers-Willett about slam, and how she manages to straddle both sides of the page / stage divide.
... if I had a rating system in place, [2River] would get the five stars or the thumbs up or the 3 snaps.
via didi menendez at Other Spectacular Magazines
Black Mountain Breakdown:
Poems new and old from Ed Dorn, who was always identified with an experimental college in North Carolina.
"Lefties are overrepresented in academia because on average, we're just f-ing smarter."
Knowledge@ Wharton has a very interesting interview with NEA chairman Dana Gioia, who describes himself as "the only person in history who went to business school to be a poet." Gioia, who was once vice ... via Critical Mass
