I went to a poetry reading this week featuring my friend Ralph Nazareth. He closed with “A Question for Vaclav Havel,” a short prose poem wherein he tries to ask Vaclav Havel whether poetry can save the world. Because he passes the question on a napkin in a cafe, it is distorted by a smudge of water. Poetry becomes “pottery.” <\/p>\n
Later at the open mike, another witty friend, Robert Masterson, remarked that he had once asked the president of Malta whether puppetry could save the world. <\/p>\n
“Can Poetry Save the Earth?” A Panel with Sandra Alcosser, Brenda Iijima, Leonard Schwartz, & Jonathan Skinner, Poets House @ the 2010 AWP Conference in Denver, April 10, 2010, 4:30 – 5:45 pm<\/p>\n
Robert Grenier’s essay in Ecopoetry 1 includes transcriptions, in handwriting, of two Emily Dickinson poems. They are identified by the number entered at the top: 1068 and 742. Then there is commentary. <\/p>\n
I’m not completely getting it, but I think he is telling me how he lives with poems. I’d like to read more writing in “ecopoetry” about how to live with poems. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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