http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/11/poetry-influence-of-the-non-literary-variety/ A blog from the Poetry Foundation where contemporary poets debate classic and contemporary poetry from America and around the world. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:36:51 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/11/poetry-influence-of-the-non-literary-variety/#comment-1908 Patrick Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:24:19 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=548#comment-1908 Good post. Will send my students to it this week -- especially the dancing in your kitchen. I'm b-boying again. Yup, 38, going on 39. I was trying things seriously with my body before I was trying them with language, before I even gave a shat about a book. The dancing, it's renewing my relationship to poems in the air. Furthermore: Susana Baca's version of "Panalivio" -- also Peruvian, also slave tradition. You know this? I love it. Thank you, brother. Be well. P Good post. Will send my students to it this week — especially the dancing in your kitchen.
I’m b-boying again. Yup, 38, going on 39. I was trying things seriously with my body before I was trying them with language, before I even gave a shat about a book. The dancing, it’s renewing my relationship to poems in the air.
Furthermore: Susana Baca’s version of “Panalivio” — also Peruvian, also slave tradition. You know this? I love it.
Thank you, brother. Be well.
P

]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/11/poetry-influence-of-the-non-literary-variety/#comment-1907 barbara jane Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:31:55 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=548#comment-1907 Great post. Something finding its way into my writing is Filipino cooking, thinking on processes and ingredients that are "native," and "indigenous," what is Chinese, what has been added and amended by the Spanish, Western/American military and popular cultures, what is "everyday," and what is celebratory, ritual. I realize, of course, this food and ethnicity thing is not without its own set of cliché and trope. Great post. Something finding its way into my writing is Filipino cooking, thinking on processes and ingredients that are “native,” and “indigenous,” what is Chinese, what has been added and amended by the Spanish, Western/American military and popular cultures, what is “everyday,” and what is celebratory, ritual.
I realize, of course, this food and ethnicity thing is not without its own set of cliché and trope.

]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/11/poetry-influence-of-the-non-literary-variety/#comment-1906 Don Share Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:00:17 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=548#comment-1906 In addition to music, I think of fiber arts, about which I've been educated by Jacquelyn Pope, and also <a href="http://cherrylfloyd-miller.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Cheryl Floyd-Miller</a> (who blogs about both arts very well). In addition to music, I think of fiber arts, about which I’ve been educated by Jacquelyn Pope, and also Cheryl Floyd-Miller (who blogs about both arts very well).

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