Comments on: Happy Birthday!!!

By: james stotts

james stotts — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:53:31 +0000

even better, he advocates a ‘classroom’ or workshop for poets, as a solution to that indifference. good luck with that, EP!
The scientist does not expect to be acclaimed as a great scientist until he has discovered something. He begins by learning what has been discovered already. He goes from that point onward. He does not bank on being a charming fellow personally. He does not expect his friends to applaud the results of his freshman class work. Freshmen in poetry are unfortunately not confined to a definite and recognizable class room. They are “all over the shop.” Is it any wonder “the public is indifferent to poetry?”

By: Gary B. Fitzgerald

Gary B. Fitzgerald — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:29:44 +0000

Slightly off topic but, considering when it was written, I found this statement by Ezra Pound in the essay linked to above quite interesting.
“Is it any wonder ‘the public is indifferent to poetry?’”

By: Cathy Halley

Cathy Halley — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:19:00 +0000

Nicotine, my Nicotine! They should have locked that guy up sooner.

By: Henry Gould

Henry Gould — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:36:04 +0000

NUMBERS
My wooden desk
cold as a frozen pond.
I look through tall school windows
into autumn’s graphite sky;
a distant duck flies into a grey cloud
like a decimal point, trying to return
to its place on the math test
I am sure, once more, to fail.
- Edwin Hamplethorpe, Imagiste
ca. 1915