Comments on: Headlines: April 2, 2009 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/04/headlines-april-2-2009/ Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:40:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: thomas brady http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/04/headlines-april-2-2009/#comment-8573 thomas brady Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:23:52 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=1897#comment-8573 Aaron, "Redefinition Accomplished" is kind of scary. Maybe this is why Plato didn't trust poets. If 'how we say it' is the essence of poetry, and 'how we say it' distorts the truth, was Socrates not on to something when he said, "whoa, let's examine this a little bit"? The poets' knee-jerk reaction is usually, "politicians are not poets!! We are the poets, and we are good, if not harmless." Well, not quite... Politics is about persuasion...and so is poetry... Thomas Aaron,

“Redefinition Accomplished” is kind of scary.

Maybe this is why Plato didn’t trust poets.

If ‘how we say it’ is the essence of poetry, and ‘how we say it’ distorts the truth, was Socrates not on to something when he said, “whoa, let’s examine this a little bit”?

The poets’ knee-jerk reaction is usually, “politicians are not poets!! We are the poets, and we are good, if not harmless.”

Well, not quite…

Politics is about persuasion…and so is poetry…

Thomas
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]]> By: Aaron Fagan http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/04/headlines-april-2-2009/#comment-8412 Aaron Fagan Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:37:27 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=1897#comment-8412 I guess this might fall under the Poetic Justice category: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/us/politics/02web-baker.html?hp I guess this might fall under the Poetic Justice category:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/us/politics/02web-baker.html?hp
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]]> By: thomas brady http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/04/headlines-april-2-2009/#comment-8410 thomas brady Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:51:44 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=1897#comment-8410 Travis, I'm glad Lincoln (happy 200th) is mentioned. Lincoln was a reader of Edgar Poe (happy 200th) http://lincolnbuff2.blogspot.com/2009/01/happy-200th-edgar-allan-poe.html Thomas Travis,

I’m glad Lincoln (happy 200th) is mentioned. Lincoln was a reader of Edgar Poe (happy 200th)

http://lincolnbuff2.blogspot.com/2009/01/happy-200th-edgar-allan-poe.html

Thomas
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]]> By: Aaron Fagan http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/04/headlines-april-2-2009/#comment-8409 Aaron Fagan Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:48:31 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=1897#comment-8409 The Stella Adler Studio of Acting Harold Clurman Arts Series The Harold Clurman Poetry Reading Series presents Martha Rhodes and Aaron Fagan Martha Rhodes and Aaron Fagan Monday, April 6, 2009 at 7pm @ The Stella Adler Studio of Acting 31 West 27th Street This event is free and open to the public http://www.stellaadler.com/poetry.html http://www.stellaadler.com/pressroom/rhodes.html The Stella Adler Studio of Acting
Harold Clurman Arts Series

The Harold Clurman Poetry Reading Series presents Martha Rhodes and Aaron Fagan

Martha Rhodes and Aaron Fagan
Monday, April 6, 2009 at 7pm
@ The Stella Adler Studio of Acting
31 West 27th Street
This event is free and open to the public

http://www.stellaadler.com/poetry.html

http://www.stellaadler.com/pressroom/rhodes.html
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]]> By: Lemon Hound http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/04/headlines-april-2-2009/#comment-8407 Lemon Hound Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:00:52 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=1897#comment-8407 For a little Canadian content check out Seen Reading, in which Julie Wilson will feature a Canadian poet every day this month. Yours truly up today as it happens. http://www.seenreading.com/30in30/ For a little Canadian content check out Seen Reading, in which Julie Wilson will feature a Canadian poet every day this month.

Yours truly up today as it happens.

http://www.seenreading.com/30in30/
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