Comments on: Writing on the wall http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/11/writing-on-the-wall/ A blog from the Poetry Foundation where contemporary poets debate classic and contemporary poetry from America and around the world. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:27:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Margo Berdeshevsky http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/11/writing-on-the-wall/#comment-26313 Margo Berdeshevsky Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:00:08 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=6297#comment-26313 I believe the Nov 9 '09 op ed page/wall of poems did its job. It's powerful to read collective poetic humanity addressing this human(inhuman)invention: a wall. & how we know it's not over, still.It's no longer "there." But it's so many else- wheres. But a commemoration was the order of the day. & the collected outer and inner dark is there to breathe. May the walls die. I join in such commemoration. May all walls fall.Here in Europe, on the day,there were a few horns blaring. with care, and remembering, margo (this link is to an only slightly earlier remembering.) http://www.sharkforum.org/2008/03/-httpmargoberdeshevskyblogspot.html I believe the Nov 9 ‘09 op ed page/wall of poems did its job. It’s powerful to read collective poetic humanity addressing this human(inhuman)invention: a wall. & how we know it’s not over, still.It’s no longer “there.” But it’s so many else- wheres. But a commemoration was the order of the day. & the collected outer and inner dark is there to breathe. May the walls die. I join in such commemoration. May all walls fall.Here in Europe, on the day,there were a few horns blaring.
with care, and remembering,
margo

(this link is to an only slightly earlier remembering.)

http://www.sharkforum.org/2008/03/-httpmargoberdeshevskyblogspot.html

]]> By: Greg http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/11/writing-on-the-wall/#comment-26300 Greg Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:39:57 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=6297#comment-26300 Yep, there was a wall. Yep, there was a wall.

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