The Poet Poem

Posted on March 10, 2007 by Dave Bonta

stanley
plumley
ivy alvarez
pier paolo pasolini
alison fell

faiz
ahmed faiz
ono no komachi
cornelius eady
galway kinnell

william
carlos williams
lucille clifton
ishikawa takuboku
william kloefkorn

vassar
miller
yehuda halevi
salvatore quasimodo
ed dorn

andre
codrescu
june jordan
nazim hikmet
d. j. enright

randall
jarrell
lawrence ferlinghetti
alicia suskin ostriker
kate light

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8 Responses to The Poet Poem

  1. Rachel says:
    March 10, 2007 at 11:58 pm

    Such words!

    I am entertained and delighted. I love reading this aloud.

  2. Dave says:
    March 11, 2007 at 11:09 am

    Oh good! I thought about posting my own audio version, but decided it would be better if I left it up to y’all to read out loud.

    Hope you’re having a good time at SxSW! (Austin is always a good time, I have to think, as long as one stays a prudent distance away from the state capitol.)

  3. twitches says:
    March 12, 2007 at 12:48 pm

    I’m curious as to why you picked these certain authors…the sound of the names only?

  4. Dave says:
    March 12, 2007 at 1:32 pm

    Yep, just that. (Same reason I didn’t capitalize the names – I wanted to fucus attention on the sounds.)

  5. Ivy says:
    March 12, 2007 at 3:25 pm

    I heard that! ;-) And I think you meant to spell ficus.

  6. Dave says:
    March 12, 2007 at 5:29 pm

    Oh, fig! I don’t know what it is with my and typos today.

  7. Richard Lawrence Cohen says:
    March 14, 2007 at 3:59 pm

    What, no Hayden Corruth?

  8. Dave says:
    March 14, 2007 at 4:05 pm

    I forgot abut Hayden Carruth! And he’s on my bookshelf, too (Collected Shorter Poems).