The Academy of American Poets is for people who love poetry. Our membership is nearly 9,000 strong and growing, and our programs reach over 20 million people every year. Our programs include Poets.org, the Poets Forum, Poem in Your Pocket Day, National Poetry Month, American Poet magazine, the Poem-A-Day email series, the Poetry Audio Archive, educational initiatives, readings and events, awards and prizes, and so much more. We’ve been doing this since 1934, and we still think it's fun.
Follow us on:   Facebook   &   Twitter

Sunday, April 5, 2009 6:20 PM

what I’m calling for mainly is a shift of attention, energy distribution, and location of the poem away from page to the socius itself. and then we can call this poetry, or we can call it whatever. the
fact is people who have written poems, and been trained as poets, will be bringing their skill-set et al to something else. or, as you say, outsourcing in the sense that they bring poetic forms and methods to other discourses/activities/fields. and what does it mean to return to “page poetry” from such a journey off the page. a kind of minor Homerics

Posted on April 12th, 2012
2 notes
  1. poetsorg posted this