Click the below link to listen to the second Harbor Street podcast.
Harbor Street Podcast 2
In this show, I talk about
1. Murder by the Acre
2. Endless
3. Poetry in general
4. Read a poem from Endless
5. Announce the first MBTA contest in which you could win a t-shirt
6. Shamelessly plug my MBTA Cafepress store and my books.
Talk to you later. (And privately to C. Kent in Metropolis, yes, I think you should tell Lois. She deserves to know. And keep B. Wayne away from her. He's batty about her.)
13 comments:
I want a Murder by the Acre Tee-Shirt! :)
Dear Mr. Bagley,
I would love to win a MBTA T-shirt.
Your loyal blog reader and blogcast listener,
Trixie
I want one of them tshirts! ;-)
I meant to tell you that I liked the poem, too. I've listened to it twice. :)
You're entered, Gloria!
You're entered, Ms. Trixie!
You're entered, Wonder Boy!
Thanks Gloria!
I'd like an MBTA t-shirt too!
And yes, lovely poem. Am rather partial to river-type poems myself (Billy Collins is one of my favourites, and he definitely writes this way). Had to read too many of the footnote variety in college!
I want one of those shirts, too! :)
You're entered, Kirsten. And thank you. I think footnote poetry is the reason that most people dislike poetry.
You're entered, FF. (Finally!)
Enter me for one of those stylish MBTA shirts! :)
You're entered, JKC!
To be fair, footnote poetry can be quite entertaining--just not as poetry. I mean, I love Beowulf, but it makes a whole lot more sense with lots of footnotes. It's an artifact, really, and therefore interesting from the historical perspective. But it isn't really poetry in the immediate sense.
If that makes sense.
Agreed, Kirsten, but I'm talking more about contemporary poetry that shows up in the journals. Many poems are so tangled with the poets' lives that you can't understand them without learning more about the poet than you might want. Many contemporary poems are simply devoid of meaning or deliberately confusing. I heard one fairly famous poet say that he didn't care what his poems said, he cared about how the words looked on the page. He considered his poetry to be a form of painting rather than writing. I thought it was one of the dumbest things I had ever heard. It's no wonder that most people have no interest in poetry. Why should they? It doesn't speak to them anymore.
Oh, I think I left my comment about the t-shirt on the wrong post.
Of COURSE I want a Murder by the Acre t-shirt.
Crysta.
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