Nov 3, 2013

THE POETRIES & COMMUNITIES PROJECT--MARGENTO @ uOTTAWA


POETRIES & COMMUNITIES Project–General Argument

Does the community around us need poetry or poets?  Community—singular, as in local, or global as well—or rather plural, as we are part of or in touch with so many matrices crossing all kinds of social, linguistic, cultural, and geographical divides?  But going back to the first question, are poetry and poets one and the same thing in that respect—or, in other words, is the poets’ poetry the poetry that communities around them ‘consume’, identify with, enjoy or employ for (any of) the meanwhile marginalized and ‘secularized’ versions of the functions that poetry ‘normally’ had in ‘traditional’/‘pre-contact’/pre-(post)modern communities? [...]

Submission Guidelines
Contribution 1–David Baker & Page Hill Starzinger
Contribution 2–G.C. Waldrep
Contribution 3–David Antin
Contribution 4–Jerome Rothenberg
Contribution 5–Betsy Warland
Contribution 6--Garry Thomas Morse
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