Commercial Poetry

A place for the discussion of poetry intended for an audience beyond poets.

Monday, May 30, 2016

$200,000,000

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Earl the Squirrel's Rule #189       Suppose you were given $200,000,000 and tasked with improving poetry's profile.  What would ...
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Saturday, December 5, 2015

Dana Gioia, California's Poet Laureate

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     Dana Gioia has been appointed the California Poet Laureate .  If you recall, Dana wrote poetry's Goldstein Diary, " Can Po...
Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Love is a Weakness - Chapter II - Mother

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Love is a Weakness - Chapter I - Meetings Love is a Weakness - Chapter II - Mother Chapter II - Mother      Even though most of u...
Monday, November 30, 2015

Greatest Poet Of Our Time

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Earl the Squirrel's Rule #52      What the word "poet" means to us can be very revealing.  And very convenient.      Pro...
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Sunday, November 29, 2015

Infasia

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John Prine      No, it's not an Oriental tourist advisory.      The cause is information overload , the constant bombardment of tr...
Friday, November 27, 2015

Is Bad Poetry Good For Poetry?

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Earl the Squirrel's Rule #187      We know what poetry is :  speech worth retaining (even in preliterate societies).  Prose is every...
Monday, November 16, 2015

Facets

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     In another thread a typical content regent intimated that great poems must be strong, compelling, assertive, imaginative, passionat...
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