student query re poetry
Dates: 2/2/05,10:48 AM through 2/3/05,10:04 AM (4 postings)
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FROM: Mary K Chelton <[removed]@optonline.net>
REC'D: 2/2/05, 10:48 AM
Mary K.
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FROM: Barry Trott <[removed]@mail.wrl.org>
REC'D: 2/2/05, 11:05 AM
Additionally, there certainly are some basic genre-like divisions that
could be made (free-verse versus metrical is probably the basic one) and
then go from there. You would probably need to have a basic idea of poetry
styles (just like you need for fiction genres) and who some of the major
writers are (e.g. sure bets for the reader who likes Seamus Heaney might
be Gerard Manley Hopkins, Thomas Hardy, or Ted Hughes). I see an
opportunity for the RA publishing industry, although this may be a very
niche market. I think that some of the books about poetics such as Mary
Oliver's Rules for the Dance or A Poetry Handbook are great for making
these basic distinctions between styles of verse.
I think it would be fascinating to get more RA questions on poetry, but
the number of poetry readers was small to begin with, and seems to be
getting smaller.
Barry
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On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Mary K Chelton wrote:
> Well, my RA class started off last night with 2 horror readers, 2 adult
> graphic novel readers, a lot of literary fiction readers, a couple
> historical fiction readers, some non-fiction-only readers, etc., but
> the most interesting unanswerable question came from one guy who
> wanted to know where poetry fit into RA. I was clueless. Can anyone
> help?
>
> Mary K.
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> Mary K. Chelton, Ph. D.
> Professor
> Graduate School of Library & Information Studies
> Queens College
> 254 Rosenthal Library
> 65-30 Kissena Blvd.
> Flushing, NY 11367
> Voice: (718) 997-3790 GSLIS office;
> 3667 direct/voicemail
> Fax: (718) 997-3797
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FROM: "Bookbitch" <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 2/2/05, 10:43 PM
>>I think it would be fascinating to get more RA questions on poetry, but
the number of poetry readers was small to begin with, and seems to be
getting smaller.>>
Perhaps the report of the dearth of poetry readers is a bit premature. I
recently attended the first Palm Beach Poetry Festival and found myself in
the midst of 300 people at a reading by Sharon Olds & Billy Collins.
Apparently all three days of the festival were SRO and tickets were not
cheap, may I add. I was very pleasantly surprised & now hopeful for more
such events. On the other hand, my annual poetry display doesn't need to be
refilled all that often...
Stacy Alesi
Southwest County Regional Library
Boca Raton, Florida
"Every day is a full moon at Southwest County"
I am the BookBitch
www.bookbitch.com
Giving away forty new books this month!
FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 2/3/05, 10:04 AM
>I think it would be fascinating to get more RA questions on poetry, but
>the number of poetry readers was small to begin with, and seems to be
>getting smaller.
>
>Barry
To break into an even smaller subset: those who are fans both of poetry
and science fiction/fantasy may want to know about the Science Fiction
Poetry Association and its Rhysling Awards (and annual anthologies).
http://www.sfpoetry.com/
For several years, the Rhysling winners were reprinted in the annual
Nebula Awards anthologies (sf short fiction), though they were dropped
some three years ago when an apparently poetrophobic editor became
the Nebula editor.
Standard disclaimer: my wife is a member of the SFPA, but neither she
nor I get any financial benefit from them.
Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu
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