Hmm I have been to lectures like this Sally on poetry and sexuality. I once
helped a friend who was giving a lecture to a large group of A level
students. She was an expert on these matters and the students seemed
enthralled. You have captured everything in this poem the reactions the
astonishment the "professors without the blushes" and the "many female and
not all dead" is my favorite line. My friend was much more dramatic and down
to earth with her poems and I as usual did my romantic bit. The combination
of the two of us I remember brought some pretty good stuff out of the
potential creative writing students. Their enthusiasm for the written word
was invigorating for me too. I know how you must have felt. I enjoyed this,
Sally J
>From: Sally Evans <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: New sub: "Poetry and Sexuality"
>Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 22:14:50 +0100
>
>"Poetry and Sexuality"
>
>One afternoon has me astonished.
>Bright-eyed scholars agog in the hall
>of this four-day conference, hi-jackers
>of poets, many female and not all dead,
>eco-poetics, psycho-poetics, the crackers
>of cellular biology and modern science.
>American women churn out f-words
>with the righteousness of a church.
>Professors listen without a blush.
>Entrust the language of animals to words,
>or flush words out of the mouths of animals.
>Traduce academic poetry until it's
>a bonked minefield of >this< experience.
>These delightful women poets to introduce:
>why aren't the lecturers all over them?
>We have all been re-educated
>and poetry has won. I come home replete,
>give up trying to explain; sedated
>by release, eat my dinner in bed.
>
>Sally Evans
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