Glad you understood, Sally - it >was< an extraordinary experience - but I
thought I'd try the poem out without any additional comments!

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SallyE

on 6/7/04 10:09 am, Sally James at [log in to unmask] wrote:

> 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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