Thank you, Stephen. (And I will say here that the Bay Area Summer
Marathon reading of May 21st, featuring you, Andrew Joron, Ali Warren
(hands down, the stand-outs) was to be a memorable high-light of my
trip.. along with last Wednesday night's performance by Sha Sha Higby
of "Black Twig in the Sea" at the Asian Arts Museum/Chong-Moon Lee
Center for Asian Art and Culture.
The lives and careers of 20-21st century poets can be as or more
interesting and diverse than those of the 19th century... I think it's
quite possible because many of us have sought out more accessibility
to more. After all, as so many of the list members show time and again,
there's a lot of life, and it seems just to "be here" makes it incumbent
on us to reach deep into all its pockets, corners and curves... and then
to bring some of something back, expressing it, getting it down. And I
will state here, respectively, -- for the record-- that there seems to be
more of this done by more of the members of this list than by many
members of lists elsewhere. And, as a trophy husband, stay-at-home
dad, "retired" political operative, music-reviewer, philosophical poetry
essayist, and chief cook and bottle-washer, I'd just like to add: I find
that simple fact a balm.
B.T.W. Any reports possible from last Saturday's B.A.S.P. Marathon,
which featured among many my friend Edward Foster?
Gerald S.
>A parenthetical note: I actually met Gerald Schwartz visiting here in San
> Francisco from upstate New Yor when he came to hear me and several others
> read at the opening first of the annual series of the Bay Area Summer
> Poetry
> Marathon. What I learned 'off-list' is that his wife is in charge of the
> Red
> Cross' blood supply in the northeast, and he used to run political
> campaigns
> for New York State and that he's now a stay at home dad and poet with a 7
> year old. In a certain way I think the lives and careers of 20-21st
> century
> poets can be as or more interesting and diverse than those of the 19th
> century - let alone their partners!
>
> Stephen V
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