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Happy Thanksgiving
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Presenting Menu-Poem 2013
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Dear Poetryetc,
Hurray! It's Thanksgiving once again, another November, another year gone by, and
another time to feast with dear friends. This is the twelfth Thanksgiving Menu-Poem
but we are celebrating in a new fashion this year. For the past twelve years we
have had a Thanksgiving menu-poem up and available for you to read and enjoy on
Thanksgiving. Beginning in 2002 with a poem to honor Charles Bernstein, I began
a series of poems, using a menu that I could prepare, in a feast of words that could
be presented if we had a table large enough to fit all of our poetry friends.
This is year is no different and we had a poem ready to go, however the poet who
we were to honor this year kindly declined. Being from another country whose ideas
on thanksgiving are different from our own, if not very similar, he felt that he
could not support this holiday. We have written a nice note explain his position
which is posted below and on our Thanksgiving Menu-Poem page.
Since the project was completed and presented to our guest of honor, who wishes
to be left nameless, there was little time to begin on a new work. So we decided
it was best to keep this honor in place and announce his wishes. His ideas are
very important to understand and devour while we sit and consume. We should also
understand the cost this feast represents. We will certainly be back next year
with a new, full menu poem! Hurray!
Thanksgiving 2013 Menu-Poem declined [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001q3_KcHTBhMT1udX0D3zIudFKLjQfH6RN0kS1bdS-mmEARAjmiY7gr_arBkTg8qliK96h8IRRoaVctC5huHWkeSw0lFg84NjAznNdJqjCUXf_t1W5EbtA5EyWMAWHgpDtlLR9MszwnwkvzHLHUuQ7POW7KjenU9gYbDBjNFR_fsiRdVaZ4oIY6xbCaVLJL2WisT87zbSUXLOVr0to3Qw37Y8t_eyyI0jSSOf8l3fZMLM=&c=oCYtYRdOEUqaH5_gsYjtAI0vpe_vlFsKYhslnyBIF95c_N1YNEFWew==&ch=NyMXEtfNyR5ywq5-FsUHM-epfZA8zavLlgLWzWmTPQ_MRaP9ZVoKlA==]
This year we chose to honor a wonderful poet but this honor has been declined for
sincere political reasoning. This poet has been a deeply committed animal rights
activist for three decades and anything associated with meat eating, homophobia
and generally reactionary nationalist politics would not be something that would
be in keeping with his strong beliefs and practices. The thought of this holiday,
for this poet, is insulting to indigenous peoples. And in the end, the prospects
are all too distressing. To honor this poet, a man of strong integrity and conviction,
in the best way we can, this year we will not have a menu-poem. Thank you and we
will see you next year. [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001q3_KcHTBhMT1udX0D3zIudFKLjQfH6RN0kS1bdS-mmEARAjmiY7gr_arBkTg8qliK96h8IRRoaVctC5huHWkeSw0lFg84NjAznNdJqjCUXf_t1W5EbtA5EyWMAWHgpDtlLR9MszwnwkvzHLHUuQ7POW7KjenU9gYbDBjNFR_fsiRdVaZ4oIY6xbCaVLJL2WisT87zbSUXLOVr0to3Qw37Y8t_eyyI0jSSOf8l3fZMLM=&c=oCYtYRdOEUqaH5_gsYjtAI0vpe_vlFsKYhslnyBIF95c_N1YNEFWew==&ch=NyMXEtfNyR5ywq5-FsUHM-epfZA8zavLlgLWzWmTPQ_MRaP9ZVoKlA==]
Even though we are not celebrating and we still might want to have something to
read, Here are our Past Thanksgiving Menu-Poems.
Bill Berkson 2012 [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001q3_KcHTBhMT1udX0D3zIudFKLjQfH6RN0kS1bdS-mmEARAjmiY7gr_arBkTg8qliK96h8IRRoaVctC5huHWkeSw0lFg84NjAznNdJqjCUXf_t1W5EbtA5EyWMAWHgpDtlLR9MszwnwkvzHLHUuQ7POW7KjenU9gYbDBjNFR_fsiRdVaZ4oIY6xbCaVLJL2WisT87zbSUXLOVr0to3Qw37Y8t_eyyI0jSSOf8l3fZMLM=&c=oCYtYRdOEUqaH5_gsYjtAI0vpe_vlFsKYhslnyBIF95c_N1YNEFWew==&ch=NyMXEtfNyR5ywq5-FsUHM-epfZA8zavLlgLWzWmTPQ_MRaP9ZVoKlA==]
Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001q3_KcHTBhMT1udX0D3zIudFKLjQfH6RN0kS1bdS-mmEARAjmiY7gr_arBkTg8qliK96h8IRRoaVctC5huHWkeSw0lFg84NjAznNdJqjCUXf_t1W5EbtA5EyWMAWHgpDtlLR9MszwnwkvzHLHUuQ7POW7KjenU9gYbDBjNFR_fsiRdVaZ4oIY6xbCaVLJL2WisT87zbSUXLOVr0to3Qw37Y8t_eyyI0jSSOf8l3fZMLM=&c=oCYtYRdOEUqaH5_gsYjtAI0vpe_vlFsKYhslnyBIF95c_N1YNEFWew==&ch=NyMXEtfNyR5ywq5-FsUHM-epfZA8zavLlgLWzWmTPQ_MRaP9ZVoKlA==]
and 50 years of Burning Deck Press 2011
David Shapiro 2010 [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001q3_KcHTBhMT1udX0D3zIudFKLjQfH6RN0kS1bdS-mmEARAjmiY7gr_arBkTg8qliK96h8IRRoaVctC5huHWkeSw0lFg84NjAznNdJqjCUXf_t1W5EbtA5EyWMAWHgpDtlLR9MszwnwkvzHLHUuQ7POW7KjenU9gYbDBjNFR_fsiRdVaZ4oIY6xbCaVLJL2WisT87zbSUXLOVr0to3Qw37Y8t_eyyI0jSSOf8l3fZMLM=&c=oCYtYRdOEUqaH5_gsYjtAI0vpe_vlFsKYhslnyBIF95c_N1YNEFWew==&ch=NyMXEtfNyR5ywq5-FsUHM-epfZA8zavLlgLWzWmTPQ_MRaP9ZVoKlA==]
C. D. Wright 2009 [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001q3_KcHTBhMT1udX0D3zIudFKLjQfH6RN0kS1bdS-mmEARAjmiY7gr_arBkTg8qliK96h8IRRoaVctC5huHWkeSw0lFg84NjAznNdJqjCUXf_t1W5EbtA5EyWMAWHgpDtlLR9MszwnwkvzHLHUuQ7POW7KjenU9gYbDBjNFR_fsiRdVaZ4oIY6xbCaVLJL2WisT87zbSUXLOVr0to3Qw37Y8t_eyyI0jSSOf8l3fZMLM=&c=oCYtYRdOEUqaH5_gsYjtAI0vpe_vlFsKYhslnyBIF95c_N1YNEFWew==&ch=NyMXEtfNyR5ywq5-FsUHM-epfZA8zavLlgLWzWmTPQ_MRaP9ZVoKlA==]
Anne Waldman 2008 [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001q3_KcHTBhMT1udX0D3zIudFKLjQfH6RN0kS1bdS-mmEARAjmiY7gr_arBkTg8qliK96h8IRRoaVctC5huHWkeSw0lFg84NjAznNdJqjCUXf_t1W5EbtA5EyWMAWHgpDtlLR9MszwnwkvzHLHUuQ7POW7KjenU9gYbDBjNFR_fsiRdVaZ4oIY6xbCaVLJL2WisT87zbSUXLOVr0to3Qw37Y8t_eyyI0jSSOf8l3fZMLM=&c=oCYtYRdOEUqaH5_gsYjtAI0vpe_vlFsKYhslnyBIF95c_N1YNEFWew==&ch=NyMXEtfNyR5ywq5-FsUHM-epfZA8zavLlgLWzWmTPQ_MRaP9ZVoKlA==]
Ron Silliman 2007 [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001q3_KcHTBhMT1udX0D3zIudFKLjQfH6RN0kS1bdS-mmEARAjmiY7gr_arBkTg8qliK96h8IRRoaVctC5huHWkeSw0lFg84NjAznNdJqjCUXf_t1W5EbtA5EyWMAWHgpDtlLR9MszwnwkvzHLHUuQ7POW7KjenU9gYbDBjNFR_fsiRdVaZ4oIY6xbCaVLJL2WisT87zbSUXLOVr0to3Qw37Y8t_eyyI0jSSOf8l3fZMLM=&c=oCYtYRdOEUqaH5_gsYjtAI0vpe_vlFsKYhslnyBIF95c_N1YNEFWew==&ch=NyMXEtfNyR5ywq5-FsUHM-epfZA8zavLlgLWzWmTPQ_MRaP9ZVoKlA==]
John Ashbery 2006 [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001q3_KcHTBhMT1udX0D3zIudFKLjQfH6RN0kS1bdS-mmEARAjmiY7gr_arBkTg8qliK96h8IRRoaVctC5huHWkeSw0lFg84NjAznNdJqjCUXf_t1W5EbtA5EyWMAWHgpDtlLR9MszwnwkvzHLHUuQ7POW7KjenU9gYbDBjNFR_fsiRdVaZ4oIY6xbCaVLJL2WisT87zbSUXLOVr0to3Qw37Y8t_eyyI0jSSOf8l3fZMLM=&c=oCYtYRdOEUqaH5_gsYjtAI0vpe_vlFsKYhslnyBIF95c_N1YNEFWew==&ch=NyMXEtfNyR5ywq5-FsUHM-epfZA8zavLlgLWzWmTPQ_MRaP9ZVoKlA==]
Robert Creeley 2005 [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001q3_KcHTBhMT1udX0D3zIudFKLjQfH6RN0kS1bdS-mmEARAjmiY7gr_arBkTg8qliK96h8IRRoaVctC5huHWkeSw0lFg84NjAznNdJqjCUXf_t1W5EbtA5EyWMAWHgpDtlLR9MszwnwkvzHLHUuQ7POW7KjenU9gYbDBjNFR_fsiRdVaZ4oIY6xbCaVLJL2WisT87zbSUXLOVr0to3Qw37Y8t_eyyI0jSSOf8l3fZMLM=&c=oCYtYRdOEUqaH5_gsYjtAI0vpe_vlFsKYhslnyBIF95c_N1YNEFWew==&ch=NyMXEtfNyR5ywq5-FsUHM-epfZA8zavLlgLWzWmTPQ_MRaP9ZVoKlA==]
Kent Johnson 2004 [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001q3_KcHTBhMT1udX0D3zIudFKLjQfH6RN0kS1bdS-mmEARAjmiY7gr_arBkTg8qliK96h8IRRoaVctC5huHWkeSw0lFg84NjAznNdJqjCUXf_t1W5EbtA5EyWMAWHgpDtlLR9MszwnwkvzHLHUuQ7POW7KjenU9gYbDBjNFR_fsiRdVaZ4oIY6xbCaVLJL2WisT87zbSUXLOVr0to3Qw37Y8t_eyyI0jSSOf8l3fZMLM=&c=oCYtYRdOEUqaH5_gsYjtAI0vpe_vlFsKYhslnyBIF95c_N1YNEFWew==&ch=NyMXEtfNyR5ywq5-FsUHM-epfZA8zavLlgLWzWmTPQ_MRaP9ZVoKlA==]
Forrest Gander 2003 [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001q3_KcHTBhMT1udX0D3zIudFKLjQfH6RN0kS1bdS-mmEARAjmiY7gr_arBkTg8qliK96h8IRRoaVctC5huHWkeSw0lFg84NjAznNdJqjCUXf_t1W5EbtA5EyWMAWHgpDtlLR9MszwnwkvzHLHUuQ7POW7KjenU9gYbDBjNFR_fsiRdVaZ4oIY6xbCaVLJL2WisT87zbSUXLOVr0to3Qw37Y8t_eyyI0jSSOf8l3fZMLM=&c=oCYtYRdOEUqaH5_gsYjtAI0vpe_vlFsKYhslnyBIF95c_N1YNEFWew==&ch=NyMXEtfNyR5ywq5-FsUHM-epfZA8zavLlgLWzWmTPQ_MRaP9ZVoKlA==]
Charles Bernstein 2002 [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001q3_KcHTBhMT1udX0D3zIudFKLjQfH6RN0kS1bdS-mmEARAjmiY7gr_arBkTg8qliK96h8IRRoaVctC5huHWkeSw0lFg84NjAznNdJqjCUXf_t1W5EbtA5EyWMAWHgpDtlLR9MszwnwkvzHLHUuQ7POW7KjenU9gYbDBjNFR_fsiRdVaZ4oIY6xbCaVLJL2WisT87zbSUXLOVr0to3Qw37Y8t_eyyI0jSSOf8l3fZMLM=&c=oCYtYRdOEUqaH5_gsYjtAI0vpe_vlFsKYhslnyBIF95c_N1YNEFWew==&ch=NyMXEtfNyR5ywq5-FsUHM-epfZA8zavLlgLWzWmTPQ_MRaP9ZVoKlA==]
Even though we are not celebrating and we still might want to have something to
read, to the right is a list of our previous eleven Thanksgiving Menu-Poems. But,
if you are looking for something new and fun to read, here is a sneek peek of my
new book, Apollo.
It has often been said that Marcel Duchamp gave up art for chess. Geoffrey Gatza
has reversed the process, and produced a sumptuous "souvenir program" of a performance
of Stravinsky's ballet Apollo, framed by an elaborately-plotted chess game between
Duchamp and his female alter-ego, Rose Selavy. The results are stunning. -John
Ashbery
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