The Cambridge Poetry Conference is the most interesting avant-garde event in
England. The mainstream has far more and far better funded festivals, which
equally tightly exclude the experimentalists, while Cambridge has battled
sternly on. So can we drop that one?
I so much welcomed that all those women recently posted -- do hope they'll
keep it up.
As a reply to Keston, I'm listing some of the women poets whom I'm most
interested in -- sometimes on quite slender anthology exposure, but certainly
I'd like to see more of all their work and more discussion too. Surnames
first because I sorted alphabetically so as not to introduce priorities --
and only Britain and America are covered (except inadvertently for a couple
of Canadians), as I couldn't take time to cover the entire Austr, NZ, Indian,
African field -- apologies for that.
Allnutt, Gillian, Armantrout, Rae; Bates, Meg; Brady, Andrea (need to see her
work, Keston); Baude, Dawn Michelle; Bergvall, Caroline; Berssenbrugge,
Mei-Mei; Blau du Plessis, Rachel; Brossard, Nicole (Canada, ok); Brown, Lee
Ann; Browne, Laynie; Burger, Mary; Cataldo, Susan; Chalmers, Jennifer;
Chernoff, Maxine; Cole, Norma; Coleman, Wanda; Collins, Merle; Corbel,
Samantha; Cortez, Jayne; Coultas, Brenda; Darragh, Tina; di Prima, Diane;
Durand, Marcella; Equi, Elaine; Esteves, Sandra; Fraser, Kathleen; Fuller,
Heather; Gerstler, Amy; Gladman, Renée; Goldman, Judith; Graham, Jorie (yes);
Guest, Barbara; Harjo, Joy; Harryman, Carla; Hejinian, Lyn; Howe, Fanny;
Howe, Susan; Hunt, Erica; Jamie, Kathleen (yes, better than advertised here);
Jarnot, Lisa; Jones, Patricia Spears; Kay, Jackie; Kidd, Helen; Klein,
Ishmael; Kyger, Joanne; Lake, Grace; Lauterbach, Ann; Lederer, Katy; Lu,
Pamela; Macdonald, Helen; Mayer, Bernadette; Mesmer, Sharon; Monk, Geraldine;
Moriarty, Laura; Moxley, Jennifer; Mulford, Wendy; Mullen, Harryet; Myles,
Eileen; Nauen, Elinor; Needell, Claire; Nguyen, Hoa; Nichols, Grace;
O'Sullivan, Maggie; Owen, Maureen; Prevallet, Kirstin; Ramsdell, Heather;
Reedy, Carlyle; Rehm, Pam; Retallack, Joan; Rich, Adrienne (yes, difficult to
leave her out, finally); Riley, Denise; Robertson, Lisa (Canada ok);
Saidenberg, Jocelyne; Samuels, Lisa; Sanchez, Sonia; Scalapino, Leslie;
Schulz, Susan; Sharma, Prageeta; Siklianos, Eleni; Spahr, Juliana; Swenson,
Cole; Tarlo, Harriet; Templeton, Fiona; Timmins, Susan; van den Beukel,
Karlein; Vaughan, Vittoria; Vicuña, Cecilia; Waldman, Anne; Waldrop,
Rosmarie; Walsh, Catherine; Welish, Marjorie; Willis, Elizabeth; Wing, Alicia.
Bored yet? You'll see this is not a ghetto. It's where much of the current
action is. This is the only reply I'm making to Keston's invitation to come
clean on the likes or dislikes of new contributors to these discussions. I'm
delighted that, having been sleepers, they felt they could post. There's a
whole discussion to be held on accessibility and difficulty of poetry, what
the one permits and does not permit and similarly what the other permits,
etc.
Cris's last posting added, re a forthcoming publication: Lisbeth Keiley,
Elizabeth Burns, ShaunAnne Tangey, Fran Webb - Sarah Law, as well as Samuels
and Spahr.
Doug
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