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Sophie Hannah should certainly be there. Best wishes Matthew -----Original Message----- From: Gudding <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: 14 July 2000 22:09 Subject: Women's Hilarious Poetry >This is a query. I am compiling (still) a course packet for a course >exclusively about "hilarious poetry" -- and I have a problem: I would like >to have at least *half* the poets represented be women. At present, I've >50 poets in the course packet, only 13 of whom are women. Could anyone >please suggest to me the names of *extremely funny* women poets? I don't >just mean "comic": I mean *drop-dead funny*. These are the women I have >in the packet so far: > >Wanda Coleman >Gertrude Stein >Joan Jobe Smith >Nada Gordon >Bernadette Mayer >Wendy Cope >Mairead Byrne >Stephanie Sallaska >Denise Duhamel >Marianne Moore >Anne Waldman >Amy Gerstler >Rachel Loden > >If anyone wishes to suggest her own work, please do. I am, as usual, in >earnest. Any help would be appreciated. > >Gabe > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%