MIEKAL, this is a valid point. Although, I don’t understand visual poetry
and have never really been able to get into it, it has a respectable
past, and yes, academia has ignored it to a large extent. This is
precisely my concern, that once academia decides what's legitimate
nothing else gets attention. This particular journal will no doubt have
its own criteria for what should be valued and what shouldn't. Geraldine
is ok about this because the editors are her friends, so her work will be
seen as valuable.
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:14:27 -0500, mIEKAL aND
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>Sean, normally I find myself agreeing with your comments but this
one has me
>scratching my head. I'll give you an example that has perplexed my
>community of practitioners seemingly forever. Visual Poetry has an
>extremely vibrant & endless interesting field of production, with work
by
>hundreds of artist going back 50 years, yet there has been an almost
>complete hands off from academia, except for the occasional one off.
>Perhaps yr speaking to the specific scene yr a part of & I'm missing the
>point.
>
>~mIEKAL
>
>On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Sean Bonney
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Poetry is not getting 'hedged in' by academia. Academic interest
reflects
>> the liveliness of the scene in general.
>
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