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October 13, 2008

Poetry and Politics, oh my!

PoetryPolitic, a project of Wave Books, is in the home stretch of it's "a blog in 50 days" experiment. Kicked off on September 15th, the project will run through election day on November 4th.

In their own words,

Running from September 15th through Election Day, November 4th,
PoetryPolitic has been offering a spectrum of critical and
imaginative thinking, through poems, audio and video recordings,
essays, interviews and reviews. The work on PoetryPolitic represents
the ways in which poetry might respond to the complexity of the
times. Featured poets have included Hayden Carruth, Don Mee Choi,
Matthea Harvey, Andrew Joron, Hoa Nguyen, Alice Notley, Reginald
Shepherd, Rod Smith, among many others.

It's actually quite interesting to read through some of the offerings up so far. Some of it I don't really care for. But some of the poems are very thought provoking in that good way which leads you to mull it over for a while afterwards.

Anything that gets voters to THINK is a good thing in my book.

Posted by Kevin at October 13, 2008 10:47 AM