From: Donna L. Vukelich <dlvukelich>
Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 11:04:13 -0500

Roque Dalton, the Salvadoran poet, sums up my feelings about poetry:


 creo que el mundo es bello

que la poesia es como el pan, de todos.


 I believe the world is beautiful

and that poetry, like bread, is for everyone.


thanks for this great discussion,


Donna Vukelich




At 10:40 AM 5/1/2003 -0400, Connie Rockman wrote:

 I've enjoyed the poetry discussion so much.


Here's an easy way to bring poetry into your life all year 'round. Two

years ago I discovered the Wondering Minstrels listserv that sends you a

poem-a?y. Lately the poems have been coming less frequently, but it's

always a pleasure to find them in my in-box . . . and the archive is

very useful.


This list is not for children's poems, of course - although occasionally

someone will send in a favorite childhood poem and that will start a

string of them - but having any poetry appear from beyond, like a gift,

when you open your e-mail is a treasure.


For the archive and information on joining Wondering Minstrels, go to:

 http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/


Another way I like to enjoy poetry is listening daily to Garrison

Keillor's Writer's Almanac on the radio. You can also find the text

each day at:

 www.writersalmanac.org


Here's Garrison's poem for today, May 1 - for all of us who work with teens:


Postcard from Harmony Parking Lot


The teens have gathered, because they are teens.

They wear brown shirts faded to beige, black

boots, low-slung jeans. The way they stand

is called jaunty. Cigarettes burn through

their words, smoke blows through their hair,

and the way they stare at passersby blends

reptile with bird, spleen with wonder,

your past with their present to you.

 Postcard from Harmony Parking Lot, by Wyn Cooper from Secret Address

(Chapiteau Press).




Thanks for all your good thoughts this month,

Connie Rockman

Stratford, CT


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