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...dramatic monologues, Stallings reinterprets and challenges long-held assumptions. Hades, for instance, emerges as a very sympathetic character in the poem devoted to him, and Persephone’s monologue essentially consists of her telling her mother, Demeter, that she actually enjoys the underworld and does not wish to return...
When Kit resolves never again to write poetry, one might thank her. Her prize-winning poem, “May,” echoes Psalm 24: “Now lift up your heads oh you Gateses and Flynns.” Given the comic effect, it is difficult to believe (as we are told) that President Kennedy himself honored her for this poem, or even that it was published in an anthology with such a banal title as “Wings of Song...
...learns that poetry is, in fact, “the saying of nothing. The Nothing that can’t be said.” Unfortunately, this vision is really only acknowledged in a narrow sense: fear the secret police, lose a child in the womb, write a poem about it. Poetry is, with few exceptions, the voice of unspoken grief...
...songs have become lyrical gems, with the emotional twists and turns that have always been her great joy to express to live audiences. She is big on poems themselves these days, performing them straight up, new and old, at all of her recent concerts. She prefaced her newest song, inaugurated Friday night, by reading two short poems by the poet Lucille Clifton. The new song is provocative, and incredibly verbose, jam packed with the kind of raw melodic vocal preaching that DiFranco fans have come to expect. Before reading Clifton’s poem Ani grinningly declared with typical candor...
...March slam, the shy poet-physicists divided into groups, each writing one line of a limerick before passing it off for the next group to compose the next line. This communal limericking resulted in mostly nonsense, but one poem survived the activity...