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After the speeches, performers sang a Somalian folk song and recited a poem in praise of the relief efforts, and candles were passed out to audience members. The speakers then took up a banner which read "Help the Starving People of Somalia" and led a procession from City Hall to Harvard Square...
...landscape of Australia is a predominant theme in Wallace-Crabbe's poetry, both as an object of beauty in itself and as a mirror of human emotion and thought. As Wallace-Crabbe explained, his poetry attempts to "render the nature of consciousness in tangible images." In his poem "Mind," for example, the inner conflict of the mind is reflected in the speaker's surrounding in the Australian bush...
...THOSE FRETFUL ABOUT THE SUBLIteracy of the MTV generation, a freshet of hope comes with the annual YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL, which has drawn on thousands of writers 18 and younger and given the best an off-Broadway showcase. This year's cleverest premise comes from Aurorae Khoo. Her rap poem The P.C. (for politically correct) Laundromat substitutes for the melting pot the metaphor of the washing machine, where whites and colors fare best when separate. Joanna Norland's Mothers Have Nine Lives wryly contrasts the joys of playing mommy as a child with the discontents of the real thing...
Kevin ridicules the ideas that poetry is merely an act of inspiration--he complains that the Wordsworth stereotype of poets composing as they wanders the misty moors still predominates. On average, he spends about four or five months revising a poem. He describes the process as "the words [lifting] off the page." Most of his poems take their true from in revision. "You want to put the lid on [a poem], but it keeps knocking the lid off," he says. "Finally, the words just kind of get stuck...
...think it's work. Is it art? I think it's best described as a vocation." He decides, finally, that it is something he works at. "I guess most people would say that I write a lot.. You're only a poet after you're finished a poem. Before that, you're just writing...