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...while in the '60's, with Bob Dylan forging poetry from folk and rock music, it seemed possible that more traditional bards might return the compliment and make pop out of poetry. The leading candidate was Leonard Cohen, a Montreal poet and novelist. Cohen wrapped his sepulchral baritone around songs of betrayal and loss that shivered with the bruised romantic's gift of inexhaustible awe. Cohen never became a pop star--others had hits from his lusciously haunting Suzanne and Sisters of Mercy--but his pieces hung in the mind, like psalms or dirges remembered from childhood...
...bombed. "So many producers have wasted millions of dollars on people who are great talk-show guests but not great talk-show hosts," says Live with Regis and Kelly executive producer Michael Gelman. A host must subordinate his or her identity in service of the larger work--what the poet John Keats referred to as "negative capability," although he was talking about verse, not wearing pinstripes and doing product placements for Coke...
MEET AMERICA'S NEXT TOP POET...
...make $35,000 a year to get kids psyched about sonnets. No, you're not a middle school English teacher; you're the poet laureate. The Library of Congress has named New Hampshire writer Donald Hall the U.S.'s new poet in chief. Hall has published 18 books of poetry--including a 1988 collection called The One Day that took 17 years to write, and two books about his late wife, poet Jane Kenyon. A "grateful" and "frantic" Hall says he would like to start a poetry channel on satellite radio or get poetry some airtime on cable...
...he’s a devotee of 18th-century English poet Samuel Johnson. “How many Wall Street lawyers are also experts on Samuel Johnson?” asks Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr., the outgoing chair of Harvard’s Department of African and African American Studies...