Word: poeticisms
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...evening began with six readings, featuring one student from each school. After about a half an hour, the event metamorphosed into an open mic forum, at which point the line between audience and reader became comfortably blurred and remained that way for two additional hours of poetic revelry...
...people listening intently on couches, on the floor, knitting, doodling, eyeing the crowd and copies of _The Harvard Advocate_. Inspired by the readers and listeners who had trekked multiple T stops and squished themselves together in a mid-sized common room, "Live Anthology" evoked a unique sense of poetic community...
...Louisa Solano, owner of the Grolier Poetry Bookshop. Her efforts came to fruition in November, when the Literary Society first met and began planning "Live Anthology." Crawford hopes to extend their activities nationwide, including more intercollegiate readings, a student-written anthology and a web site for easily accessible poetic exchange...
...pleasurably inconsistent, in quality and content. It didn't matter that some of the poems were less than stellar; the audience was ready to enjoy the collective effort at earnest communication-something you don't necessarily find everyday. It was interesting to note the lack of a clear-cut poetic hierarchy between the schools (sorry, Harvard). Nonetheless, Alexander Forrester '01 did make an impression with his poem, "Forty-Two," a six-part "answer to the question of the meaning of life" that weaved together allusions to the _Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_ with Greek mythology and Shakespeare. A Tufts...
...every reading took on such hefty subject matter, as Tuft's Jacquelyn Benson lightened things up with a dramatic reading of Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time." Josette Akresh of Boston University staked her claim for the poetic medium with comedic bluntness, "If you don't appreciate poetry you're an ignorant fool...You need a taste of Socrates and a good hard punch in the kisser." Some of the more memorable idiomatic expressions of the night included the fascinating simile, "waves like asses rise and fall," as well as another student's symbolic appropriation of Richard Dean Anderson...