We belong to the sound of the words we've both fallen under.

[raybear]

C'mon, people, I know I buried the request in the middle of a not-so-exciting livejournal entry, but I was going bigfatmama style. So I'll ask again:

Recommend me a poet! I'm fairly ignorant. So make it "poetry for people who don't like poetry" or something. I dig narrative poems, but it's not essential. Seriously, the only books of poetry I have in my collection are Pablo Neruda, John Wieners, Marianne Moore, and Billy Collins. Yeah, I know, Billy Collins, don't cringe, but I really do love Picnic, Lightning. Frank O'Hara is coming in the mail, but I need something in the meantime. Oh, and Virginia Hamilton Adair, Ants on the Melon, I have that.

Now's your chance! I'm a fiction writer showing an interest in poetry that's not ridicule or disdain! Help me!

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[switch-beat.livejournal.com]

local:
http://voices.e-poets.net/artists.shtml
(e-poets is the premiere chicago poetry
website/library)


print poems:
lorna dee cervantes- poem for the young white man..
kim berez- poem for wicker park yuppies
*eduardo arocho- better than the movies
*jessica hagedorn
*june jordan- >>educator & created "poetry for the people"
*suheir hammad- first writing since
*sonia sanchez
*pedro pietri
*roque dalton
*eileen tabios
*marvin tate
*ernesto cardinal


performance & print:
*marty mcconnell- www.martymcconnell.com
*dj renegade
*lynne procope
*regie gibson- "the city is a woman whose water
is always breaking..."
*ursula rucker- supa sista
*saul williams- "i want to be/the one she calls/ on her
cigarette break/ not the cause of it.
*celena glenn- ranks 2nd in world poetry slam.
*bassey ikpi- http://www.basseyworld.com/main.php
(also in links a good resource for more poetry)


*anthologies:
bum rush the page
the spoken word revolution
aloud : voices from the nuyorican poets' café
against forgetting

[mintwaster.livejournal.com]

June Jordan!

And cocolola loves roque dalton. Poetry, like bread, is for everyone...

Oh and raybear, Coco would also say Lucille Clifton