http://jjgallaher.blogspot.com/2011/02/ ... etter.html
http://jjgallaher.blogspot.com/2011/02/ ... art-1.html
http://jjgallaher.blogspot.com/2011/02/ ... art-2.html
http://jjgallaher.blogspot.com/2011/02/ ... lands.html
http://seansinger.blogspot.com/2011/02/ ... man-p.html
http://sethabramson.blogspot.com/2011/0 ... sm-in.html
[edited to add: http://jjgallaher.blogspot.com/2011/02/ ... html#links Interesting.]
Thoughts? Tell me that isn't whack. What a bunch of whiners.


Is Tony Hoagland's "The Change" a bad poem? How can it be? Bad poems don't create such a ruckus. Who would raise such a fuss over a bad poem? No one. What do we do when we see a bad poem? We just roll our eyes and walk away. Right? We don't give it another thought. I didn't really care for Seth Abramson's reading of the poem, but then I don't like being read to. If you're going to read to me, you should be a Taylor Mali or Rives. And then there's Beau Sia. Performance art, that's real. The other "reading" stuff is Memorex. Blah.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OonDPGwA ... r_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbtVepS53t0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvDj-NYn ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjeLu5HF ... re=related
Put some oomph into it. A little passion doesn't hurt. Right?
So what are we talking about? Art. Petty poets. Snots and snobs. Mob mindset. Politics. PC run amok. Censure. Bicker. Bicker. Bicker. Social activism. Crazy people. Did I leave anything out? Who owns the race card?
Agnes