Bob Holman spent a few hours away from the at-times paradisal Bowery Poetry Club to help us (PoemTalk regulars Jessica Lowenthal and Randall Couch) figure out what sort of beloved community Jerome Rothenberg had in mind when he wrote his possibly programmatic poem,
Two days ago (May 20) Chris Matthews on his nightly TV show Hardball likened Ted Kennedy to the "man in the poem" — the poem being Wallace Stevens's "The Emperor
'Hi-De-Ho'
now is the time (PoemTalk #7)
The fin in a time of compacts
The roller of big cigars has brain cancer
The Roth-Obama presidency