Secrets of the City

Butt out the New Yorker!

While briefly researching How Much the New Yorker Pays for Poetry, I ran across a couple poems by Bob Dylan that ran in the magazine last September.

They seem to be childhood memories/memoir as well.

“Combined, they have 35 lines and a total of 163 words.”

For some reason, the guy at Glorious Noise thought that was worth noting.

I don’t think I
Get poetry. What
makes this not just

An essay with funny
line breaks, capitalization –
and punctuation?

I’ll be honest when I first glanced all I saw was Muske-Dukes and I thought this was written by a rather large tattooed rollergirl.

Jeff:

Didn’t you learn anything in English Class? It’s line, it’s meter, the way the damn thing flows.

Sometimes there’s a certain number of syllables on each line. Some poets write with scroochy little small letters and position them on the page for composition sake.

Trying to teach you people about art is like talking to a wall.

And, I’ll have you know ryanol, that this Muske-Dukes woman interviewed none other than Farah Fawcett for House & Garden magazine.

A lot of poetry (esp. amateurish stuff, the kind you get at coffee readings) is just disjointed prose. So I get what Jeff was saying.

coffee ^shop readings.

The poem is excellent. The kind that makes me think the form is alive and well.

I’m with Kevin, the New Yorker should just mind its own business.

(I’ll let you know what I think of the poem when I read it; I just got this week’s issue yesterday.)

After I read it, I wondered whatever happened to Katy McNally.

When I lived in Atlanta, and was a more Literary Cat than I am now, went to a poetry reading featuring a fat, bearded guy named Deacon Lunchbox. He shouted nonsense out of a megaphone.

He’s still around.

I agree with Kurtis, the poem was excellent.

I love poetry. Unfortunately, I find I cannot just read it one poem after another. I have to intersperse it with other stuff, like my daily life.

I think poetry is meant to be read that way, kc.

I take it back. Deacon’s dead,

I submitted a new MnReads post. If you’re out there, Max, and not seeing it, please see if it’s in the spam folder.

Rat, this was kinda entertaining: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhqaBgGiqrc.

Most certainly.

i think that poem was lovely.