Comments on: Water Poetry 4: The Free Verse

By: Water Poetry 5: The Sijo « The Quilting Sword

Water Poetry 5: The Sijo « The Quilting Sword — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:59:08 +0000

[...] concept has been to write a poem about a body of water in a poetry form native to that country. The Free Verse about the San Francisco Bay gets the most hits of any of my posts. The Elizabethan Sonnet about the Thames, the Villanelle [...]

By: The Poet and the Pin-up « The Quilting Sword

The Poet and the Pin-up « The Quilting Sword — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 06:55:50 +0000

[...] Poet and the Pin-up Jump to Comments In my post about free verse poetry I mentioned Carl Sandburg and my friend Mendy commented that he remembered seeing Carl Sandburg [...]

By: Wind

Wind — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:35:30 +0000

thanks you two. mendy, i love that image of the president and the poet. i’d l0ve to see that photograph.

By: Mendy

Mendy — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 07:21:27 +0000

As I was reading Pacifica I could hear the words being spoken to a packed room in a dimly lit coffeehouse, or perhaps at a clandestine meeting of revolutionaries in an abandoned Tenderloin warehouse. This reminded me that free verse seems created for performance, and I recalled a moment when Carl Sandburg was reading at JFK’s inauguration and the new President held his top hat to shield Sandburg’s eyes from the sun.
I loved “hearing” Pacifica.

By: Nancy

Nancy — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:45:34 +0000

Mmm….speak the truth, brother…. [picture nodding under a black beret, snapping fingers]….

=) That’s my favorite.