What is a Poem and Who Knows
If you say it's a poem, is it? Once years ago I taught an online asynchronistic class for the New School. But I never took a class. I signed up for one that started yesterday, a seven week class for international students, run by the prestigious University of Iowa writing department. I wish I could show you the comments the first day on their posting board. Last night I read a few hundred comments. People's opinions about every single word. The whole world wants to be a POET. (Really?)
Prestigious institution they offer a free class international internet all about poems, unpoetic class raucous compelling exploration Libyan poet he says there's no way in hell we can understand his poem a woman from Kentucky wrote a poem about one shoe. It could have been good. We all had to fill out a survey before we could see the posts. About our role. Passive active or just passing through. I wanted a day of reading before I made that decision. Now I know I'm passing through.