Cleveland Poetry Scenes Chronology

Please check my web page for the Cleveland Poetry Scenes chronology dated from 1945 to the present. It is extensive and open to suggestions for editing and adding to it. d.a.levy, Daniel Thompson, CSU Poetry Center, etc. http://members.aol.com/smithcours/ClevelandPoetryScenes/Clevelandpoetrychron.html
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Rebel Poets Portrait

Looking for additional poets who belong here. Please add yours. Over the years, this image of the poet has evolved...beginning with the Romantic poets of Whitman, Dickinson, Emerson, Thoreau...into a social and cultural outsider who sees and responds to the contemporary world. It's a position of power and insight that gives poetry a motive and works for results...nothing so small as changing the world. Anne Waldman's new book OUTRIDER (La Alameda Press, 2006) asks the question...what is the poet and the poem today? How are they tied to the world?
http://members.aol.com/smithcours/Patchen/RebelPoetPortrait.html

Writing and Art and Movement

As a writer I have always been more drawn by the other arts. Walking through a gallery or museum of paintings or photos can move me in stronger ways than most reading can. I've thought this is kind of like the cook who loses his taste for food, but I really do love fine writing and seek to do it. The art though seems to sneak into my mind and heart in all sorts of ways, intuitive and deep. I usually don't think the painting or photograph, it just moves into me, and I like that feeling. Now I do take inspiration from it, and it may come across in my writing, but not as consciously as does reading other writers. This is something I've observed throughout my life and am still seeking to understand if you can help. Larry

Writing that matters...

In this crazy and beautiful world we have to measure what we do and how in order to put joy into it. Our intention is always conveyed. I believe it is our prime message. Let it be for peace. Some of these books are called "wonder books" because they abandon rules and because the transform their readers. Some writers who do this well: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Kenneth Patchen, Jonathan Safran Foer. Who would you add?