Friday, December 19, 2008

U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass on what is prose poetry, role of poetry etc.

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/haas/prosepoems.htm

In 1997 I was at a poetry slam downtown where a group of high school students "slammed" well-known poets such as Nikki Giovanni, the audience gave grades by holding up cards with numbers on them and the high school students won.

Kyi May Kaung

Burmese riddle verses from The Atlantic 1958

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1958/02/some-burmese-riddle-verses/640460/