Comments for The Brookline Poetry Series Weblog

Comment on National Poetry Month by john

john — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:53:15 +0000

Whitman would be DELIGHTED to be read by Paris Hilton. He actually spends much of the poem talking directly to her (and, as it happens, to me).
Great to read the lines you quote–wonderful to be among such as hear what Whitman’s always whispering to them, just to them!

Comment on Spring can’t come soon enough… by John Anderson-Douthit

John Anderson-Douthit — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:05:35 +0000

Right on, right on!
Am looking through my copious back-catalogue for “Spring” poems. That’s a rather upbeat subject for me, though–you should see what I’ve got filed under “Morose”!

Comment on News You Can Use by John Anderson-Douthit

John Anderson-Douthit — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:47:33 +0000

Right on!
How’d we get to mingle with the famously gifted?
Hooray for prizes, and hip-hip-hooray for the deep topsoil that grows them!

Comment on Mark your calendars: 07/08 season by celpjefscycle

celpjefscycle — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:22:11 +0000

Thanks for information.
many interesting things
Celpjefscylc

Comment on Well-deserved by Idetrorce

Idetrorce — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 05:26:32 +0000

very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce

Comment on Hearing Yourself by Sean K.

Sean K. — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:23:06 +0000

Of course I should have expected that even a blog, in the capable hands of Sue, would metamorphose into poetry. Her rumination here is equally fitting to the poetic dynamic in general as it is to the question of vocal perception. How much of what we conceptualize in “the solidness of [the] skull” will resonate at the correct frequency with the reader or listener? Moreover, is there ever really a “correct” frequency at all? Even within the confines of our own artistic experience, it is striking how a poem (especially one that has been set aside for a time, almost forgotten about) can present its author with a music and a rationale that may seem completely foreign upon rediscovery, like the unintended glimpse in the mirror Sue has described. An exciting and a frightening idea, to so often find ourselves as though for the first time.