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Unread 03-19-2012, 12:55 PM
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Poetry Out Loud is the nationwide recitation contest for high schoolers organized by the NEA and the Poetry Foundation in 2006. This year 400,000 kids participated. Thank you, Dana Gioia. Each must memorize 3 poems selected from an anthology of about 600 poems, a damn good anthology. Does anyone know how the poems are selected? A student recently told me that my Disenchantment Bay (see Deck the Halls archives, http://www.ablemuse.com/erato/showth...Disenchantment) is in it. So I went online and was disappointed to see how few of us are in it: Joe Kennedy, Rhina Espaillat, Dave Mason, and Alicia Stallings. We need to get after the editors!
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I'm judging the DC finals in May.
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Good for you, Mike. I've judged out here in the boondocks.
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I have served as a judge, here in the bayou.

I don't know how the poems and poets are chosen. Give me a couple of days. I know someone who does

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And to raise the unspoken question... which of us are "us"? Don't actually answer that, Tim. For your own sake. It's rhetorical.
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Tim, he says these are chosen by the Poetry Foundation. The NEA must approve them, but the agency has not much impact on the selection.
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And to raise the unspoken question... which of us are "us"?
If you have to ask, then you're not "us" -
you're one of them: unknown, uncool,
who fill the back of every bus
(if you have to ask.) You're just not us:
you slap no backs, you never fuss
about us, so - although it's cruel -
if you have to ask them, you're not us.
You're one of them: unknown, uncool.

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And to raise the unspoken question... which of us are "us"?

Never wanted to be an us -
Still pretty happy being me;
Plumb born inhomogeneous
Never wanted to be an us.
I mean: crowds are anonymous,
So, I guess, is a cemetery.
Never wanted to be an us -
Still pretty happy being me.
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So I went online and was disappointed to see how few of us are in it. . . . We need to get after the editors!

"Do not exalt yourself in the king’s presence, and do not claim a place among great men; it is better for him to say to you, 'Come up here,' than for him to humiliate you before a nobleman."

- Proverbs 25:6,7
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What Ed said. So, if anyone should need me -- I shall be here in the bell tower, with Quasimodo...
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