Hello! this is the official needsment assistant of Cliff Holds Poetry Court reminding thee that tonight be a night dedicated to prosody, rhyme and meter alike, so fill up your cuplet (or to or three) with spirits, wine and melody. At THE PUB from 5pm - 7:30 or until they kick us out, hope to see you all there!!
I have been slow to post the poems poetry court read last week, but here they are:
I had never heard of Weldon Kees, but as cliff informed us, he was a part of the beat movement, but died before it became famous. We read by Weldon Kees "the coming of the plague." This poem had dreamlike, post-apocolyptic imagery which reminded cliff of the next poem:
Lord Byron's "Darkness." This poem was shockingly modern, because its imagery alluded to something that wee al know as nuclear war
About Me
- CliffHoldsPoetryCourt
- Berkeley, CA, United States
- Clifford Joseph Schwartz, MA, conducts Experiential Shakespeare Reading Workshops. He also holds Structured Conversation With Poetry® evenings in the Berkeley CA area. You can study Shakespeare, Chaucer, Milton, Spenser, and The Poets of Shakespeare's Day with CJS for community college credit, and he is available for private tutoring. C.J.S. prevents catastrophic confusion and dismay through "Rescue For English Majors: First Responder for All Poetry Prior to 1950®." For information contact: cliffholdspoetrycourt@gmail.com As an Independent Consulting Historian of Poetry, Clifford Joseph Schwartz insists that: "If the English Language is your mother tongue, then The History of Poetry in English is your Birthright — Don't Grow Up Without It!" "But if English is a Second Language to you, then The History of Poetry in English is your dessert/reward for all your work in acquiring this infamously exasperating tongue!" "
