artists who've been doing it. It's very lively now. Performance poetry is being done all ... mode of existence of poetry is in speech and performance, and that writing is its secondary mode of ... a play: you know when you read a play that its full mode of existence would be in performance. Still, you ...

explication will bury the meaning of the poem; we should do better to contemplate it as we would a painting. ... Levertov, are what Karl Shapiro has so scornfully tagged "culture" poets: their poetry is ... the poetry of the earlier half of the century with its heavy freight of symbolism and external ...

it plays, and what happens when it plays, is fun to watch. And the stakes are real. The stakes are ... poetry, I could be a painter. 1 like to do street theater, I like to do politics as theater. This is my ... theater." There are a lot of people who do that. So it's not interesting, really, to separate art ...