Poets’ Roundtable
Welcome
Richard will not be here. He hopes to bring his wife home on Sunday and to make our next meeting, January 3, 2018.
News and Jabber
This links to an article about plagiarism on Twitter. It serves as a reminder to us to attribute carefully and not to steal. Another "Vulture" article is here: https://www.vulture.com/2018/12/poetry-twitter-debates-whether-after-poems-are-plagiarism.html. It takes on another source of plagiarism or something close thereto.
Every year I urge you to go to youtube.com and listen to Dylan Thomas reading "Child's Christmas in Wales." A great voice and a lovely reminisence. Here is he link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv4-sgFw3Go. Worth twenty minutes at this time of year. A moment's peace.
A poem called “Kindness” was the most popular work on top poetry website poets.org in 2018.
The poem, by 66-year-old Naomi Shihab Nye, was published in 1995. Nye was born in St. Louis to a Palestinian father and an American mother.
More than 250,000 people clicked on the poem this year, the Academy of American Poets announced Wednesday, according to The Associated Press.
Nye said in a statement that she wrote the poem after being robbed in Colombia, according to the AP.
“It is only kindness that makes sense anymore, only kindness that ties your shoes,” the poem reads.
The Current Assignment
I had a time with this. Wrote a lot.
The Next Assignment
Suggestions?
The Next Meeting
The next meeting will be on January 3, 2018.
