Posted on 05/28/2014 6:37:40 AM PDT by alancarp
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Award-winning author, renowned poet and civil rights activist Dr. Maya Angelou has died. She was 86.
Winston-Salem Mayor Allen Joines confirmed Angelou was found by her caretaker on Wednesday morning.
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Ha!
I think that Pound said something like “Poetry is news that stays news.”
I realize that he was pretty politically incorrect and ended up in a mental institution in Idaho, but it’s still one if my favorite quotes ever.
Ack....I was ‘zackly 70 posts late. (181)
“Another flag at half-staff moment.”
I was thinking that same thing the other day driving by the high school, with the flag at half-mast.
It seems there have been occasional brief periods over the last six years when the flag was not at half-staff.
And I expect he will order them lowered if the dog he named after himself, `BO’, expires (early, like Clinton’s crotch-sniffing lab).
And don’t think it isn’t on purpose: it trivializes Old Glory.
I’m e-mailing my congressman if he orders it lowered for this scribbler of doggerel and lefty mouthpiece.
Poetry is Back: (By Ed Sanders) - I wrote this over 10 years ago, seems appropriate now.
Osgood brings a smile
reciting poetry from his files,
He brings news that you can use
in a way that will amuse.
Poetry is back.
Jessee Jackson promotes,
preaches and orates,
using woven words
to help his message be heard.
Poetry is back.
The cowboy poets from all over
gather in Elko annually
to recite a verse,
tip their hats and houdy.
Poetry is back.
The rappers rap,
the hip hoppers hip.
Poetry is back.
These strange bedfellows
use verse and rhyme,
to preach their politics
and enjoy a good time.
They save for society
and for all time,
poems with proper meter,
and rhymes that really rhyme.
All the while they work
and write and speak,
the properly “educated” poets
write poems that truly reek!
Without any attention
to meter or proper time,
they write and recite
poems that don’t even rhyme.
They gaze over their upraised noses
to us rabble far below.
writing verse that makes no sense
except to their friends in the know.
Many of these self appointed poets
who can’t even make a poem rhyme,
suckle from NEA grants, writing
poems that only whine.
If their work had to pass the
free market test they wouldn’t eat.
But they live high in fine clothes,
as they suckle the government teat.
In spite of the professional poets
talent or their lack,
Cowboys, preachers, radio folk and musicians keep on... And poetry is back.
I'm not an English major, however, you could color me unimpressed. She's a Beat Poet, no more, no less.
I predict that we'll be celebrating "Maya Angelou Day" by this time next year.
Bill Clinton did not make her famous. She was already famous.
i hear you...
I don’t think he can top calling her an old hooker.
But we know he has issues with poets, LOTS of issues.
i hear you... it is not a style that i care for myself... much like the art work of Mondrian, Pollack or even Picasso... not my taste... but Van Gogh—he i can appreciate...
Did you see him in “Blue Jasmine”? Not a bad actor at all. I was surprised.
Did not know.
“Poetry is Back”
Enjoyable and meaningful. More than can be said for most of what passes as poetry today.
I don’t think that this has necessarily been a positive trend.
Thank you.
King O adorned Angelou with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011.
Now that was funny, I don’t care who you are!
If she had been an English major at the time and place I was, she would have had 15 credits in pre-17th century English Literature, including Shakespeare Extensive and Shakespeare Intensive (2 months on Hamlet)
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