[Newspoetry] Newspoetry Bibliography

[Paul Kotheimer]

Lots of Serious Folking Newspoetry can be found on the 10-CD Set
entitled <Songs for Political Action,> Ronald D. Cohen, ed.  

Woodie Guthrie is a newspoet, plain and simple.

http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/3448/guthrie.html

but his BALLADS OF SACCO & VANZETTI
(Folkways),
recorded 1946-'47.

might be his most concentrated efforts at NewsPoetry.

William Blake was a NewsPoet of the late 18th Century.  he composed 'zines
of short-run press interactive multi-media poems, with a (literally)
hand-made tint to them.

Matsuo Basho was a NewsPoet who posted many works from Japan in the 17th
Century.  His best known work concerns the late-breaking news of a frog
jumping into an ancient pond.  According to sources close to the frog,
its leap resulted in a "deep resonant sound."


Mother Goose was a NewsPoet, but nobody can quite figure out what events
she was writing about because her work was so heavy with obscure
symbolism that it is now read only to children.

"J" was a NewsPoet of the 10th Century, B.C.E.  Her NewsPoems are
collected in a little-known anthology known as the "Torah" or "Old
Testament." According to Books at Random [an admittedly biased news and/or
newspoetry source]:

"J was a genius with unmatched powers of irony and characterization, as
shown in her unforgettable and very human portraits of Abram and Sarai,
Rebecca, Jacob and Rachel, Joseph, Tamar, and Moses -- and, above all,
God, or Yahweh."


more NewsPoets coming soon,

paulkotheimer:)





On Wed, 30 May 2001, gillespie william k wrote:

> This is possibly the beginning of something collaborative. I'd suggest it
> be run as a Newspoem and maybe added to the index on the left, and added
> to as other resources becomne known.
> 
> This is a bibliography of Newspoetry not by Newspoets. For the purpose of
> this bibliography, I'm presuming Newspoetry is poetry that mentions
> events in the news: especially anachronistic references likely to be lost
> on readers of subsequent generations, which are generally jarring when
> they occur in a poem. One feels that the poet has made a mistake by mentioning
> the gas crisis or burning draft cards. This list does not include
> songwriters, individual poems, or political poets whose writing is
> more personal and less apt to dwell on the alienation and distortion
> caused by using the lens of the media to examine the world.
> 
> Newspoetry
> 
> Fearing, Kenneth > Complete Poems.
> Ginsberg, Allen > Collected Poems.
> Gins, Madeline > What the President Will Say and Do.
> Lehman, David > The Daily Mirror.
> Lorde, Audrey > The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance.
> McGrath, Thomas > Echoes in the Labyrinth.
> Merriam, Eve > The Nixon Poems. The Inner City Mother Goose.
> Perelman, Bob > Ten to One.
> Reed, Ishmael > New & Selected Poems.
> Starbuck, George > White Paper. Desperate Measures.
> Watten, Barrett > Bad History.
> 
> Newspoetry Art
> 
> Chunn. Nancy > Front Pages.
> Steadman, Ralph > Gonzo, the Art. America.
> 
> Newspoetry Theory
> 
> Castonguay, Jim > The Gulf War TV Super Bowl.
> <http://eserver.org/bs/35/castonguay.html>
> Fowler, Roger > Language in the News: Discourse and Ideology in the Press.
> Huff, Darrell > How to Lie With Statistics.
> Lakoff, George > Metaphor and War: The Metaphor System Used to Justify War
> in the Gulf.
> <http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Texts/Scholarly/Lakoff_Gulf_Metaphor_1.html>
> Paulos, John Allen > A Mathematician Reads The Newspaper.
> 
> 
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