[Newspoetry] washington post wants to own your newspoems

[Donald L Emerick]

How could ever I resist?
I'm not all that keen on
defining poetry as rhymes,
or reasons, or sensations.
Oh sure, I like to sing
a song with a rhyme in it,
but that's because I sing
so badly, or carry no tunes --
a rhyme aids my evasions
and lets me escape truth.

A good poem has fine imagery,
is vivid and terse, as swell,
unlike Longfellow's Hiawatha,
or an Ancient Mariner Rhyme,
or even, say, Milton's tale,
or many of Shakesphere plays.

If a rhyme happens, then,
let it be but by accident,
but I like alliteration,
or a hissing onomatopoeia.
A word does not say itself,
words speak native tongues.

I prefer accent and space,
a doctrine of associations,
in an accident of attention,
a tree sliced in paper cuts,
a clay of wedge-baked words,
a stone-carved poetic speech.

Let it be like news of poetry,
this refried poetry of news,
a contradiction as proposed,
as natural as it was opposed.
Send me shoes; I've feats afoot.

From: Joe Futrelle <futrelle at shout.net>
Date: 2005/02/19 Sat AM 09:19:43 CST
To: John Newmark <gavroche at gmail.com>,  newspoetry at lists.chambana.net
Subject: Re: [Newspoetry] washington post wants to own your newspoems

Yeah, it pretty much sucks.

At 3:59 PM -0600 2/18/05, John Newmark wrote:
>Let's see...
>
>1) I submit poetry to WP
>2) They publish it without giving me credit
>3) They declare ownership of the poem
>4) I might possibly win some stupid prize, this week it's a pair of shoes
>
>I don't think so.
>--
>John Newmark
>gavroche at gmail.com
>
>On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 14:44:27 -0600, Editor-Within-Chief
><futrelle at shout.net> wrote:
>>  http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/05/newstoamuse021805.htm
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