Comments on: norbert blei | the prose poem: alice d’alessio, al degenova, ralph murre, susan o’leary http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/norbert-blei-the-prose-poem-alice-d%e2%80%99alessio-al-degenova-ralph-murre-susan-o%e2%80%99leary/ Norbert Blei's Poetry Dispatch and other Notes from the Underground. “We live to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection,” said Anaїs Nin. Fri, 17 May 2013 23:30:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Beverly Penn http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/norbert-blei-the-prose-poem-alice-d%e2%80%99alessio-al-degenova-ralph-murre-susan-o%e2%80%99leary/#comment-3366 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 02:56:24 +0000 http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/?p=4935#comment-3366 I am particularly fond of the prose poems by Mark Strand. “The Minister of Culture” and “Mystery and Solitude in Topeka” are two favourites off the top of my head. I think it is a highly underrated form; I was once confounded in a poetry class when I presented a prose poem and the professor refused to consider it “real” poetry.

]]> By: Susan O'Leary http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/norbert-blei-the-prose-poem-alice-d%e2%80%99alessio-al-degenova-ralph-murre-susan-o%e2%80%99leary/#comment-2716 Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:57:54 +0000 http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/?p=4935#comment-2716 Thank you, Norb, for working us so hard, and friends for nodding to my piece.
The photos say it all – our lucky pleasure in being together all these years. So thanks, too, to you, Al, for taking them.

]]> By: Alice D'Alessio http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/norbert-blei-the-prose-poem-alice-d%e2%80%99alessio-al-degenova-ralph-murre-susan-o%e2%80%99leary/#comment-2661 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:03:16 +0000 http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/?p=4935#comment-2661 Thank you for including me in the finalists. It was a fine weekend, full of color and laughter, and lots of good words. I feel honored to be part of this group and grateful for all who made it possible.
Alice

]]> By: Jackie http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/norbert-blei-the-prose-poem-alice-d%e2%80%99alessio-al-degenova-ralph-murre-susan-o%e2%80%99leary/#comment-2654 Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:31:38 +0000 http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/?p=4935#comment-2654 The group spoke and they chose well. The prose poems were wonderful and I can’t think of a finer group to represent our weekend.

]]> By: Sharon Auberle http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/norbert-blei-the-prose-poem-alice-d%e2%80%99alessio-al-degenova-ralph-murre-susan-o%e2%80%99leary/#comment-2650 Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:46:49 +0000 http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/?p=4935#comment-2650 oops, the above comment was meant to be from me,
not Ralph!

]]> By: Ralph Murre http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/norbert-blei-the-prose-poem-alice-d%e2%80%99alessio-al-degenova-ralph-murre-susan-o%e2%80%99leary/#comment-2649 Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:44:23 +0000 http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/?p=4935#comment-2649 a perfect weekend, for sure–
thanks to you, Norb, and all who made it happen..
it was a privilege and a joy to be a part of this great group!
Sharon Auberle

]]> By: David Dix sr http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/norbert-blei-the-prose-poem-alice-d%e2%80%99alessio-al-degenova-ralph-murre-susan-o%e2%80%99leary/#comment-2648 Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:00:53 +0000 http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/?p=4935#comment-2648 The thimble hit a bulls-eye here for me. My wife Dee is tonight returning from a week with her parents, Gramaw and Poppy, on the Maryland farm. Grawaw personifies the sewer portrayed in the thimble piece, so well written. See this Gramaw on my thing: http://raccoonnews.blogspot.com/2010/12/well-ill-be-dag-gone.html
Gramaw will have sewn throughout the week with her daughter, Dee, at her side. I’ll hear all about it, soon.

]]> By: Barbara Vroman http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/norbert-blei-the-prose-poem-alice-d%e2%80%99alessio-al-degenova-ralph-murre-susan-o%e2%80%99leary/#comment-2646 Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:57:14 +0000 http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/?p=4935#comment-2646 Oh, I loved it! I wondered what other people had written about a hand…A thimble…indeed a wonderful bunch of gathered friends with great talent.
A splendid weekend for sure! So good to be able to eavesdrop on prose-poetry indeed.

Barbara Fitz Vroman

]]> By: Ralph Murre http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/norbert-blei-the-prose-poem-alice-d%e2%80%99alessio-al-degenova-ralph-murre-susan-o%e2%80%99leary/#comment-2633 Tue, 18 Oct 2011 02:40:03 +0000 http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/?p=4935#comment-2633 yeah, what Al said . . .

]]> By: Al DeGenova http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/norbert-blei-the-prose-poem-alice-d%e2%80%99alessio-al-degenova-ralph-murre-susan-o%e2%80%99leary/#comment-2632 Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:04:17 +0000 http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/?p=4935#comment-2632 Thank you Norb. Our weekend, your class, the Island, were all wonderful. Your teaching inspiring as always. And thank you friends for voting for my poem. I’m flattered to have my writing in such fine company.

Al

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