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published in The BeZINE#
thanks to G Jamie Dedes & Michael Dickel
April 15, 2017
Poetry Month means that we have arrived at
…the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain. (T. S. Eliot, The Wasteland)
One of the most famous poems “about” poetry, Marianne Moore‘s poem, “Poetry.” It famously begins with
I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond
all this fiddle.
However, she goes on in the very next lines to say
Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one
discovers that there is in
it after all, a place for the genuine.
There is much that is genuine in this April issue of The BeZine, which celebrates Poetry Month globally with our celebration of interNational Poetry Month. We are proud to present a wide variety of poets and poetry from all over the world. We have 43 posts…
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