Who’s talking about OccuPoetry?
Poetry Foundation
This just in! The Occupy Movement has a new friend in poetry: OccuPoetry!
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NewPages
A unique feature of the site is recordings of poets presenting their poetry, emphasizing the oral quality of the poetic discipline and also making the website more accessible to people with different abilities.
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About.com
…and they are getting involved not only as protest marchers and campers, but as poets, contributing their poems to the cause. We’ve just received word of a brand-new online poetry journal, OccuPoetry…
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Thank you for this Web site, giving well-deserved recognition to creative artists working in behalf of the 99%.
I really enjoyed hearing/reading Richard Downing’s poem “Howl Again.” It captures the ethos of the Occupy Movement and exemplifies ingenious, effective use of many devices of imaginative literature– irony, of course, but also metaphor, simile, oxymoron, allusion, deliberate repetition for effect (like Ginsberg’s “Howl”), enjambment, etc. The poem uses the devices so appropriately and effectively that readers can read, understand, and appreciate the poem’s content with no conscious awareness of these devices as artificial or intrusive. The conclusion is masterful in its climactic effect and hope for real change.–Carmine Bell
“Can’t Get the Oil Out of My Wings” is pure genius. I can feel it right down to very fiber of my being.