Week 6 Post

Our discussion on concrete poetry has definitely stirred some mixed emotions in me. I'm not sure that I can entirely stand behind the fact that one word with it's letters repeated out in a certain structure (the forsythia) can be referred to as poetry. I agree with Kurt in the sense that the line between concrete poetry and visual art needs to be looked at closely. Poetry does many things for me and among those are telling a story or delivering a message. A concrete poem of that sort doesn't fulfill that idea for me. I feel a bit hypocritical in a sense because I am the first to say that poetry has flexible boundaries, that inspiration should be able to take a person anywhere they want to go. However with that said, there are certain paths that inspiration will take you down that do fall outside the boundaries of poetry and land among other forms of art. I've been going back and forth on my feelings about this and the only conclusion I've come to is that I cannot stand firmly on any specific stand point. Perhaps I can write a poem about that?

I'm looking forward to another week of work shopping and reading everyone's work. There is so much to learn from our peers writing and it is an opportunity that we should fully grasp!