Have you met any poets?

[The Ol' Man]

So, have you met any poets in your time, or established a correspondence with one? How would you describe them? Perhaps this can develop into an instructive discussion.

[cacian]

Why..no not really it is kind of difficult when there is so much poetry here to be had.
Why go looking for one plus I do not really wish to bump into a Larkin in case I get depressive tones from him.
I like it light and refreshing like a glass of fizzy water only with a squeeze of fresh for a zesty after taste.
You see I have just finished writing this one as my signature. It takes time effort and dedication. :D

[Charles Darnay]

I hear they sometimes can shapeshift into animals. Other tales say that they can fly, but only when the moon is waning.

Or if you don't buy that, then they are people. Some are really nice, some are *******s - as people are.

During my time at university I met some prominent and some not-so prominent Canadian poets.

[Delta40]

I hear they are nocturnal and exist as fluffballs under beds during the day...but that's a story my grandfather told me.

[Emil Miller]

Why..no not really it is kind of difficult when there is so much poetry here to be had.
Why go looking for one plus I do not really wish to bump into a Larkin in case I get depressive tones from him.
I like it light and refreshing like a glass of fizzy water only with a squeeze of fresh for a zesty after taste.
You see I have just finished writing this one as my signature. It takes time effort and dedication. :D

Do I detect echos of Robert Frost in your signature?

[cacian]

Do I detect echos of Robert Frost in your signature?

Haha Robert Frost?! well I am not so sure and I am flattered indeed.

:)

[Lokasenna]

Yes, dozens of them.

I'm a member (albeit not a productive one) of my university's poetry society - quite a few of my friends therein are published poets. Heck, two of my housemates are published poets.

Or do you specifically mean famous poets? I've met Andrew Motion and Simon Armitage, but that's about it.

[TheFifthElement]

I've met Simon Armitage. He was lovely. I'd like to meet Mark Strand but I fear I might end up licking his shoes.

[The Ol' Man]

I'm familiar with Andrew Motion alright. What was your impression? What about Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon, and Derek Mahon?
I am not studied in the poetry of Mark Strand - this is the first I have heard of the poet - but he must be of some merit for you to abase yourself for him!

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Yeah. They're just people like everyone else.

[The Ol' Man]

Yeah. They're just people like everyone else.

Indeed.

[Silas Thorne]

Yeah. They're just people like everyone else.

'People like everyone else?' If they were like everyone else they probably wouldn't be poets, I guess. I don't think everyone chooses to write poetry fairly regularly or call themselves a poet.

People, like everyone else? Well, yes, apart from the supernatural poets and the born-again Edgar Allen Poes.

I have met several published poets in this city and in New Zealand. They come in various colours. Some enjoy reciting their poetry from memory while others would be lost without the paper their poems are written on. Some are unkempt while others are tidy. Many here like to drink, a few don't. It's very hard to categorize what poets are like, but poets love language and literature otherwise they would be doing something else.

[Desolation]

Famous poets? No.

But, I've met plenty of local poets in the various cities...They're a lot like musicians. You respect the **** out of them for their enormous talent, drive, and artistic integrity...But when you hang out with them long enough and have to stop what you're doing every 20 minutes to listen to every half-baked composition they've ever come up with, you start to get a tad annoyed and wish they would chill out a little bit. This is mostly true of the younger (late teens to early 20's) ones, I think.

[williamholt]

no.i dint meet anyone.but am interested to see them

[prendrelemick]

I met Ted Hughes. He had presence.

[Pensive]

I have met several published poets (including my grandfather who I guess I have met too often and in fact have actually lived with) but I haven't met anybody you would know of since they all write in my native language! :)

[Jack of Hearts]

Yes. Some of them published in places like The New Yorker or The Atlantic and few of them not incested in academia or ignoble in some way that doesn't fit nicely into words.

Many of them avoid truth by design. Open mic night presents truth more consistently, but by accident.

(Liked Heaney's Human Chain but, judging by his videos on youtube, damn is he boring).







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[kev67]

I think I have met Attila the Stockbroker, who is a performer of humourous, left wing poems and songs. I am not sure what he has written down as his job title in his passport.

I know several people who sometimes give performances of their poetry at local poetry nights in pubs and cafés.

[The Ol' Man]

I met Ted Hughes. He had presence.


How interesting. Would you care to expand on this meeting?

[Shevek]

I used to be friends with a poet (haven't really kept in touch) who was accomplished. Based on my conversations with him, I have to say that


Yeah. They're just people like everyone else.

is probably the most accurate thing you can say about them as a whole.

[RetsixArp]

So, have you met any poets in your time, ...When I was @UA Fayetteville in the early 70s, I enrolled in a couple of Miller Williams's (maybe best known 4 reading the inaugural poem @Clinton's 2d inaugur.) "translation workshops," @the behest of my academic adviser. I remember Williams always liked poems in translation to be as colloquial as possible: I was trying my hand @the German of Johannes Brobowski @the time.

[OrphanPip]

I met Steven Heighton on Thursday, and he seemed like a nice enough fellow. I wasn't too fond of the poetry he read at the event, but he has a wonderful raspy voice that lends itself well to reading.