San Jose, CA
Dear Poetry Folklery:
I thought last week’s discussion was especially nice, although I now wish I had explained a bit about “The Night Game” and the baseball context of it beforehand for the non-baseball fans in the group.
Don Maruska made a wonderful suggestion after I said, “If I didn’t know Robert Pinksy was the Poet Laureate I would have thought ‘The Night Game’ wasn’t a great poem (note: after our discussion, I understand it much better and now really appreciate it).
Don asked, “What do we each think makes a poem great?” Sandra responded, “One that I can understand!”
So, let’s do this for next week:
Here are this week’s poems:
Here’s the link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81559141019?pwd=bS9odlRoeFlzcWVNWVpZaUxYdlZVZz09
Passcode: 153924