The Poetry site Blog has a couple posts on the intersection of poetry and politics.
Ron Silliman has a recommendation.
My local polling place is a block away at a former public school (now charter). This morning before the polls opened, the line was already around the block. And when the polls did open a huge spontaneous cheer went up from all in line. When's the last time that happened?
Osip Mandelstam wrote only two political poems in his life.
At this moment (9:21 PM EST) the prediction (I guess) is Obama has 175 electoral votes and McCain has 76.
And at 9:30 Obama 195, McCain 76,
Can Martial's epigrams be considered political? For? Against?
I don't think you can draw an apolitical line of Romanticism to Symbolism to Modernism. Poets whose concerns were poltical and poetic: Shelley, Wordsworth, Clare, Yeats, Pound, Stevens. Stevens? I hold the radical position that he meant "money is kind of poetry" both very seriously and politically.
Projections at 9:36: Obama 200, McCain 90.
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