From Best American Poetry blog:
Happy Memorial Day. I hope everyone is out doing something that involves barbecuing and hopefully the use of a Wham-O, Inc. “Slip n’ Slide” or perhaps the ever menacing death-from-above fun of Jarts, both of which hold a great nostalgic appeal for me. I’m working up notes for my interview with Donald Hall, which will take place on stage before a “live” audience at the West Chester poetry conference immediately upon my return from London. I hope to have some video clips from the interview for use on the CPR or E-Verse. On a related note, I really believe that youTube remains a realm of great potential for poets and their poems. My Australian E-Verse co-host Paul Fleming excerpted readings of several old chestnuts from our regular E-Verse videocast (or “vlog,” as he tells me to say) and posted them on youTube as stand alone videos. The most successful of these to date are W.B. Yeats’s “Byzantium” (16,000 views) and Percy Byshe Shelley’s “Ozymandius” (10,000 views). Allen Ginsberg’s “Victim of Telephone” (1,000 views) and Wilfred Owen’s “The Last War” (1,225 views) trail behind. Read on here.
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