The Drunken Boat’s
Discussion
including Joyce Wilson
In The Drunken Boat
Poems by Joyce Wilson
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featuring
The Forgiveness Issue
The Sonnet Scroll
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The Poetry Porch
by Joyce Wilson, Editor and Publisher
The Poetry Porch is a place on the World Wide Web, a
walkway adjacent to the main building of the humanities, but
with a separate roof under which a few poets have gathered to
exchange their original work and ideas about writing.
It provides an entryway to the broad domain of poetry on the
Web and invites exploration of poetic disciplines as well as the
acquisition of tools of the craft. It is also a narrow colonnade,
focusing on the works of specific poets and selections of
poems.
A vantage point amidst the ever-changing universe of the
Internet, a meeting place, a classroom, a poetry reading, a
place of conversation, the Poetry Porch welcomes formal and
informal dialogue.
The year 2000 features “Forum on Forgiveness.” Nadya
Aisenberg has written a series of essays on forgiveness in
literature, investigating writing of George Eliot, William
Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, and Joseph Conrad. Poems
include cries from the heart by Richard Fein and Julia Budenz,
narrations of history and political testimony by Charles
Fishman, family scenes by Rebecca Seiferle, and more. Helen
Degen Cohen has contributed a memoir about her return to
Poland for the first time since World War II. Martin McKinsey
describes how his concentration in Greek literature helped him
forgive the strange death of his father.
The Sonnet Scroll has lengthened with new entries by Chris
Wallace-Crabbe, Ellen Davis, John Hildebidle, and many
others. The invitation to submit original sonnets is ongoing as
this unraveling scroll presents traditional and hybrid forms.
The Poetry Porch also organizes presentations of links to
poetical texts on-line from libraries at the University of Virginia
and Columbia University, Web pages of literary
organizations–such as the Favorite Poem Project and the
Electronic Poetry Center at Buffalo, publications from Agni to
Zyzzyva, and schedules of readings.
Send comments and inquiries to Poetry Porch Mail. Or visit
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