Here's the announcement for a wonderful event of poetry--and visit http://www.aestheticrealism.org/ http://www.aestheticrealism.org/
Saturday, April 18, 8 PM at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, 141 Greene Street, NYC 10012
What Poetry Really Is—a Celebration!
Poetry Is a Making One of Opposites with examples from Keats, Omar Khayyám, Blake, Poe, & more, Eli Siegel describes what poetry truly is:
“All poems have in them a oneness of opposites: as seen by the individual who wrote the poem. For example, Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey is a oneness of meditation and excitement, or, more philosophically put, rest and motion. Yet, oneness and manyness are in Tintern Abbey—as are order and freedom, continuity and discontinuity—and other opposites.”
Poems by Eli Siegel, including “To Dylan Thomas”
Poetry, Anna Akhmatova, & Our Two Ambitions by Ellen Reiss
“When Anna Akhmatova wrote Russian verse, she was terrifically fair to herself and fair to the world at the very same moment. She could describe a thing—a certain kind of light, bridges across the Neva, a sound—in such a way that it stuck, was there, and also reverberated with suggestion.”
How Much Feeling? Reenactment of an Aesthetic Realism Lesson of Leo McDonald
"One's greatest question can be put very simply: Do I feel the world in the right way? Do I have the best feeling for people and things not myself, near and far?" —Eli Siegel
Poems by Ellen Reiss, Margot Carpenter, Karen Van Outryve
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In honor of the 50th anniversary of the publication of
Personal and Impersonal: 6 Aesthetic Realists
we present poems by: Sheldon Kranz, Louis Dienes,
Nancy Starrels, Nat Herz, Martha Baird, Rebecca Fein.
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