A group of Seattle poets and poetry enthusiasts read poetry on the shore of Green Lake before plunging in for a frigid swim. The event's organizer, "Mimi" Allin said, she wants to make poetry fun, get in the news, wake people and bring together rival camps of "page poets and stage poets." While mildly entertaining, and certainly a rush for all involved I'm skeptical of the effectiveness of such "guerilla" art.
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I'm less skeptical of the possibilities for poetry, of the effectiveness of poetry. I can honestly say I believe in poetry. I believe it can be a movement, a dream, an urge, a statement. Maybe all at the same time. I'm not at all satisfied leaving poetry to the page. I think it lives where we live and how we live. It's in the sailboat. It's in the mouse hole. It's in the cereal box. And it most certainly in twelve poets standing at the water's edge in December, ready to plunge in for poetry. That's just poetry for "solidarity & passion."
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