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July 20, 2017 - THE POETS HOUSE
July 20, 2017
To me, all the poets, the young and the old, the living and the dead, are contemporaries. That’s the important thing. That’s the most important thing.
Stanley Kunitz
Called together
in the name
of the Muse
on a Manhattan
mid-summer day,
the circle of poets
expands and contracts
forming a shifting ring
around our white-haired seer,
We stand
at the border of
the shimmering Hudson,
across from Poets House,
the realized dream of
another Stanley.
Speaking in tongues --
Russian, Bengali,
Italian, Hebrew, English,
we celebrate
the breath of all life
in poem after poem,
those of the living,
and those of the spirit,
collected as one
under the wide reach
of Liberty’s light.
B. Amore
Written in commemoration of the gathering of Cross-Cultural Communication poets called together by Stanley Barkan at the Poets House 25th Annual Showcase, 10 River Terrace, Manhattan.
The Stanley Kunitz quote is from “An Interview with Stanley Kunitz/Hassanal Abdullah,” published in “A Tribute to Stanley Kunitz,” Shabdaguchha, Vol 8 No. 3/4, Apr-Sept 2006.
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