Tonight I saw Robert Pinsky at the Milwaukee Public Library. He read poetry from Robert Frost and William Carlos Williams. I enjoyed hearing him speak despite his Jersey accent. Of course when he talked about how some people of his generation consider Bob Dylan to be a poet, I knew he was talking about his colleague, Prof Ricks, who often talked about Dylan in his Shakespeare class.
I should have brought Tyrone to this poetry reading. It wasn't too long, but it was interesting and these are the types of things that I want to expose him to. Perhaps I'll take him to the next one or the reading of works of Saul Bellow.
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William Carlos Williams with a jersey accent is how it SHOULD be done!
Everything should be done with a Jersey accent.
I went to the poetry reading with a girl from Philadelphia. When we walked out of the library the first thing she said was, "Ugh, Jersey accents. Armpit of America." And I thought, "She is marriage material."
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