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This morning, Mary Ernestine (Ernie) O’Dell said to me: “You know what I think heaven will be? Being able to just go out and be with your favorite people any time you want to.”
By that definition, I was pretty much in heaven last night at The Jazz Factory. Thanks to all you NIPW folks who made me feel like just about the best thing to come along since chocolate mousse. Thanks to Judy Goldsmith for the chocolate mousse. And to Jim Tomlinson for the comment. Jim, I was a little afraid of shocking but hey! I should have known better from the man who is accustomed to nights of Jacuzzis and wild possums. And to Terry Kanago, who gave me the birthday blanket in which I am currently swathed and my favorite quote of the day: “I never thought I’d hear Sherry Chandler quote Jerry Springer.” To Ernie for the bed. And of course to Diane Aprile for inviting me. What fun I had!
Okay - enough of the in jokes. But it’s your own fault for not being there.
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Sailpoet has more details about the American Thinker/Campus Watch dangerous poet feint in the culture wars:
According to The American Thinker … [Marilyn Hacker and Alicia Ostriker,] these middle-aged Jewish ladies (who, incidentally, are widely-respected intellectuals and artists) are propagating anti-Zionism and supporting terrorist activity by writing dangerous poetry…
What is particularly chilling is that this self-appointed “watchdog” of what is poetry names specific poems that do not pass the imprimatur of its far-right politburo, particularly Ostriker’s “Daffodils” and “Elegy Before the War,” which ran in LogosJournal. I don’t believe Uncle Sam would think too highly of such censorship.
I suggest that you go and read the poems to see for yourself what this is all about.
Added Friday morning: I don’t mean to iimply that I consider these poets innocent victims or that their poetry is not, in fact, dangerous. That attitude would diminish both the poets and the poetry. When poets decide to speak, they should do so with the full awareness that speaking has consequences and has had since Augustus banished Ovid a couple of millennia ago.
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And he opened his mouth and taught them saying:
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are you when men shall revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven…
Matthew 5:2-12 Revised Standard
And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples and said:
Blessed are you poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.
Blessed are you that hunger now, for you shall be satisfied.
Blessed are you that weep now, for you shall laugh.
Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude you and revile you, and cast out your name as evil, on account of the Son of man!
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But woe to you that are rich, for you have received your consolation.
Woe to you that are full now, for you shall hunger.
Woe to you, when all men speak well of you, for so their fathers did to the false prophets.
Luke 6:20-22, 24-26
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