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Helen O'Reilly

My Comments (135 so far…)

A Commencement Address, by Maya Angelou

You were nice enough to ask when I was being bratty, which poets I revere.

I’ll list some here.

David Ignatow

Rita Dove

Elizabeth Bishop

Wallace Stevens

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Judith Steinberg

John Ashberry

Ted Berrigan

Adrienne Rich

Bill Williams

Sonia Sanchez

A Commencement Address, by Maya Angelou

"… I am not alone?" What am I, supposed to be scared?

Sorry you get annoyed; I know the feeling.

phyllis; thanks for your comment. As you can see, I’m a liar; I haven’t gone anywhere. At least I didn’t go far enought not to be baited back

A Commencement Address, by Maya Angelou

That’s as may be, phyllis, and thank you for clarifying. There is so much terrible "poetry" around, and much of it perpetrated by people who write just like Angelou, that whenever I see her or her dimestore claptrap, I feel she is the evil epicenter from which it all emanates, and I get annoyed.

I’m sure she is a very fine person, admirable, substantial. So are a lot of people, and some of them are better poets. How about Anne Waldman? No, she’s not a darling.

Didn’t mean to bitch you out. Sorry. I’ll go away now.

A Commencement Address, by Maya Angelou

Granted, starry. She’s still a crap writer, and not much of a poet.

A Commencement Address, by Maya Angelou

It’s not about following "proper poem rules" (and they do exist), it’s about having something to say, as opposed to just having an audience.

I never thought Maya Angelou was much of a poet, and I always will.

A Commencement Address, by Maya Angelou

I don’t get Maya Angelou, and this is not a poem; it’s a paragraph broken up into short lines of text.

The Empress is naked.

Lindsay Lohan Pregnancy Rumor Makes Rounds on Internet

I can only hope it’s fake.

LIZ SMITH FLASH! Jesus Luz? More Power to Madonna

Good on ya, DeBurca.

Dear Margo: To Have and To Hold ... Everybody?

Agreed. When I was with the man who became my first husband, I couldn’t be faithful to him even when we were planning our wedding. Many sad years later when I met and married my second husband, sex with other men held zero appeal. The downside; it took four years after my second husband’s death for me to be interested in other men again!