River Poets

 Theme: Poet’s Choice 

 While the poets from Poetry Under the Painting have not been together as long as River Poets, we have taken pleasure in one another’s words — or in the words of emerging and established poets — for quite a few years now.

We read round robin and wait for a theme to emerge… which it so often does! With every month that passes, and every person who joins us and those who depart, we keep learning to listen more deeply and more appreciatively for everyone’s style and point of view.”

 MC: Richard Brook

THEME: We’ve got the Beats

Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Gregory Corso, Diane Di Prima, Anne Waldman, Peter Orlovski, and others were mid-twentieth century poets and writers as well as post-Second World War witnesses to the arrival of the atomic age, existentialism, nihilism, and dynamic forces in poetry – two atomic bombs threatened the world order; we have more to worry about now.