tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641117771707843067.post1198624380308417939..comments2024-02-05T15:01:44.563-05:00Comments on Cleveland Poetics: a place for cleveland's writers and readers: A Sense of Place (Montreal, Damascus, Cleveland)michael salingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14717310933948991992noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641117771707843067.post-91375830246864898472009-08-20T09:29:44.575-04:002009-08-20T09:29:44.575-04:00I love "Song for an Ancient City." Thank...I love "Song for an Ancient City." Thanks for posting the link. I enjoy poetry of place when, like this poem, it captures the passion that the poet feels for for a place that's special to her or him.<br /><br />Many years ago, when I was new to writing poetry, I attended a writing workshop where it was suggested to me that I needed to ground my poems in place. This, I know, is not quite the same as "poetry of place," but the post on poetry of place brought it to mind.<br /><br />Do all poems need to be "placed"?<br /><br />This question bugged me enough that eventually I wrote a poem with the opening lines: "Let's skip the niceties of place/or Ohio if you can't..."Shelley Cherninhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10132631136708521168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641117771707843067.post-88936162931608742602009-08-17T18:13:51.101-04:002009-08-17T18:13:51.101-04:00I might also have mentioned Michael Ceraolo, and m...I might also have mentioned Michael Ceraolo, and most notably his <a href="http://www.languageandculture.net/review-ceraolo.html" rel="nofollow">Euclid Creen</a> book (from <a href="http://www.deepcleveland.com/deepclevelandbooks.html" rel="nofollow">Deep Cleveland</a>.Geoffrey A. Landishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04518496779546782434noreply@blogger.com