Comments on: CAConrad- An Interview http://www.madpoetssociety.com/blog/2007/09/12/caconrad-an-interview/ news & chatter from the Mad Poets Society Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:42:10 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Autumn http://www.madpoetssociety.com/blog/2007/09/12/caconrad-an-interview/comment-page-1/#comment-489 Autumn Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:38:39 +0000 http://www.madpoetssociety.com/blog/2007/09/12/caconrad-an-interview/#comment-489 I don't think that's a Philadelphia issue -- I think that's a world issue. As soon as the credit companies took over and everyone could get a loan or a card or some line of credit, then it became easier for companies to raise the prices of things and for people -- numbed by their unsatisfying lives and blinded by the commercials that tell them they "need" things -- to willingly amass inordinate debt. It's a hamster wheel of inequity that pervades our culture and has nothing to do with philadelphia. it's the same thing happening in nyc, la, san francisco... name a major city. they're all the same. but no poetry to be found there? that's a shameful statement for any poet to make -- these are the places that need poetry more than anything else. and there is poetry to be found there, and poets, too. i think there are alot of people want a way out of the hamster wheel -- they're just not sure how. that's what they need poetry for. if we give up on them, we're giving up on ourselves. I don’t think that’s a Philadelphia issue — I think that’s a world issue. As soon as the credit companies took over and everyone could get a loan or a card or some line of credit, then it became easier for companies to raise the prices of things and for people — numbed by their unsatisfying lives and blinded by the commercials that tell them they “need” things — to willingly amass inordinate debt. It’s a hamster wheel of inequity that pervades our culture and has nothing to do with philadelphia. it’s the same thing happening in nyc, la, san francisco… name a major city. they’re all the same.

but no poetry to be found there? that’s a shameful statement for any poet to make — these are the places that need poetry more than anything else. and there is poetry to be found there, and poets, too. i think there are alot of people want a way out of the hamster wheel — they’re just not sure how. that’s what they need poetry for. if we give up on them, we’re giving up on ourselves.

]]> By: ron P. http://www.madpoetssociety.com/blog/2007/09/12/caconrad-an-interview/comment-page-1/#comment-487 ron P. Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:02:03 +0000 http://www.madpoetssociety.com/blog/2007/09/12/caconrad-an-interview/#comment-487 CA Conrad is right on the ball about the decline of Philadelphia's ability to cultivate The Arts. I moved here in 1990, spent my first impoverished months sleeping on a box spring, and yet I was surrounded by creative people and was able to both live and write. Today, this city has become a giant, open-air boutique and bistro where only idle students and Baby Boomers with credit cards fill the streets. No Poetry to be found there, for sure! Write On, Conrad! CA Conrad is right on the ball about the decline of Philadelphia’s ability to cultivate The Arts. I moved here in 1990, spent my first impoverished months sleeping on a box spring, and yet I was surrounded by creative people and was able to both live and write. Today, this city has become a giant, open-air boutique and bistro where only idle students and Baby Boomers with credit cards fill the streets. No Poetry to be found there, for sure! Write On, Conrad!

]]> By: Steven Fama http://www.madpoetssociety.com/blog/2007/09/12/caconrad-an-interview/comment-page-1/#comment-483 Steven Fama Tue, 18 Sep 2007 02:19:58 +0000 http://www.madpoetssociety.com/blog/2007/09/12/caconrad-an-interview/#comment-483 CAConrad says, "The best poems I’ve ever read in my life are by my friends!" If nothing else, that statement shows an intense loyalty to friends. His friends are lucky to have him. But still, I gotta wonder what all poems CAConrad has read in his life. If he's read the standards and the crazies, the dreamers and the purveyors, it's just wild that the best poems he's ever read are by his friends. That's really something! CAConrad says, “The best poems I’ve ever read in my life are by my friends!”

If nothing else, that statement shows an intense loyalty to friends. His friends are lucky to have him. But still, I gotta wonder what all poems CAConrad has read in his life. If he’s read the standards and the crazies, the dreamers and the purveyors, it’s just wild that the best poems he’s ever read are by his friends. That’s really something!

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