I keep on flashing back to the great international poetry efforts - TopicsExpress



          

I keep on flashing back to the great international poetry efforts of the late, great Mary Rudge, Poet Laureate of Jack Londons childhood home of Alameda, California. Mary travelled to Europe during the Cold War era to do poetry in Paris; she was probably the first American woman to join in on a reading featuring delegates from the Peoples Republic of China (later on, she was an American arts ambassador for many years showing up for conferences and performances in south Asian and Pacific rim nations). The president of Senegal, a poet, was a poetry colleague of hers. As well, Mary personally introduced me to some delegates representing Taiwan, Sri Lanka, and other exotic locations of poetry and dance/poetry gatherings (some years, these people were sent over to the US as official government representatives). Mary was the author of a lauded Jack London biography, Jack Londons Neighborhood, of which a second edition has been (or will soon be) available online. As her good friend jazz poet Jesse Beagle would explain: What. A. Lady! More on her another time!
Posted on: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 18:33:52 +0000

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