The community poetry group is usually created like the poem: spontaneously, individualistically, independently, with a flavor all its own. The Pueblo Poetry Project came about through the association of two poets: Tony Moffeit, a Pueblo, Colorado, resident and Joel Scherzer, originally from New York, who moved to Pueblo in 1978 and helped Moffeit create and run the Project. With the support of the University of Southern Colorado, a CETA grant, and local libraries, the Project has had an interesting history and is still active. The emphases of the Project have been on exchanges with regional poetry groups and concentration on small press poets. Five of the major names of the small press have become involved with the Project: Jack Micheline, Kell Robertson, Charles Plymell, Lyn Lifshin, and Diane DiPrima. Through scholarly activities grants from the University of Southern Colorado, Moffeit interviewed Robertson, Plymell, Lifshin, and DiPrima. Through another scholarly activities grant, Moffeit edited a ten-year retrospective of the Project, a poetry anthology titled Prairie Smoke, published in 1990.
Tijdschrift beschrijving