Reply #38: Kitty, you've hit a nerve with me! [View All]

[CTyankee]

Except that I would put country western music in the folk literature section. I think of those sad, sad songs and wonder if there is not a genre of poetry among them, truly. It's too bad that poetry is such the province of the Ivy covered walls of academia. So many of today's poets really want to break free of its narrow ambit but there seems to be no meeting ground of this musical art and poetry and it's too bad. And I can enjoy and appreciate both but it always seems to be on opposite sides of the aisle...