Rabbit Ears: TV Poems is published by NYQ Books
If you are a poetry reader, tv watcher, or both, then this new anthology of poems is a delight. Editor Joel Allegretti came up with the ingenious idea of asking poets to write and riff about the medium that in many ways still defines our lives (despite the internet's encroachment). Rabbit Ears features a wide range of contributors, including Billy Collins, Ellen Bass, Tony Hoagland, Dorianne Laux, and many others and ranges over televised programs past and present, with poems serious, humorous, and inventive.
My own contribution, "Test," is an anomaly. When Joel asked me for a poem I drew a blank. My tv watching these past few decades has been confined to a few Super Bowls and those all-too-rare Mets playoff appearances, Duke basketball NCAA championship games, occasional news events...oh, and an inexplicable obsession with "America's Most Wanted," which finally waned, for the good of my mental health. My knowledge of what's on tv stops at roughly 1978. So I chose to write about the tests of the emergency broadcast system, which used to interrupt my array of childhood shows and movies of the week. The grave announcer's voice, the caution not to panic, and then the loud, penetrating high-pitched drone that presumably tried the system...now THAT was great tv.
More details here: http://books.nyq.org/title/rabbit_ears
Rabbit Ears: TV Poems
My own contribution, "Test," is an anomaly. When Joel asked me for a poem I drew a blank. My tv watching these past few decades has been confined to a few Super Bowls and those all-too-rare Mets playoff appearances, Duke basketball NCAA championship games, occasional news events...oh, and an inexplicable obsession with "America's Most Wanted," which finally waned, for the good of my mental health. My knowledge of what's on tv stops at roughly 1978. So I chose to write about the tests of the emergency broadcast system, which used to interrupt my array of childhood shows and movies of the week. The grave announcer's voice, the caution not to panic, and then the loud, penetrating high-pitched drone that presumably tried the system...now THAT was great tv.
More details here: http://books.nyq.org/title/rabbit_ears
Rabbit Ears: TV Poems
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