Music and Poetry

A few years ago I read in an interview with Gary Snyder his answer to a question about the demise of poetry. His response was something like, "What do you think popular music is? Poetry is more popular than it has ever been". Now, to music. I am a true non-explorer of contemporary music of the past 20 years. I tend to listen to stuff I happen to hear on the internet or very obscure stuff. Being a big dead-head I tried Phish ... sorry, don't get it Trey. Then I bought a couple of Dave Matthews albums. I am as blown-away as seeing Terry Haggerty play up in Marin. Really good. and I am exploring. It's hard for me to believe that he's been playing for a dozen years and I hadn't bothered. Oh well. At least he's still alive an making music. Marian and I are listening right now. ....A