In the personal world that is poetry, instruction is handed down
from teacher to student, often sitting pencil-to-pencil, talking over
the work at hand. Historically significant teachings—consisting of statements,
manifestos, principles, and theories of American poetics—are the subject
of these Transmissions. Text-exhibits illustrate the germane, visionary,
prophetic, and expansive contributions to the understandings of skillful
poetic craft throughout the twentieth century, its role in the lives
of the people, its liaisons with new fields of study, and all that by
which emotion endures. Transmissions may suggest to new readers the
vast wellspring of knowledge left by the Beat Generation, their brilliant
predecessors, and later post-beat generations carrying the news into
the future. The Museum of American Poetics welcomes you to to
submit documents
for inclusion on these pages. Please include exact bibliographic information
with any submission.
