Cassandra Cleghorn

Cassandra Cleghorn / Erik Lawrence / Rene Hart / Allison Miller: Merge

by Mark Corroto
December 15, 2006

Poet Bern Porter once told me that all he asked in exchange for one of his poems was a loaf of bread. If you really liked the poem, he suggested, you might bake that bread with a few raisins inside. Porter's philosophy is certainly a far cry from today's hip-hop generation, with its cognac, scantily clad women and MTV cribs. But then again so is the jazz music we listen to. It seems like a long time ago that poetry ...