Sunday Picnic With Unexpected Plums

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jjhunter

Sunday, every Sunday, let's have a community picnic. It's probably been a long week, and it's lovely to have a few minutes to sit back and relax and enjoy some good conversation in a less formal space. Feel free to bring something for the Picnic Basket - a poem you liked this week, a thought you had or something you experienced, or even something completely unrelated to poetry whatsoever that you just feel like sharing. Just take a moment to say hello, and maybe have a bite to eat; no one is going anywhere fast, and the shade promises some relief from the everyday heat. Let’s get to know each other a bit better, here under the branches of the poet’s tree.

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weekly roundup thread - member associated posts

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Have a poetry-related post or posts this week from your own journal/space that you'd like to share with the community? Comment on this thread with the link(s) and a brief description of you're linking to.

Re: weekly roundup thread - member associated posts

[primeideal]

http://lipogramscorecard.wordpress.com/2013/01/13/bookworms-soliloquy/

My blog returns to its lipogram (words written without a certain letter in this case E) roots with some free verse.

Re: weekly roundup thread - member associated posts

[jjhunter]

I've posted one of the poems from the LizJJ Jam that didn't get featured here this past week at my journal: double memory.

Re: weekly roundup thread - member associated posts

[raze]

Poem on my journal that I wrote about my grandfather after going back home to visit my family this past weekend. I have very mixed feelings on the man.

weekly roundup thread - general poetry news

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This is the thread for non-personal, i.e. 'general' poetry news. Submission deadlines for poetry-related 'zines, news re: poets from outside the comm, and so on.

Poetry exercise

[spiralsheep]

This is a new-to-me poetry exercise that might interest some com members, especially as it's usable in (teaching) groups:

http://ledbury-poetry.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/exquisite-corpse-poem-written-during.html

The results might provoke a few thoughts about language. :-)

Re: Poetry exercise

[primeideal]

I've done that in one of my classes before. Not always my preferred process, but hopefully others find it interesting!

Re: Poetry exercise

[spiralsheep]

I suspect that, for me, that exercise would be more thought-provoking than poetry-creating but not necessarily the worse for that, heh.

I tend to find the only exercise that helps me write poetry is: (1) turn mind to poetry, (2) write poetry.... ;-)

Popular news article about Tony Harrison's poem V

[spiralsheep]

Popular news article about Tony Harrison's poem V:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21024372

Re: weekly roundup thread - general poetry news

[lnhammer]

Not exactly news, but linkage. It had been a few years since I last wandered through Bartleby's collection of poetry, and have been pleasantly surprised at how much PD goodness is there. My current wandering through is Poetica Erotica: A Collection of Rare and Curious Amatory Verse, a volume I had met on my parents' bookshelf in a slightly later edition -- the one linked to is the original 1921 version. Selections range from the suggestive to the smutty, including a generous helping of Burns's dirtier ditties.

---L.

Re: weekly roundup thread - general poetry news

[cadenzamuse]

I discovered an absolutely amazing local-to-me (well, when I'm not living in France local-to-me) slam poet named Gabe Moses. My favorite of his poems are How to Make Love to a Trans Person" and "Stimming".

Gabe is also a transman, and is offering .mp3s and a digital chapbook of some of his work in exchange for donations to offset the cost of his sex reassignment surgery.

(And anyone who reads my journal or who follows copperbadge has seen/will see this, because I THINK HE IS AWESOME AND EVERYONE SHOULD SEE HIS POETRY RIGHT THIS SECOND. I saw "Stimming" and became an instant fangirl.)

Feedback For This Week's Poetry Hosts

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If you have general feedback for untonuggan or jjhunter on how this past week went, please leave it here by responding to this thread. We're always interested in figuring out what particular themes, formats, contents, etc. work well for people, and which need more tweaking to work better.

Re: Feedback For This Week's Poetry Hosts

[cadenzamuse]

I LOVED THIS WEEK. Although I really wish there had been a day (perhaps the second day?) devoted to giving people an opportunity to write collaborative poetry in the comments, and/or to finding collaborators to email a poem back and forth with--results to be shared at the end of the week.

Otherwise, ILU JJ AND LIZ!

Re: Feedback For This Week's Poetry Hosts

[poetree_admin]

You should definitely check out the new Climbing the Poet's Tree challenges then! Thread for finding collaborators here.

Re: Feedback For This Week's Poetry Hosts

[cadenzamuse]

Ha, JJ, I think I posted this before the challenge post was up (or at least before it appeared on my reading page). WOO, COLLABORATIVE POETRY CHALLENGE!

Re: Feedback For This Week's Poetry Hosts

[jjhunter]

:oD

Upcoming Member Events

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