Sunday Picnic in a Time of Dreaming

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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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weekly roundup thread - general poetry news

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Re: weekly roundup thread - general poetry news

[jjhunter]

I thought this repost at Mass Poetry was pretty thought-provoking: Richard Hoffman on the State of Poetry

Another way of putting it is to think of the poet’s work as peeling people one at a time from the mob, steering them by the elbow to a table where, just the two of you, you find the radical quiet to honor that desire to be understood, that yearning to communicate one’s experience of being alive to another, which is the antidote to the massive, poisonous, ongoing objectification sweeping the planet today.

Re: weekly roundup thread - general poetry news

[jjhunter]

Natasha Trethewey has been reappointed as the US Poet Laureate by the Library of Congress. About.com has a nice roundup of news coverage links.

Re: weekly roundup thread - general poetry news

[untonuggan]

squees excitedly! I will just copy-post what I wrote in my own journal space:

Sanura has composed Thor's Epic, the Battle of Manhattan (i.e. The Avenger's) in iambic pentameter. Go. Read.

weekly roundup thread - Spotlight

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Comm Announcements

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Thank you everyone who participated in this past week's Emotional Intimacy Community week! If you didn't have time during the week to read every single post, we enthusiastically encourage you to catch up now - you can browse the entire week's offerings at a glance via the hyperlinked schedule at the intro post.

Congratulations go to ariestess, our randomly chosen winner of those who signed up to do something poetry-related for Pod Together 2013 (Challenge #34).

This upcoming week will be a special poetry-focused icebreaker week paralleling the one taking place at pod_together. There will be plenty of interest to those participating in the challenge and to the broader poetree community. The planned schedule for the week will go up first thing tomorrow.

From the Archive

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alee_grrl

Today's from the archives features a post from March, 2012. bookblather provided us with a wonderful week of cowboy poetry, and she provided us with this wonderful introduction to the form. It is a lot of fun to read, and included a poignant poem about the cowboy's horse.

Re: From the Archive

[untonuggan]

I remember that week! Twas awesome!