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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.

Re: weekly roundup thread - general poetry news

Date: 2013-06-23 02:51 pm (UTC)
jjhunter: Drawing of human JJ in ink tinted with blue watercolor; woman wearing glasses with arched eyebrows (JJ inked)
From: [personal profile] 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

Date: 2013-06-23 02:54 pm (UTC)
jjhunter: Drawing of human J.J. in red and brown inks with steampunk goggle glasses (red J.J. inked)
From: [personal profile] 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

Date: 2013-06-23 05:31 pm (UTC)
untonuggan: Lily and Chance squished in a cat pile-up on top of a cat tree (buff tabby, black cat with red collar) (Default)
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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.

Re: From the Archive

Date: 2013-06-23 05:31 pm (UTC)
untonuggan: Lily and Chance squished in a cat pile-up on top of a cat tree (buff tabby, black cat with red collar) (Default)
From: [personal profile] untonuggan
I remember that week! Twas awesome!

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