Sunday Picnic In the Sweet Coolness of Evening

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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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Re: weekly roundup thread - member associated posts

[jjhunter]

This week I hosted over at poetry; you can browse a roundup index of my posts of favorite poems-in-translation from The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry here.

Re: weekly roundup thread - member associated posts

[jjhunter]

Other nifty thing - this one technically from the previous week, but I didn't have time to get around to sharing it at last week's Sunday Picnic - I wrote and posted a new poem I'm quite pleased with: Sensuum

Feelings are the language of your body
the self that runs ahead of thought
like an eager dog

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.

Re: weekly roundup thread - general poetry news

[jjhunter]

I really enjoyed this article in the Boston Review this past week: The New Thing

The new poetry, the new thing, seeks, as Williams did, well-made, attentive, unornamented things. It is equally at home (as he was) in portraits and still lifes, in epigram and quoted speech; and it is at home (as he was not) in articulating sometimes harsh judgments, and in casting backward looks. The new poets pursue compression, compact description, humility, restricted diction, and—despite their frequent skepticism—fidelity to a material and social world. They follow Williams’s “demand,” as the critic Douglas Mao put it, “both that poetry be faithful to the thing represented and that it be a thing in itself.” They are so bound up with ideas of durable thinghood that we can name the tendency simply by capitalizing: the New Thing.

Upcoming Member Events

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Pod Together Check-In

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If you're involved with an official or unofficial poetry project for Pod Together 2013, this is your informal check-in thread to let us know how it's going so far.

Re: Pod Together Check-In

[alexseanchai]

I...am stuck. Bah. I probably just need to glare at the document for a while and then start typing, and worry about fixing it later.

Re: Pod Together Check-In

[jjhunter]

if you stare into
poetry, poetry puns
staring back at you

*g*

Re: Pod Together Check-In

[jjhunter]

whelp, detailed outline of minor DOOM has been achieved. Having (almost entirely) finished my moving as of today, I will even have some time to start writing it ~mid-week this week.

*exhausted hurrah*

Comm Announcements

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Signups for the next Community Week, Mon., Jul. 22nd - Sat., Jul. 27th, are now live: Diction's Dicty Delights. If you have any questions, comments, observations or lamentations related to the signup post or theme, please feel free to share them by responding to this thread or PM'ing poetree_admin.

Poetry Fishbowl Report

[ysabetwordsmith]

Here is the report from July, with links to the published poems:
http://ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com/2895918.html