poetree | Sunday Picnic With Peach-Cream Pie

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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From:

poetree_admin

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.

From:

poetree_admin

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.

From:

poetree_admin

Are you a member of

poetree? If you plan on hosting an online poetry event of some kind this week, feel free to let the admins know by PM or commenting on this thread, and we will post a short advertisement on your behalf to the comm when the event goes live.

From:

poetree_admin

Hosting this upcoming week is

primedieval.

If you participated in an official (or unofficial) poetry project for

pod_together and are interested in x-posting to

poetree in some fashion, please respond to this thread or PM the admins and we will arrange for a day (or week!) for you to do so. Congrats to everyone who has completed a project so far!

From:

jjhunter

I've been writing & posting some poems these last two weeks, most notably Workarounds

We married our same-sex friends on Facebook
because there was no relationship status
for "My sex life is none of your business"

and A Working Definition

sometimes ordinary language made extraordinary by where

you cut the line

What's your working definition of poetry?

From:

jjhunter

Results are up for the winners of the National Poetry Slam 2013 competitions at the NPS 2013 website. You can watch the August 17 Finals show as streamed from the Berklee Performance Center, and find other coverage (and information about where to find out more about particular slam teams and individual poets) at this post.

From:

jjhunter

Contemporary Poetry Review: D. H. Tracy and the Role of the Poet-Critic

It still takes me aback a little when I meet a poet in contempt of criticism, or who has received advice from teachers—I have actually heard this—to avoid criticism altogether. When poetry seems determined to mediocritize itself in this way, I suppose I look to poet-critics to save us from being a laughingstock. The best criticism I know combines analysis worthy of philosophy or science, with learning worthy of scholarship, with fineness of feeling worthy of art. Poet-critics, empirically speaking, seem to achieve this suspension comparatively easily.

From:

alexseanchai

*bouncy bouncy bouncy*

(I haven't heard from my pinch-hit partner since they became my pinch-hit partner, which worries me, but I would be delighted to cross-post the poem itself to

poetree! Probably using my

alexconall account, lemme just go double-check that that account's a member here...)

From:

jjhunter

Would you have any interest in making a week out of it? i.e. posting poem text, yes, but also posting about what the process was like & the evolution of how it unfolded, and anything else you'd like to bring to bear. We'd be a very appreciative audience, and I think there's a lot to be learned re: what it's like to work with multiple people & to do a project of this size.

Re: pinch-hit partner - eep! Do the

pod_together admins know? Do you need help finding another pinch-hitter if your assigned one doesn't come through?

From:

alexseanchai

I...don't know. (I'm flattered to be asked, though.) Let me think.

It only just occurred to me that it might be a problem. I'll go email my partner right now, and if they don't answer I'll bug the admins.

ETA: It's only been a week and, this being a party favor, they've got a couple weeks left. So I'm not going to be terribly concerned. Yet. On another note, jj, do you have any objection to me sharing bits from our workshop chat? (I suspect the answer's yes but I gotta ask. Also gotta ask kaberett and one other person.) The excited AAAH about exploring my process is overcoming the scared AAAH at doing it in front of people, so I'm probably gonna say yes, I'll do the week of posting process and shit as well as text of poem.

Edited Date: 2013-08-25 03:10 pm (UTC)

From:

jjhunter

Not at all! I'm flattered that you want to, and very much looking forward to reading your process thoughts in general. Would you have any interest in the week you do being Mon., Sept. 2nd - Sat., Sept. 7th?

Re: not hearing from your pinch-hitter - keep in mind that you want to leave time in case you do need a pinch-hitter for your pinch-hitter; it's one thing if they're reachable-but-not-started, but being incommunicado entirely for a week without prior notice is not a good sign, especially since most people get more busy going into September rather than less.

From:

luzula

I posted a reading of Gerard Manley Hopkins' Spring and Fall: To a Young Child.

From:

alexseanchai

Sure! Just need kaberett to clear using their comments and we're golden.

I have an email from my partner timestamped twelve minutes after the notif from this comment, actually. Not started recording, but confident of being done and edited by the sixth. So no worries.

From:

jjhunter

Excellent on both fronts!

From:

raze

I wrote a poem this past week called, Recidivism.

Snip: You looked surprised when I knew the term
"recidivism rate"
like only people with college degrees
know those words - but I lived them.

Edited Date: 2013-08-26 03:41 am (UTC)

From:

zirconium

I posted at my journal three entries about rereading old issues of Poetry. And in this entry, I linked to three recently published poems (one at Escape Into Life and two at Inkscrawl).

From:

zirconium

Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is hosting a poetry contest (theme: Void), no entry fee, deadline 9/15: http://asiancha.blogspot.hk/2013/03/cha-void-poetry-contest.html.