HOST INTRO POST: ELISABETH HEWER
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poetreeHello, everyone! My name's Ellie and I'm incredibly flattered to have been asked to host this week on POETREE by jjhunter , who found me on tumblr some time ago. I'm afraid I'm new to the community and the way things work around here, but I'm really excited to get to know you and to have the opportunity to discuss poetry more in-depth.
A brief bit of background about myself: I'm twenty years old and highly amateur when it comes to poetry. I honestly have no rhyme or reason to the way I write, and it's still a mystery to me that anybody is interested in reading my poems at all. I'd very much like to take a course to learn more about all the different ways one can format a poem, but as I'm still unsure with most of them, my poetry is all just freestyle at the moment.
I write about what I used to think was a varied number of subjects, but in fact there are some pretty basic themes that I just attempt to tackle over and over again: my relationship with God and Christianity, love, and feminism (in historic as well as contemporary settings). Poetry is sort of my way of attempting to organise my thoughts into something coherent, as otherwise they fly around my head in a very jumbled manner. I'd like to share an example of each of these themes with you over the course of the week and find out if I've managed to convey any hint of my stance towards them all!
You can find my poems on my tumblr page for now - I'm hoping to summon up the courage to submit some to a few journals in the future!
Thank you very much for reading this, and if it's alright with you I'd love to start off by asking a little bit about you all - the sort of thing you prefer to read and/or write poetry about; and also (if you are willing to share) your stance towards the religion you were raised in if you were at all. This is a subject of intense fascination to me and one that colours a lot of my own thinking and writing.
jjhunter , who found me on tumblr some time ago. I'm afraid I'm new to the community and the way things work around here, but I'm really excited to get to know you and to have the opportunity to discuss poetry more in-depth.A brief bit of background about myself: I'm twenty years old and highly amateur when it comes to poetry. I honestly have no rhyme or reason to the way I write, and it's still a mystery to me that anybody is interested in reading my poems at all. I'd very much like to take a course to learn more about all the different ways one can format a poem, but as I'm still unsure with most of them, my poetry is all just freestyle at the moment.
I write about what I used to think was a varied number of subjects, but in fact there are some pretty basic themes that I just attempt to tackle over and over again: my relationship with God and Christianity, love, and feminism (in historic as well as contemporary settings). Poetry is sort of my way of attempting to organise my thoughts into something coherent, as otherwise they fly around my head in a very jumbled manner. I'd like to share an example of each of these themes with you over the course of the week and find out if I've managed to convey any hint of my stance towards them all!
You can find my poems on my tumblr page for now - I'm hoping to summon up the courage to submit some to a few journals in the future!
Thank you very much for reading this, and if it's alright with you I'd love to start off by asking a little bit about you all - the sort of thing you prefer to read and/or write poetry about; and also (if you are willing to share) your stance towards the religion you were raised in if you were at all. This is a subject of intense fascination to me and one that colours a lot of my own thinking and writing.
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Date: 2013-09-09 10:13 pm (UTC)I'm deeply uncomfortable talking about the religion I was raised in except with a select few people - largely people of similar religion whom I trust to treat me kindly (even though I've left the faith). Sometimes counsellors. Sometimes priests. There's a lot of grief and fear and anger wrapped up in a shroud of deliberate forgetfulness. (And the extent to which I was raised in a religion is... complicated and fraught itself.)
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Date: 2013-09-12 03:43 pm (UTC)I'm incredibly sorry for prying! I respect your feelings on the matter utterly and I cannot apologise enough if I upset or insulted you asking about it, that wasn't my intention at all.
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Date: 2013-09-12 03:59 pm (UTC)