Sunday Picnic With Plum Puns

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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

[alee_grrl]

I actually wrote a short bit of poetry this week, a haikai on being iron deficient. TW: The first few paragraphs are a brief discussion of iron deficiency and medical stuff. You can scroll to the end for the poem.

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

[alee_grrl]

I found a legal blog this week that features short form poetry about law and negotiation.

Feedback For This Week's Poetry Host

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Upcoming Member Events

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Comm Announcements

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This upcoming week will be our Fragments of Sappho Community Week - thank you everyone who has signed up to contribute!

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News from Comm Affiliates

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Our sister comm poetry is currently out of weekly Poetry Hosts. Sign up now to share a few favorite poems and keep it going!

The second issue of Plunge Magazine, Chase(d), is now live and publicly available online. Poetry submissions for issue #3 will be accepted until Nov. 16th.

Poetry should address the theme "Over and Under the Sea" and possess a genre (e.g., steampunk, cozies, hard sf) aesthetic. Poetry may be in any form (free verse, blank verse, sonnet, pantoum, etc).

Crowdfunding Creative Jam

[ysabetwordsmith]

I went nuts with the Creative Jam this weekend; the theme was "emotions." There were some terrific prompts already, and then I stumbled across an awesome collection of sculptures that inspired a bunch of ekphrastic poetry. Lots of cheap $5-10 poems along with the epics, which is nice, because this month's Poetry Fishbowl was almost all epics.

Here's the list of poems, along with links to a couple of stories that other people wrote based on my prompts:
http://ysabetwordsmith.dreamwidth.org/9456197.html