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alee_grrl

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:

zirconium

I wrote a sestina about swallow and Amazons: http://zirconium.dreamwidth.org/77364.html

*passes around basket of blackberries*

From:

alexconall

I published my 2013 collection of poetry and flash fiction, Lavender Blue and other poems. Paperback (costs money) and various ebook (free) editions available.

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.

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alexseanchai

So my poetry class is finishing up week three of workshopping each other's poems. First workshop comment on my poem for this week included something to the tune of 'try to work the 'oh, sweetheart' refrain into the second stanza'.

It's a villanelle. We learned about villanelles in class.

BRB FACEPALMING FOREVER

From:

alee_grrl

Oh man. That is a seriously facepalm inducing bit of feedback.

Edited Date: 2014-03-09 04:09 pm (UTC)

From:

alexseanchai

It gets better! It's one of only two pieces of feedback. From my group of six. When all the feedback was due last night. I don't think the other feedbacker knows it's a villanelle either.

I could whine moar but this is poetree not transgenderqueer. (That is a cool comm name. I should make it.)

From:

alee_grrl

I offer my sympathies for what sounds like a very frustrating situation.

On a side note

transgenderqueer is a cool comm name and would make for a very cool community.

From:

alexseanchai

Yeah, pretty sure second feedbacker also has no idea it's a villanelle. "I really like how the last stanza incorporates all the rhymes." IT'S A VILLANELLE.

ETA: Third feedbacker belatedly also has no idea it's a villanelle. "I liked that your last stanza was longer than the others, but maybe make it 5 lines?" VILLANELLE.

Edited Date: 2014-03-10 12:43 am (UTC)

From:

alee_grrl

Oh my. Apparently they paid no attention when the class covered villanelles.

From:

alexseanchai

Apparently not. It's a distinctive form! It should not be difficult for someone vaguely acquainted with the form to recognize!

From:

alee_grrl

Came across this wonderful performance by cellist and folk musician Leyla McCalla. Apparently she has a new album out that is entirely a tribute to the works of Langston Hughes, which of course put me in mind of

raze's wonderful post on Langston Hughes.