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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.

Re: weekly roundup thread - general poetry news

Date: 2016-07-24 07:55 pm (UTC)
jjhunter: Gnarled watercolor tree arches a low branch with flaming autumnal leaves (poetree radiant)
From: [personal profile] jjhunter
2016 Button Poetry / Exploding Pinecone Press Chapbook Contest
Prize: The winner(s) will receive publication, 50 free author copies, a $500 honorarium, and an invitation to perform at a Button Poetry event and be filmed by Button’s video crew. All finalists will be considered for publication and will be invited to perform at a Button show in Minneapolis.

Entry Fee: $15; all entrants will receive 15% off any purchase at the Button Shop (http://buttonpoetry.com/shop).

Timeline: The contest will open on July 15th and close at 11:59 PM CST on AUGUST 31ST!

Regardless of whether entering is of interest to you, I highly recommend [tumblr.com profile] buttonpoetry ("Button Poetry, promoting and producing performance poetry since 2011. Check out our YouTube, Website & Bandcamp!")
Edited Date: 2016-07-24 07:57 pm (UTC)

Poetry Is Not a Luxury

Date: 2016-07-24 08:03 pm (UTC)
jjhunter: Drawing of human J.J. in red and brown inks with steampunk goggle glasses (red J.J. inked)
From: [personal profile] jjhunter
I stumbled across Jeremy Liu's essay Poetry Is Not a Luxury to Achieving Racial, Social, and Economic Equity a few weeks ago, and have been thinking about it and the referenced Audre Lorde essay ever since.
In her essay, Poetry Is Not a Luxury, Audre Lorde, the Caribbean-American writer, poet, radical feminist, lesbian, and civil rights activist, describes an often overlooked yet necessary process in community and equitable development:

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so that it can be thought. The farthest external horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock of experiences of our daily lives.

As they become known and accepted to ourselves, our feelings, and the honest exploration of them, become sanctuaries and fortresses and spawning grounds for the most radical and daring of ideas, the house of difference so necessary to change and the conceptualization of any meaningful action.


In defining poetry as vital to the human condition, Lorde reminds us that poetry is a step in the formation of ideas, rather than simply the expression of an already formed idea or feeling. Hopes and dreams are transformed into language, becoming coherent knowledge which can then catalyze action.

Would you agree? Disagree? Does this match your own experience with poetry, and/or what you look for in poetry?

Date: 2016-07-24 08:28 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] alexseanchai
"maggie and milly and molly and may" by e.e. cummings:
maggie and milly and molly and may
went down to the beach(to play one day)

and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn’t remember her troubles,and

milly befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were;

and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:and

may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.

For whatever we lose(like a you or a me)
it’s always ourselves we find in the sea

Re: Poetry Is Not a Luxury

Date: 2016-07-24 08:31 pm (UTC)
alexseanchai: Katsuki Yuuri wearing a blue jacket and his glasses and holding a poodle, in front of the asexual pride flag with a rainbow heart inset. (Default)
From: [personal profile] alexseanchai
This Lorde essay is vital reading for any poet or person appreciative of poetry, I think.

Re: weekly roundup thread - general poetry news

Date: 2016-10-31 08:06 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] jazzyjj
Hi everyone. I thought I'd post a link to a poetry-related website that I found out about last week. If anyone sees this and wishes me to create a new entry about it, I'd be happy to do so. The site is http://www.allpoetry.com , and it's for all kinds of poetry. Registration is free, but the site contains some nifty perks as well.

Introduction

Date: 2016-11-12 03:42 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] ewt
Hello! [personal profile] kaberett sent me.

I'm studying for a PhD in contemporary sacred choral composition, despite having no formal training in composing and no Master's degree. One of the deficits in my background is in analysing and understanding poetry... so I am here to look through archives and stuff.

Is there etiquette on whether it's okay to comment, ask questions etc on very old posts?

Re: Introduction

Date: 2016-11-13 03:33 am (UTC)
jjhunter: Gnarled watercolor tree arches a low branch with flaming autumnal leaves (poetree radiant)
From: [personal profile] jjhunter
And there's a good chance the comm will come off hiatus in the new year, now that at least one of the admins (me!) has her offline life on a steadier keel and several of her non-work commitments wrapping up this December.

In the meantime, you are more than likely to comment & ask questions on old posts - I for one tend to be thrilled that anyone's still reading stuff I wrote years ago, and I suspect I've got plenty of company. If you're coming at this with music in mind, you may especially enjoy the themed week [personal profile] luzula hosted on the pleasures & practice of reading poetry aloud (scroll to the first post on her tag and read in reverse order). You might also find the my post on making a practice of poetry useful - as with many arts, there's a deeper understanding that comes with dipping into trying it yourself, and there are a lot of great recs for exercises the comments.

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