Community Tagging

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You may have noticed some changes recently to poetree's tagging system. The admins are currently working their way through the community Archive to bring our historical tagging up to date.

Community members and others posting to poetree are not required to know how to tag their posts appropriately; however, if you're curious, you are welcome and encouraged to browse the following reference guide and leave any feedback in the comments.

( Guide to POETREE's tagging system behind the cut )

Last edited 9/23/13 by jjhunter

Sunday Picnic starts June off right

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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.

Signup for Next Community Week: Emotional Intimacy

[poetree_admin]

In honor of QUILTBAG pride month, our next community themed week focuses on emotional intimacy.

Emotional intimacy includes but is not limited to sexual or romantic intimacy. For more information about nonsexual intimacies, see ysabetwordsmith's excellent reference series on the topic. If you do choose to tackle the topic of sexual emotional intimacy, we ask that anything more explicit than PG-13 territory go under a cut tag.

In addition to poems that focus on or convey emotional intimacy, we invite discussion and reflection on what elements of poetry itself, or what particular types of poems, are especially well-suited to conveying emotional intimacy. Why do people historically turn to poetry and song to express intense feelings? Is there something about the ambiguity or coded language of certain types of poetry that fosters intimacy and expression of sentiments that feel too big or too private to share easily in prose?

( Here is one possible post idea, please feel free to share more in the comments )

If you would like to participate, please comment on this post to claim a particular open slot and some sense of what content you'll post. You may also use the comment section to solicit collaborators for a group post.

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Last edited 6/17/13 by alee_grrl