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poetree! At the prompting of jjhunter, I shall be popping in a few times this week to share reflections on my poetry project for 2013.
A poem a day (or thereabouts): Since January I've been aiming to post five poems a week as public posts on my DW. What's actually turned out to happen is that I post daily for a stretch of time, then go silent whenever I have to be away from home, then come back and post daily again. These are not original poetry, but a sort of scrapbook of poems I've read.
The whys and wherefores: I don't know that I could put my finger on a good reason why I'm doing this. I'm pretty sure my psychologist would disapprove of it as an exercise in rigid goal-setting and holding oneself to arbitrary standards, but let's just not tell her, ok? There are some not-great reasons, like knowing that as a medievalist trying to turn into an English lit scholar, I'm remarkably under-read and afraid of getting into 'But of course you've read...' conversations (but then, my reading choices have hardly been Classic Poetry of the English Language).
I think I wanted to carve out some kind of creative reading practice. Some of this is because scholarship has eaten my brain, and I struggle with reading for fun with no measurable output (but where are the citations?). Some of it is that I no longer write poetry: I accepted some years ago that I can write creatively, or I can write analytical non-fiction, but I don't seem to be able to do both. I came to terms with that in respect to fiction fairly easily, but I mourned poetry for some time. Eventually it occured to me that to be a reader of poetry might fill that gap, and, well, a year's program seemed like a structured way to test that hypothesis.
Ed: how do tags work around here?
poetree! At the prompting of jjhunter, I shall be popping in a few times this week to share reflections on my poetry project for 2013. A poem a day (or thereabouts): Since January I've been aiming to post five poems a week as public posts on my DW. What's actually turned out to happen is that I post daily for a stretch of time, then go silent whenever I have to be away from home, then come back and post daily again. These are not original poetry, but a sort of scrapbook of poems I've read.
The whys and wherefores: I don't know that I could put my finger on a good reason why I'm doing this. I'm pretty sure my psychologist would disapprove of it as an exercise in rigid goal-setting and holding oneself to arbitrary standards, but let's just not tell her, ok? There are some not-great reasons, like knowing that as a medievalist trying to turn into an English lit scholar, I'm remarkably under-read and afraid of getting into 'But of course you've read...' conversations (but then, my reading choices have hardly been Classic Poetry of the English Language).
I think I wanted to carve out some kind of creative reading practice. Some of this is because scholarship has eaten my brain, and I struggle with reading for fun with no measurable output (but where are the citations?). Some of it is that I no longer write poetry: I accepted some years ago that I can write creatively, or I can write analytical non-fiction, but I don't seem to be able to do both. I came to terms with that in respect to fiction fairly easily, but I mourned poetry for some time. Eventually it occured to me that to be a reader of poetry might fill that gap, and, well, a year's program seemed like a structured way to test that hypothesis.
Ed: how do tags work around here?
