Sept. 2nd Sunday Picnic
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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.
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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.
weekly roundup thread - member associated posts
Date: 2012-09-02 02:39 pm (UTC)weekly roundup thread - general poetry news
Date: 2012-09-02 02:39 pm (UTC)seeking suggestions for Guest Hosts
Date: 2012-09-02 02:42 pm (UTC)Catullus On the Mind
Date: 2012-09-02 02:47 pm (UTC)Anyway, the poem is an excellent one, and both translations are worth checking out if you haven't seen them already.
Re: weekly roundup thread - member associated posts
Date: 2012-09-02 06:01 pm (UTC)I picked up The Zoland Books Poetry Postcard Collection there -- a booklet of seventeen poem-cards from 1989, including Marge Piercy's "For the Young Who Want To" and the late Erika Mumford's "Vertigo" (not seeing a copy online, but here's "The Water Seller"...).
And at The Regulator, I picked up two more books: Kate Barnes's Where the Deer Were and Maureen A. Sherbandy's Praying at Coffee Shops. (The latter is a chapbook by a Raleigh writer, published by a Charlotte press. The store has an entire shelf full of chapbooks, and also a local section that includes an anthology series devoted to the literary output of specific NC cities -- Hillsborough, Durham, and Asheville among them.)
So, my summer vacation so far: writing, .25; shopping, 3. ;-)
*passes around grapes, tapenade, and crackers*
Re: weekly roundup thread - member associated posts
Date: 2012-09-02 07:03 pm (UTC)Re: weekly roundup thread - general poetry news
Date: 2012-09-03 01:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-03 01:46 am (UTC)When I have had time the last month or so I have been savoring a recent find: The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. An excellent review of the book can be found here.
Re: Catullus On the Mind
Date: 2012-09-03 01:00 pm (UTC)Re: weekly roundup thread - member associated posts
Date: 2012-09-03 01:09 pm (UTC)Well I did.
Also, at some point I may be making a zine, probably available in digital form by donation. It is a work in progress. Some/all of the proceeds will go to charity. There will be doodles and drawings! And I'm not sure what else yet. Maybe the odd knitting pattern. And some writing I haven't posted online.