Sunday Picnic Under Peacock-Glorious Sugar Maples

[poetree_admin]

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.

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weekly roundup thread - member associated posts

[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.

Re: weekly roundup thread - member associated posts

[zirconium]

Hullo! 7x20 published a micropoem by me, and Moment published a review of my book. The links are at the end of a longer post on Yom Kippur:

http://zirconium.dreamwidth.org/27949.html

*passes around slices of apple with honey*

Re: weekly roundup thread - member associated posts

[alee_grrl]

Yay on both the publication and the review!

Re: weekly roundup thread - member associated posts

[alee_grrl]

I finally got around to posting "Kiss the Flame", the poem I wrote for ashestosnow for winning Poetree Challenge # 13.

*shares the absolutely lovely oolong tea she discovered last weekend*

Re: weekly roundup thread - member associated posts

[lnhammer]

Another hexagram pome.

---L.

Re: weekly roundup thread - member associated posts

[alee_grrl]

I really enjoy your hexagram poems. The imagery in this one is lovely.

Re: weekly roundup thread - member associated posts

[lnhammer]

Thankee.

---L.

Re: weekly roundup thread - member associated posts

[bookblather]

I wrote a bref double. Because my friend shadowsong knows how to tempt me.

weekly roundup thread - general poetry news

[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.

Feedback For This Week's Poetry Host

[poetree_admin]

If you have general feedback for lnhammer and/or the admins on how this past week went, please leave it here by responding to this thread. We're always interested in figuring out what particular themes, formats, contents, etc. work well for people, and which need more tweaking to work better.

Re: Feedback For This Week's Poetry Host

[raze]

While this may not be very useful feedback, I just wanted to say that while sonnets are not my area of expertise or interest, I really appreciated the amount of effort lnhammer put into hosting this past week. I did not have enough of use to say to reply to the posts, but I greatly enjoyed reading them, and thought it was wonderful how audience engagement was encouraged by the prompting questions at the end of each post. Really well done overall; thank you.

Re: Feedback For This Week's Poetry Host

[bookblather]

I second all of this; lnhammer was particularly good about responding to comments and promoting engagement.

Re: Feedback For This Week's Poetry Host

[lnhammer]

Aw, thankee both.

---L.

Re: Feedback For This Week's Poetry Host

[alee_grrl]

I have not had a chance to comment on each post due to the head cold that I developed earlier this week. But I wanted to thank lnhammer for doing such an amazing job in exploring sonnets. It was a fascinating and rich week and I will have to go back and re-read many of the entries so that I can savor them more. Thank you for the amazing amount of work that you put into this week. It was very much appreciated.

Re: Feedback For This Week's Poetry Host

[lnhammer]

Yer welcome. It was fun.

---L.

Comm Reminders

[poetree_admin]

This Friday, October 5, 2012 at 11:59 EDT comm challenges #23 and 24 will be closing. Considering that they are respectively a.) write a limerick, or b.) rec one or more limericks, it looks like there's going to be some fair competition for the prizes of

30 dreamwidth points (the equivalent of one month of paid time), or a icon or poem (any format, though some make take more time than others, and on a topic of your choice by alee_grrl

The next scheduled multi-Hosted week, These Hallowed Days (Mon., Oct. 29th- Sat., Nov. 3rd), still has a few openings for more participants.

Our next 'Open Slot' on the Community Calendar is Mon., Oct. 15th - Sat., Oct. 20th. Do you know someone who might enjoying Hosting that or another week here at poetree? Please direct them to the current signup post.

Okay...

[ysabetwordsmith]

My next Poetry Fishbowl will be on Tuesday, October 2 with a theme of "Horror: Demons." Come give me prompts!

Also I'm experimenting with bingo fests now. cottoncandy_bingo, hc_bingo, and kink_bingo all have different themes but accept any fandom or original material and poetry is an acceptable medium. So if you want inspiration, pick one and request a card. I've already done one card for cottoncandy_bingo. I've got a second card for that now, plus first cards for the other two fests.

Re: Okay...

[jjhunter]

Good to know! I'll put a small admin blurb here on the comm when your Fishbowl opens. Also, welcome back - we've missed you these last few weeks.

Re: Okay...

[ysabetwordsmith]

>>I'll put a small admin blurb here on the comm when your Fishbowl opens.<<

Thanks everso! Ping me when you do, it'll reveal a verse of the linkback poem.

>> Also, welcome back - we've missed you these last few weeks.<<

Summer is my busy season, writing for the Llewellyn annuals. I'm seriously behind because our internet connection has been fizzling out for about a month, which also undercuts my online activity. Later in the month things should get better.