Sunday Picnic In a Time of Stained-Glass Leaves

[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

[jjhunter]

I wrote a villanelle, 'Original Debt', that I was very pleased with this week, as well as a free-verse piece On Writing Papers that has proved popular.

Re: weekly roundup thread - member associated posts

[alee_grrl]

You should be very pleased with both. They are both very good. Wish I could come say more, but my brain is in get ready for sleep mode.

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.

Re: weekly roundup thread - general poetry news

[zirconium]

A favorite from this past week's reading: Private and Profane by Marie Ponsot.

It reminds me of the lament for the makers someone in the comm posted not too long ago. Plus it manages to mention Djuna Barnes and John Donne in the same breath. :-)

Re: weekly roundup thread - general poetry news

[alee_grrl]

Here is an excellent article on poetry in The Atlantic that I just came across. It discusses how poetry is still vital to education.

Also came across this lovely music video from Symphony of Science for their song "The Poetry of Reality (An Anthem for Science)."

Feedback For This Week's Poetry Hosts

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If you have general feedback for jjhunter & alee_grrl, aka 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 Hosts

[untonuggan]

This week's theme was awesome!

Comm Reminders

[poetree_admin]

The deadline for comm challenges #25 & 26 is this Friday. The former involves writing an anniversary poem, the latter brief poetry meta in your own space.

This upcoming week will likely be a hiatus week - it's marked as 'Open Slot' on the Community Calendar and we're currently out of volunteers on the signup post. If we don't get any last minute volunteers, we'll pick up again the following week with ysabetwordsmith Hosting on the theme of serial poetry.

Okay...

[ysabetwordsmith]

"The Forging of Brisingamen" is now complete. This is science fiction based on Norse mythology.

The poem "tsukumogami" has been posted. Science fiction about Japanese aesthetics and folklore.

My first line bingo is done for kink_bingo. Three of the five squares are poems in the Schrodinger's Heroes series. NSFW.

The Poetry Fishbowl Report for October 2-3, 2012 is now visible, with links to all the published poems.

There is crowdfunded poetry news from Thesilentpoet.

There will be a half-price poetry sale in my Steamsmith series from October 15-21.