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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.
spiralsheep: Flowers (skywardprodigal Cog Flowers)
From: [personal profile] spiralsheep
I posted the "children's" poem Eight Tentacles, by Julia Donaldson (at my journal) in response to a friend posting the adult, and potentially NSFW, poem The Vine, by Robert Herrick (potentially NSFW, at luminarium).

Enjoy!
Edited (i can haz spayce) Date: 2012-10-21 03:43 pm (UTC)
primeideal: Multicolored sideways eight (infinity sign) (Default)
From: [personal profile] primeideal
I am continuing to blog about the baseball playoffs at http://lipogramscorecard.wordpress.com/ (let me know if you want context for any of those).
zirconium: picrew of me in sports bra and flowery crop pants (Ferru con gato)
From: [personal profile] zirconium
Hee! I know of other Tigers fans (and some anti-Yankees ones) who would like to continue to savor the moment, so I am tweeting the link to your blog). :-)
primeideal: Multicolored sideways eight (infinity sign) (Default)
From: [personal profile] primeideal
:D Thank you very much!
lnhammer: the Chinese character for poetry, red on white background (Default)
From: [personal profile] lnhammer
I've always enjoyed the idea of 17th century tentacle porn. And the poem itself.

---L.
spiralsheep: Flowers (skywardprodigal Cog Flowers)
From: [personal profile] spiralsheep
I think the last line makes the poem. Herrick's self-deprecation deflates his earlier potential-creepiness. He uses self-deprecating twists in a lot of his "love" poems.
lnhammer: the Chinese character for poetry, red on white background (Default)
From: [personal profile] lnhammer
Interestingly, he also does that in a lot of his devotional verse as well, though not as often. If you can track it down, reading Hesperides straight through is well worth it. (NB: that edition segregates his greasier epigrams to an appendix, mitigating some of the effect.)

---L.
spiralsheep: Martha laughing (Martha Laughing)
From: [personal profile] spiralsheep
I've read it. :-)
In fact I've long been in the habit of telling people that Robin is my imaginary 17th century poet boyfriend. :-D
I've always had a thing for "Elizabethan" lyric poetry and, of course, Herrick fits perfectly into that style/tradition.

Robin!

Date: 2012-10-22 07:21 pm (UTC)
lnhammer: the Chinese character for poetry, red on white background (Default)
From: [personal profile] lnhammer
Yah -- while at the same time polishing his verses with Cavalier smoothness.

---L.
jjhunter: Drawing of human JJ in ink tinted with blue watercolor; woman wearing glasses with arched eyebrows (JJ inked)
From: [personal profile] jjhunter
I posted the roundup post this week for the 14+ poems I wrote for my 'Poem For Your Thoughts?': Special US Voter Registration Edition event. And perhaps because I am all too fond of such challenges, I'm strongly considering doing another round right before the Nov. 6th election where people intending to vote who answer three quick questions re: their voting logistics will get fills on prompts of their choice and people signal-boosting the post will get haiku/haikai fills on prompts of their choice.

Re: weekly roundup thread - general poetry news

Date: 2012-10-21 08:20 pm (UTC)
zirconium: picrew of me in sports bra and flowery crop pants (sunflower sentinel)
From: [personal profile] zirconium
UnFold is giving free ebooks to its followers on Twitter. Details here, deadline is 8 p.m. PDT today.

Re: weekly roundup thread - general poetry news

Date: 2012-10-22 02:24 am (UTC)
jjhunter: Drawing of human JJ in ink tinted with blue watercolor; woman wearing glasses with arched eyebrows (JJ inked)
From: [personal profile] jjhunter
The 52 Sundays Project is currently accepting submissions from now until 12/9 for a year-long paid poetry gig. Emerging poets especially encouraged to apply.

Re: Feedback For This Week's Poetry Host

Date: 2012-10-21 03:09 pm (UTC)
jjhunter: Drawing of human J.J. in red and brown inks with steampunk goggle glasses (red J.J. inked)
From: [personal profile] jjhunter
Quick note for those who may have missed it, my English Haikai post was started yesterday and posted today, which led to Dreamwidth placing it as having been posted 'Oct. 20th, 2012 14:23' and slipping into people's Reading Page history accordingly. Oops. Anyway, I hope you'll check it out - I thought there was some really interesting stuff going on in the earlier Haiku, Take Two post's comments.

Okay...

Date: 2012-10-22 05:47 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] ysabetwordsmith
My poem "Nutterjell" won a Torn World contest.

My half-price poetry sale in The Steamsmith series has sold out. Poems are linked via the sale page.

The microfunded poem "The Forging of Brisingamen" is now complete.

These are my latest [community profile] kink_bingo poems, which are Not Safe For Work:
"Waxahachie's One-Day Winter"
"By Any Stretch"

I have also posted my second line bingo for this fest, featuring genderqueer characters.

Bruce Boston has released a new poetry collection.

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