Sunday Picnic Featuring Bite-Sized Poetry

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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.

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[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!

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[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).

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[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). :-)

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[primeideal]

:D Thank you very much!

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[lnhammer]

I've always enjoyed the idea of 17th century tentacle porn. And the poem itself.

---L.

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[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.

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[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.

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[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!

[lnhammer]

Yah -- while at the same time polishing his verses with Cavalier smoothness.

---L.

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[lnhammer]

Oregon seen as a series of haiku.

---L.

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[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.

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[spiralsheep]

Well done!

weekly roundup thread - general poetry news

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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.

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[zirconium]

UnFold is giving free ebooks to its followers on Twitter. Details here, deadline is 8 p.m. PDT today.

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[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.

Feedback For This Week's Poetry Host

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If you have general feedback for jjhunter 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.

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[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.

Comm Announcements

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Congratulations to zirconium for winning Challenge #25 with hir poem Dun-dun dunnnnnnn...! The next set of challenges will go up sometime today or tomorrow.

Thank you everyone who has signed up so far to participate in the upcoming multi-Hosted week These Hallowed Days. We still have an open slot remaining for Monday, Oct. 29th, if anyone has the time and desire to put something together appropriate to the theme. If you are one of the people who has already signed up, we recommend drafting your post sometime this week so that it's ready to go ahead of time when your day comes around.

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[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 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.