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Some cool poetry news
I met a composer recently, who's music I fell in love with. Her name is Carrie. She also fell in love with my poetry ( Read more... ) -
Medical language and erasure poetry, this isn't exactly what I want to say, but it's close...
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"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Vulvodynia is a problem most family physicians can expect to encounter. It is a syndrome of unexplained vulvar pain, frequently accompanied by physical disabilities, limitation of daily ( Read more... ) -
Is it better as one poem with 2 parts (as written here) or best as 2 separate pieces? Thoughts??
Courtney Love, on the Suicide of her Husband, 2 Erasure Poems
1.
He left a note.
He’s such an
asshole.
It’s addressed to
being a rockstar
when you fucking
hate it.
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The Power of No/w/ay
For friends who recommend I read ( Read more... ) -
Clarity statements, the latest thing I am learning about writing poetry
Every poetry submission I send to Natalie (my mentor at UBC) is returned with: your poems could benefit from a clarity statement. She defines this as asking yourself what you intend the poem to be about, and than going through the poem to make sure every image and word helps to convey that.
Here is a poem of mine, that was published in The ( Read more... ) -
Another dinosaur sex poem
I read this one yesterday. I think it went over okay.
All my dinosaur poems (I have seven completed now and am editing a few more) were inspired by the definition of dinosaur, as it is both the animal that once roamed the earth, and refers to 'outdated modes of thinking, inability to adapt to change, unwieldy in size and primitive'. (Forgot to ( Read more... ) -
Mixed blessing -- no longer an emerging poet
Geist is publishing emerging poets once a month, for poets who have not been published in more than 2 established literary journals and are currently enrolled in either a poetry program or a poetry course. I was hoping this was me.
Yesterday I inquired what they meant by 'established' journal. I was hoping it meant having an editorial review board ( Read more... ) -
a new poem, open to feedback on form
PUNCH LINES
What do women have in common
with bowling balls? Why is
the space between a woman’s breast
and her hips, called a waist?
If a blonde and a brunette fell off a building,
who would hit the ground first?
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A challenging but rewarding writing exercise
My mentor at UBC asked me to do a very unique writing exercise that I want to share, because I found it extremely valuable.
She asked me to take a Walt Whitman poem, any poem, and translate it with my own voice.
Whitman is a good poet to translate because his poetry was highly influenced by rhythm and meter, more so than concrete images or visually ( Read more... )