#poetrytalk

[sojc123]

Poem recitation: "Missed Meal Cramps." #poem #poems #lit #poet #poets #poetry #ipoetry #literature #poetrycommunity #recitation #poetrydaily #write #neverunderestimate #hunger #missedmeal #listentopoetry #hearpoetry #words #speak #poetrytalk #poetryisalive📝

[seemeehearme]

#seemeehearme_poetry With #seemee Khan herewith #sheikh Abdussalam at the #fanar #doha #qatar #poetrytalk #wisdom #oneness #connecting with our #creator #dream #ampitheatre #flashback (at Fanar Souq Mosque)

[graecellen]

THE POETRY WORK GROUP

Dayton, Ohio is awash with literary folks, poets and writers. I feel so lucky to live where I do. Over the past several months, a few of us who write poetry have been meeting one Sunday afternoon a month to share poetry and provide each other with feedback on work-in-progress. This evening, I finished up some edits that came from thoughts from today’s group. There were only three of us this afternoon, but that was fine with me.

A work group doesn’t need to be large. It just has to be comprised of people you trust and who’s perspective you value. That’s critical. And, it’s not just about specific feedback. If anything, it’s as much about the act of talking about poetry. For me, it becomes an internal vocabulary I can use as I work alone at my desk later. For instance, today, I was listening to someone talk about what a poem “means.” I realized that sometimes a poem can create the illusion that it must mean something, when it doesn’t have to mean anything at all. And, indeed, some poems are intentionally trying to mean something. (But this is a discussion for a longer post at another time.)

Anyway, I was thinking that it’s interesting to observe what kind of dialog a poem evokes. Maybe that’s a good question to ask yourself as you write: what kind of discussion would this poem evoke if people were going to talk about it?

Truth:  A while back, when I was binge listening to the Poetry Foundation Magazine Podcast, http://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/audio?show=The%20Poetry%20Magazine%20Podcast (which is fantastic, BTW) I used to think about what the editors would say about a poem I had written as they bantered back and forth. It’s a fun exercise. When that conversation was not crystal clear to me, I knew I had to go back to the drawing board. Whether or not my poems will ever be discussed in that manner, is not the point. The point is, it’s useful for me to think about them that way. And, that’s at least one thing I get from my poetry work group—poetry talk.

If you want to know how we’ve structured our group or how we run it, message me. WRITE ON!

[the-anime-man]

In the Latest Adventures of 'GuyAttemptsSchool'...

So, about a month or so ago, my school's school newpaper was having a thing where people could submit things for a special 'literary issue' that was to be release in January and submitted a poem I posted on here, titled 'Emotionless'. Well, today the January Literary School Newspaper came out and, low and behold, there was my poem, among other art pieces. (There were a lot of pictures in that dang thing.) And then a few people/everbody was tellin' me that they really liked my poem and then I was happy for most of the day. =//u//= (except for one of my close friends, who, I think, gave me a more artistic review of it, I guess.)