Wednesday is here.... Just finished working on Tiananmen Mother during my lunch hour. I have a new draft that I will try out tonight at a reading at Boarders Books. This is a fine tuning and I think I am happy with it now. Perhaps not totally finished. I'll see how I feel after the reading tonight.
This will be a whole new venue for me so I can bring out some older stuff too. Yeah!
I have decided that for longhand writing it is hard to beat a uni-ball Vision Elite. The words just seem to slide out of it like they are greased. *
*evidently the brain must also be engaged.
Wednesday, February 09, 2005
Monday, February 07, 2005
A breakthrough
I was back at it yesterday. Hammering away at this poem that has been in the making now for over a week. Almost to my amazement, I seemed to have a breakthrough. I worked on it in the morning and stopped just after noon. I had a 3 pm writers group ~ and shortly after lunch I decided to try to retool it a bit more and take it with me. I was glad I did.
Really good feedback from the group has given me both the feeling that I am near where I want to be on this and at the same time exactly where I need to work on it. I decided to do nothing more on it last night, rather to let it rest. I'll likely take it up again tonight with my notes from yesterday. I'd like to get this to a final draft by Wednesday night's reading at Boarders Books.
Really good feedback from the group has given me both the feeling that I am near where I want to be on this and at the same time exactly where I need to work on it. I decided to do nothing more on it last night, rather to let it rest. I'll likely take it up again tonight with my notes from yesterday. I'd like to get this to a final draft by Wednesday night's reading at Boarders Books.
An excerpt of the poem Tiananmen Mother follows:
The Beijing breeze whispers/ mournful strophes./ Tears like the mountain rains/
follow slopes// to tributaries until they become one /with the rippling waters of the Yangtze.//
Saturday, February 05, 2005
Frustration Abounds
I have spent hours today on a poem that I started a week ago and it is just past 9pm and I'm calling it quits on this one for tonight. I'm shutting down the computer- going upstairs and I will read some poetry for a while. I have to get away from this piece.... It simply is not happening tonight.
Frustration sucks!
Frustration sucks!
Thursday, February 03, 2005
Are you aware the official "Stick Poet Writing Journal" is available at the Stick Poet Shop?
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Poets Crash - News at 10:00
There is a collision that has occurred and I am attempting to identify the casualties.
I don’t see a lot of blood… yet.
Early indications are that it was a head on crash. One vehicle was a hyped up model driven by a poet obviously in a hurry to get submissions out. The other was a family sedan, driven by a poet and companion that was setting on his shoulder distracting him with all kinds of criticism and urging him to take it easy. It appears all survived the wreck, even the critic.
The police were having a difficult enough time sorting out who was at fault. The party with the critic was overheard expressing that he didn’t know if he’d ever get behind the wheel again.
I wonder how this will all be resolved. Who will be cited? Anyone? Will they get lawyers and fight it out in court? Did the first poet miss a submission deadline? Will the second poet every get behind the wheel again?
Alas, my head is spinning.
I don’t see a lot of blood… yet.
Early indications are that it was a head on crash. One vehicle was a hyped up model driven by a poet obviously in a hurry to get submissions out. The other was a family sedan, driven by a poet and companion that was setting on his shoulder distracting him with all kinds of criticism and urging him to take it easy. It appears all survived the wreck, even the critic.
The police were having a difficult enough time sorting out who was at fault. The party with the critic was overheard expressing that he didn’t know if he’d ever get behind the wheel again.
I wonder how this will all be resolved. Who will be cited? Anyone? Will they get lawyers and fight it out in court? Did the first poet miss a submission deadline? Will the second poet every get behind the wheel again?
Alas, my head is spinning.
Tuesday, February 01, 2005
A Writing Retreat?
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- newly decorated throughout
- central heating
- excellent storage space
- a master bedroom & suite bathroom
- large bright loft with exposed beams
- a courtyard to the rear and a village green to the front
- shops, schools and a mainline railway station are about 0.2 miles away
- birth home of Ted Hughes
- seven of his poems were set in the house itself and at least 28 others in the immediate area
- it is about three miles from Heptonstall - the village where Heghes' wife Sylvia Plath was buried
More information on the property - pictures, etc. here
Sunday, January 30, 2005
Weekend Writing
Yesterday I stumbled along working on two poems. By evening I had my fill of both. Put them away, my mind away.... Today is another day. One poem has taken shape nicely. The other remains on the back burner- warm in my thoughts but no real action on it yet.
Perhaps I will take it out and play with it a while later. Perhaps not.
Perhaps I will take it out and play with it a while later. Perhaps not.
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