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Girls Want Porn Too
Deb Powers is too old to be doing this, but that hasn't stopped her yet. Viewpoints expressed in this column are not necessarily those of the management - or of her gender. Co-written once a month by PodCamp's Mother-Daughter Tag Team just to shake things up a little more. Comments always encouraged, welcomed and sometimes demanded.
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Girls Want Porn Too - Unimportant Poetry
Posted by John on Tuesday, January 15, 2008 (03:32:30)
What writer hasn't sat and stared at a blank sheet (or screen) and whimpered under the crush of supposed writers block?
There are many theories about the origin of writers' block - including the one that says it simply doesn't exist. Anyone who has struggled to write something - anything - would disagree. I submit that one of the biggest contributors to a case of writers block among poets is the driving need to write important poetry.
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Girls Want Porn Too - The Birthday Edition
Posted by chameleon on Saturday, January 05, 2008 (15:50:19)
With my birthday falling so close to the new year, I seldom bother with New Years Resolutions. Instead, I tend to hang on to my addictions and vices for an extra week each year, and raise a toast to procrastination - my favorite vice - with birthday resolutions. This year, one of my birthday resolutions is to let people who have been important in my life know exactly how I feel about them.
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Will Fashion Break Poetry?
Posted by chameleon on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 (16:48:37)
An interesting article in the NYTimes earlier this month talks about the effect Ruth Lilly's $100 million grant to the Poetry Foundation has had on the world of poetry. The article contains some very quotable and thought provoking lines. While much of it may be general knowledge in the poetry world, the publication in the Times puts a spotlight on the little teacup whirlwinds going on around the poetry sphere.
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Update on The Lyrical Terrorist
Posted by chameleon on Tuesday, November 20, 2007 (17:58:21)
Can you be convicted for your convictions? Ask Samina Malik. Not too long ago, Samina Malik was convicted and jailed in London under a law meant to protect against terrorists. When I first posted about this in our news section, I made a point of recognizing that Malik was NOT convicted for writing and posting her poetry, but that the news headlines implied that her conviction was for exactly that. I had a hunch then that we'd be hearing more about it, and indeed, we are. In convicting and jailing Malik, the UK courts have turned the girl into exactly what she dreamed of being - a martyr for the cause. Her story has sparked netwide controversy about censorship, thought policing and the nature of freedom and terrorism.
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GWP - The Future of Poetry
Posted by chameleon on Thursday, October 18, 2007 (21:15:07)
This is something I try not to do often, but I've been skating through old writing from other sites and found this piece from last December. It's still valid, though the blog is defunct so... you get to read it here. Aren't you lucky?
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Girls Want Porn Too - If You Ever Wonder Why
Posted by chameleon on Monday, October 01, 2007 (14:42:28)
This is not my regular column. This is something else. I start every morning clicking through anywhere from six to thirty "poetry news" items. Some of these are garnered from the various poetry and slam mailing lists to which Gotpoetry is subscribed. Some are dragged in by running a number of standard Google searches for anything to do with poetry. Some are picked up from other news aggregators like Topix.net. For all of those people who are decrying the death of poetry, I've got a few words...
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Girls Want Porn: The Power of Sound
Posted by chameleon on Tuesday, September 25, 2007 (15:59:06)
There are some people who are blessed with a natural sense of rhythm. For them, the ebb and flow of words falls naturally onto the page without conscious thought. Few people are born with it. Most poets develop their ear for rhythm and meter through years of listening to poetry and writing it.
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Change It Up
Posted by John on Sunday, July 08, 2007 (08:00:00)
Are you a planner or a doer? Most of us have a particular style with which we approach writing poetry. Following that approach habitually can make it very easy to write poetry in a consistent style. Changing it up can produce startling results - not only in your poetry, but in your understanding of the world and yourself.
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The Point is Not the Points
Posted by John on Tuesday, April 24, 2007 (14:57:47)
Whenever I talk about poetry slams with people who haven't ever been to one - and often with people who have - I'm likely to get at least one person who looks on the whole idea of competitive poetry as something blasphemous. Poetry should NOT be competitive, they insist. Slam cheapens poetry by subjecting it to ratings. It encourages poets to play to the common denominator, go for the easy laugh, the cheap drama, the performance hook. In short, it encourages poets - and they use the term loosely - to write for points instead of from the heart and soul. And they say this as if it is a new thing.
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Why Children Should Memorize Poetry
Posted by John on Monday, February 19, 2007 (13:50:58)
When I was in second grade, Sister Anna Josepha required our little seven year old selves to memorize, from start to finish, one poem every week. She would test us on that every single week, randomly choosing one student from each row to stand up and recite this week’s poem. Sometimes, she would surprise us by asking one of us to recite a poem that we had memorized weeks previous. As astonishing as it may be, I don’t recall a single child ever being embarrassed by forgetting a single line of a poem.
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It Ought to Rhyme!
Posted by John on Wednesday, December 13, 2006 (08:55:00)
Tony Brown and Scott Woods aren't the only ones calling for poets to be more precise and meticulous in their crafting. I ran across this little bit at Cowboypoetry.com...
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Find Poetry Everywhere
Posted by John on Saturday, December 09, 2006 (15:42:23)
Sometimes I'm ashamed of us. That's *us* - poets, small-p poets, large-P Poets, the poetic world, the slam poets, performance poets, the academics - all of us. We (and I am being very general here because I see it in so many places) are so quick to judge other genres than our own as being less-than even as we expansively agree that poetry is for everyone. If poetry is for everyone, then why do we snicker when someone says 'Hallmark'?
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Old Notebooks And Stuff
Posted by John on Sunday, November 12, 2006 (02:39:10)
‘Poets don’t just come out of an overwhelming emotional experience. They come out of study and hard work.’
-Gregory Donovan, co-editor Blackbird magazine
You'll find a large part of this over at poetry.jesuslist.com, where I originally posted the bit about Plath's new poem. I don't usually cross things like this - what I write in my blog stays in my blog, what I write for pay goes to the payee - but this whole thing is something I've been mulling for a while. See, it's been a banner year for finding 'new' poems by dead poets. They get unearthed in people's attics, show up tucked between the pages of library books, and in at least one case, a whole notebook was found where it had slid behind a nightstand in a bed and breakfast. And every time I read another announcement, I find myself wondering about all those notebooks from high school that I lost, and all those poems that I posted on various mailing lists and discussion lists.
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Driving a Poem Home
Posted by John on Friday, October 27, 2006 (14:08:28)
It's Friday, not Wedensday, and this week has held me captive with overdue writing assignments, last minute chances to earn a few very needed quick bucks and the driver's seat of my Windstar chasing from one end of the city to the other three and four times a day. Trips to doctors' offices, counselors waiting rooms, surgery consults, school meetings, auto lots and job interviews - none of them MY appointments, mind you - have left me precious little time for the writing that pays me and even less for the writing that I love. Which means that it is now Friday, and I am now procrastinating on another deadline to write this column two days past my self-imposed deadline.
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Why Blogs are Like Poetry Slams
Posted by John on Wednesday, October 18, 2006 (17:34:00)
Way back in 1997 or so, an online friend of mine invited me to read his blog. I'd never heard of such a thing and said so. He went on to extol the wonders of an independent publishing platform that allowed virtually anyone who could type to post their writings to the web where anyone would read them. The whole concept rather boggled my mind - but in a neat sort of way. Seth's blog was actually pretty neat - a well-ordered conglomeration of short articles about web development related stuff, a section of his fiction, and a section of his musings on political and daily event stuff. Well-written, intelligent, interesting to read.
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A Day Late and Two Cents Worth
Posted by John on Thursday, October 12, 2006 (14:26:38)
Five days a week, I write a short blurb about poetry for a blog that is not mine. I get paid for this, but not much. My commitment to my employer, who hopes to make money when people find his blog by accident and click on the Google ads on the pages, is to write 250 words a day on any subject in any style as long as it has something to do with poetry. Do you have any idea how few words make up 250 when you're writing about a passion?
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Girls Want Porn - And Write Poetry
Posted by John on Wednesday, October 04, 2006 (13:08:45)
My daughter asks some of the most thought provoking questions. Tonight's was "How come I can’t want to make out with a hot guy, and still be a good feminist?”
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Imagining Concrete
Posted by John on Thursday, September 28, 2006 (12:32:18)
If emotion is the heart of poetry, images are its life's blood, pumping through the body of a poem to warm the flesh and bring it alive in the ears and eyes and mind of the reader. We learn the tools of imagery in high school English classes - simile, metaphor, allegory, personification - but as often as not, they get tucked into back pockets once we leave school.
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Exquiste Forms - A Cinquain Challenge
Posted by John on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 (13:17:40)
form -
(n) The shape and structure of an object; The essence of something; The mode in which a thing exists, acts, or manifests itself; A fixed order of words or procedures, as for use in a ceremony; a formula.
(v.) To give form to; shape; To develop in the mind; conceive; To shape or mold; To organize or arrange
The art of writing poetry in form fell out of favor sometime in the middle of the last century. Let me modify that statement - it fell out of favor in certain circles, including the circles that typically define what poetry is or is not. Maybe it's because it's so much easier to recognize bad poetry when it's written according to a defined structure - and there's so darned much of it out there. Maybe it's because it's too much work to fashion verses that scan and rhyme without forcing language into uncomfortable contortions. Maybe it's just a phase we'll all grow out of someday.
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Poets Have Big Balls
Posted by John on Wednesday, September 13, 2006 (10:05:00)
Bear with me a minute. It happened online in one of those places where flame wars erupt in a heartbeat and take years to extinguish. The subject of the tirades doesn't matter - it can't, because I don't remember it. The arguments broke every rule of reasoned debate - ad hominem attacks, spurious facts, circular arguments, unlogical logic. And then Armande posted a response which became legend. I can't quote it verbatim, but it went something like this:
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Girls Want Porn Too
Posted by John on Sunday, September 10, 2006 (21:14:41)
A new weekly column appearing each Wednesday on GotPoetry.com
"Deb Powers is too old to be doing this, but that hasn't stopped her yet. Viewpoints expressed in this column are not necessarily those of the management - or of her gender. Co-written once a month by PodCamp's Mother-Daughter Tag Team just to shake things up a little more. Comments always encouraged, welcomed and sometimes demanded."
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