Granted, I’m doing much more this year than I did last year. I’m hosting poet interviews to help spread poetry love. Raise the profile of poetry, its influence and importance. And introduce other poets to the blogosphere. I’ve also decided last minute to take part in the poem-a-day challenge again. But this time on Scribophile.com. My Warfare and Weapons of Ancient class started two days ago. And now the postponed How Writers Write Poetry online class is starting next week Monday. Can you say full plate?
I hope everyone is having a fun and stimulating Poetry Month. Usually, and that’s if you’re doing the poem-a-day challenge, you'd feel the burn mid-month. I definitely did so last year for Writer’s Digest Poetic Asides P-A-D challenge. I started falling behind during the midway point. This year is a different story. It’s only a week in to National Poetry Month 2015 and I’m already falling behind.
Granted, I’m doing much more this year than I did last year. I’m hosting poet interviews to help spread poetry love. Raise the profile of poetry, its influence and importance. And introduce other poets to the blogosphere. I’ve also decided last minute to take part in the poem-a-day challenge again. But this time on Scribophile.com. My Warfare and Weapons of Ancient class started two days ago. And now the postponed How Writers Write Poetry online class is starting next week Monday. Can you say full plate?
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It's day eight of National Poetry Month and I'll be...Today's interview is from another Scribophile member, Terri Simon!:
Merriam Webster defines poetry as ‘the productions of a poet’. And as a ‘writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm.’ But in your own words, how would you define poetry? I think poetry is a form of expression/communication that uses sound, structure, rhythm, and poetic techniques, to enhance and add layers to semantics. Just because something has line breaks, doesn’t necessarily make it a poem, and just because something doesn’t have line breaks, doesn’t mean it isn’t a poem. When it gets down to it, poetry is in the eye of the beholder.
Happy National Poetry Month! It's day seven and I'm already starting to feel it. If you don't know, I'm doing NaPoWriMo again this year. And my Warfare and Weapons in Ancient Egypt class started yesterday too. At least the amazing interviews so far and hereafter is fueling me to keep going. So let's welcome today's interviewee and fellow Scribophile member, Joshua Bowman!:
What was the first poem you’ve ever read? It is not my favorite but the first poem that I can remember reading was “Casey at the Bat” by Ernest Thayer. We read this in grade school. I suppose it was chosen because it tells a story that was accessible to boys, as most lessons tended to be (or perhaps still are) towards boys.
Happy National Poetry Month! And hello day six. Today's interview is from none other than my former English professor and college adviser, Dr. Sarah Dangelantonio. Also known as Dr. D. for short:
How old were you when you read your first poem? What was the name of the poem and poet? I remember reading in A Child's Garden of Verses when I was maybe 4 years old; it's a collection by Robert Louis Stevenson and one of my favorites in the collection was called "The Swing."
I hope everyone is having a great National Poetry Month! It's day five and here to share her views about poetry is Kayla Tucker:
What is your current poetry diet? I've been on a Beat kick lately. I've been reading a lot Ginsberg and Kerouac. Also Whitman. I love trying to decipher Whitman. Who is your favorite dead poet? Why? Edgar Allan Poe. He will always be my favorite because of his amazing knack for outlandish metaphors and his sheer passion.
It's day four and I have with me today an interview by fellow She Writes member Rhonda Y.C. Johnson!:
What was the first poem you’ve ever read? In the Morning by Paul Laurence Dunbar. I first read in elementary school after joining a poetry group. How has poetry influenced you as a person? Or as a writer? What I respect about poetry are poems, particularly epic poetry, that tell a story. In addition to Dunbar I’m thinking of Edgar Allan Poe’s poem The Raven, and of course Maya Angelou, and even some of Shakespeare’s odes. |
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