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[serene]

I tell you, if I didn't have someotherguy and stonebender to share the especially bad poetry and prose with, I'd have a hard time keeping from posting it, totally inappropriately, in my LJ.

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[daze39.livejournal.com]

So you're not going to? (What a tease!)

You could always put the material behind a cut-tag that says "warning: textual radiation hazard ahead" or something!

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Hee! No, I think it would be disrespectful of the artists, so I should keep it (mostly) to myself. :-)

[eeyorerin]

Awwww. *pout*

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Hee! I know you know my pain, Missy-Ma'am. :-)

[eeyorerin]

I do! :)

[clever-doberman.livejournal.com]

I didn't write any bad poetry!!!!


wait a minute. I didn't submit any poetry.


I spent the first 50 years of my life not Understanding poetry. and by Understanding, I meant that I tried to make sense of it as though it were prose. silly girlie. Poetry is a feeling, or many feelings. and in this case, you had many feelings reading all the poetry submissions.

[loracs.livejournal.com]

So in this way are you saying the bad poetry is actually successful poetry because it made the reader have feelings - even if it's laughing the kind of laugh that makes liquid come out of your nose if you happen to be drinking when reading. ;-)

[clever-doberman.livejournal.com]

why yes of course. And of course there is no guarantee that Successful poetry is Good poetry.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

You two are goofballs. :-)

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

I'm a huge proponent of poetry that people don't have to struggle to understand. I learned to write poetry under Steve Kowit, who has edited a book called "The Maverick Poets", which celebrates poetry written in plain English. It's marvelous, and I highly recommend it. (I can lend it to you if you're interested.)

[ailbhe]

I like poetry which is easy to understand, but I also like certain kinds of poetry which only work once you've learned the language or context of them - there's a kind of Irish poetry like that but I can't think of good examples right now.

the slush pile

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

you're possibly better off than if you actually got bad poetry directed at you as the objet d'amour. *oh, bad memories*. :)

Re: the slush pile

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, I've got those, too. Oy.

I try to be very loving with each person who has trusted me with zir art. I remember telling my mother once that her poetry was not to my taste, and she never wrote a poem again. I had no idea I had the power to wound her artistic voice, and it has pained me all these years to know that I silenced her, though of course I didn't do anything wrong, strictly speaking, by telling her I didn't like it.

Re: the slush pile

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

yes, same here. i was criticized early on for my "art", and i stopped considering myself creative and basically didn't develop anything that i was interested in. it's taken me most of my life to dare think of myself as having some artistic sensibility.

i don't ever want to do that to anyone else.

[ailbhe]

I love you 'cause you're made of win
And cause you make me smile
I'm glad you won't post others' prose
Because that would be vile.

(I am also, of course, teddibly teddibly freightened that it's mine you're talking about).

[serenecooking.livejournal.com]

Awwwww!

(and you're silly -- I like your stuff enough to spend money to publish it. silly person.)

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Yep. When a real gem comes in, I often get weepy, f'reals.