tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post6899897095195358819..comments2024-03-18T09:09:59.625-04:00Comments on Janet Reid, Literary Agent: PoetryJanet Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00615380335938685231noreply@blogger.comBlogger67125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-40348342335514579502017-10-18T23:53:12.028-04:002017-10-18T23:53:12.028-04:00Cecilia, I love "Here Comes the Sun". My...<b>Cecilia</b>, I love "Here Comes the Sun". My fave George Harrison song is "Taxman". Talk about scathing.<br /><br />Welcome <b>Fearless Reider</b>!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08624316875028504166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-30176873180101835542017-10-17T23:32:19.159-04:002017-10-17T23:32:19.159-04:00Thank you for the warm welcome! I first stumbled ...Thank you for the warm welcome! I first stumbled on Query Shark a few years ago when I was helping a friend write a query for her first novel (the clueless leading the blind, but she eventually snagged an agent, hooray). <br /><br />I'm back because the evisceration I saw on QS actually gave me hope. I abandoned fiction-writing in my teens because the publishing process seemed utterly opaque and out of reach. Many thanks to Ms. Reid for demonstrating that agents & publishers actually want authors to succeed (who knew?) and for showing us how to make the most of our efforts. I'm still a long way from querying but I've learned so much about how to get there.<br /><br />And John Prine, YES! He had me at Spanish Pipedream:<br /> <br />"I knew that topless lady <br />had something up her sleeve." <br /><br />Does poetry get any better than that?Fearless Reiderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12207513105790759320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-75620759466193738262017-10-17T23:23:12.356-04:002017-10-17T23:23:12.356-04:00There once was a Weathers girl name a Julie.
On ou...There once was a Weathers girl name a Julie.<br />On our dinner date, she treated me quite cruelly.<br />I suggested kale,<br />Wash it down with an ale.<br />She said she'd rather dine alone on ratatouille.<br /><br /><br />I think Burns is safe. But it was kinda short notice.John Davis Frainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18020019400599228492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-77122385956403843142017-10-17T23:10:50.744-04:002017-10-17T23:10:50.744-04:00And I am off to bed before Surrey. Hopefully, I wi...And I am off to bed before Surrey. Hopefully, I will get some sleep. I won't. I am a hopeless romantic. If a man ever wrote poetry to me like Burns did, I would be lost. Devastatingly lost even if I knew he was a scoundrel. Fortunately for me, no one does anymore. My virtue is preserved.<br /><br />Darn it. Julie Weathershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13725236516593676381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-7998234509894786462017-10-17T22:36:35.710-04:002017-10-17T22:36:35.710-04:00If contemplating songwriters as poets, don't f...If contemplating songwriters as poets, don't forget <b>John Prine</b>Craig Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07157301156577795781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-67004937624495005112017-10-17T22:17:25.968-04:002017-10-17T22:17:25.968-04:00So many great comments, so many wonderful poems! I...So many great comments, so many wonderful poems! I'm glad Sarah mentioned Billy Collins. And the poem you posted, a classic! He is one of my favorites. Of course Dylan (Bob) and Springsteen, not to mention Leonard Cohen.<br /><br />Panda in Chiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14160375490647791433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-2047413448142304362017-10-17T21:26:13.067-04:002017-10-17T21:26:13.067-04:00Hello, Fearless Reider!! Thanks for emerging from ...Hello, <b>Fearless Reider</b>!! Thanks for emerging from lurkdome. :) Hopefully you've been reading long enough to know about the various lists on the top right of the page (note especially the <a href="http://www.colindsmith.com/cmw.html" rel="nofollow">List of Blog Readers and their Blogs</a>--if you want to join the list, just drop me an email), and all the commenting protocols, rules, best practices, and so on, which we all assiduously and meticulously keep. :D<br /><br />No-one else offered an explanation of the "black-eyed pee." I even Googled to see if there was a definition of "pee" I hadn't heard. Maybe a quilting term? Anyway, thanks for clearing that up for us.<br /><br />Here are your links linkified:<br /><br /><a href="http://writersalmanac.org" rel="nofollow">http://writersalmanac.org</a><br /><a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/nikki-giovanni-soul-food-sex-and-space-aug2017/" rel="nofollow">https://onbeing.org/programs/nikki-giovanni-soul-food-sex-and-space-aug2017/</a><br /><br />Keep commenting! The more voices in the comments, the more interesting they are and the more we all learn. :)Colin Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03292997431935215499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-9746528666903674182017-10-17T21:16:24.065-04:002017-10-17T21:16:24.065-04:00Fearless Reider, Welcome to the conversation! Than...<b>Fearless Reider</b>, Welcome to the conversation! Thanks for clearing up the pee thing. That nagged at me all day. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03581361783795436259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-52765500717674880332017-10-17T19:41:40.751-04:002017-10-17T19:41:40.751-04:00The only flash fiction I've ever been able to ...The only flash fiction I've ever been able to write that works is when I pretend it's a.sonnet. I love sonnets. They are little stories with built-in spots for turns (plot!) plus rhyme and meter. How can you go wrong?Leilanihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08948847733088202324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-24903044475351612862017-10-17T19:39:08.035-04:002017-10-17T19:39:08.035-04:00I appreciate hearing about everyone's favorite...I appreciate hearing about everyone's favorite poets -- Bruce Springsteen and Billy Collins are high up on my list. <br /><br />As a Minnesotan, I have to put in a plug for Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac, which provides my daily dose of poetry: http://writersalmanac.org. <br /><br />And speaking of Nikki Giovanni, she gave a great interview on another of our MN treasures, On Being, a couple of months ago. You can find that here: https://onbeing.org/programs/nikki-giovanni-soul-food-sex-and-space-aug2017/ Apologies if someone has already addressed this, but the "black-eyed pee" puzzle is just a tragic typo -- I'm relieved to tell you it should be "pea".<br /><br />My favorite poem is "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden:<br /><br />Sundays too my father got up early <br />and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, <br />then with cracked hands that ached <br />from labor in the weekday weather made <br />banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him. <br /><br />I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. <br />When the rooms were warm, he’d call, <br />and slowly I would rise and dress, <br />fearing the chronic angers of that house, <br /><br />Speaking indifferently to him, <br />who had driven out the cold <br />and polished my good shoes as well. <br />What did I know, what did I know <br />of love’s austere and lonely offices?<br /><br />I look forward to reading it at my father's funeral someday, and I mean that in the nicest possible way.<br /><br />Oh, and I'm new -- sort of. Longtime lurker in these shark-infested waters, but surfacing in the comments section for the first time.Fearless Reiderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12207513105790759320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-43269849198853861762017-10-17T19:33:34.070-04:002017-10-17T19:33:34.070-04:00The only thing I've ever published is a poem. ...The only thing I've ever published is a poem. Too bad the mag went defunct before pub, or so I assume, since I got the five dollar check but no contributor's copies.<br /><br />I held out on cashing the check, but in the end I needed beer. Yes, I was in college.Timothy Lowehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07514224628760035696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-61531888573726569112017-10-17T19:13:17.515-04:002017-10-17T19:13:17.515-04:00As usual these days, I'm coming in late. Sorry...As usual these days, I'm coming in late. Sorry.<br /><br />I like poichry, but a lot of the stuff written since the mid-21st century just doesn't move me. I need rhythm and meter and rhyme to truly enjoy something. Even E. E. Cummings used meter - and used it better than most other non-traditional poets.<br /><br />The poem I remember best from junior high school (probably 7th grade) is Robert Stevenson's The Law of the Jungle. It even made its way into a science fiction short story I wrote. I memorized all the verses at the time, even though we only had to memorize three.BJ Muntainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12977414826388000094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-53455274614483967712017-10-17T16:35:41.112-04:002017-10-17T16:35:41.112-04:00Yep, a tinch of poichry goes a long way to brighte...Yep, a tinch of poichry goes a long way to brighten up your day Cecilia Ortiz Lunahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00336485056322219624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-16001347070792692292017-10-17T16:29:42.415-04:002017-10-17T16:29:42.415-04:00Nothing Gold Can Stay
BirchesNothing Gold Can Stay<br />Birchesmythical one-eyed peace officerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14394431562567253451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-27005783598073820672017-10-17T16:29:20.363-04:002017-10-17T16:29:20.363-04:00AJ: For me, rhythm is a big part of effective poic...<b>AJ</b>: For me, rhythm is a big part of effective poichry. I have a hunch it's those poems that don't have a solid or consistent rhythmic structure that I struggle with most. And that's probably because I'm a musician, and songs tend to be my poichry point of reference.Colin Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03292997431935215499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-69791390823534254542017-10-17T16:23:35.464-04:002017-10-17T16:23:35.464-04:00From the initial post to the latest stanza, so muc...From the initial post to the latest stanza, so much poichry today. I read through the comments and think<br /><br />Yes.<br />Yes<br />Yes<br />Yes<br />Yes<br />Yes.John Davis Frainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18020019400599228492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-19338014877307294832017-10-17T16:11:14.827-04:002017-10-17T16:11:14.827-04:00I have to confess, I'm not a big poetry fan. E...I have to confess, I'm not a big poetry fan. Even with music it's the music that evokes emotion in me, not the lyrics (even when I sing along I'm not really paying attention to the words which I've probably got completely wrong anyway...mondegreen anyone *grin*). I echo <b>Colin's</b> sentiments on where I sit in poetry appreciation. <br /><br />My love of poetry is completely in the early reader realm. If I had to pick a favourite, I think it would be <a href="http://graemebase.com/book/the-worst-band-in-the-universe/" rel="nofollow">Graeme Base's "The Worst Band in the Universe"</a>. Not only is it a clever story told in poetry form, but the illustrations are brilliant (as are the illustrations in all of his books).AJ Blythehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04529233142099749005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-54682448578205820072017-10-17T16:09:42.488-04:002017-10-17T16:09:42.488-04:00Colin (sorry still don't know how to do the bo...Colin (sorry still don't know how to do the boldify thingee) my dear George was no poet, I must concede.<br /><br />I just felt the need, nay, the moral imperative to bring him up at the mere mention of The Beatles, whatever the topic may be :) <br /><br />And now my boss is here... <br />Cecilia Ortiz Lunahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00336485056322219624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-71116243825825468682017-10-17T16:04:39.225-04:002017-10-17T16:04:39.225-04:00Ok, not that anyone cares at this point, but when ...Ok, not that anyone cares at this point, but when it comes to Rush, Geddy just sings the lyrics. Neal writes them.<br /><br />Yeah, a lot of song lyrics are poetry, and vice versa. It may be important to keep in mind that songs are fitted to an external rhythm, such that the words can be stretched or shortened as necessary. Not so in prose.ACFranklinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18142026970098432631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-77752080542613182222017-10-17T15:53:28.444-04:002017-10-17T15:53:28.444-04:00Cecilia: Ah... there's the rub! "Here Com...<b>Cecilia</b>: Ah... there's the rub! "Here Comes the Sun" is a great song (Harrison was knocking them out the park by that time). Lyrically though? Does it stand alone as a great piece of poichry, on the same level as, say, "Eleanor Rigby"? I'm not so sure.Colin Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03292997431935215499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-63919588832091912017-10-17T15:50:09.527-04:002017-10-17T15:50:09.527-04:00Rachel, such a sweet and wise little lady you have...Rachel, such a sweet and wise little lady you have there<br /><br />Lynne, it's Macca's Blackbird for me. But play Here Comes The Sun and I will sign over the family farm. Cecilia Ortiz Lunahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00336485056322219624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-17842638693997067922017-10-17T15:44:39.446-04:002017-10-17T15:44:39.446-04:00I hereby declare "poichry" to be the new...I hereby declare "poichry" to be the new official spelling of the word. Add that one to the <a href="http://jetreidliterary.blogspot.com/2004/08/terms-youll-see-on-blog.html" rel="nofollow">Blog Glossary</a>! :DColin Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03292997431935215499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-22621654215165544382017-10-17T15:30:34.170-04:002017-10-17T15:30:34.170-04:00A few months ago my seven year old wrote a poem ab...A few months ago my seven year old wrote a poem about the wrath of zeus and apples. We encouraged her to read it aloud several times to all of us.<br /><br />The next day she left a note on my bed. It has a row of shiny stars, green, red and gold, across the top. <br /><br />__Tips for poichry__<br />1. You let your <br />emoshunes <br />go 2. Don't<br />give up. <br />RachelErinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09510327163701754950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-7182322312157185342017-10-17T15:29:10.663-04:002017-10-17T15:29:10.663-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.RachelErinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09510327163701754950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-43749666253614785542017-10-17T14:47:22.470-04:002017-10-17T14:47:22.470-04:00Colin: Again, I agree with you. Paul and John'...<b>Colin</b>: Again, I agree with you. Paul and John's rivalry in the '70s led to some interesting creative output. One of my fave Macca solo songs is "Band on the Run". Oh, and I love "Here, There, and Everywhere" and "Penny Lane" too. Really, there's so many great Beatle songs, I was just hitting the tip of the iceberg. That's true, about the grit and finesse thing where John and Paul each defied those descriptions. But I think overall, those descriptions do fit them. Of course, there's always exceptions to a rule, isn't there?<br /><br /><b>Cecilia</b>: Would love to talk Beatles anytime! You don't need that stinkin' employment, right? ;) <br /><br />But if we all keep going on about John, Paul, George, and Ringo on here we're gonna get our limbs chomped off by our queen...;)<br /><br />And that's my three comments...I'm outta here!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08624316875028504166noreply@blogger.com