An abundance of writing community support for Mendeleev's Mandala today!
First, Mendeleev's Mandala was reviewed at Magadalena Ball's The Compulsive Reader by poet Elvis Alves: "Goodfellow’s work reminds us of Camus’ encouragement to picture Sisyphus smiling as he carried out his punishment." Check out the entire review for Alves's thoughtful connecting of the dots between the poems.
Next, Diane Lockward of Blogalicious has featured Mendeleev's Mandala in her celebratory series for National Poetry Month! This dynamic series has already included women poets such as Jehanne Dubrow and L.L. Barkat. Kudos to Diane for all her service to the poetry community!
And thanks to those who reported back about seeing the Motionpoem based on "Crows, Reckoning" at the VIDA Awards.
So much support so gratefully received.
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Showing posts with label Diane Lockward. Show all posts
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Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Woodstock: Free Public Readings
Attached to the Woodstock Mayapple Writers' Retreat is a series of public readings, and they are free. Details below:
Schedule of Public Readings – 2014 (free admission)
Wednesday, July 23, 7:30 pm at the Villetta Inn at Byrdcliffe (next to the Byrdcliffe Theater on Upper Byrdcliffe Road).
Readers: Judith Kerman, Wendy Taylor Carlisle, Rachel Coonce, Vincent Cooper
Thursday, July 24, at 7:30 p.m, at the Villetta Inn at Byrdcliffe.
Readers: Leslie Gerber, Jessica de Koninck, Nola Garrett, Patricia McMillen, Joyce Kessel
Friday, July 25, at 7:30 p.m., New World Home Cooking on Rt. 212, in the back room.
Readers: Roberta Gould, Shannon Frystak, Gary Leising, Diane Lockward
Saturday, July 26, at 7:30 p.m., at the Villetta Inn at Byrdcliffe.
Readers: Judith Lechner, Robert McDonough, Maril Nowak, Zara Raab, Helen Ruggieri
Schedule of Public Readings – 2014 (free admission)
Wednesday, July 23, 7:30 pm at the Villetta Inn at Byrdcliffe (next to the Byrdcliffe Theater on Upper Byrdcliffe Road).
Readers: Judith Kerman, Wendy Taylor Carlisle, Rachel Coonce, Vincent Cooper
Thursday, July 24, at 7:30 p.m, at the Villetta Inn at Byrdcliffe.
Readers: Leslie Gerber, Jessica de Koninck, Nola Garrett, Patricia McMillen, Joyce Kessel
Friday, July 25, at 7:30 p.m., New World Home Cooking on Rt. 212, in the back room.
Readers: Roberta Gould, Shannon Frystak, Gary Leising, Diane Lockward
Saturday, July 26, at 7:30 p.m., at the Villetta Inn at Byrdcliffe.
Readers: Judith Lechner, Robert McDonough, Maril Nowak, Zara Raab, Helen Ruggieri
Enjoy!
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Mission: Submission
Poet Karyna McGlynn at Gulf Coast's blog gives "My Top 5 Quick & Dirty Submission Tricks." These include ideas I've thought of myself, such as using acknowledgment pages of poets who have an aesthetic similar to mine in order to know where to submit, and also tips I've never thought of, such as using the same font as the journal to which you are submitting. For advice on writing a bio and more, check out this link.
And thanks to Diane Lockward's monthly newsletter, from which I learned of this article.
And thanks to Diane Lockward's monthly newsletter, from which I learned of this article.
Friday, November 2, 2012
The Difference Between Simile and Metaphor
"Similes make you think. Metaphors let you feel things."
That's one line from the short video, "The Art of the Metaphor" by Jane Hirshfield.
It's from TedEd, and I heard about it from Diane Lockward's montly newsletter, which I've touted many times in posts before. If you need to know how to sign up for it, put her name in my search bar, or leave a comment and I'll find the newsletter link for you.
Back to the video: it's is a wonderful teaching tool for the uninitiated, and a sweet reminder for the rest of us about the power of simile and metaphor.
That's one line from the short video, "The Art of the Metaphor" by Jane Hirshfield.
It's from TedEd, and I heard about it from Diane Lockward's montly newsletter, which I've touted many times in posts before. If you need to know how to sign up for it, put her name in my search bar, or leave a comment and I'll find the newsletter link for you.
Back to the video: it's is a wonderful teaching tool for the uninitiated, and a sweet reminder for the rest of us about the power of simile and metaphor.
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Breaking Lines to Break Hearts
I've said a number of times that poets should really subscribe to Diane Lockward's free weekly enewsletter, which you can do at her blog.
If you already subscribe, then skip the rest of this post.
If you don't already subscribe, see some of what Diane offers in her newsletter below. This week, Diane gets some tips from poet Wesley McNair about line breaks. (I happen to love line breaks. I think hard and long about where to break my lines, so I love this list. And of course I love lists. My favorite tip is #4.)
Okay, here's Wesley McNair's list:
Ten Tips for Breaking Lines in Free Verse
1. Break your lines to suggest the mind at work shaping the poem, because every poem is a process of thought.
2. The poem is also about things that happen. Break to increase your reader’s anticipation about what will happen next.
3. Break to suggest your poem’s mood. For an openness of expression, try a long, end-stopped line. To create uncertainty or suspense, combine short lines with a long sentence, revealing and concealing as you go. For a mood of agitation or excitement, try a variable line-length with a jagged margin.
4. Break to create a tension between the line and the sentence, remembering that the interplay of the two is the central drama of free verse, each having a different purpose. Charles Simic: “The line is Buddha; the sentence is Socrates.”
5. Think of your poem as a musical score, in the way Denise Levertov recommended, using lines to emphasize vocal rhythm and the pitch of intonation, and line breaks as short intervals of silence or rest.
6. Break so your reader sees how to say your poem.
7. But don’t forget the wordlessness around the poem, which can be made articulate by a line break or by an artful arrangement of lines.
8. Break mainly on nouns, verbs, and the words that describe them; they carry the sentence’s essential meaning.
9. In your line breaking imitate the stresses of meditation and feeling, which are present in every earnest and intimate conversation and are the true source of the line break.
10. Believe these tips and don’t believe them. Let the feeling life of your poem be the final authority.
If you already subscribe, then skip the rest of this post.
If you don't already subscribe, see some of what Diane offers in her newsletter below. This week, Diane gets some tips from poet Wesley McNair about line breaks. (I happen to love line breaks. I think hard and long about where to break my lines, so I love this list. And of course I love lists. My favorite tip is #4.)
Okay, here's Wesley McNair's list:
Ten Tips for Breaking Lines in Free Verse
1. Break your lines to suggest the mind at work shaping the poem, because every poem is a process of thought.
2. The poem is also about things that happen. Break to increase your reader’s anticipation about what will happen next.
3. Break to suggest your poem’s mood. For an openness of expression, try a long, end-stopped line. To create uncertainty or suspense, combine short lines with a long sentence, revealing and concealing as you go. For a mood of agitation or excitement, try a variable line-length with a jagged margin.
4. Break to create a tension between the line and the sentence, remembering that the interplay of the two is the central drama of free verse, each having a different purpose. Charles Simic: “The line is Buddha; the sentence is Socrates.”
5. Think of your poem as a musical score, in the way Denise Levertov recommended, using lines to emphasize vocal rhythm and the pitch of intonation, and line breaks as short intervals of silence or rest.
6. Break so your reader sees how to say your poem.
7. But don’t forget the wordlessness around the poem, which can be made articulate by a line break or by an artful arrangement of lines.
8. Break mainly on nouns, verbs, and the words that describe them; they carry the sentence’s essential meaning.
9. In your line breaking imitate the stresses of meditation and feeling, which are present in every earnest and intimate conversation and are the true source of the line break.
10. Believe these tips and don’t believe them. Let the feeling life of your poem be the final authority.
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Lockward's Online-Submission-Friendly List
Diane Lockward at Blogalicious has once again updated her list of print journals that accept submissions online. Check out her helpful list.
Friday, March 2, 2012
Just the Poems, Please
Diane Lockward over at Blogalicious has once again identified and filled a need of some poets, for journals that offer only poetry, so we don't have to flip past the fiction we may not be interested in (I know I routinely do that). Diane has identified twelve such journals, so head over to her site if that sounds like something you'd appreciate.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Friends Helping Friends
Once again, from Diane Lockward's excellent monthly newsletter I borrow another link, this one to a Yahoo! Voices article by Angie Mohr entitled "A Bestseller in the Making: 7 Ways You Can Help Your Author Friends."
Do you have a friend who's just published a book, and do you want to be as supportive as possible? Mohr gives hints how to help, ranging from the obvious (buy a copy of the book), to the more subtle (face the book cover out, not spine out, on bookstores you visit), to ones I'd never thought of (bump up positive Amazon reviews by finding them "helpful," and bump down negative ones by not by marking them "not helpful"). She also advises on how to use social media to promote your friends' work.
Most of us writers do have publishing friends, so this is a great resource.
What else have you done to help a friend promote a newly published book?
Do you have a friend who's just published a book, and do you want to be as supportive as possible? Mohr gives hints how to help, ranging from the obvious (buy a copy of the book), to the more subtle (face the book cover out, not spine out, on bookstores you visit), to ones I'd never thought of (bump up positive Amazon reviews by finding them "helpful," and bump down negative ones by not by marking them "not helpful"). She also advises on how to use social media to promote your friends' work.
Most of us writers do have publishing friends, so this is a great resource.
What else have you done to help a friend promote a newly published book?
Seeking Inspiration
From Diane Lockward's amazing monthly newsletter, I got this link to to an article in the UK Guardian entitled "Top Artists Reveal How to Find Creative Inspiration."
I was surprised to read from composer Mark-Anthony Turnage: "Routine is really important. However late you went to bed the night before, or however much you had to drink, get up at the same time each day and get on with it. When I was composing [the opera] Anna Nicole, I was up at 5 or 6am, and worked through until lunch. The afternoon is the worst time for creativity."
I agree about the routine part (for many artists at least), but really, am I the only who writes in the afternoon? I cannot concentrate in the morning until all the things that must be done that day are done, and once my family's home in the evening, it's chaos, so I am often writing in the afternoon. Anybody else?
From director Rupert Goold, this observation: "Get an alarm with a long snooze function and set it early. Shallow-sleep dreams have been the source of many of my best ideas (sadly, small children are no respecters of prospective genius)."
Yes! Waking early in the morning I sometimes find I have solved in my sleep the creative dilemma I went to bed thinking about.
Rupert Goold makes a few other points I found provacative:
"Once you have an idea, scrutinise the precedent. If no one has explored it before in any form then you're 99% likely to be making a mistake. But that 1% risk is why we do it.";
and, "Make sure you are asking a question that is addressed both to the world around you and the world within you. It's the only way to keep going when the doubt sets in.";
and "An idea is just a map. The ultimate landscape is only discovered when it's under foot, so don't get too bogged down in its validity.";
and finally, "Love the effect over its cause."
From playwright Lucy Prebble, this encouragement: "Feeling intimidated is a good sign. Writing from a place of safety produces stuff that is at best dull and at worst dishonest."
Here's a tidbit from artist Susan Philipsz that coincidentally has been on my mind recently as a real lack in my creative life: "Daydream. Give yourself plenty of time to do nothing. Train journeys are good."
From artist Polly Morgan: "Hard work isn't always productive. Your brain needs periods of inactivity. I think of it as a field lying fallow; keep harvesting and the crops won't mature."
I've certainly found this to be true; sometimes I feel like I'm not working, not getting anything written, and then I have a suddenly hyper-productive period that follows the fallow time, and wouldn't have been possible without it. See my post Patron Saint Against Writer's Block.
Enjoy more insights at the UK Guardian link above.
I was surprised to read from composer Mark-Anthony Turnage: "Routine is really important. However late you went to bed the night before, or however much you had to drink, get up at the same time each day and get on with it. When I was composing [the opera] Anna Nicole, I was up at 5 or 6am, and worked through until lunch. The afternoon is the worst time for creativity."
I agree about the routine part (for many artists at least), but really, am I the only who writes in the afternoon? I cannot concentrate in the morning until all the things that must be done that day are done, and once my family's home in the evening, it's chaos, so I am often writing in the afternoon. Anybody else?
From director Rupert Goold, this observation: "Get an alarm with a long snooze function and set it early. Shallow-sleep dreams have been the source of many of my best ideas (sadly, small children are no respecters of prospective genius)."
Yes! Waking early in the morning I sometimes find I have solved in my sleep the creative dilemma I went to bed thinking about.
Rupert Goold makes a few other points I found provacative:
"Once you have an idea, scrutinise the precedent. If no one has explored it before in any form then you're 99% likely to be making a mistake. But that 1% risk is why we do it.";
and, "Make sure you are asking a question that is addressed both to the world around you and the world within you. It's the only way to keep going when the doubt sets in.";
and "An idea is just a map. The ultimate landscape is only discovered when it's under foot, so don't get too bogged down in its validity.";
and finally, "Love the effect over its cause."
From playwright Lucy Prebble, this encouragement: "Feeling intimidated is a good sign. Writing from a place of safety produces stuff that is at best dull and at worst dishonest."
Here's a tidbit from artist Susan Philipsz that coincidentally has been on my mind recently as a real lack in my creative life: "Daydream. Give yourself plenty of time to do nothing. Train journeys are good."
From artist Polly Morgan: "Hard work isn't always productive. Your brain needs periods of inactivity. I think of it as a field lying fallow; keep harvesting and the crops won't mature."
I've certainly found this to be true; sometimes I feel like I'm not working, not getting anything written, and then I have a suddenly hyper-productive period that follows the fallow time, and wouldn't have been possible without it. See my post Patron Saint Against Writer's Block.
Enjoy more insights at the UK Guardian link above.
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Three+ Poetry Ideas
Today, three good poetry ideas.
First, Poetry Kanto editor Alan Botsford announced on his website that the submission period is open for the 2012 issue from December through April or May. Poetry Kanto is a high-quality bilingual print journal out of Kanto Gakuin University, and has featured poets such as Jane Hirschfield, Mari L'Esperance, Alicia Ostriker, and Judy Halebsky. If you want to see your poem alongside work in Japanese as well as in English, you'll want to submit to this gorgeous print journal.
Second, if you don't already subscribe to Diane Lockward's *free* monthly online newsletter, you'll want to sign up now (go to her blog, scroll down and keep your eye out for the newsletter sign-up on the right side). This month Lockward features a craft tip from Alicia Ostriker called "Confronting Your Fears." Ostriker includes such insights as "The idea that poets neither conquer nor surrender to their fears, but use them, and find form through them—to me that is brilliant. Because fears—notice the plural—are part of our deepest selves. We have fears from the time we are born," and "And a mantra in my writing workshops is 'Write what you are afraid to write.' It is a lifelong task. Use the fears. Bring them up from the subconscious, and find the words, find the form." You'll want to read the entire piece and get some writing prompts from the master Ostriker.
Plus Lockward's newsletter this month features the link to Charles Bernstein's Experiments page, and other interesting online resources. You really do want to receive this monthly newsletter, so sign up now.
Third, subscribe to the journal Hoot: a postcard review of {mini} poetry and prose to get one postcard per month featuring fiction, non-fiction, poetry and prose in under 150 words. That's under 150 words for the entire journal, which fits on a single postcard. Come on, even you have time for that! Consider submitting there too, with poems under 10 lines, and prose under 150 words.
So 3+ good poetry ideas for a Sunday morning (Japan time). Enjoy!
First, Poetry Kanto editor Alan Botsford announced on his website that the submission period is open for the 2012 issue from December through April or May. Poetry Kanto is a high-quality bilingual print journal out of Kanto Gakuin University, and has featured poets such as Jane Hirschfield, Mari L'Esperance, Alicia Ostriker, and Judy Halebsky. If you want to see your poem alongside work in Japanese as well as in English, you'll want to submit to this gorgeous print journal.
Second, if you don't already subscribe to Diane Lockward's *free* monthly online newsletter, you'll want to sign up now (go to her blog, scroll down and keep your eye out for the newsletter sign-up on the right side). This month Lockward features a craft tip from Alicia Ostriker called "Confronting Your Fears." Ostriker includes such insights as "The idea that poets neither conquer nor surrender to their fears, but use them, and find form through them—to me that is brilliant. Because fears—notice the plural—are part of our deepest selves. We have fears from the time we are born," and "And a mantra in my writing workshops is 'Write what you are afraid to write.' It is a lifelong task. Use the fears. Bring them up from the subconscious, and find the words, find the form." You'll want to read the entire piece and get some writing prompts from the master Ostriker.
Plus Lockward's newsletter this month features the link to Charles Bernstein's Experiments page, and other interesting online resources. You really do want to receive this monthly newsletter, so sign up now.
Third, subscribe to the journal Hoot: a postcard review of {mini} poetry and prose to get one postcard per month featuring fiction, non-fiction, poetry and prose in under 150 words. That's under 150 words for the entire journal, which fits on a single postcard. Come on, even you have time for that! Consider submitting there too, with poems under 10 lines, and prose under 150 words.
So 3+ good poetry ideas for a Sunday morning (Japan time). Enjoy!
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Photo Fun
Look at this fun picture I made at Photofunia. It features the covers of my book and chapbook, and a picture of me. There are lots of interesting effects you can make at that website, uploading a photo of your choice and then having it plastered to the sides of buildings, as the cover of Vogue, or as the picture on a postage stamp. People's faces can be attached to the bodies of Santa Claus, a Jedi knight, or a pirate, or can replace a president on Mount Rushmore (just in time for the 4th of July holiday). Plus many more amusing effects.
I learned about this site from Diane Lockward's monthly newsletter, which you can sign up for at her blog. Scroll down and the sign-up is on the right. Her newsletter recommends books about writing and creativity, features a monthly writing prompt, and always provides links to interesting websites she has found, such as this one. I always enjoy receiving her newsletter, a fast fun read with something new and stimulating every time.
Friday, June 3, 2011
Summertime, and Submitting is Easy
Well, submitting is easy if you know where to submit, since during the summer many journals are closed to submissions. Thankfully, Diane Lockward at her blog Blogalicious has put together a list of journals open to submissions during summer months.
The link above lists journals whose titles begin with letters A - F.
For G - P, click on this link.
And for Q - Z, this is the link you want.
Thanks to Diane for putting this list together and making it available to everyone. It's a big timesaver. Now there are no excuses: you can submit and still have time for fun in the sun.
The link above lists journals whose titles begin with letters A - F.
For G - P, click on this link.
And for Q - Z, this is the link you want.
Thanks to Diane for putting this list together and making it available to everyone. It's a big timesaver. Now there are no excuses: you can submit and still have time for fun in the sun.
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