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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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.
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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