The purpose of these pages include the wish to help the fledgling writer and writing student. It contains references, links, tutorials, examples and tips. Emphasis is on NON-fiction, but we will include all forms in our discussions and references.
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My poem, Purple Majesty, has been featured on Poetry Soup this week (11-28-2007). Poetry Soup < http://www.poetrysoup.com/poem_detail.asp?PoemID=82916 > is an international poetry community.
Make your own Magnet Poetry, here: http://isnoop.net/toys/magwords.php Writing very bad poetry requires talent. It helps to have a wooden ear for words, a penchant for sinking into a mire of sentimentality, and an enviable confidence that allows one to write despite absolutely appalling incompetence. from Poetry, January, 2007 I've never found an explanation for why poetry, apparently alone among the art forms, is asked to do more than be itself. Some people devote their lives to Art Song. They take it quite seriously and expect a small audience, without worrying about whether their obsession is useful or that their audience is small. Non one says, "Hey lyric soprano, make me feel better, hey basso profundo, help me understand societal problems." But poetry's the High Art wish is also democratic: inexpensive, portable, reproducible, quickly consumed (except for epic and very difficult poetry), requiring only literacy to participate. So maybe it's good that poetry carries this extra burden, even if it means that the the idea of poetry is more necessary to people than individual poems, and that people tend not to pay attention to what's happening on the page. But this doesn't explain why the superfluous demands are often made by educated poetry experts. I doubt most poets, good and bad, political or not, put these demands on their won work. Why should we make them of poetry in general? -Daisey Fried
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