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Things like this make my jaw drop and my brow furrow, and it actually becomes a little difficult to make my face return to its normal state. I sit staring, maybe gazing. The inside of my mouth and lips start to get dry, and still I can't/don't close my mouth. After a while I lick my lips, swallow, shake my head a little so my eyes refocus; with two or three fingers rub the spot on my forehead just above where my nose and brow meet, and then my jaw drops and my brow furrows again.
Poetry Master
Poetry Master
posted by Anonymous at 8:50 PM
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From what you write, it's hard to tell if your aghast at this or if you admire it.
My story: in 1980 I entered a semi-national poetry contest (I was a senior in h.s.) at the encouragement of a teacher. I ended up being a finalist and was invited to a weekend workshop at Wells College in Aurora, NY. The leader of this workshop was Dan Masterson. His book, On Earth as it is in Heaven, had just been published.
It was an amazing weekend for me. Alas, I was not the final winner, but the experience of talking about poetry, reading and writing it, stayed with me. There is so much more to my story than this. I was a lower-middle class student in a seminar full of young women who were headed to Yale and Harvard, while I was conscripted to attend community college. I felt terribly inferior. I tried on a new identity that weekend as well, introducing myself as Kate.
I continued to write poetry until I was about 20, and then I quit altogether for 13 years.
Thanks for the post... it's brought up some good and interesting memories.
Both. No, not aghast, and not admiring. What's it called when you're both and neither at the same time: really, really interested? I mean, it's outside the box. I can't imagine that he's doing it for the money. I suspect he's doing it for love of poetry, for love of working with poets who aspire, and the only way to not be swamped in this love is to charge $40 to read three poems.
The best way to be a poet is to write a lot of poetry.
The best way to get good at it is to read a lot more of it than you write.
Don't sweat it.
I don't even want to count the years I've been writing. I'm 47 and really didn't start to think writin poetry was a good idea until I was about 18. I guess that's almost 30 years. And look at what it's done for me.
Here I am. I just keep writing and reading.
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