 Poetry: August 02, 2006 Issue [#1184] |
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Poetry is something different for everyone who experiences it. Here's where I'm coming from, so you'll know what to expect in my future newsletters! (Who am I kidding-- there's no way to know what to expect from me!  ) |
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Greetings, poetry newsletter readers! I'm Jay's debut novel is out now! and I'm one of the new additions to the Poetry Newsletter lineup. Some of you may remember me from my runs on the Drama and Comedy Newsletters, and while I enjoyed both of those, I needed a break. But I'm back now, with a vengeance, trying something new.
While I don't consider myself a traditional poet by any means, I think that my interest in poetry is something that ought to lead to some different perspective and insight.
I never used to think of myself as a "poet" and in general, I still don't. I'm an author who happens to write poetry. I remember the first time I even considered writing something that might be considered a poem. I was so frustrated by the fact that I'd written something in this fashion that I was floored when a few of my friends liked it... and asked me to write *more* of them.
These days I still have a resistance to the term, though I'm a bit less likely to deny it if someone calls me a "poet." I don't agree necessarily, but I don't argue it anymore.
I find a lot of times that it's easier for me to express myself in poetry-- the way I string together a description or an event sometimes just works in a poem the way it can't in a story or an essay or even a journal entry.
Most of my poems are about my life, which I suppose is pretty typical. I don't find inspiration in any one place, finding prompts and my imagination to be equally good grounds for the origin of a poem.
I've written about a lot of different topics, but I tend to drift back to images that "work" for me rather than branching out and testing new ideas. This is a bad habit and one that I'm trying to change-- grounds for a future newsletter, I'm sure!
My techniques are never exactly the same, from poem to poem, but sometimes I can tell how and why I wrote a poem months after it was written-- and sometimes I can't. I guess it's all about context, another newsletter in the making.
I love reading poetry out loud, and that's a great technique for examining your own work and the work of others, for purposes of reviewing, and sometimes just to give an added appreciation of the words on the page. There's definitely a newsletter in that somewhere.
I guess all I'm trying to say is that there are lots of ways to approach the table, when it comes to why we write and I thought as it's my first Poetry Newsletter that I'd start out the gate just laying out where I got my start, and we'll go from there-- together.
Until Next Time,
Take care and Write on!
~jay
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This being my first Poetry Newsletter, I figure I should put the question out there-- what are *you?*
Are you a poet, or perhaps you are more like me, a writer who happens to dabble in this poetry thing, or perhaps you aren't writing the poems, but reading them instead? Talk to me. What is your relationship with poetry?
(Remember that I use all feedback that I know is applied to my newsletter, so you could see your name or poem up here on this very page if you answer my question of the month-- or have a question of your own that you'd like me and our fellow readers to answer!  Don't be shy or else this just turns into me talking to myself. ) |
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