A note on crits and thoughts
I've been hanging out around online workshops for a year or two now and wanted to share a few thoughts.First, let me start with my 'rainside' poem. I posted it on one of my favourite workshops, The...
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You make so much sense. And I am learning a lot from you and some of the other poets here. I hope someday I produce something that turns out really well, but most of what I do is very amateurish. Of...
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Quote:If my mother wore a certain blue a lot when I was a child, and I loved my mother, I would grow to have a wonderful emotional response to that colour blue. If I saw someone wearing it, I would...
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I think this speaks to the dynamic relationship between writer - words - and reader and the permutations some of us suffer from this combo. Your point that the responses often come from what the...
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It's absolutely true that we have to be in control of our own poems. We take the crits we get, believe what seems to make sense, and then do what makes sense in that light. We can't send out poems we...
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