Here are a couple of ideas for you. Don't forget tonight there is a reading at Satchel's Grill. Since there is no school next week there is also an event coming up on Monday. I've never been to one of these but anything is worth trying once right?
Monday, November 19
The Spoken Word Reading and Workshop Series presents Denise Jolly and Ryler Dustin! Bring your own poetry to workshop at 5:00 at BSU, then come to the slam to see the full feature.
-- Workshop with Denise Jolly and Ryler Dustin!
BSU Student Union Building (Alexander room)
5 PM, free
-- BOISE POETRY SLAM with Denise Jolly and Ryler Dustin!
The Funny Bone
405 S. 8th St.
Signups 7:30, Show at 8, $5
-- Feature by Denise Jolly and Ryler Dustin and open slam!
http://boisepoetry.com/calendar.htm
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Thursday, November 1, 2007
A few words about Tuesday
I guess I should apologize if anyone felt uncomfortable with my poetry on Tuesday. I try to keep it simple and I did not intend to offend anyone with my workshop poem. I got to thinking about it and the teacher did ask me to discuss it after class. I guess I knew where I was coming from when I wrote it and as the writer, I felt it was relatively 'safe.' If anyone took it a different way then I am quite sorry.
It goes to show you that there is something to the audience question. How focused should we be on audience? I try not to write for workshop audience and I don't think that anyone else in our 'classroom community' does. I think we all stick to what is important to us and so what if... seems to be our attitude. I feel like this is a good thing. With that being said I still must apologize to anyone who was offended by my poem.
Gosh, I am almost at a loss for words. I know this is not a place to talk about 'workshop' exactly but I think what I am going to say is safe enough. Ivy mentioned that she didn't feel the first six lines of my last poem we workshopped meshed with the rest of the poem. I find that interesting that she said that because I talked to Dustin Lapray about a month ago and we talked about some of the things that we felt were our poem problems. I told him that I had problems with my own first few lines and he gave me some good advise. Dustin told me that he sometimes struggled with the same issue and that he finds that he often finds a better beginning further down in his poems and ends up cutting his first lines out. I loved this advice. I've been trying to do this in my own work.
This is an interesting concept that we cut out those first lines we've penned. I think the first lines woes are the last bit of holdover from our 'essay' nature.
It goes to show you that there is something to the audience question. How focused should we be on audience? I try not to write for workshop audience and I don't think that anyone else in our 'classroom community' does. I think we all stick to what is important to us and so what if... seems to be our attitude. I feel like this is a good thing. With that being said I still must apologize to anyone who was offended by my poem.
Gosh, I am almost at a loss for words. I know this is not a place to talk about 'workshop' exactly but I think what I am going to say is safe enough. Ivy mentioned that she didn't feel the first six lines of my last poem we workshopped meshed with the rest of the poem. I find that interesting that she said that because I talked to Dustin Lapray about a month ago and we talked about some of the things that we felt were our poem problems. I told him that I had problems with my own first few lines and he gave me some good advise. Dustin told me that he sometimes struggled with the same issue and that he finds that he often finds a better beginning further down in his poems and ends up cutting his first lines out. I loved this advice. I've been trying to do this in my own work.
This is an interesting concept that we cut out those first lines we've penned. I think the first lines woes are the last bit of holdover from our 'essay' nature.
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