How does one even begin to write a poem?
Further, how does the same one propose a topic for a paper, to be written on a play that one has not even read yet? Is one supposed to have read all the plays already?
Lastly, how does one cut away all the extraneous and burdensome thoughts which distract one from the task at hand?
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think about what the masters did...
absinth, prostitutes, the loss of a loved one, alcoholism, life threatening illnesses... whininess ???
or maybe you can get some ideas by taking a field trip... its @ the museum i took you to see a concert at.
Monday, Sep 22
7pm
HAMMER Readings
Festival of California Poets
The 2nd Annual PSA Festival of California Poets
To conclude the Poetry Society of America’s festival, celebrated Los Angeles-area poets Ralph Angel (winner of the PEN Center USA Award for Poetry for Exceptions and Melancholies: Poems 1986–2006), Wanda Coleman (winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize and author of the National Book Award finalist Mercurochrome), Maggie Nelson (author of Something Bright, Then Holes and the PEN/Martha Albrand Award finalist Jane: A Murder), and Charles Harper Webb (winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Prize and a Whiting Writers Award) read from their work. For more information on the festival, go to www.poetrysociety.org.
Co-presented by the Poetry Society of America, PEN Center USA, and UCLA.
Bri! Thanks for posting about the reading. I have to go to a poetry reading for my class, and I was just thinking the other day how awesome it would be to learn more about California poets.
yeah! lets ride together then since parking is scarce.
Just write my darling and the poem will take care of itself.
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