tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5372944507290813851.post3953739568676538871..comments2024-01-02T01:36:43.959-08:00Comments on Come, Sit by the Hearth ...: POETRY: Read More, Blog More #1Snowballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02638506554534468064noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5372944507290813851.post-29447673400089082882012-02-04T12:13:45.236-08:002012-02-04T12:13:45.236-08:00Thank you so much for sharing your story with us. ...Thank you so much for sharing your story with us. Workshop can be either an excellent experience or a horrible one like this. I'm sorry they made you feel like you had to write a poem that wasn't even something you cared about. Often, honestly, it's jealousy, I think. I once sat in on a workshop where it was anonymous. They read my poem and praised it and decided to put it in the literary magazine. When I announced that it was mine, they all of the sudden found all sorts of problems with it. Then they took it out of the literary magazine. It was a very frustrating experience, but fortunately I had a lot of much better, productive experiences in workshops later in college. I hope that through these discussions we can bring you back to a passion for poetry. Thank you for joining us this month and I can't wait to see what you write in February. Just from this post I can tell -- you're a beautiful writer.Leslie @ This is the Refrainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18027804132268043518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5372944507290813851.post-44525899908398713272012-02-03T21:22:22.566-08:002012-02-03T21:22:22.566-08:00Thank you all for your kind words.
It feels grea...Thank you all for your kind words. <br /><br />It feels great to know that I'm not alone. But at the same time, it's sad to know how common my experience really is.<br /><br />I'm looking forward to the coming journey - and the new friends I make along the way.Snowballhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02638506554534468064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5372944507290813851.post-3233179432926678512012-02-02T00:48:02.643-08:002012-02-02T00:48:02.643-08:00Best of luck continuing to discuss poetry. It'...Best of luck continuing to discuss poetry. It's fdefinitely tough to find like minds, but when you do! :)*ೃ༄ Jillianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14139487177036647728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5372944507290813851.post-44628626659276609252012-01-31T16:46:12.318-08:002012-01-31T16:46:12.318-08:00That kind of laziness gets to me, especially in an...That kind of laziness gets to me, especially in any kind of online forum. How difficult is it to look up a word? Or two, or however many?Jeannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01374498643286099244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5372944507290813851.post-47926516268318386892012-01-31T16:39:46.400-08:002012-01-31T16:39:46.400-08:00First of all, I love the theme of your blog. :) I&...First of all, I love the theme of your blog. :) I'm sorry you had a bad experience. I remember having a horrible creative writing teacher in college who made me give up whatever vain hopes I had of ever writing anything. She could skewer work with just a word or two. I don't think she ever got tenure, so maybe that was the source of some of her bitterness. I'm looking forward to following your poetry journey this year. :)Nicolehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01957140929607226966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5372944507290813851.post-54776962514978784212012-01-31T12:58:53.982-08:002012-01-31T12:58:53.982-08:00School hired an assassin, with the sole aim of kil...School hired an assassin, with the sole aim of killing my love of literature. I was stalked down the halls & classrooms a red spot lasered to a point to one side of my tie.They hired a torturer equipped in the most subtle of the art of pain, ripping page upon page from my heartsoulmind until books became fortresses that no longer were journeys into distant fairytales, words took flight to be captured placed under a killing jar & pinned in a catalogue labelled, defined dead................ Took me many years to slip my apprenticeship.@parridhlanternhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12793548943992250238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5372944507290813851.post-89089894175447496382012-01-31T11:16:52.972-08:002012-01-31T11:16:52.972-08:00I had a roommate in college who wrote poetry that ...I had a roommate in college who wrote poetry that I didn't really understand. However, I still enjoyed it and I liked when I had to look up the words, even if it was every other word ;). Like Serena, I'm sad that those were your experiences with poetry.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5372944507290813851.post-67302433493373534922012-01-31T09:18:18.773-08:002012-01-31T09:18:18.773-08:00This is not the environment that should be talking...This is not the environment that should be talking poetry...interpretation and writing is personal....research and understanding requires time and if they are not willing to put in the time, they are not serious about helping other writers with their work or even appreciative of that which is not their own. I'm sad that these were your experiences...and I wish that you could find another place to share your ideas and poems...without fear or the imposition of others' notions of what the interpretations or poems should be rather than what they are.Serenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04745809545249574387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5372944507290813851.post-66788987289640148842012-01-31T08:57:29.174-08:002012-01-31T08:57:29.174-08:00It's so tough, isn't it! I recall arguing...It's so tough, isn't it! I recall arguing with an art teacher about a watercolor I painted - she disliked my color choice. It still makes me mad.<br /><br />I would recommend Nancy Aronie's Writing From the Heart book - her workshop was one of the most warm embracing amazing I've ever had the privilege.Carehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06478474870247729611noreply@blogger.com