Category: Writing
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Draft of the Week, #7.
Sweet & sour autumn pie of a poem for you this week. Well, a tart bite of a teeny piece of pie poem. We’re all still struggling to get well, et tempus fugit, etc. A couple words from ReadWritePoem‘s Wordle Word Bank helped get the juices flowing — thanks to those great folks. This’ll probably…
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The Art of Syntax for the Ordinary Genius.
It is as I feared: Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within, by Kim Addonizio, while a friendly and frank-talking book, is really a book for beginners. Addonizio is tremendously likable, and the self-deprecating manner in which she presents her own early drafts is appealing, but if you’ve been a practicing poet for some…
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Draft of the Week, #6.
As the blog nears its two-year mark, it seemed to me to need a small makeover — you might not have even noticed. I chose a design that offers a similar color scheme, fonts, and I kept my header photo of the Potholes (tho’ maybe I’ll begin updating the Potholes picture as the seasons change),…
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Autumn Cold/s.
Now I know the summer is well & truly over: The Gauthier household is besieged by its first illness since Aidan was born. Vincent is the only one not suffering at the moment, but he woke with a sore throat, so I expect he’s getting it, too. Aidan is thoroughly miserable, barely sleeping, making it…
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The Secret Draft.
Last week I met with the rest of the Collected Poets Series (CPS) board to begin planning the 2010 readings. After we’d been at it for about 3 hours, Lance showed up with the boys to check in, and asked if we’d seen the “dragonfly tornado” across the street. Naturally, we poet/shut-ins had noticed nothing…
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Fun with Wordle.
I copied my manuscript in its current full-length entirety into that wondrous website for word-lovers and seekers of writing prompts, Wordle, and this is what resulted. I have to say, I’m surprised that “like” is so prevalent. I have an aversion to similes — I expected “boy” to be the word that really popped out. …
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Draft of the Week, #5.
To file under “new and different”: recent weeks have seen a large number of folks visit this blog in search of the voice of the talking pothole in what I guess must be the latest Geico commercial. I would check YouTube, but video and audio don’t play nicely together with my internet connection. Has anybody…
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And on the Fifth Week, She Revised.
In keeping with the aura of the arbitrary that I like to foster around here, I’ve decided that every fifth week will be an off-week for my Draft of the Week series, so that I may use that time to revise the poems I’ve written in the previous four weeks. I’d rather use that time…
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Draft of the Week, #4.
I was unable to have my laptop repaired today, though I’ve been promised Tuesday — I warned him that if I continue to have to use it at a 45 degree angle or less I will soon develop a humpback. You try it and tell me how it feels. Everything takes longer this way, but…
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Draft of the Week, #3.
Several posts ago I talked about Facebook and SHE WRITES. But if you like your social networking more focused, more heavily poetry-centric, then hie yourself over to the remodeled digs of ReadWritePoem: with member profiles, groups, forums, messaging, and more, they’re a whole lot more than writing prompts. This week’s poem below. The now-usual 48-ish…
Marie Gauthier 