Category: Writing
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Draft of the Week, #2.
I don’t think it’s ever happened that I’ve written a first draft straight through before beginning revisions. I don’t know enough about where a poem’s headed to get it all down right away. Which is probably one reason the blank page is such a daunting prospect. Yet, when you sit down, neglect your family and…
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Honesty vs. Truth in Poetry.
I was reading The Bloomsbury Review the other day — the new issue (May/June/July 2009) just arrived in my mailbox — and came upon something that caught me more than a little off-guard. The cover story is an interview with Greg Kuzma (“Poet, Critic, Editor, Publisher, Teacher, Mentor, & Screenwriter’), someone whose work I was…
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Draft of the Week.
I’m already warming to this new poem project. Makes me feel all purposeful and productive. I guess I respond best to deadlines. Remains to be seen if this will be a plus or not. This draft will probably remain up until Sunday, as we’re going to visit my mum for the weekend. {poof!}
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A Draft a Week, She says.
I’ve never posted by any particular schedule here, no deadlines, no real structure to speak of. When I still worked at the bookshop, I wrote about forthcoming books, new books of poems or books about poems, books that excited me. With the bookstore gone, I still do that, but to a lesser degree: I don’t…
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I Heart Erin Belieu.
Back years ago when I did try and send out a few things, the first time I got rejected I nearly beat the mailbox to death. Seriously, I kicked it till the post broke. And I’m pretty sure that’s a felony. Okay, as the owner of all 3 of her books, I was predisposed to…
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Action-Packed Post!
We’ve been plagued by squirrels dancing in our ceilings for several seasons now. Back in April it seemed as if we had finally confounded them when Lance pruned the tree that gave them clear access. But after a few weeks they figured out that they could climb right up the back staircase that leads straight…
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Now Available for Pre-Order!
I’ve created a new page for all things Hunger All Inside: click the link up there on the toolbar, or just click here. I am so excited & grateful & can’t quite believe that in a few short months my poems will be in your hands, yes, your hands! If you please. I hope. Hooray!
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NaPoWriMo Recap.
Even though I spent many April nights (after a good first week of finishing drafts by 3pm) falling asleep with a pencil in my hand, these last few days of not writing have felt strange. The brass tacks: poems written: 30. THIRTY! I’m totally thrilled. how many written that are keepers: 26. I may actually…
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NaPoWriMo Draft 30.
This is it, the final draft, the 30th poem in 30 days, the end of NaPoWriMo 2009. I’m going to take a couple days now to go over all the drafts, all my thoughts, and rest my weary writing head/heart. Thank you for reading this past month, it was a great & productive experiment for…
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NaPoWriMo Draft 29.
For this, my penultimate poem of NaPoWriMo, I give you my very first sonnet, written in free blank verse, which, according to Mary Kinzie’s A Poet’s Guide to Poetry (a book I adore, by the way), is unrhymed loose iambic pentameter. Mine is very loose. {poof!}
Marie Gauthier 