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Sunday, January 18, 2004 |
Some new (to me) poetry blogs, in no particular order:
I've moved the whole list of poetry blogs down. It's grown so long the other kinds of sites were pushed out of view.
3:31:15 PM 
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Up in that banner I wrote more than a year ago, I say "Your comments and verse are welcome." I didn't have a clue what would happen here, and one thing that didn't happen is anyone sending poetry—not until this weekend. Here's what I'm going to do and what I'm not going to do:
- I'll post each and every poem here unless I want to comment, in which case I'll post it in my regular blog.
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I usually won't comment on the poems, though I'll note they're up. There ain't enough time.
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I won't edit the poems or write HTML to make them pretty. If you need special formatting, don't send the poem.
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I won't post more than 5 poems in an entry.
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I won't post two consecutive entries from the same person.
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If and only if you ask me to, I'll include in the entry a link to your website and/or your email so that other people can comment even if I don't.
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I won't include any other links. I don't have time to check anyone's HTML but my own.
The first poems at the new site are from Suzanne. I've set it up so that 5 entries are displayed. I don't have the disk space to maintain archives, and this protects you in case you one day want to send your poems to print publications that consider web-posting to be publishing.
3:06:57 PM
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This is a comment I posted at Ron Silliman's blog:
First, l apologize. I made a flip remark and it was taken seriously in a way I didn't quite mean and the core of what I meant didn't get explained till days later and somewhere else. What I objected to was the typographical exercise demonstrating the nature of the line. I still think that was pretty silly, but I agree with the rest of the post, both now and then. I also still think it illuminates a key difference in the kinds of poetry you and I support and enjoy. The kinds of line which you find so fascinating disappear when the piece is lineated as prose, and they are problematical even across different performances, even by the same reader. I'm just not much interested in poetry which depends structurally on typography. But now we're back to taste. Maybe I should have included a smiley when I said "He's wrong, of course." I post this on my blog when band practice is over.
11:22:53 AM
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It's not the TV, though that's weird when you've been away from it a while. I only get to see my family once every two weeks, and we have things to do with each other and lots of stories to hear and tell. Yesterday I found myself irritated with myself and them because the time was getting short for me to write a freaking sonnet. That's not going to happen again. Deadlines, even (maybe especially) self-imposed deadlines, are wonderful tools to make sure work gets done. But when I'm with my family, sonnets (or at least this sonnet-a-day-business) can wait.
I'll be back to Maryland and the sonnets on Tuesday.
10:36:41 AM
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2006 Michael Snider.
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