Poetry Lessons From Seaview
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“Surely you can write
a shitty first draft!
That’s all
we’re asking of you.”
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Writing assignments
from a poetry workshop,
on the coast
of New Jersey,
“Seaview.”
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Four days in all
– readings, critiques, and writing reviews –
for those in their prose
and the muse that I choose.
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A Pulitzer Prize winner
in poetry walks by –
guest speaker,
first feature,
top bill.
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Two inches
– Two inches! –
that’s the closest I’ll get
to a Pulitzer Prize win
or its winner.
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Fresh faces, I meet
sit around and cross tables,
put thoughts into words
and on paper.
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Voices in need
to create and speak,
tweak out
creative expressions.
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In polyglot tongues,
soul songs are sung,
in the search
for a self
validation.
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The poetry lessons from Seaview sessions –
Finding corrections in (w)holy revisions.
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Copyright © 2012 Marvin Loyd Welborn. All Rights Reserved.
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Wonderful write! You’ve got the experience pegged to a T!
amazing wonders,
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This is great Tink. By the way Pulitzer’s are over-rated and political. You get a toast, not the same prestige, but just as real.
Cheers,
Mark
How exciting for you! This is a great recapture… I really like the last stanza.
http://lkkolp.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/dont-feed-maps-to-the-goats/
“In polyglot tongues,
soul songs are sung,
in the search
for a self
validation.”
Also, a handy description of the Internet. Well written.
Still a nice experience…I would be interested in meeting writers and poets in real life ~
Thanks for sharing ~
http://a-sweetlust.blogspot.com/2012/01/honour.html
in search of self validation…so true in that…have never been to a poetry workshop…honestly not sure i want to go to one..as i might lose a bit of myself in worrying what others really think…
Very frank and creative. K.
I’m with Buddah and brian on this. I feel your frustration as well.
We do it, and we’re better and worse for the experience. We get some validation, and lose some self-esteem. We quit using perfectly acceptable words forever (like “perfectly”) because they’re adverbs and adverbs are too Angle, or Saxon, or German to be English anymore. Then years pass, and you think, I might say that’s “lovely” anyway. After all the British do!
Loved this.
I would love to do this, I think it would be a great experience.
Refreshing !