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Hello!
School has been very busy here, but luckily I am still finding time to write (occasionally in my classes, but still). I currently have a rather major poetic project going on--it's a very long poem with an Arthurian theme, and I may or may not post it here. But there will be excerpts for sure, if nothing else.
I would like, however, to write a small(er) ballad--but I need some ideas. Would anyone like to donate a brief (as in, like 1-5 sentences) plot for me to use? You'd get credit!
I'm also considering including recordings of me (or my random friends) saying my poems aloud with at least a few of my submissions. Would anyone be interested in this or thinks it's a fun/good idea?
So that's pretty much it for now, and I hope people feel inclined to help me out by answering these questions. Any questions you want to ask me are good too.
Thanks,
MW
School has been very busy here, but luckily I am still finding time to write (occasionally in my classes, but still). I currently have a rather major poetic project going on--it's a very long poem with an Arthurian theme, and I may or may not post it here. But there will be excerpts for sure, if nothing else.
I would like, however, to write a small(er) ballad--but I need some ideas. Would anyone like to donate a brief (as in, like 1-5 sentences) plot for me to use? You'd get credit!
I'm also considering including recordings of me (or my random friends) saying my poems aloud with at least a few of my submissions. Would anyone be interested in this or thinks it's a fun/good idea?
So that's pretty much it for now, and I hope people feel inclined to help me out by answering these questions. Any questions you want to ask me are good too.
Thanks,
MW
Update on Defense of Gawain
Hey everyone,
I have a (possibly?) exciting update. "The Defense of Gawain," a poem I have been quite seriously but extremely sporadically working on for the past 5 years now--which I realize seems completely insane--is almost completed.
The poem is now around 70 stanzas, which to me doesn't actually seem too long. It is in four parts (possibly 5--I haven't decided whether to split the last section yet). Anyway, I do intend to post the completed poem here, in sections. The second section will be up after a bit more editing, but look for it in a week (or even a bit less).
Meanwhile, I'll share the current titles of each section. We have:
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Back from my unannounced hiatus--sorry about that
Hi everyone,
You may have noticed I haven't been active in a couple months, and I'm very sorry both about that and about not mentioning anything until now. To be honest, I have had a lot of very time consuming things to deal with in the past half-year and just didn't feel like dealing too much with poetry and writing.
But I am back, and I promise to at least let people know if such a thing happens again!
Anyway, thanks for all your continued support, and most recently for my second DD--I am unbelievably honored.
Thanks again!
MW
Summer Break! (Anyone want critiques?)
I have finally finished all my papers, finals, &c. and am done with school for the summer! :) So to celebrate, I am offering to critique some works. And don't worry if you don't have the critique feature--I am just as happy posting it as a comment. It's pretty open, but here are some guidelines:
1) Poetry only--I don't feel confident enough critiquing anything else.
2) Preferably short(er) poems, but this is very flexible.
3) Preferably formal poetry, but again, I don't really care.
4) Post a link to the poem here, or note me. If I don't respond in a week, send me a note reminding me!
And please remember that these are critiques--so e
Rossetti's Sonnets: On Petrarchan Sonnets
So I decided that what I really needed to be doing with my time was going through as many of Rossetti's sonnets as I could find, and figuring out all the rhyme schemes used. For those who aren't familiar with Rossetti, Christina Rossetti was a poet associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement in Victorian England. She wrote a lot of devotional poetry, and a lot of sonnets (almost all Petrarchan). She is also one of my favorite poets.
Anyway, this was basically a way for me to take a small sample of Petrarchan sonnets and see what was traditionally possible to do in terms of rhyme scheme. Petrarchan sonnets are typically more flexible than Sha
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I think orating poetry is an art itself; it's an awesome thing to hear other people interpret poetry.
I don't know if you knew this (seeing as you just recently stumbled across my work), but I actually have two tumblr accounts dedicated to orating poetry.
One is my personal account, where I recite some of my own work: [link]
and one is called the deviantArt orations, or dAo, where I recite work from users on dA: [link] .
I think it'd be great for you to recite some of your work. I'd love hearing some of them read aloud.
-J
I don't know if you knew this (seeing as you just recently stumbled across my work), but I actually have two tumblr accounts dedicated to orating poetry.
One is my personal account, where I recite some of my own work: [link]
and one is called the deviantArt orations, or dAo, where I recite work from users on dA: [link] .
I think it'd be great for you to recite some of your work. I'd love hearing some of them read aloud.
-J