tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975475581904630119.post2464137867746380280..comments2023-08-14T08:03:12.027-07:00Comments on Blue Positive: Self-Knowledge, one poem/day at a timeMartha Silanohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16486148374821966457noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975475581904630119.post-70959410846152130652013-05-22T11:59:18.532-07:002013-05-22T11:59:18.532-07:00Hi Diane - I can't seem to stop tinkering with...Hi Diane - I can't seem to stop tinkering with my drafts until they turn into something vaguely resembling poems. It stems from a worry that drafts moulder in notebooks forever unfinished, but poems, well, they might end up actually getting finished/seeing the light of day. This month has been brutal, though - I am completely empty, dry, at wits end at the moment, but I MUST write a new poem today ... ha ha, such happy problems for a writer to have. Martha Silanohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16486148374821966457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975475581904630119.post-30493886652139788392013-05-22T11:55:40.943-07:002013-05-22T11:55:40.943-07:00Make it a draft a day to relieve the pressure. A P...Make it a draft a day to relieve the pressure. A POEM a day is overwhelming. Next month can be revision month. That's a prescription from one who does neither a draft or a poem a day.Diane Lockwardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07614479152159652577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975475581904630119.post-8576926185503878542013-05-17T21:29:27.861-07:002013-05-17T21:29:27.861-07:00Revising later:,so that's the secret!Revising later:,so that's the secret!Martha Silanohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16486148374821966457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975475581904630119.post-72866908164206972382013-05-17T19:28:54.151-07:002013-05-17T19:28:54.151-07:00I love how you replace the draft poem with picture...I love how you replace the draft poem with pictures!<br /><br />When I'm trying to write a poem a day, I have to hold off on revising the drafts until a later month--when I have (I hope) caught some of my breath.<br /><br />Hurray for your May!Joannie Stangelandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06006768246992875405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975475581904630119.post-28822005379479535012013-05-15T08:16:08.575-07:002013-05-15T08:16:08.575-07:00Thanks, Jan. William Stafford was one of my first ...Thanks, Jan. William Stafford was one of my first teachers. I did workshops with him down in Portland area when I was in my 20s. Amazing man, with great advice to (especially) young and inexperienced poets. Have you read his son's memoir/bio about him? I loved that book. I also enjoyed Stafford's books on craft, one of them named something like Doing the Australian Crawl? And then there are the poems ... and listening to recordings of his poems. I still read him often. Martha Silanohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16486148374821966457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975475581904630119.post-53434772347960048942013-05-15T06:32:56.186-07:002013-05-15T06:32:56.186-07:00Amazing work!
I'm sure I read this someplace...Amazing work! <br /><br />I'm sure I read this someplace in your postings, but writing early in the day was the habit of William Stafford, famous for writing a new poem every day. Then he spent the rest of the day reworking poems from that raw material. Surely most of those poems failed, but he remains one of the more prolific poets because he pushed himself in that way.Jan Priddy, Oregonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06107172381368544145noreply@blogger.com