Comments on: https://webbish6.com/2064/ Jeannine Hall Gailey's Poetry Blog Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:53:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: megalopoet https://webbish6.com/2064/#comment-1210 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:53:00 +0000 http://webbish6.com/2064/#comment-1210 J: have enjoyed your posts of late, as always, and am soo sorry you didn’t get to go to awp. hope you’re feeling better & better each day.

to make yourself feel even *better* could you blog about the persona poem? you know, part of the stuff you were going to present in the pedagogy forum at you-know-where…

and to add on this topic: i don’t think anyone’ll be studying my poetry 400 years from now, nor do i think they’ll be studying many contemporary/modern poets– there’ll simply be too many poets for that to happen. of course, i don’t think euripedes or shakespeare thought aboug everlasting fame either: just wound up that way. but, you’ve got to work for the reader; and trust they’ll keep the work around. truly, i enjoy your enthusiastic posts!

keep fighting that good fight!
nicole

]]> By: Collin https://webbish6.com/2064/#comment-1209 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 04:19:00 +0000 http://webbish6.com/2064/#comment-1209 Who’s got time to worry about legacy? I really can’t be bothered with that. There’s too much writing to do. Does anyone really sit down and write a poem thinking, “I must be writing for the ages.”? It would be nice to be remembered when I’m dead, but really, I doubt I’ll be giving a damn. lol

]]> By: Joannie https://webbish6.com/2064/#comment-1208 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:05:00 +0000 http://webbish6.com/2064/#comment-1208 We write because we love to write, but I’ve found another little secret. You mentioned that if one person reads your poem… I’ve written poems for one person or two people–poems I worked really hard on (sometimes nearly a year, or 10 years, or more), no schlocky faux greeting card verse–and then sent them off, and the people who have received them LOVED them. So sure, it’s an audience of one or two, but it’s the audience I’m wanting that specific to reach. For me, that might be more valuable than anything in the long, true run. At least, that’s what I try to remind myself.

]]> By: Felicity https://webbish6.com/2064/#comment-1207 Sat, 02 Feb 2008 22:55:00 +0000 http://webbish6.com/2064/#comment-1207 I’m with ya! Poets and Writers was gettin’ me down the other day — litmags doomed by postal rate hike, fiction crushed under the wheel of nonfiction — and I agree with you. There’s nothing to be won that way.

We have to write as if the world were the way it should be, to show it what it can be. The good fight, yeh?

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