Comments on: Almost Summer, Poet Friend Hang Out Time, and Sending Out (Even When You Feel Discouraged) and the Harm of Instant Star Narratives https://webbish6.com/almost-summer-poet-friend-hang-out-time-and-sending-out-even-when-you-feel-discouraged-and-the-harm-of-instant-star-narratives/ Jeannine Hall Gailey's Poetry Blog Mon, 17 Jun 2019 13:41:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Jennifer Barricklow https://webbish6.com/almost-summer-poet-friend-hang-out-time-and-sending-out-even-when-you-feel-discouraged-and-the-harm-of-instant-star-narratives/#comment-12678 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 13:41:45 +0000 http://webbish6.com/?p=7866#comment-12678 I find those instant star narratives so discouraging that I no longer read publications that feature them. I am (ahem) a more mature writer, and it’s hard not to feel far too late to the party in the face of so much aggressive youth-iness. (To which I now add, “Hey, you kids, get off my lawn!)
All Oscar-the-Grouching aside, I appreciate your consistent reminders to be engaged in the literary community, where less splashy-flashy – but no less brilliant – peers are writing and reading and commiserating and celebrating. Thank you! 🙂

]]> By: Poetry Blog Digest 2019: Week 24 – Via Negativa https://webbish6.com/almost-summer-poet-friend-hang-out-time-and-sending-out-even-when-you-feel-discouraged-and-the-harm-of-instant-star-narratives/#comment-12677 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 02:44:39 +0000 http://webbish6.com/?p=7866#comment-12677 […] Jeannine Hall Gailey, Almost Summer, Poet Friend Hang Out Time, and Sending Out (Even When You Feel Discouraged) and the … […]

]]> By: Jeannine Gailey https://webbish6.com/almost-summer-poet-friend-hang-out-time-and-sending-out-even-when-you-feel-discouraged-and-the-harm-of-instant-star-narratives/#comment-12676 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 21:41:51 +0000 http://webbish6.com/?p=7866#comment-12676 In reply to Nadine.

Thank you Nadine! And good luck with everything!

]]> By: Nadine https://webbish6.com/almost-summer-poet-friend-hang-out-time-and-sending-out-even-when-you-feel-discouraged-and-the-harm-of-instant-star-narratives/#comment-12675 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 18:24:20 +0000 http://webbish6.com/?p=7866#comment-12675 Jeannine, I just wanted to say how much I enjoy your blog and the way you present a whole picture. I am relatively new to writing and attempting to publish poems and I find great encouragement in your posts. From your insights on AWP attendance to dealing with rejections and celebrating acceptances, I am always finding inspiration and learning from your posts. Thank you for sharing this part of your life with all of us! And you have the most adorable cats – I love seeing them “help.” Best to you!

]]> By: Jeannine Gailey https://webbish6.com/almost-summer-poet-friend-hang-out-time-and-sending-out-even-when-you-feel-discouraged-and-the-harm-of-instant-star-narratives/#comment-12674 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 20:47:50 +0000 http://webbish6.com/?p=7866#comment-12674 In reply to Deborah Kate Hammond.

Oh yes, I don’t think rejection ever stops being hurtful. When you read Sylvia Plath’s letters, you see she’ll have just gotten acceptances from Poetry or the Atlantic, but she’ll still be bitterly hurt by a rejection from somebody else. It’s the same with every famous poet’s journals and letters – even Virginia Woolf was said to be depressed by the poor reception from a biography she’d written when she committed suicide (well that, and WWII.)
Rose and Glenn are both heroes who definitely don’t like being in the spotlight. They are definitely stars to me!

]]> By: Deborah Kate Hammond https://webbish6.com/almost-summer-poet-friend-hang-out-time-and-sending-out-even-when-you-feel-discouraged-and-the-harm-of-instant-star-narratives/#comment-12673 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 16:26:36 +0000 http://webbish6.com/?p=7866#comment-12673 It’s always a beautiful thing to see pictures of two of my favorite poets visiting. You both inspire me. I am 71. I do not send out much work.I do not work as hard or consistently as you do. So whenever I see either of you discouraged about a rejection I am shocked. To me you each enormously successful and I look so forward to your books and never tire of the treasured ones I have in hand and reread. There are angels among us and to me you are two of them. I always count Glen and Rosie too, because LOVE and SUPPORT! HEY! I was at Bay Hay Nursery in Bainbridge thursday and saw and smelled a gorgeous yellow rose called The Poet’s Wife. There has GOT to be a poem in THAT, right? Much love and gratitude to you and for you. Always. deb

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