Comments on: Don’t Give up on Poetry (or the Poetry World) Yet

By: Nadia Gerassimenko

Nadia Gerassimenko — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 18:05:45 +0000

I think there’s an ego-driven little voice inside our head that tells us from time to time that there’s no rewards in writing poetry, that it can’t make a living. We should just let it pass and remember why we started writing poetry (or prose or short stories or novels) in the first place. That we want to share our work with the world and inspire and touch others and provide something they could relate to. If we manage to move at least one soul, then we did some good in this world. We must also remember that we’re writing for OURSELVES first of all, because it brings us so much joy in being able to express ourselves artistically, because it lets us release our pain through writing.

By: On submitting a poem 50 times | LESLEY WHEELER

On submitting a poem 50 times | LESLEY WHEELER — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 14:06:43 +0000

[…] a giant seeing-my-daughter-off-to-college-shaped rock, so when I read Jeannine Hall Gailey’s blog yesterday, its references to scandal in the poetry world inspired me to lift my busy skull and […]

By: Charles Fishman

Charles Fishman — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 05:44:23 +0000

I enjoyed reading your comments and shared them via my timeline on Facebook.

By: Jeannine Gailey

Jeannine Gailey — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 03:36:08 +0000

In reply to Pat Fargnoli.

Thank you , Pat. I agree. The poetryworld has changed quite a bit since I started doing this stuff.
Thanks, Tom, well, at least people are talking about poetry, I guess??
Thanks David and Yvonne!

By: Yvonne Highins Leach

Yvonne Highins Leach — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 01:22:52 +0000

Amen! So well said!

By: David D. Horowitz

David D. Horowitz — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 00:26:16 +0000

Poetry: the intersection of language and music. It helps us explore, refresh, empathize, harmonize, and heal–and there is no substitute for it. It resonates in a thousand subtle ways to help us reach and share wisdom, humor, and consolation. Welcome its insistence at 3 a.m., whether or not what you write gets published–but here’s hoping all your writer friends get published, too! Thanks for sharing, Jeannine!

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 11:56:41 +0000

Jeannine, wonderful article, well said. On occasion I rather enjoy controversy about poetry, controversy which is sometimes more interesting than the poetry.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 11:52:03 +0000

Penned dogs fight each other.

By: Pat Fargnoli

Pat Fargnoli — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 09:08:34 +0000

beautiful column, Jeannine! And so necessary. It IS hard to keep going when the competition is so rough, it’s so hard to get publishes, and there is occasionally so much rancor.
and political joustling. It’s not the same poetry world I knew when I was first sending work out 30+ years ago.

Pat