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Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 2496
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - 07:46 am: | 
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A "petry stand." (Think "lemonade stand"...) What an absolutely cool idea!
...When I met the group on Monday morning, two weeks later, I proposed that we run a poetry stand, which would be like a country lemonade stand, except that people would be coming for poems. Whatever customers asked for, the students would write.
Some years ago I met a poet named Dave Johnson who donated his services at a charity event in just this way. He sat at a booth, and when people came up requesting poems, he wrote them on the spot. He told me that some of the stuff he wrote was pretty good but that he didn’t keep any of it. He had adopted a Buddhist attitude of nonattachment: giving away his good lines would open the creative faucet for his other writing. Dave’s attitude seemed right to me, and I thought student writers could gain from it.
...The group was willing to go with my idea, though some only grudgingly. And they had questions: Would we collect money at the poetry stand? No. What if there were no customers? It’s part of the risk. Could we keep what we wrote if it was good? I told them about Dave Johnson and the virtue of giving away your best lines. What if we had nothing to say on the topic they gave us? You will, I’ll train you. What if they want rhymed poetry — I can’t rhyme! Sure you can; we’ll all train together...
Rather longish, but worth a full read: http://www.theamericanscholar.org/au07/poetry-goetsch.html |
Chrishayden
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 5938
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - 02:49 pm: |
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My muse Miz Georgia, does not work like that--at least with poetry. I can create prose on the spot, but poetry has to simmer and cook.
Are you a poet by chance Yvettep? |
Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 2498
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, December 19, 2007 - 09:14 am: |
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Chris, I enjoy writing poetry but I wouldn't go so far as to call myself a "poet." That self-designation requires a level of discipline and daily commitment that I, sadly, lack. I continue to be interested in poetry, though--especially efforts to get kids engaged in it. My own kids love to play with language and so far make no distinctions between stories and jokes and poems and song. I know they may eventually learn that poetry is uncool or "hard" or something else. But for now I am doing everything in my power to nurture their love and interest in it. |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 10930
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, December 19, 2007 - 01:17 pm: |
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I am intrigued with the idea of selling spontaneous poetry to raise money for charity. I am a great people-watcher and my tendency has always been to mentally sum up my first impression of someone in a few words. Now if I could make these assessments rhyme, then I could maybe earn some money for my favorite chairity. Me.
Chrishayden:
Quick to assail,
Eager to diss.
His ass is a tail
He wants you to kiss.
Yvette:
A source of data
From every strata.
Makes learning painless
and a sunny sky rain less.
That will be $1.75 a piece, enough for a gallon of gas. 
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Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 2501
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, December 19, 2007 - 01:22 pm: |
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LOL! Cynique, you have my vote, my admiration, AND my $1.75. I'll even pay you for Chris's poem! 
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Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 10932
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, December 19, 2007 - 01:40 pm: |
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Thanks!  |
Chrishayden
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 5942
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, December 20, 2007 - 01:50 pm: |
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Chrishayden:
Quick to assail,
Eager to diss.
His ass is a tail
He wants you to kiss.
(Don't stop now, doll face you are on a ROLL!) |
Chrishayden
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 5943
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, December 20, 2007 - 01:51 pm: |
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That's almost as good as this one I wrote for Cynique long ago
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