Poetry Jam 2020

[lunabee34]

tamsin made a post about wanting to read and write more poetry in the New Year, so we have decided to read the same book of poetry each month and comment on it. Everyone is welcome to join.

January is Wendy Cope's If I Don't Know.
February is Elizabeth Bishop's Geography III.
March-December forthcoming.

We are also thinking about coming up with poetry prompts and possibly posting some poetry we write.

At the end of each month, I'll put up a post for everyone who has read the book of poetry to comment on. If you want to link to or post poetry you've written, leave a poetry prompt, or just talk about reading/writing poetry in general, those posts will be the place to do it.

Poetry writing took up a great deal of the creative energy of the first two decades of my life, and took up almost none of the last two. I'd really like to get back to writing poetry. I made a halfhearted effort to reengage last year, but I think having the accountability of reading/writing poetry in a public way will be helpful to me to meet that goal.

I hope a lot of you get inspired to dive into poetry along with us.

Comments

[nyctanthes]

What a great idea! I am going to try and read along with you, though I make no promises about the rest.

[amejisuto]

I'm not much for poetry, but I'll read just about anything you write!

[kore]

ELIZABETH BISHOP <333

[zulu]

Sounds fun! The library doesn't have that Cope book so I shall try another that they do have. It is on hold!

[kat_lair]

Hello! It me, MistressKat from AO3 (think Guardian and SGA at least though I have a feeling we may have circled other fandoms together as well). Saw link to this on my circle and it felt Very Fortuitous. I can't promise I'll pick up the books (a lot depends on how much money I want to spend or how good my local library is) BUT I would love to get prompts and some accountability about writing. I too am trying to get back to poetry after very dry couple of years on that account. I have a separate poetry journal boneverse so I'm going to add you with both accounts. I'm keeping poetry friends-locked because at least some of it will hopefully be submitted to publication again (that bit is even harder than the actual writing but also something I need to get back into...)