Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet
An oldie but a goodie, from Rita Dove via Robin Behn & Chase Twitchell’s The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises from Poets Who Teach – one of the first books I ever bought online, and one I still go back to. As I do to this exercise. The Ten Minute Spill Write a ten line poem that …
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(or at least it was when I started typing this post.) So, competition update. We’re nine hours in, and I have the first two entries already. That’s seriously impressive. All the more so because the form manager I was using for people to upload their entries to has decided that now is a good time …
I seem to have misplaced the first half of this year. I’m sure it was only a few weeks ago that I was girding various unmentionable parts of myself to deal with the Great Onslaught of Assorted Tradesman, and trying to put together classes to help with meeting their various (and generally quite reasonable) requests …
1. Build it, and they will come. Timetable it, and they might. Or not. Depends, really. 2. No matter how organised you think you are, you aren't. 3. Bulldog clips. 4. The class that you're sure will be really popular will take the full amount of time available to clear the minimum numbers threshold. 5. …
A Dark Feathered Art 