Poetree: Weekly Round-up for January 29-February 4

jjhunter has asked me to be a co-moderator for the poetree community. I was honored and happy to help out with a community that I am enjoying so much. Right now my goal is to get the weekly round-ups caught up. So without further ado here is the round-up for the week of January 29-February 4, which was hosted by the lovely and talented rbarenblat. She offers some fascinating meta and commentary and a selection of truly lovely poems.

Poetry host rbarenblat's posts and associated poems:

On weekly poems, scripture, inspiration
-intro post
-meta (see post title)
-poem: "Enough"

On poetry, Judaism, and being (or not being) a "religious poet"
-meta (see post title)
-poem: "Morning Practice"

On poetry teachers, favorite poems, and why we love poetry
-meta (see post title)
-poem: "An Horatian Notion" by Thomas Lux


Highlights from the Comments:

"Enough" brought to mind syntaxofthings's brothers upcoming bar mitzvah.

A great conversation between ysabetwordsmith and rbarenblat on Pagan and Jewish themed poetry.

yossi was reminded of zir own experience wrapping tefillin.

From syntaxofthings:

I'm rather new to "religious" poetry (or maybe I'm not, if I consider my favorite author, Madeleine L'Engle, whose works are to me a combination of prose and poetry and always speak to spirituality), so just finding it, and people who are attempting to express their spiritual experiences through poetry instead of spouting do's and do not's, is like a light bulb going off. "Oh. This is what it's like to be religious?" It's pretty wonderful.

Thank you.

lynnoconnacht shares what interested her in poetry.

Associated posts from other community members:

ysabetwordsmith
Reminds us that February is the National Haiku Writing Month

Poetree: Weekly Round-up for February 5-11

Next up on the poetree round-ups is the round up for the week of February 5-11. It was almost a hiatus week, but the fabulous goneahead was kind enough to step up and pitch hit for the week. We thank her kindly for doing so, and for sharing some wonderful poems.

Poetry host goneahead's posts and associated poems:

Intro post
-intro
-poem: "Regarding Her Cancer"

First Stop - Korean Poetry
-commentary
-poems: Two Sijos by Hwang Chin-i
-poems: Anonymous "Songs" translated by Joan Grisby

Second Stop - Poland
-commentary
-poem: 16th MAY 1973 by Wislawa Szymborska, trans. Adam Czerniawski
-poem: Untitled by Rafal Wojaczek , trans. Wlodek Fenrych
-poem: Untitled by Marzanna Bogumila Kielar trans. Wlodek Fenrych
-poem: On the Day the World Ends by Czeslaw Milosz, trans. by Anthony Milosz

Third Stop - Americas
-commentary
-poem: I Will Kiss Your Mouth by Ah Bam translated by John Curl
-poem: The Mourning Song of the Poor Motherless Orphan by Ah Bam translated by John Curl

Highlights from the comments:

A fun discussion between ariestess and goneahead on Asian poetic short forms, specifically the additive quality of the tanka.

meeks wonders about reading poems in their original language versus reading them in a translated form.

alee_grrl shares the cultural lesson she found most valuable while living abroad in response to the question goneahead posed in zirs intro post.

Poetree: Weekly Round-up for February 12-18 and Signal Boost for the Upcoming Week

Last up on our poetree weekly round-up catch-up fest is the week of February 12-18. This week was hosted by dave_bonta, and his posts where all centered around the theme of poetry and research. Lots of great stuff can be found in the six posts that dave_bonta shared with us this week.

Poetry Host dave_bonta's Posts and Associated Poems:

In which I introduce myself and the topic I chose for the week, plus another topic I didn't
-Intro

Poem: Cibola (excerpt) - researching and writing an epic poem
-poem: Cibola (excerpt)
-meta (see post title)
-commentary

Poem: "How Glass Breaks: Four Theories"
-poem: "How Glass Breaks: Four Theories"
-commentary

Poem: "Purple Sea Urchin"
-poem: "Purple Sea Urchin"
-commentary

Poem: "Miterwort"
-poem: "Miterwort"
-commentary

Meta: poetry and research
-meta (see post title)

Highlights from the comments:
jjhunter highlights a very useful and fun resource community, leftoverresearchquarterly.

lnhammer and dave_bonta have a fabulous conversation about book length narrative poems, which includes lots of recommendations for excellent modern examples.

ysabetwordsmith and dave_bonta discuss self-publishing and collaborative works.

ariestess:
Depending on what I'm researching, I use my friends and their knowledge a lot. Even if they just do their own brand of Google-fu to send me interesting links.

Upcoming host for next week is lnhammer.