Poetree: Weekly Round-up for April 2 - 8

[alee_grrl]

Huge thanks to bookblather for hosting this week on short notice and providing us an interesting and fun look at cowboy poetry. This upcoming week will be hosted by jjhunter.

Poetry Host bookblather's Posts and Associated Poems:

Cowboy Poetry: No Rest for the Horse
-introduction to Cowboy Poetry
-Poem: No Rest for the Horse, author unknown

Cowboy Poetry: Old Sorrel Mare Turning More and More Roan
-meta: Modern Cowboy Poetry
-Linked Poem: Old Sorrel Mare Turning More and More Roan by Paul Zarzyski

Cowboy Poetry: Cowpoke Pony
-Poem: Cowpoke Pony by bookblather
-Discussion: What topic would you choose to focus on if you wrote a cowboy poem?


Sunday Picnic and Weekly Challenges:

Join us under the Poet's Tree for our Sunday Picnic:
- Sunday, every Sunday, let's have a community picnic...

Climbing the Poet's Tree: Challengs #5 - 6:
-Challenge #5: create a piece of found poetry
-Challenge #6: In honor of Adrienne Rich's passing on March 27th, choose & repost or link to one of her poems in your own space and include a few sentences about why you selected that particular poem and what aspects of it did (or didn't!) work well for you. Alternatively, review a cowboy poem.


Highlights from the comments:

untonuggan wonders about the connection between Cowboy Poetry and African Spirtuals.

lilmoka notes the vividness of the imagery in No Rest for the Horse.

jjhunter is struck by the quiet elegance of a particular line in Old Sorrel Mare Turning More and More Roan.

lilmoka would probably write about tumbleweeds, while alee_grrl would probably focus on the sweeping landscapes of the west


Associated posts by members off-comm:

alee_grrl
-Poem: Forgetting
-Poem: Remembering

ariestess
-{poem} "friends"
-National Poetry Month 2012 Masterlist
-{poem}"Beware"
-{poem}"sun"
-{poem}"Thunder or Own"
-April 2012 Free Poem Day
-{poem}"nothing"

goneahead
-Random Poetry Rec
-Random Poetry Rec (differs from previous)

jjhunter
-Haikai fest: Making Strong Folk Whimper
-Second Draft: Death is Easy, Though It's Hard to Know(concrit welcome)
-Poem: Bat Sestina
-Haikai Fest: A Primer on Polite Invective
-Haikai Fest: Unexpected Poetry
-Poem Recording: The Symbolic Poem
-Third Draft: Death is Easy, Though It's Hard to Know(concrit welcome)
-Haikai Fest: And This Too Is Grace
-Haikai Fest: The Bog is Not Enough
-Haikai Fest: More Time
-Haikai Fest: Pattern Seeking
-Fourth Draft: [Creation/Destruction Villanelle]

leek
-NaPoWriMo 2012 (Days 1 and 2)
-NaPoWriMo 2012 (Days 3 and 4)

lnhammer
-Kokinshu #227
-Kokinshu #228
-Kokinshu #229
-Kokinshu #230

snowynight
-Poetry: The Impression of Summer by Shen Wei
-Poetry: Drifting Clouds·Light Garment Society by Shen Yu
-Poetry: A Petite Flower in Taer Monastery by Qinghai Lake
-Poetry: Guandao Ridge: Herbal Years by A Female Wanderer
-Poetry: Stillness Creates the Wind by Chi Lingyun
-Poetry: In the Early Period of the Republic of China by Nocturnal Fish
-Poetry: Tsangyang Gyatso, the Monastery or the Snow Mountain by Heidegger

wyld_dandelyon
-C is for Coyote - #atozchallenge

ysabetwordsmith
-Serial Poetry Update
-"The Hearsay Cafe" was published on Torn World, visible to supporters
-April 3 Poetry Fishbowl Results
-Notable for lengthy discussions is "Dragon Tiger Wind Cloud"
-Sold 2 poems to Polu Texni
-Things I am proud of in my writing

zirconium
-interview at Ophelia Unraveling
-ever ancient, ever new


General Poetry News:
-thank you ysabetwordsmith for the links

-Measured Extravagance is a new poetry collection
-Link list for the first week of the "Couplets" project
-The Beauty And Difficulty Of Poet Nikky Finney
-Simple Tweets of Fate: Teju Cole's Condensed News