Comments for PoetCore http://poetcore.com Between hardcore and peace corp you have poetcore. (The blog of Grant Clauser) Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:52:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Dreaded Inspiration and the Damned Muse by Grant http://poetcore.com/2011/08/14/dreaded-inspiration-and-the-damned-muse/#comment-411 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:52:12 +0000 http://poetcore.com/?p=348#comment-411 Evita, it’s just not as simple as that. For myself, and all the serious poets I know, inspiration isn’t the way poems are made. Then it would be just a wait and hope game. Yes, sometimes random thoughts, words, etc. “come into my head” as you say, but that’s because I’ve trained myself to look for them. Inspiration implies that it’s something outside of you that’s slipped in like magic. I prefer to think of poetry as work–pleasurable work–but still work that requires craft and study to do well.

]]> Comment on Dreaded Inspiration and the Damned Muse by Evita http://poetcore.com/2011/08/14/dreaded-inspiration-and-the-damned-muse/#comment-410 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 07:27:32 +0000 http://poetcore.com/?p=348#comment-410 Really? You are never inspired? Sometimes, I will be doing something and thinking something and words will just come into my head. Unfortunately, I lose half these ideas as no paper or pencil are available…

]]> Comment on Pay to Play Poetry Journals: Is This Right? by Tracy R. Franklin http://poetcore.com/2011/11/16/pay-to-play-poetry-journals-is-this-right/#comment-387 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 04:23:40 +0000 http://poetcore.com/?p=387#comment-387 I have no problem with the fees under certain conditions. Those are:

1. Writers are PAID – in green paper, not glossy.
2. Unsolicited submissions are the norm, not the exception.
3. A fee-free snail-mail option exists. I’d hate to see good writers lose opportunities because they were dirt poor.
4. The journal is high quality, whether print or online. If online, I don’t want to see ads.

I’d gladly pay $3.00 (and have, a couple of times) to submit to a quality journal that paid its writers well. I would NOT pay the crazy $15.00-20.00 asked by Narrative (which does not accept postal submissions), and would NOT fork out any money for a thrown-together no-pay lit mag run on a blogging platform. Do low budget mags have their place? For sure. But if I’m expected to write only for the love of it, an editor can edit for the love of it. Likewise, if an editor has no problem compensating me like a pro, I have no problem defending that editor’s right to be compensated like one, as well.

]]> Comment on Philadelphia Poet Louis McKee Has Died by Jerry Hagins http://poetcore.com/2011/11/22/philadelphia-poet-louis-mckee-has-died/#comment-385 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 23:40:36 +0000 http://poetcore.com/?p=428#comment-385 I met Lou in a Naomi Nye workshop in the mid-80s and was lucky to work with him when he was editing PBQ. He was always supportive of my work and I will always cherish the Rolling Rocks on the way back from staff meetings. Safe travels Lou.
Jerry Hagins

]]> Comment on Philadelphia Poet Louis McKee Has Died by gary fincke http://poetcore.com/2011/11/22/philadelphia-poet-louis-mckee-has-died/#comment-384 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:28:12 +0000 http://poetcore.com/?p=428#comment-384 Sorry to hear about this–Lou was a genuinely good guy–generous and warm-hearted–I read with him a few times in the 80s and 90s, and he was kind enough to be receptive to my early work for PBQ–Gary Fincke

]]> Comment on Review: Big Silences in a Year of Rain by Doris Ferleger by 10 Favorite Poetry Books from 2011 Plus Something Else « PoetCore http://poetcore.com/2011/02/06/review-big-silences-in-a-year-of-rain-by-doris-ferleger/#comment-383 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:54:38 +0000 http://poetcore.com/?p=238#comment-383 [...] loved Ferleger’s first book, Big Silences In a Year of Rain (reviewed here), but this collection is even better. Much of it follows the path of loss and grieving, but the [...]

]]> Comment on About Me by Kudos: Grant Clauser « Seven Kitchens Press http://poetcore.com/about/#comment-381 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 22:34:42 +0000 http://poetcore.wordpress.com/?page_id=2#comment-381 [...] we’d like to congratulate Grant Clauser, whose manuscript, “The Art of Gazing,” was a finalist for last year’s Keystone [...]

]]> Comment on Misunderstanding Rae Armantrout and Duran Duran by mercadeo en linea http://poetcore.com/2011/04/07/misunderstanding-rae-armantrout-and-duran-duran/#comment-371 Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:45:02 +0000 http://poetcore.com/?p=325#comment-371 But poems consist of more than sounds. We also take pleasure in recognizing how adroitly the poet has managed to “tell all the truth, but tell it slant.” The figures of speech, or tropes, by which one object stands for another – simile, metaphor, symbol – not only enable the truth to be told, they stimulate a delight in the inventiveness of the human mind, the mind which can come up with such successful strategies for referring to one thing to mean another. Wow, are we humans smart and inventive: to come up with these strategies (which is what the poet does); to understand them (which is what readers do); and to appreciate them (which is what both poets and readers do). And we can pile invention upon invention: through saying one thing and meaning another, which is called irony (or if more blatant, sarcasm), we can say two things at one time, or even three or four. The mind is a marvel.

]]> Comment on Philadelphia Poet Louis McKee Has Died by RIP LOUIS MCKEE « fox chase reading series http://poetcore.com/2011/11/22/philadelphia-poet-louis-mckee-has-died/#comment-257 Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:43:12 +0000 http://poetcore.com/?p=428#comment-257 [...] http://poetcore.com/2011/11/22/philadelphia-poet-louis-mckee-has-died/ [...]

]]> Comment on New Musehouse Workshop by the writers room nyc http://poetcore.com/2011/11/21/new-musehouse-workshop/#comment-255 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 04:17:46 +0000 http://poetcore.com/?p=411#comment-255 Literary arts?

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