How does
your work first enter the world? Do you have a social group or writers group
that you work ideas and poems with?
Short
Answer: Generally with
a rhythm and a sense of blockage and nausea.
Long
Answer: I’ve led
workshop groups on and off for 15 years. I’ve been in one workshop
circle or another for most of the years since 1986. A few years ago I was in a
few concurrent workshop groups, 1 online continuously, a couple seasonally, 1
face-to-face weekly. I have internalized the typical feedback of the aesthetics
of each group, and the usual lessons each offers. There were several people I sent poems to as
first readers for clarity or editing checks.
Now there
are a couple people I send the occasional poem thingee to but not for feedback,
just as a way to communicate. I’m in a quarterly group of KaDo but as much for
the social and seminars.
I suppose
that change reflects a shift in proportion to output. I used to make 1-5 poems
a day and now 1 or 2 a month, if that. Or it reflects that I have a growing
sense of the effect(iveness) of my words. Socialized for a finer theory of
mind? Everything is speculation.
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