What other poetry books have you been reading lately?
I’m just, belatedly, picking up James Tate, can you believe it? Viper Jazz, wow, what a great title!
Monday, 6 January 2020
Sunday, 5 January 2020
Matthew Gwathmey : part four
How important is music to your poetry?
Music is of the utmost importance to my poetry. I’ll often sacrifice meaning for a good sound. As a failed jazz drummer, I believe in sound: rhythm, tempo, beat, meter, pattern, accent, stress, alliteration, assonance, consonance, euphony, cacophony, all of it. Reminds me of a bad joke. What do you call a musician’s best friend? A drummer. Get it? Because drummers aren’t actual musicians… So, what do you call a poet’s best friend? Music. Logic kind of falls apart here…
Music is of the utmost importance to my poetry. I’ll often sacrifice meaning for a good sound. As a failed jazz drummer, I believe in sound: rhythm, tempo, beat, meter, pattern, accent, stress, alliteration, assonance, consonance, euphony, cacophony, all of it. Reminds me of a bad joke. What do you call a musician’s best friend? A drummer. Get it? Because drummers aren’t actual musicians… So, what do you call a poet’s best friend? Music. Logic kind of falls apart here…
Shelly Harder : part three
How important is music to your poetry?
I can feel and think poetry only as a form of music. Texture, dissonance, tension, rhythm, melody – not only in terms of the materiality of the words, taut plop and click on tongue, but also in terms of the progression of concept, narrative, emotion, image. When composing a piece, I’m always listening for the reverberations of sounds and ideas, the microtonalities, unexpected resonances.
I can feel and think poetry only as a form of music. Texture, dissonance, tension, rhythm, melody – not only in terms of the materiality of the words, taut plop and click on tongue, but also in terms of the progression of concept, narrative, emotion, image. When composing a piece, I’m always listening for the reverberations of sounds and ideas, the microtonalities, unexpected resonances.
Saturday, 4 January 2020
Kyla Jamieson : part five
How does your work first enter the world? Do you have a social group or writers group that you work ideas and poems with?
I have workshop burnout, so no. I think it can be detrimental to open your work up to too many sources of input. But I love to be in dialogue about ideas, and am lucky to have a partner who’s a writer and a generous reader, as well as friends who are great writers, actors, and artists. I also have an online post-concussion syndrome community that I’m deeply grateful for. I don’t know how I’d have made it to where I am without creative and disability community.
In terms of how I work poems, I typically do a lot of the writing and editing in the notes app on my phone. I’m not attached to this method, but I’m grateful that this was how I was working when I got my concussion, because since my injury my eyes have really struggled to follow a line of text across a page, and keeping my lines short on a narrow phone screen allowed me to read my own work.
I have workshop burnout, so no. I think it can be detrimental to open your work up to too many sources of input. But I love to be in dialogue about ideas, and am lucky to have a partner who’s a writer and a generous reader, as well as friends who are great writers, actors, and artists. I also have an online post-concussion syndrome community that I’m deeply grateful for. I don’t know how I’d have made it to where I am without creative and disability community.
In terms of how I work poems, I typically do a lot of the writing and editing in the notes app on my phone. I’m not attached to this method, but I’m grateful that this was how I was working when I got my concussion, because since my injury my eyes have really struggled to follow a line of text across a page, and keeping my lines short on a narrow phone screen allowed me to read my own work.
Friday, 3 January 2020
Victoria J Iacchetta : part five
How important is music to your poetry?
Music is important to poetry in the same way its important to life in general – it serves in so many ways as a source of inspiration, support, and influence. Music can be so incredibly poetic, sometimes it stops me in my tracks. I’ve had a couple poems published that were immediate reflections on songs I had just heard, so I’d say it’s vital.
Music is important to poetry in the same way its important to life in general – it serves in so many ways as a source of inspiration, support, and influence. Music can be so incredibly poetic, sometimes it stops me in my tracks. I’ve had a couple poems published that were immediate reflections on songs I had just heard, so I’d say it’s vital.
Thursday, 2 January 2020
Amritpal Singh Arora : part four
What other poetry books have you been reading lately?
I’m currently reading a few great books by some wonderful Canadian poets. They include Heft by Doyali Islam, Port of being by Shazia Hafiz Ramji, Ceremony of Touching by Karen Shklanka and a great debut by Jasmin Kaur titled When you ask me where I’m going.
I’m currently reading a few great books by some wonderful Canadian poets. They include Heft by Doyali Islam, Port of being by Shazia Hafiz Ramji, Ceremony of Touching by Karen Shklanka and a great debut by Jasmin Kaur titled When you ask me where I’m going.
Wednesday, 1 January 2020
James Schwartz : part four
How does your work first enter the world? Do you have a social group or writers group that you work ideas and poems with?
My output since 2011 has been fairly steady, publishing chapbooks and anthologies with indie and small presses. I recently added several poetry collections and essays to Amazon Kindle and continue to write for The Good Men Project.
My output since 2011 has been fairly steady, publishing chapbooks and anthologies with indie and small presses. I recently added several poetry collections and essays to Amazon Kindle and continue to write for The Good Men Project.
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