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glorybee wrote:I've never read Koontz; do you recommend him?

Definitely.

glorybee wrote:have you read works written entirely in present tense? Did you like them, or not? Why?

Variation on a theme: Dean Koontz has several books in which all the scenes involving one character are in present while the rest of the book is in past.

Jan, A few things struck me as I read what has already been posted. 1) Most passages had a lot of salsa words compared to your two examples. Sometimes less is more. 2) The same salsa word principle should work for non-fiction. 3) Sometimes what we really have is a salsa phrase, made up of words that...

Jan, you mentioned a class or two ago that you wondered whether you were making things too hard since there weren't that many submissions for some of the forms. My response was that I thought you were explaining things very clearly. I still think that, but some of the forms THEMSELVES are just hard....

Good grief! I was trying to say "and NOT with a snide, sarcastic, or condescending tone."

(I know you knew that but still . . . .)

I certainly did not take your comments as criticizing the judges in any way and I hope you did not take mine that way. When I said "assuming our judges know how to evaluate poetry," and "I just don’t know anything about all ya’ll’s background with poetry," I hope people read that...

Cat, Assuming (as I think your question implies) that you want to write anything other than free verse and assuming our judges know how to evaluate poetry (no offense to any judges, but you are anonymous and rotate, and I just don’t know anything about all ya’ll’s background with poetry), I can give...

This is the first one that's even slightly tricky, especially to poetry beginners. Maybe I've made it too challenging? Or it could be the NaNo pressure. I think you explained it very clearly. Could be NaNo or the form itself. Or maybe people are struggling with Yellow. Maybe we'll get more after to...

Did you take “willing” to mean “agreeable” or “exerting the will” or one of each? One of each, I think. Any other takers before I reveal the answer? OK, long enough. It was a trick question. They were both intended to be diberate double entendres/ambiguities for the reader. By the way, is it my ima...

Did you take “willing” to mean “agreeable” or “exerting the will” or one of each? One of each, I think. Any other takers before I reveal the answer? And as to your bigger question--I'd love to have a discussion on that. I think poetry (and anything we write, really) belongs to the reader, as soon a...

Steve! It's so deep, so meaningful, so profound! I'm not sure I've even come close to grasping all the spiritual and emotional remifications. I'll have to mull it over for a while. Okay, done mulling. It seems to me that this form lends itself to reflective/melancholy poetry... though others (most ...

Hope to see another one from you here, some time this week! You asked for it! All I Need to Write a Triolet I have a first line. It's called A. And a second line. It's called B My pesky first line won't go away. I have a first line. It's called A: For lines four and seven just say One again. That's...

Ah, poetry for lunch. Here’s the SUPPOSED Triolet from my Summer piece that I’ve directed folks to before: The fireflies do dance and dart! They glow and fade, now here, now there. In imitation play the part The fireflies do. Dance and dart Around the yard as through the air The fireflies do dance a...

glorybee wrote:Her meter’s a little bit trickier; she’s got those ‘stops’ in there (I forgot what you call ‘em…Steve? Steve?),

Caesura (plural: caesuras or caesurae).

glorybee wrote:Steve, thanks for this--I sincerely hope you've given this to her!

Oh, yes!