https://writing.exchange/@juliancday/110226368459650585 @juliancday - Looking to get off Twitter. The one thing really keeping me there is the larger community of poets, who are inventive and fascinating but also incredibly resistant to change. So if you're on Mastodon, and a poet, and I don't follow you, hit me up so I can change that.
Beautiful Saturday in the shade 🫠
Question for #poets and #poetry lovers:
Do you know any poetry #podcasts? Ones that focus on poetry history, current events, interviews, poetics, technique, trends, readings, launches, reviews, etc.
If yes, what are your favs? Or even just ones you've heard about & have yet to taste!
I'm setting myself a goal of sampling 10 at least, then maybe making 1 a reg part of my poetry experience
Happy birthday to Stanley Kunitz, one of the greatest #poets of the 20th Century, born OTD in 1905. I grew up walking past his garden at 32 Commercial in #Provincetown every summer, not realizing until much later in my life who he was.
. . . The heart breaks and breaks
and lives by breaking.
It is necessary to go
through dark and deeper dark
and not to turn.
So stoked to share that I’ve accepted a freelance blogging gig at Read Poetry, an online community that celebrates poetry as a form of expression, activism, & self-care.
My first article shares 4 poetry prompts to support self-care and mental wellbeing. Check it out on readpoetry.com, and be sure to subscribe to their blog to get future articles from myself and the rest of the Read Poetry blogging team!
This is "For You", written about putting all of you into a relationship, fully taking care and shape shifting for your lover, being what they want you to be and giving up on your authentic self in the process for someone who doesn't truly care for you, and the painful resentment coming out.
For now only privately released, still in the works with the rest of my spoken word audiobook.
This week at the #PoetryCafe we’re talking about what made you fall in love with poetry.
Did you discover a particular poet?
Did someone introduce you to the art?
Was it a style of poetry that caught your attention?
For me, I always loved poetry, even though I didn’t know it was called poetry - Dr Seuss, Pixie O’Harris, Lewis Carroll - but it wasn’t until I was explicitly taught poetry in high school at age 13 that I discovered that it was something I liked doing and really began a love affair with it. So, I guess all the thanks go to Mrs Dixon, my English teacher.
Any #writers or #poets on here who'd be interested in becoming editing buddies?
I'm working on a poetry manuscript & I'd love a 2nd pair of eyes for revisions. I also just rly miss the collaborative feedback sessions we used to have in school—I'd love to help edit your work too!
Looking for someone who understands the craft/mechanics of language & can provide substantive feedback that isn't just based on personal opinion, and/or doesn't mind arguing with me about it. :-)
In other news, my poetry collection (two books in one binding) is finally out! It is in Russian (unfortunately, in some sense) and consists of texts, written between 2004 and 2016.
It is currently available in Moscow, Yerevan, and Tbilisi, and will come to Israel a bit later.
At the presentation in Yerevan as asked something along the lines "how do you feel to be so weird?", event in Jerusalem — sometime in June, most likely.