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Plugging a side project: if you want to be reading more poetry but don't know where to start, sign up at https://verse.press/ to get a weekly poetry "playlist" in your inbox. Sometimes it's a set of poems on single theme by different authors, sometimes it's a sampler of poems from a recently published book.
Does it only feature new works or does it take from the six centuries of great poetry we have in the English language.
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The about page says > My goal with the project is help people find great new poems. To me, that sounds like it's focused on recent works.
That sounds hugely restricting the scope when so much of great poetry has been already written in the past.
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That sounds hugely restricting the scope when so much of great poetry has been already written in the past.
It’s a newsletter dedicated to showcasing contemporary poets. Do you complain if there’s a radio show which plays new music because it’s excluding all of the good music which has already been made?
I love poetry, but think this advice is slightly off. A better way to get un-stuck is free-writing. Just write whatever comes to mind without stopping. If you hesitate, just write "I don't know what to write" - anything to keep writing. If you can sustain this for twenty minutes, you are now immune to writer's block. You know you can always write. This shifts the question to what to write. You find you can sculpt the…
But my background knowledge lacks
I'll try to learn more
But it's really a bore
And it's stressing me to the max
I love poetry, but think this advice is slightly off. A better way to get un-stuck is free-writing. Just write whatever comes to mind without stopping. If you hesitate, just write "I don't know what to write" - anything to keep writing. If you can sustain this for twenty minutes, you are now immune to writer's block. You know you can always write. This shifts the question to what to write. You find you can sculpt the…
Isn’t it perverse that we need such optimization techniques so that we can sit at a desk all day. I think it’s a wonderful technique but it makes me wonder why and if we’re just -not built for this-.
It isn't if you are using it to give yourself the discipline to focus on completing a challenge you care about.
I love poetry, but think this advice is slightly off. A better way to get un-stuck is free-writing. Just write whatever comes to mind without stopping. If you hesitate, just write "I don't know what to write" - anything to keep writing. If you can sustain this for twenty minutes, you are now immune to writer's block. You know you can always write. This shifts the question to what to write. You find you can sculpt the…
It permanently changed the way I write, perhaps for the worse
There's so much to do but I don't want to
Such a bore to do but someone has to
Browsing HN the clock's ticking
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Because you did 5-8-5!
That restriction can't actually be adhered to in the right spirit outside the Japanese language, and isn't 100% adhered to even in that language. Counting syllables quickly on the fingertips before clicking Post
in fact it doesn't even have the right amount of lines
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That restriction can't actually be adhered to in the right spirit outside the Japanese language, and isn't 100% adhered to even in that language. Counting syllables quickly on the fingertips before clicking Post
this haiku is large and has too many words per line in fact it doesn't even have the right amount of lines
the prescriptions of the form -
but not blithely