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I don't know why, but Mr. Simic came across as very pompous to me. Perhaps it was the lingering trace of a Bosnian accent (of which I was previously unaware); accents often make people seem more self-absorbed. Perhap…
Anybody ever heard of Charles Simic? yeah, me neither, but then I don't make a point of knowing much about current poets. Anyway, this is one of the books for my creative writing class, and as he's giving a reading at…
It started as 1 line, and turned into a miserable rant

My poems suck. You know how it goes with me. Ten people can like them and it will make my spirits soar and I'll agree, and see the good, but if one person with even a modicum of credibility (and a master's degree in En…
Cross-posting poems

They're not available on fictionpress yet. Waiting to see how my teacher rips them to bits. You can have them, though, since I just spent two hours I can't spare revising them: Weighted Decision A decision is made in l…
LOVE MY MUSE

Horatia read bookwrangler's suggestion-via-review that I go beat my muse, and it worried her enough to fall on her knees, begging to be spared, and offering me a direction to go in with that Horatio/Yelina story, a concr…
Heh, poem, "full version"

"Wandering the Dreamscape" Dreamcatcher A dark demise: Truth entangled In a web of lies Dreamweaver Fabric of time: Midnight tiptoes …
Some people can write poetry constantly, like they breathe, like I journal. I envy those people who can write a poem a day, especially if they can write a GOOD poem every day. My poems are much rarer gems. I must wai…
The CW (class, that is)

[I decided it would be quickest just to copy-paste this from my main blog] Haha. Oh, boy, what an...interesting...day.So: Remember what I said about the nicest people being the sharpest critics on paper?I get to creativ…
So I just spent two hours giddily stitching together a new poem, one inspired by the first line in another story and then I stitched it together, borrowing scenarios from the places I went to in the city today with Mo…
*tumbleweed blows past story*

[a/k/a: 0 reviews after 48 hours] *whistles* Woo-eeh, that bad huh? Well, thank you for not telling me. I mean that seriously. Rejection is much easier to handle when no one goes into specifics. It still sounds like…