Last Week

Poetry 242
we are almost through
I have been reading poems
about how to write poems
It is a crazy thought
But don't get caught
up in the writers of our text book
because I will never be in the Norton book
I write how I want
rhyming or not
this is how I do my poetry
I am no John Ashbery

So I have been working on my ars poetica and this is something how it goes. Great, right? I really liked one of the first poems we read way back when...It mentioned something about poetry within the poem but it was not quite an ars poetica. I really liked it because of the poetry name drop. I thought, well that's interesting, why would a poet talk about poetry when he is writing it? I guess I still question that. Remeber how I said that I also enjoyed wrting rhyming poems more than reading them. I would also rather read an ars poetica rather than write one.

Our Last Class Workshops
Inbetween working on my Assignment 11 I have also have read all of the poems for this week. We really are a great class and so creative. I would liek to do a group exercise again where we all contribute to a poem. With so many different ideas, we could create a masterpiece, or could we?

Two poems that stuck out for me were the poems of each Jess. Venezia, your "You Left" poem was line for line right on. At least I felt that this was very true as to what girls do and think when involved in a relationship. The poem really moved well and each stanza was exciting to see what the character was thinking. (It is really funny, because I saw Brian's name n top of his poem which was behind Jess' in my pile and my brain trigered that I was reading this poem as Brian's. i was shocked and wondered hwo he did this is a the mind of a girl. haha)
Young, your poem was so creative. It is funny that I didn't even question the speakers of the poem. We can talk more about this in workshop but I do not know what you did to direct this message. It was so clear that it was a child, a wife, and a hubby. So good!

See y'all in class.