[New-Poetry] Lifshin Syndrome

Fri Nov 2 17:04:02 EST 2007

Thanks!

Of course, I had a few "loose" parameters. I tried not to go crazy though.

1) no more than?one page
2) from recent literary journals, not anthologies (when I could)
3) by people who are alive
4) when I could, I selected "topical" poems (about current events or, for example, WS Merwin's "Berryman" the first week back to school.? 
5) I listed where the poems came from (Poetry, Kenyon Review, etc.)
6) if I had room on the page, I added biographical info or an author photo

It was my little way of exposing students to poetry--

Some weeks, it was also a way of subversively making a statement (like posting a poem dealing with honesty when a certain politician lied)

Another trick I did in poetry and lit classes was I brought IN the BOOKS themselves when we discussed an anthor from an anthology.? I would use the book to read aloud, instead of the anthology (drove students to ask questions and to want to SEE the cover and the rest of the work)

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What a neat idea.?
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millb at aol.com wrote:?
> When I taught, I used to post a "Poem of the Week" on my office door, > for students to ponder while they were waiting to see me. They came > to expect it and, when I forgot to put up a new one, they would complain.?
>?
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>?
> -----Original Message-----?
> From: Suzanne Burns <atelierjewelweed at gmail.com>?
> Bcc: millb at aol.com?
> Sent: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 12:06 pm?
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Lifshin Syndrome?
>?
> LOL interesting-- I do that quite frequently, not just with my poems > but the poems of others. Right now I am reading a lot of Dickinson, > and I have cutouts of her poems tacked up next to the bathroom mirror > so that I can read them while brushing my teeth. Also have them > tacked up over the light switches-- when I turn on the lights I stop > to read for a bit.?
>?
> Back when I actually had my space to myself, I did that all the time > with drafts of my poems. There are too many people stampeding through > my house nowadays for that to work out well.?
>?
> Suzanne, longing to be a hermit with lots of time on her hands?
>?
>?
>?
> On 11/2/07, *Anny Ballardini* <anny.ballardini at tin.it > <mailto:anny.ballardini at tin.it>> wrote:?
>?
> This reminds me of what I read years ago of how Alejandra Pizarnik?
> wrote.?
> She practically kept her poems on single papers glue to the walls?
> as if they?
> were paintings and once in a while read them over again and added?
> or took?
> away, just like a painter.?
>?
> From: "Suzanne Burns" <atelierjewelweed at gmail.com?
> <mailto:atelierjewelweed at gmail.com>>?
> poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu <mailto:poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu> >?
>?
>?
> > I'm coming into the middle of this thread, so I hope I am not asking?
> > something that is obvious:?
> >?
> > WTF? Does she simultaneous submit like a mad demon or is she one of?
> > those logorhheaic types who writes down EVERYTHING that pops?
> into her?
> > head and never revises??
> >?
> > Inquiring minds want to know.?
> >?
> > For myself, making that leap to sending anything out is a big?
> deal-- I?
> > find it hard to stay organized and motivated. I know I can do?
> it- I?
> > edit and produce much more complicated things professionally-- but?
> > when I need to do something like this for myself, pfffffffttt.....?
> > instant blonde.?
> >?
> > My friend Karen Volkman had a real system back when we were?
> studying?
> > together-- she kept twenty poems "in the air" at all?
> times. With good?
> > results. But those were good, finished, ready to be published poems?
> > of course. *Sigh* I need a secretary.?
> >?
> > Suzanne?
> >?
> > On 11/1/07, jforjames at aol.com <mailto:jforjames at aol.com>?
> <jforjames at aol.com <mailto:jforjames at aol.com>> wrote:?
> >> Jim,?
> >> As Tad's post said, "And a lot of it was good." It's not a?
> question of?
> >> her?
> >> merits as much as what are the motives...?
> >> 1) If I publish 100,000 poems before I die, certainly I'll be?
> certified?
> >> canonical. (for the future)?
> >> 2) I like to see my work in print everywhere. It feeds me,?
> makes me feel?
> >> important. It's the way?
> >> I self-actualize. (for the now)?
> >> 3) It's my obsession. (can't stop myself)?
> >> Finnegan?
> >>?
> >> -----Original Message-----?
> >> From: James Cervantes <cervantes.james at gmail.com?
> <mailto:cervantes.james at gmail.com>>?
> >> Bcc: jforjames at aol.com <mailto:jforjames at aol.com>?
> >> Sent: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 7:53 pm?
> >> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Lifshin Syndrome?
> >>?
> >>?
> >> On 11/1/07, jforjames at aol.com <mailto:jforjames at aol.com>?
> <jforjames at aol.com <mailto:jforjames at aol.com> > wrote:?
> >> > Anny,?
> >> > 100 books, and published in 10,000 litmags. It was kinda?
> laughable to?
> >> > browse thru Poet's Market or?
> >> > Directory of Poetry Publishers (Dustbooks) and see so many?
> litmags?
> >> boasting?
> >> > 'Lyn Lifshin' as someone?
> >> > they'd published. It would have been more interesting if one?
> of them?
> >> > stated: "We resisted publishing?
> >> > Lyn Lifshin."?
> >>?
> >> My previous experience with Lyn Lifshin was pretty much like yours,?
> >> James, when I edited Porch (print): The monthly assault of Lyn?
> >> Lifshin poems, all of them rejected.?
> >>?
> >> However, I did publish her in The Salt River Review. We don't boast?
> >> about it but the poems are in the archives:?
> >> http://www.poetserv.org/SRR27/srr27_contents.html?
> <http://www.poetserv.org/SRR27/srr27_contents.html>?
> >> She just happened to send a batch in which I found a couple of?
> solid?
> >> poems, IMHO.?
> >>?
> >> -- Jim?
> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~?
> >> ~ Salt River Review: http://www.poetserv.org?
> <http://www.poetserv.org/>?
> >> ~?
> >> http://www.hamiltonstone.org/catalog.html#temporarymeaning?
> >> ~ http://www.fieralingue.it/documenti/mr_bondo.pdf?
> >> ~ http://www.poetserv.org/jvc/home/index.html?
> <http://www.poetserv.org/jvc/home/index.html>?
> >> ~ http://home.earthlink.net/~jvcervantes/?
> <http://home.earthlink.net/%7Ejvcervantes/>?
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