[New-Poetry] Re: Tales from the fields of poesy . . .

[Anny Ballardini]

Oh yes.
It is also true that the more poetry you read the more hypercritical you
get.
And, if you read 106 manuscripts for a competition, one after the other, you
come out with a poetry nausea for a while.


On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 1:17 AM, <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:

>   Sign of the times:
> Anonymous wrote:
>
>  I'm reading for a chapbook competition . . . received 106 manuscripts
> that vary from 25 to 32 pages. I read every one. A manuscript that fell
> somewhere in the middle in terms of quality (my opinion of course), was
> composed of short, fairly simple, impressionistic lyrics -- reasonably
> competent, but neither novel nor impassioned -- 25 pages. The
> "Acknowledgements" page says this:
>
>  "I could not have written these poems without the generous support of the
> Amy Lowell Trust, the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, the
> Canada Council for the Arts, the Corporation of Yaddo, the Espy Foundation,
> the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, la Napoule Art Foundation,
> the MacDowell Colony, the Ontario Arts Council, the Richard Hugo House, the
> Stanford Creative Writing Program, the University of Washington Creative
> Writing Program, and the Unterberg Poetry Center."
>
>  I am agog . . .  . . guess I've been doing things the hard way!
>
>
>
>
>  =
>
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