Day: July 2, 2021
5 Steps to Poetry Publication – guest post by Katie Manning – Trish Hopkinson
Every time I teach Creative Writing: Poetry to college students, I spend some time going over how to submit poems for publication, and then they send out two batches of poems to different literary …
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Managing the Emotional Load of the Submission Process – guest post by Sherre Vernon – Trish Hopkinson
So much has changed since I first started sending my work out two decades ago. Publishers are more open to simultaneous submissions, and I seek out (rather than avoid) online publications. But the …
Self-Publishing Poetry Tips – Trish Hopkinson
These tips include the basics as well as links to several articles and posts to help both beginner and seasoned poets with self-promotion and self-publication to grow your network of followers and …
Self-deception
It comes on tiptoe
Sneaking up on us
Like a predator on its victim
While we’re the last to notice it…
DidiArtist, 01.07.2021
Reward and punishment or carrot and stick
We reward and punish ourselves
But that which is within us
Rewarding and punishing
That is not us
It is our ego and mind…
DidiArtist, 01.07.2021
Today’s Quote
There are no guarantees.
From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough.
From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
~ Emmanuel ~
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Promote a Poet/Writer Thursday, July 1, 2021
Welcome to Promote a Poet/Writer Thursday! This is the day of the week where all members of the Go Dog Go Café Community are invited to introduce a Poet or Writer they enjoy reading.
Participating is really fast and simple- in the comments below, post the link for the Home Page of the Poet/Writer you are introducing to us and tell us briefly why you think they are special.
We encourage all of you to visit these blogs (or social media pages) and get acquainted with some great new writers. You never know who you might meet. . .
Happy reading!
Leaving Me Anguished – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
“What makes life worth living?” Zane Grey
Leaving Me Anguished Blue strobe caressing my windows, the anguished youth reaching inside himself, clutching at the boiling darkness, seeking an expiation that just won't come, hugging the closeness of healing oblivion, his nightmare vocal choking my senses with a tar blackness spreading over my angelic reach, which cannot touch him, voices of necessity collapse him in a vain sugared hope, but I didn't hear one note of redemption in the poverty of his trusting surrender, leaving me anguished, reaching inside myself to find any semblance of meaning. Copyright 2021 ©Paul Vincent Cannon All Rights Reserved ®
Lynn’s Tuesday Picture Prompt # 55 – Just a bit further
Glen is the host of LTPP
Art(including pictures and images)should evoke an emotional response in those who are viewing them. That’s why art can leave such a long-lasting and poignant imprint within the depths of our psyche
Your challenge or writing prompt is this:
- what emotions or feelings get evoked or aroused in you when you look at this photograph taken by Lynn
Remember, the goal isn’t necessarily to tell me and others exactly what the picture is.
The creative goal for all of us is“what does the picture evoke in you;what emotion; feeling; memory or whatever it may be – what does it arouse in youand to share it that with others.“
We headed back to the east coast of Canada once again. It must be a subliminal thing going on here of needing to move east. Nevertheless, Lynn took this photo…
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The Reluctant Poet 