Sorry it's been awhile since I posted, folks. That second internship at the USU Press kept me really busy up until school started. Some good news and some bad news following the first week back on campus: I was lucky enough to make it into Dr. Sinor's Creative Nonfiction Writing class, which I am very excited for! Plus, the focus of my Prose Studies class is autobiography, so the two classes will reflect off each other and I will learn more than I could taking each class singly. The bad news is that I did not make it into Dr. McCuskey's British Writers class all about Jane Austen, and I don't think I can audit the class. I might talk with him tomorrow and see if we can work something out so I can learn to read Jane Austen critically without actually being in the class. Other than that, I'm good to go! Lots of reading and writing to do already, but that's why I'm an English major.
I have a correction to make for my previous posts. I am not entering the May Swenson Poetry contest even though that would be a great opportunity for me to grow as a writer. I decided I should probably start studying for the GRE and write poetry when the creative urge hits me. Poetry never sounds or feels good when you try to force it.
Since I am no longer entering the contest, I thought I'd share with you my "midnight poetry" from the last post. Let me know what you think.
Today I ate a grapefruit
and now Orange describes everything
as I sit in the sun:
the glow through my eyelids
the radiation of heat from my center
the calm energy of this yoga pose
the sour citrus taste on my tongue
even the cricket-song of sunset
puncuated by the crunch of dry grass.
I liked your poem, especially the part of even the cricket-song sunset being orange. But, grapefruits are usually pink, not orange. I still enjoyed your poem. Yay for yoga, have you guys been doing it again? I think that orange overall is a good description of sunset, and orange is a good power color for yoga. I don't know if I'm giving good critical advice. I have read it three times and I "get" new things each time, so I guess that means good things Keep it up!
ReplyDeleteYes, getting new stuff each reading is a good thing! I understand the issue with grapefruit because I have it too, but because grapefruits are citrusy they are associated with orange in my mind. Can you think of a better way to show the association? And "yoga pose" isn't very specific; can anybody think of a pose name that people will recognize and that fits the description of "calm energy"?
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