tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755123332716147532.post6859642892744282847..comments2023-09-26T08:04:43.755-07:00Comments on Mark Doty: Nantucket, Maggie Conroy's tobacco barn, and Dean Young on the culture of creative writingMark Dotyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04148162515300148887noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755123332716147532.post-10133623005459444792011-10-27T14:34:14.213-07:002011-10-27T14:34:14.213-07:00it's the financial aspect of the creative writ...it's the financial aspect of the creative writing workshop i find morally questionableLe vent friponhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00512260811008463494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755123332716147532.post-9473611524052437882010-10-06T05:52:18.182-07:002010-10-06T05:52:18.182-07:00Thanks from an MFA drop-out, "Stay At Home Mo...Thanks from an MFA drop-out, "Stay At Home Mom" or worse "Housewife."The Aiken itehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08504178255741258198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755123332716147532.post-17102290017813980752010-08-30T13:40:40.426-07:002010-08-30T13:40:40.426-07:00Thanks for that quote from Dean Young! It can'...Thanks for that quote from Dean Young! It can't help remind me of William Matthews' wonderful poem "Mingus at the Showplace" about himself at 17 going to hear Charles Mingus: "He didn’t look as if he thought / bad poems were dangerous, the way some poets do. / If they were baseball executives they’d plot / to destroy sandlots everywhere so that the game / could be saved from children."Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13471547669854013234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755123332716147532.post-14881670756227439712010-08-30T13:25:20.379-07:002010-08-30T13:25:20.379-07:00I'm oddly comforted by the fact that poetry wo...I'm oddly comforted by the fact that poetry won't be harmed by my sad attempts to write it. This is just what I needed to hear as I struggle -- thank you Mark for posting this.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00223381807066939250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755123332716147532.post-32250657418885895782010-08-27T17:06:59.177-07:002010-08-27T17:06:59.177-07:00Dean's book -as well as yours on description- ...Dean's book -as well as yours on description- is a wonderful example of how those of us "outside" academe can be a part of the poetry conversation.DJ Vorreyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02166957214456197239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755123332716147532.post-36815426169160671042010-08-26T21:58:19.980-07:002010-08-26T21:58:19.980-07:00I found myself unexpectedly delighted when I read ...I found myself unexpectedly delighted when I read Jerome Rothenberg's ethnopoetics writings in which he claimed that in Eskimo society (among others) each person sang their own poem(s). Each person was expected to sing one's own song, and that these poem-songs typically came in dreams, each person having their own dreams and visions and connections to the nonmaterial world. There was no one not a poet. <br /><br />I liked the idea.Glenn Ingersollhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10674475308395975995noreply@blogger.com