slap jack cheer!
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nope20% Voted for by mbbg0, J-Mill-45, 5th position Gb, Sharcu, emo-tech.
just a side hobby for me…its always fun when you can get some controversy goin at the same time
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Ive been published8% Voted for by Kutebrunette07, ExpensiveThinker.
Starting here was a great start, then i went to websites n went into contests, ive been published in books, anthology’s ive won contests. but i only do writings, cuz its something i can do to get my feeelings out, so i dont kno if im going to do it for money or anything, .. im not sure yet
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helped me...Voted for by ohsweetie2788.
becuz of ap i got 6 poems published and one is international…i say it helped a lot!
Ash
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Grand Plans for Your Work?Voted for by Rowan Tree.
I have no intent on having any of my work published, but since I have been here I have ran across numerous Author’s that have. And have always wondered. Did All Poetry help? Do others really want to pursue this avenue?
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gushing and sentimental mushVoted for by AshesToDiamond.
Hell, I’d love to be a professional; even live solely off writing. However, I understand that this may never happen, so I’ll have to have a “proper” job.
Yes, AP has helped me- a LOT. I’ve had, perhaps for the first time, a flood of unbiased and genuinely interested critique. I’ve also found people who think I’m GOOD. They LIKE my work. I’ve definately grown as a writer since I’ve been at AP. It’s also nice to be surrounded by people who get as frustrated by writers’ block as I do; who understand the traumas of a misplaced apostrophe; who hate their work- and writing in general- yet still won’t give up and who understand why others won’t give up either. In short, people who aren’t going to sigh in irritation when I spend a week in daydream over that perfect sentance; or smack me when I randomly blurt out “so which sounds better…?”
Yes, I sound like some babbling, gushing idiot. I don’t care.
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I write for funVoted for by Mythtress.
I write for fun and to relieve stress. Sometimes I write things for my students that make learning easier for them. I have never written anything and thought that it was as good as my favorite poets: Frost, Yeats, Shakespeare, Auden…. I have had a couple of things published, but not through any effort of my own. Someone saw something I wrote and decided to contact me to put it in their book and in one case to make a flower garden at the Floriade in Australia using my poem as a theme. I was honored, but did not consider trying to get published…I can’t see my poetry as being that good.
I have learned some things on AllPoetry. I have learned some forms on AllPoetry. I do not, however use AllPoetry as a primary learning source. I use it to showcase what I’ve written to other people who write and to read what other people have written. Period.
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I will be in the philosophical quarterly soonVoted for by nihilismisdead.
I sent off a short essay to the philosophical quarterly and they said it would be published this year.
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AllPoetry HelpsVoted for by Exo.
I plan on going to college for Psychology and Theology and since I have a group up on AllPoetry called ‘Religion Without Flippancy’ it has come to help me alot.
And I believe AllPoetry in general is a help for writers like..me!
-nicci
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AP definetly helpsVoted for by 0thrillme0killme0.
AllPoetry definetly helped. It’s somewhere where I can express myself through poetry (obviously) and that really helps me. Getting the feedback and criticism helps me make my poetry better.
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YesVoted for by SilverScent.
I’ve been on allpoetry for a while and i’ve learnt a lot about poetry, and my ability. I’m not the best poet in the world, but i’m not the worst either. From Allpoetry i’ve learnt how to write in certain ways, i’ve recieved critisism that has helped me. I’ve also read others work and that has helped me to get a sense of what i could do with my own work. I’ve sent work off to publishers and had a response. I haven’t got paid for this, for it isn’t the money aspect which i was after. It was only recognition and to see my words in print. So yes, Allpoetry has helped me get my words in print.
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YES!!!!Voted for by candyecane2002.
I have like a BUNCHA poems published and I got one published because I clicked an add I saw on AP and won a contest! Plus it’s helped me develop a better since of understanding about my poetry therefore I can write more indepth things now.
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Both...Voted for by Defiant 1.
I would love to be published although I’m sure a lot of people on this site would critisize my work up and down. This site helps in a few ways but I wouldn’t thank them personally.
It helps in the sense that your work posted is now copyrighted. It also helps in other areas – like critiques, classes and poetry forms. I’m sure in other areas as well.
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Ap has helped a lotVoted for by JesusFreak09.
I do want to become a professional writer. and i would say that AP has helped me because i have a lot of friends on AP and i read their poetry and it helps me with different rhyme schemes and i experience a lot more writing. and i have had a few poems published..the first one was in sixth grade and i got one published last year…(im 14 and in 8th grade)and i would just flat out say that AP has really helped me a lot
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YeahVoted for by BexMyxEscape.
I do plan on being a professional writer, and AP has helped me a lot with it all.
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friendsVoted for by DemonAce.
MY friends are on AP and all write poetry and the summer has come along and this is just about the only mean I have of communication... I write poetry because they do.
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I'm not a serious poetVoted for by emo-tech.
I'm something of a serious screenwriter, but that's also another (seemingly) unreachable dream right now.
I just write poetry for fun. Sure, part of me would LOOOVE to be a lyricist someday. Like being a part of the Matrix or some similar team would be so cool, and I'd be getting paid for something that I love and isn't that hard at all. But I don't plan on making a career of it. Poetry is akin to masterbating. It's easy, fun, and an emotional release, but not something you make a living doing. Atleast not much of one...
allpoetry is cool. I'm still something of a newbie, but I mostly use it when I'm blocked or bored or for some other reason unable to write (like now, when I can't find my glasses), to express myself, and exchange ideas.
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Like sci fi?Voted for by EternalEyes.
I've been working on this story, called ALACRITY at fictionpress.com (although, it's on hold now) It's a sci fi about an 18 year old guy who aspires to become a PO.HPx4 racing champion. My own ideas! I have like eleven chapters and like 18000 words so if anyone wants to read it and PLEASE review, go to:
http://www.fictionpress.com/read.php?storyid=2010080
You can also read any other stories that I have posted on there. I'm working on some new ones and after I get writer's block I hope to revise ALACRITY and make it less futuristic - maybe pull it back a few years. And the like - I need to change some names for planets and stuff too.
Hope you all enjoy.
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A serious discussion on poetryVoted for by cafegroundzero.
I'm very glad that so many people feel that allpoetry has helped them. Yet I would like to "raise the bar" so to speak, and help introduce some serious and studied conversation on poetry, philosophy of art, and great poets and their work. Other than some postings of great poets on Oldpoetry, and a few poets' work on Allpoetry, I've found little to really challenge the mind, to teach. One might counter with "But this site is intended for the young, the uninitiated, the amateur poet." This might be so, but in the traditions of "freedom of speech" and philosophical and scholarly inquiry, let's gear up and take these mountains we've been so long avoiding. There's been no dearth of structure and form in poetry here. Yet I feel as if the time is right to make available some threads examining the history of poetry, literary criticism, and what constitutes good poetry, what is not good poetry, and why one might be so bold as to claim either way.
Let's examine this statement, by Dana Levin, which appeared in American Poetry Review, Mar/Apr 2006 issue:
"Yet this real hunger for corrective (against Confessionalism), as it plays out in the poetry written by today's younger poets, is affected by two insidious anxieties. The first is the inevitable anxiety of being one of hundreds (maybe thousands?) of MFA graduates driving for a place, if not in the canon, then in Fence. The second anxiety, putting tremendous pressure on the first, is a product of the American tendency to fetishize the new."
Now, assuming you know what Confessionalism is, do you agree with the statement? Why or why not? Now, forgive me if I threw in such a strange looking fish to our daily fare, but frankly, I'm hungering for something, as the announcer in Monty Python would intone, "just a little different."
To read the rest of the essay, please paste this in your URL. http://www.aprweb.org/issues/mar06/levin.html It's to the complete essay by Dana Levin, and really does bear reading. Think about it.
Now, let us look outside of this site's frame of reference, and consider "what's out there" that is, imho, good:
This morning I'm looking at Eye Dialect, whose poetry is edited by Kristina Van Sant. I've never read E.D. before, but with the help of the Poets' Market I find it listed, and go to its web site:
www.contemporarypoetry.com/dialect/
I went to Issue 1, Fall 1999. There, I discovered the poetry of Massachussetts poet Amy Baudry. She teaches English at a college in Boston, lives with her husband threreabouts, and has been published in Womens News and some newspaper in Worcester. So, maybe not too prominent a poet. What I'm trying to get at, what did she do that got her published? Let's read some of her poetry.
In "Birds" she tells us in a four stanza free verse poem about the exhibit of stuffed avians in a local college or university. The tone is almost conversational, but proper grammar and syntax, good punctuation. (I often wonder if many poets in allpoetry are trying to be unconventional, if teachers have taught that punctuation is something unnecessary, even something that gets in the way of creativity. Or is the poet just lazy?) And then again, Olena Kalytiak Davis IS contemporary. I suppose so too is Jim Behrle — 1 week ago Is Phantom Stranger, who posted on her blog, really Jim Behrle?
http://www.webdelsol.com/Perihelion/behrle.htm
Then Ira Sadoff, in his essay on OKD in June/July APR, mentioned she had drawn on Ashberry, on some of his techniques. So I look up Ashberry (he may still be alive, born in 1927), and find there are three major themes to his poetry.
” (1) the problem of subjective identity—Whose consciousness informs the poem? (2) the relationship between language and subjectivity—Whose language do I speak or does the language have a mind of its own? (3) the connection between subjectivity, language, and place—What does it mean to be an American poet?”
There is no common theme to this entry. After supper, I look again at a list of entries resulting in a google search of John Ashbery. I find another page, out of a review by Kenny Tanemura for tmpoetry.com/ on a poet named Dean Young, who was inspired by John Ashbery. Tanemura doesn’t exactly trash Young, but he sort of slowly roasts him. The lesson here is not every one appreciates Dada poetry, and according to Tanemura, there is some pretty bad Dada poetry out there. Which is not to say Dean is a bad poet, but then again, there are plenty of flaws in his gems.
http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:J_0BkqvJ99sJ:www.tmpoetry.com/RevMenu/Reviews/KenT04.pdf+ashberry+%2Bdada&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=6
And a day later, after posting the above, I happen to be reading from a copy of Poetry, which I got, front cover reading PEOTRY, it’s a “humor issue” anyway, Dean Young is the first poet featured. So I read those, and think to myself, I got to find out who is this Dean Young. And later, after midnight, I’m entering his name in google, and I get
http://www.newhampshirereview.com/leong.htm
A review from a New Hampshire journal on D.Y. So we read it, and wonder, ponder. Hmmm… So this is a hot young new poet of the first decade of the twentyfirst century? Eh???
And although I know it's not best to ramble all over the place, I've been rambling and that's the truth. But for those of you who hung with me this far, I have an absolute gem to share with you. Buckle your seatbelts, 'cause Kansas is about to go bye bye!
http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/feature/strickland/vniverse/index.html#
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yeahVoted for by chaostheory89.
allpoetry helped get the fair comments i get on here. unlike on my own space where i got called an emo. has helped me alot as a poet too
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I'd love to be published, but I suppose a fourteen year old can't be "serious" about their ambitions yet, so I anxiously await the day I find a poetry contest for my age group so that I can get a poem published should I do a good job. And it's my wish to go to college for not only my teacher's degree, but a writing major as well. I think I've got my bases covered, and I know it's thanks to the encouragement I got from AP members thus far, and the encouragement and advice in the future that allowed and allows me to continue growing as a writer.Please register or login to comment! It's totally free