Just a short note, with one of the best quotations on Poetry I’ve ever run across…
At the Lucidity Poets’ Retreat a couple weeks ago, I fell in love with a poem that Karen Honnold read at one of the evening sessions. Later I found it was from her chapbook, and she had only brought a copy to read from. Well, I had a couple of mine with me, too, so begged an exchange. She agreed.
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shameless plug…. see section “By Gayle” ‘
Later, when we exchanged and autographed them, she warned me, “I just looked and I published this about 8 years ago. I’m sure I’d change some of them if I could.”
I just laughed – and explained the same thing about mine. We both agreed it was a great trade, (but I still think I got the best of the deal).
Today, I received a copy of Lucidity Poetry Journal, a small newsletter-type sharing of what founder Ted Badger calls ‘understandable verse’. The last line in the editors notes says it all:
“When you are finished reading copy, please pass it on to someone else. Poems have no shelf-life.”See, Karen? It was a GREAT deal!
Interested in the Journal? Contact Ted at tdbdgr@gmail.com
Thank you, Gayle. Through that chapbook I found my own voice.