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Apr. 11th, 2004 06:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
godreamHappy Easter!
I'd forgotten how much harder it is for me (and, I'd imagine, most people) to write structured poetry -- your villanelles or pantoums or whatever. I was going to post an old villanelle I wrote ages and ages ago so we could all laugh at it but evidently I lost it somewhere along the line. I think it was creatively titled "Evil-lanelle", because I was writing it for an assignment and getting very frustrated with the form. But I will pound out something structured that works, soon, really.
In other news, the poetry slam's cancelled due to lack of interest, and I can't quite bring myself to post that information on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
lincolnsudbury because I secretly want to believe that it's really going to happen after all. Blargh. But really, say each poem read was going to be five minutes -- which is very, very generous; my realistic estimate would be more like two. Eight readers is forty minutes, which doesn't seem like enough to bother for. Bah.
Linkage -- this article, entitled "Smells Like Teen Spirituality", is pretty interesting, especially the end, though I've seen one of the four TV shows (which share the common theme of Teen Girls Whom God Talks To) mentioned, once. That's supposed to be 'whom', right? Not who? I can never get that straight. You do have to watch an ad to get to it, but it's worth it.
And finally, a random anecdote. The BBIQ competition is the weekend after this one, and recently I got an email addressed to all the participants talking about AP cram sessions during the tournament. I responded saying I was interested, and the guy vaguely in charge of it said "oh, good" and then some stuff about how it was such a great competition and I'd be pleasantly surprised at the number of girls there. Well, yeah, I know, I've gone for the last two years. He then said that he himself was bringing nine (!) all-girl teams. Which is all well and good and hurrah for girls being involved in male-dominated activities, but I narrowly avoided telling him that really, I'd be even more excited if he said he was bringing nine teams of straight, single male models. :P
I'd forgotten how much harder it is for me (and, I'd imagine, most people) to write structured poetry -- your villanelles or pantoums or whatever. I was going to post an old villanelle I wrote ages and ages ago so we could all laugh at it but evidently I lost it somewhere along the line. I think it was creatively titled "Evil-lanelle", because I was writing it for an assignment and getting very frustrated with the form. But I will pound out something structured that works, soon, really.
In other news, the poetry slam's cancelled due to lack of interest, and I can't quite bring myself to post that information on
lincolnsudbury because I secretly want to believe that it's really going to happen after all. Blargh. But really, say each poem read was going to be five minutes -- which is very, very generous; my realistic estimate would be more like two. Eight readers is forty minutes, which doesn't seem like enough to bother for. Bah.Linkage -- this article, entitled "Smells Like Teen Spirituality", is pretty interesting, especially the end, though I've seen one of the four TV shows (which share the common theme of Teen Girls Whom God Talks To) mentioned, once. That's supposed to be 'whom', right? Not who? I can never get that straight. You do have to watch an ad to get to it, but it's worth it.
And finally, a random anecdote. The BBIQ competition is the weekend after this one, and recently I got an email addressed to all the participants talking about AP cram sessions during the tournament. I responded saying I was interested, and the guy vaguely in charge of it said "oh, good" and then some stuff about how it was such a great competition and I'd be pleasantly surprised at the number of girls there. Well, yeah, I know, I've gone for the last two years. He then said that he himself was bringing nine (!) all-girl teams. Which is all well and good and hurrah for girls being involved in male-dominated activities, but I narrowly avoided telling him that really, I'd be even more excited if he said he was bringing nine teams of straight, single male models. :P
