Goals?

A. Hamilton · Nov 26, 2006

OK, let's hear them.
Short term, long term. You're writing poetry for a reason.
Share your goals here.

A. Hamilton · Nov 26, 2006

Mid-term: to submit and be accepted, preferrably by a paying market.
Long term: to one day publish a chapbook that I am proud of.

Short Term: to write a frikin sonnet that i'm willing to share. grrr

Norman D Gutter · Nov 27, 2006

Short Term:
1. Complete the triolet I began working on last week and workshop it.
2. Remain calm as I wait for the editor at an imprint of a major publishing house to decide on my poetry book as a potential gift book.
3. Find the letter contract from a poetry mag that wants one of my poems in their January issue, and sign it (pays $10 per poem).

Mid-term:
1. Finish two or three poetry appreciation text books I've started.
2. Finish reading a book of Auden's selected poetry that I started back in May (very difficult reading).
3. Arrange my poems files; punch holes where needed; get my submittal log in an easier shape to use.

Long term:
1. Complete the last five years of my poetry learning decade. No way to speed that one up, I guess.
2. Figure out how to write good blank verse.
3. Figure out how to write good free verse.

Godfather · Nov 27, 2006

to write poems that i like, and that hopefully others will like too.

jst5150 · Nov 27, 2006

I've met all the goals I sought with poetry.

I've published a book and, based on response and feedback, have affected a few lives with poetry I have written (and, a third goal, which I've mentioned before, my poetry has helped me get laid, too).

Good to be ahead of the curve. Means more drinking and snugglin' time.

NeuroFizz · Nov 27, 2006

I stand next to Kevin on this one. I do it to become a better and more versatile writer. Oh, yeah. I also do it to entertain others (same goal I have for my fiction writing).

Shiraz · Nov 27, 2006

Godfather said:
to write poems that i like, and that hopefully others will like too.

ditto

And, superficial as it is, to add to my publishing credentials so that my novel might one day be represented and published.

Sorry - I don't usually play the game; but if I have to play the game, well...

A. Hamilton · Nov 27, 2006

I realize after reading other's goals here that my first goal, and one that all my others are contingent upon, is to gain writing confidence and skill.

kdnxdr · Nov 27, 2006

Ya'll have some impressive goals!

For me, my goal is to find my voice in poetry. I don't know if anyone will ever say they enjoy or appreciate my poetry. I don't know if I'll ever have it published or sell my poetry but I know that I keep writing because I'm searching for my voice.

It might be one of those kind of goals that forever stays just out of reach.

Rivana · Nov 28, 2006

*looks a bit sheepish*
I'd like to get published somehow and earn a few bucks, but mostly I just really want to reach as many people as possible with my works and have them mean something to every last person. A bit emo that last bit I guess, but that's the way I feel.

jst5150 · Nov 28, 2006

There are also some paying poetry opps on the AbWr calendar. Don't miss those!

Rivana · Nov 28, 2006

Thanks guys. I'm gonna try for the e-mail submissions-accepting markets first though. International reply coupons cost a lot of money here -150$ just for the subscription to the system, then you have to pay the actual postage as well :-(
Feels like a hefty sum when you don't have any guarantee of making it back.

Rivana · Nov 28, 2006

Huh? Are you sure? Cuz I think I've checked all the markets you posted in that thread and I couldn't find one that accepted e-mails.

Rivana · Nov 28, 2006

*hugs and cuddles* Thank you. The only one I found from your batch so far was the Queen's Quarterly. The Duotrope link you gave me has been very helpful though.

William Haskins · Nov 28, 2006

P.H.Delarran said:
You're writing poetry for a reason.

am i?

A. Hamilton · Nov 28, 2006

Well, you were once;

(in this thread)

William Haskins said:
poetry was my first love, and all my aspirations of being a writer revolved around it. i get a feeling of satisfaction in writing poetry that is impossible to duplicate in any other form of writing.

William Haskins · Nov 28, 2006

fair enough.

i guess my goal is the feeling of satisfaction i get from it.

the process is the thing for me. the poem that results is an artifact, a postcard from the journey.

jst5150 · Nov 29, 2006

[ahem]

indeed.

kborsden · Nov 29, 2006

p.h., i gave up on goals a long time ago, sad but true.
i gain satisfaction from teh fact that there are people out there willing to read and judge my poetry as individuals.

A. Hamilton · Nov 29, 2006

Well that's still a goal of sorts. To get satisfaction from a response. Isn't it?

kborsden · Nov 29, 2006

i suppose so.

A. Hamilton · Nov 29, 2006

I'm just messing with you K. Not everything needs a goal. But it's interesting to see what pushes, or pulls, each of us.

William Haskins · Nov 29, 2006

i've got a bad attitude about the commodification of poetry. i didn't mean to derail your thread.

kborsden · Nov 29, 2006

William Haskins said:
i've got a bad attitude about the commodification of poetry. i didn't mean to derail your thread.

I agree...why not a poetry free-for-all?

pls no 'k' just kie if you want to be intimate.

poetinahat · Nov 29, 2006

I don't know whether I have any goals, other than to find out whether I'm any good at writing, and whether I enjoy it. Getting beyond just spilling on a page, but being able to approach writing as art and craft.

I get this feeling that I should be expanding to do more writing in prose - and I'm starting to do that a little - but poetry's what I really enjoy.

I was going to make a flippant statement about justifying myself to other writers, so I could hang out with them. But there's a grain of truth in that; writers and poets, it turns out, are often fascinating people, and their creations are wondrous. Being amongst them -- you -- makes my life richer.

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