[stylist] Follow Your Muse - new blog post today

Tue Aug 15 00:37:05 UTC 2017

Lynda,
I just finished your blog. 
It surely hits some tender spots I have in terms of clutter, and listening to many other loud voices.
I was a little confused in the beginning thinking that they were the words of Louise Gluck, but I recognized you early on.
Your history is very intense in the amount and quality of your education, and the seriousness of purpose that you developed quite early in life.
I would say that in some ways it prepared you for that big step into the wilderness of blindness, and making it all fit together in one of your artistic patterns.
I am so privileged to know you and your work, and to be able to have the benefit of the guiding principles you have developed and shared with all of us.

Jackie Lee

Time is the school in which we learn.
Time is the fire in which we burn.
Delmore Schwartz	 

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Good Saturday Morning Sunshine,
You may like to read my new blog post today on SCANdalous-Recollections.
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Cut-Paste follows for those who cannot access the blog site. I hope this works for you – I could not figure out how to delete the headings that come first. But just scroll down a bit and you will come to my essay.
Thanks for being patient with a slow learner today. I have some typos & grammar glitches here, but I also could not figure out how to correct them in this post even though I corrected them on the original blog post. Technology is not even a sliver of my interest, I must admit. 
Lynda
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Poetry is Always a Good Idea*

*PROOFS AND THEORIES: ESSAYS ON POETRY BY LOUISE GLUCK.

Beginning
Once I begin a poem, it absorbs me completely. I stay with it hour after hour; sometimes rewriting it long after I thought it was finished. The poem seems to me, that sometimes my own writing  takes some years of growing; I am able to come back to those first attempts and have an understanding of what the poem was to become. The poem ages, evolves, and goes through shifts over a long period of time, just like I do in my everyday life. Understanding our own work takes a very long time.

Early Writing Early Writings

I began to write poetry as an undergraduate BFA student at Slippery Rock University of PA in the mid-80s. My first poetry publications appeared in Ginger Hill Literary Journal,   published by the English Department. I was a fine arts major in painting, but English literature was a passion, too.

In graduate school at West Virginia University, While I worked on my MFA in Painting, I continued writing  poetry and I was reading a lot of poetry  about poetry as an art form. My poems appeared in The Daily Athenian in Morgantown, WV.  Contemporary poetry was influencing my life every day. My paintings and printmaking was growing from the ideas I was reading in poetry. It was my lighthouse, and the more I was swimming towards it, the more I realized it was moving away as I wrote – I had to work hard to try to get to it, to capture it on the page.  I had begun learning how to capture the senses in my work with words.

While pursuing the MFA (The Terminal Degree in Fine Arts) in painting, I started working on a MA in English at Slippery Rock University – doing graduate work in 2 different disciplines, in 2 different states, simultaneously. I was in Heaven. I was a Ranaissance woman who would continue to embrace the Humanities, follow my passions in Fine Arts and Literature. I knew I would never dig a deep hole down into only one genre, but I would pursue a hybrid path that was my own creation.

Prepare for the Muse

As I write this essay,  nearly 3 decades later,  I am still working to get the words right.I struggle to evoke the senses that describe what I portray in the poem.

 My Process: 5 GREAT IDEAS
  1.. Make a Writing Space for your creative writing space. Mine is in a room that steps down off of my kitchen. It is a room dedicated to be my Writing Space. I lie to work with the radio on most of the time. The radio is in my kitchen so I can have jusic but not so close as to be a distraction. 
  2.. Organize your Writing Space – This area is your personal private place to do your work. Make sure it is not an area shared by anyone else. Be firm and declare this room or space to be only for you. Don’t give in to any demands for anyone else to use it in any way.  Organize it to suit your intentions and needs. 
  3.. No Cluttering Permitted in your Writing Space. You need a peaceful space and any cluttering will be a distraction to you. Clean your space and organize it and make sure it stays this way. I believe a cluttered mind is reflected by aa messy and disorganized Writing Space. 
  4.. 4. Ask yourself, “How does my life want to be lived?” I like to check with my “inner feelings” to be sure I am doing what my spirit really wants to do. With so many voices in our ears, we need to stop often to have a check on our “inner feelings.” 
  5.. I walk my dogs in the woods every day. Often, I hear a flock of crows overhead.  Our thoughts can be like those crow sounds: loud and demanding. If we follow all those thoughts, our day can turn into a hot mess and nothing gets done. So stop and realize we need quietness and a “check in” with those quiet and still leadings that we have – our intuition.

“Set your pen to paper and live for poetry!  Dwell in its wondrous city, whole and

full-hearted.”  Sheila Bender

  Assignment
Find 1 or 2  writers you like a lot.

Read their work and write about what you like about that work in  your journal.

Begin to search out their work so you can find common themes and quotes that have influenced you. Your chosen writers will become YOUR MENTORS.

A number of years ago, this was my list:
Robert Bly
William Carlos Williams
John Donne
Ranier Maria Rilke
Louise Gluck

(Today, I’ve added others on my list – b t this post is about our beginnings.)

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