[Stylist] NPM_Focus on favorite poets _ Literary mentors

[Barbara HAMMEL]

Hey, Lynda, I've contemplated this question before about who are my "mentors" in writing. I wonder how many writers are like me. I started writing poetry before I decided I should start READING poetry. I've since discovered that I love Edgar Guest, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Longfellow, Bryant, Holmes, Dickinson and the like. (Yeah, I stick to the rhymers.) I've tried reading the non-rhymers like Billy Collins and Walt Whitman but, even though I understand the words they write, they're speaking a foreign language.  Barbara Hammel

> On Apr 15, 2019, at 03:29, Linda Lambert via Stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Good morning writers,
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> I've been writing one blog post a day for National Poetry Month.
> 
> This week, I will focus on 7 of my own favorite poets - one a day.
> 
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> 
> For my 7 selections, I revisit my own roots in poetry and where I found
> inspiration and ideas - 
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> Do you know who your literary mentors are? We all have literary mentors, but
> sometimes are unaware of them.
> 
> Our ideas begin somewhere, and it is important to know our own roots. 
> 
> It's a good thing to spend some time looking back at your own literary roots
> to find out where you come from in your own  work.
> 
> We all have a literary history - what's yours?
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> The poets I'll be writing about are my literary mentors.
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> 
> 
> My first feature on today's post is Georg Trakl, an Austrian who was born in
> Salzburg.
> 
> I visited the Traklhaus over the years, every summer when I was teaching in
> Austria for a month-long course in drawing and writing for college students.
> 
> To walk in places where your literary mentors lived and worked is
> life-changing.  We are carried on their backs.  My series this weeks pays
> homage to my mentors.
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> 
> You can read my post on Georg Trakl at this link:
> http://www.lyndalambert.com/georg-trakl/
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> I've included a poem in text format in the story, and a link to that poem
> being read.  I've included a link where you can learn more about the Trakl
> home in Salzburg. Trakl's work is in German, his native language. What I
> posted is a translation.
> 
> Lynda
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