Comments on: Why every writer should read poetry https://www.publicationcoach.com/why-every-writer-should-read-poetry/ & Gray-Grant Communications Mon, 05 Jun 2023 20:58:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: Daphne Gray-Grant https://www.publicationcoach.com/why-every-writer-should-read-poetry/#comment-1274 Sun, 19 Aug 2012 05:01:00 +0000 http://pubcoach2018.wpengine.com/?p=3363#comment-1274 In reply to Jim hayward.

I suggest you try some Dylan Thomas, Jim. I particularly like The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower.

]]> By: Jim hayward https://www.publicationcoach.com/why-every-writer-should-read-poetry/#comment-1273 Sun, 19 Aug 2012 02:00:00 +0000 http://pubcoach2018.wpengine.com/?p=3363#comment-1273 Just read the piece and had similar poor experiences with poetry in school. My mother wrote poetry but never passed on her love of it.
I read “How to read a book” and will start looking at some peotry.
I have two old books of poems my father, a forester, read on his solitary nights in the woods; Robert Service and Browning. I must dig them out.
Got me thinking, thanks.

]]> By: Daphne Gray-Grant https://www.publicationcoach.com/why-every-writer-should-read-poetry/#comment-1262 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 01:26:00 +0000 http://pubcoach2018.wpengine.com/?p=3363#comment-1262 In reply to Lori Lipsky.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did, Lori!

]]> By: Daphne Gray-Grant https://www.publicationcoach.com/why-every-writer-should-read-poetry/#comment-1263 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 01:26:00 +0000 http://pubcoach2018.wpengine.com/?p=3363#comment-1263 In reply to Joyce Gram.

I agree with your comment that poetry helps focus the mind! Well put.

]]> By: Daphne Gray-Grant https://www.publicationcoach.com/why-every-writer-should-read-poetry/#comment-1261 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 01:25:00 +0000 http://pubcoach2018.wpengine.com/?p=3363#comment-1261 In reply to Jean Gogolin.

You’re so welcome, Jean. Sorry to take so long to reply but I was off on holiday and, on the latter part of the trip, the little island we were visiting had no Wifi!! Talk about feeling cut off!

]]> By: Joyce Gram https://www.publicationcoach.com/why-every-writer-should-read-poetry/#comment-1257 Wed, 15 Aug 2012 14:59:00 +0000 http://pubcoach2018.wpengine.com/?p=3363#comment-1257 I too discovered poetry fairly recently, and have written quite a bit. It focuses the mind like nothing else. I recommend a daily dose; only takes a minute: http://poems.com/ and http://www.versedaily.org/

]]> By: Lori Lipsky https://www.publicationcoach.com/why-every-writer-should-read-poetry/#comment-1255 Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:21:00 +0000 http://pubcoach2018.wpengine.com/?p=3363#comment-1255 I just purchased Brodsky’s book of essays at your suggestion. I can’t wait to hold it in my hand and read the essay on poetry. Slowly. Thank you for the recommendation.

]]> By: Jean Gogolin https://www.publicationcoach.com/why-every-writer-should-read-poetry/#comment-1253 Tue, 14 Aug 2012 17:46:00 +0000 http://pubcoach2018.wpengine.com/?p=3363#comment-1253 Sorry — I meant “Do I dare to eat a peach?” Brain faster than typing fingers.

]]> By: Jean Gogolin https://www.publicationcoach.com/why-every-writer-should-read-poetry/#comment-1252 Tue, 14 Aug 2012 17:45:00 +0000 http://pubcoach2018.wpengine.com/?p=3363#comment-1252 Damn! Is that what “Dare I eat a peach?” is all about? Who knew?

One of your best posts ever, Daphne, and I wholeheartedly agree. This is one of the reasons I read NPR’s “The Writer’s Almanac” every day. I’ve just finished Ellen Gilchrist’s book on writing and she too has a lot to say about poetry. I haven’t read Brodsky but I will now.

Many thanks for this.

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