tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37627577.post6765474539701424536..comments2024-02-12T16:32:03.714-08:00Comments on Book of Kells: Confession Tuesday - The Monkey House EditionKelli Russell Agodon - Book of Kellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01798460634708905783noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37627577.post-89783610432565807342011-05-03T13:58:17.334-07:002011-05-03T13:58:17.334-07:00Rebecca-- Thank you. I'm glad you enjoy Confe...Rebecca-- Thank you. I'm glad you enjoy Confession T! <br /><br />Hannah, Tim is incredible. Yes, I love his gentle, but honest touch.<br /><br />Jessie! Oh no! I'm pretending you are being witty right now.<br /><br />Margo-- I'm working on submitting again! And funny thing, I just wrote a ghazal about 2 weeks ago first time in years.<br /><br />Lyle-- I appreciate hearing that you've been working on something for such a long time. I like hearing poems with past lives have a chance to live.Kelli Russell Agodon - Book of Kellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01798460634708905783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37627577.post-56704092439656101212011-04-27T19:01:23.446-07:002011-04-27T19:01:23.446-07:00Just within the past month I finished a poem manus...Just within the past month I finished a poem manuscript that I've been working on since 1984. The main part of it is a loosely narrative series of two dozen poems that come from traveling (many years ago) with a poet friend for several days on the west coast (from Los Angeles to Port Townsend, Washington). The maniscript also includes a few other poems that are outside the main narrative section, more or less as bookends at the beginning and end.<br /><br />I say "finished," and that's basically true, though I'm going to go through it and check for things, probably fix little stuff, etc. But the main work on it is done.<br /><br />During the past couple of years I put together a New and Selected Poems manuscript, which will be published (possibly sometime this year) by the publisher who has done several previous books of mine.<br /><br />In compiling the New and Selected Poems manuscript, I raided several other unpublished manuscripts (some completed, some in progress) for poems to include. One of the incidental results of this is that I now have a bunch of poems that are to some extent "orphans," no longer part of a complete manuscript. So I've been slowly sorting through the unattached poems to see what possible new manuscripts I can piece together with them. This project is still in progress, though I seem to be making headway.<br /><br />I work full-time (sitting in a cubicle in a large office in a large corporation, talking on the phone and typing on a computer). I need to be fairly determined and disciplined to make time to write in the nooks and crannies of each day. Generally I manage to.Lyle Daggetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10731915540520704368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37627577.post-54129704505101799342011-04-27T07:45:59.629-07:002011-04-27T07:45:59.629-07:00Tim Gunn is wonderful!
I confess I am working on s...Tim Gunn is wonderful!<br />I confess I am working on submitting more--not sure what is holding me back. I have poems...<br />In general, I confess I am struggling with putting together a first chapbook.<br />In specific, I confess I am struggling with conquering the ghazal form, which is deceptively difficult to do well.<br />And, I confess, your blog helps light the way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37627577.post-40639524531432455922011-04-26T17:48:49.940-07:002011-04-26T17:48:49.940-07:00Wittycomment was eaten by blogger :(Wittycomment was eaten by blogger :(Jessie Cartyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13181286764480973423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37627577.post-81659517083370371462011-04-26T12:40:34.505-07:002011-04-26T12:40:34.505-07:00God, I love Tim Gunn. I aspire to be like him as a...God, I love Tim Gunn. I aspire to be like him as a teacher--all the time, I think about his approach--so kind and smart, yet very honest and wanting to help.<br /><br />Hoohooheehee (that's the sound of the monkey house).Hannah Stephensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15792203070774504501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37627577.post-5809214403299529562011-04-26T12:27:28.282-07:002011-04-26T12:27:28.282-07:00I confess to being wildly in love with my new manu...I confess to being wildly in love with my new manuscript which is already two years old and consists of 28 poems but I love all of them.<br /><br />I confess that Confession Tuesday is my favorite day here.<br /><br />xoRadish Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06534752971317927559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37627577.post-21293177798161936612011-04-26T10:05:19.544-07:002011-04-26T10:05:19.544-07:00Justin--
I think whenever we risk in our work, we...Justin--<br /><br />I think whenever we risk in our work, we fear this. I know this is my mss, I'm doing/trying new things.<br /><br />And you know, I'm believing more and more that maybe we'll never know if we're in the monkey house until it's finished. And I think that's okay. It has to be.<br /><br />Welcome to the Monkey House. Serving bananas at noon. ;-) We can have banana daiquiris together.<br /><br />~KellsKelli Russell Agodon - Book of Kellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01798460634708905783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37627577.post-15127450187988996742011-04-26T09:02:34.345-07:002011-04-26T09:02:34.345-07:00I've been living in the monkey house with my e...I've been living in the monkey house with my entire second manuscript. I have no earthly idea whether it's any good. It's so far out of my usual voice.<br /><br />I'm afraid to find out on so many levels.Justin Evanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12161484350184865575noreply@blogger.com