Fragment of Thought during a Panel Discussion on Contemporary Poetry
Do I want to know there are anti-lyric factions, anti-narrative factions, anti-whatever…I cannot change any of this so why not go forward being irrelevant and happy in my own work…
on every shoulder
the chip
of a poem
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Jean LeBlanc
Jean LeBlanc is a poet, artist, and teacher in Newton, New Jersey. She teaches writing and literature at Sussex County Community College. Her collections of short-form poetry include The Opposite of Bird (Cyberwit, 2015) and The Haiku Aesthetic: Short Form Poetry as a Study in Craft (Cyberwit, 2013).
In her blog, www.jeanleblancpoetry.blogspot.com, she contemplates the role of art and poetry in our weird, mixed-up world.
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Interesting work & form.
I’m off to my gig, monthly sing-along w/ memory care patients…they know the lyrics and respond…In every mind, long forgotten hints of poems once remembered.
Very nice.
It?s exhausting to follow the latest thing in the elite poetry scene. I agree. I?ll also keep doing what I love!
Very good. I love it.
This is excellent. So much said in so few words!
Hear, hear!
Wonderful haibun, Jean–thank you!
So glad you wrote this.
Wonderful! Right on! And brilliant ending.
skywriter . . .
his words turning
into clouds
(originally published in Otata 23)
Yesss! Love it!
This response is overwhelming! Thank you all so much.
Beautiful sentiments to which I totally agree.. Loved the senryu too.
finally
off the hook after all
that wriggling
Whew!! Love the inherent permission to just be true to ourselves and content in that. Thank you!
I too prefer to follow my own muse – who else do we have to follow anyway.
Great stuff, Jean! :)
marion
Quite so