Showing posts with label satire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label satire. Show all posts

Friday, July 6, 2012

Emily Dickinson faces a Writers' Workshop



I'm a proponent of workshops.  But I'm not sure that they're doing Emily Dickinson good in this critique.
Still, I guess Miss Emily wasn't completely hopeless:
"I'd like to see you bring this through the workshop again."

Always end with encouragement, that's it.

But still, in another critique, she should pay attention about correct fonts-- handwritten just doesn't do it.  And,
"Almost all of your writing is about death. Could you lighten up?  ...your self-esteem needs a boost. Have you thought about therapy, Em?"


Thursday, May 31, 2012

Breaking news from the Onion

News reports at The Onion, "America's finest news source," state that "Shadows meet the clouds, Gray on gray, Like dusty charcoal on an ashen brow", according to eye-witness poets.


Shadows Meet The Clouds, Gray On Gray, Like Dusty Charcoal On An Ashen Brow, Nation's Poets Report

Cited...

The poet doesn't invent. He listens. ~Jean Cocteau