Comments on: Poetry as Defiance http://www.robertpeake.com/archives/431-Poetry-as-Defiance.html An American Poet in London Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:26:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Robert http://www.robertpeake.com/archives/431-Poetry-as-Defiance.html/comment-page-1#comment-1542 Robert Tue, 30 Dec 2008 06:12:46 +0000 http://www.robertpeake.com/?p=431#comment-1542 I definitely appreciated the opportunity to return to this MFA, seven years after finishing my undergraduate studies and in the middle of a career, to find that having lived gave me material, and gave my material depth. I also feel that the low-residency format of this degree may have better prepared me to integrate writing into the rest of my life, as opposed to feeling like some kind of hiatus after which I then wonder how to make a living, or start a career, or otherwise ask, "what's next?" For me, what's next is what I have been doing so far, without quite the same structure. But it feels like continuity, and that feels good. :) I definitely appreciated the opportunity to return to this MFA, seven years after finishing my undergraduate studies and in the middle of a career, to find that having lived gave me material, and gave my material depth. I also feel that the low-residency format of this degree may have better prepared me to integrate writing into the rest of my life, as opposed to feeling like some kind of hiatus after which I then wonder how to make a living, or start a career, or otherwise ask, “what’s next?” For me, what’s next is what I have been doing so far, without quite the same structure. But it feels like continuity, and that feels good. :)

]]> By: Robert http://www.robertpeake.com/archives/431-Poetry-as-Defiance.html/comment-page-1#comment-1541 Robert Tue, 30 Dec 2008 06:02:51 +0000 http://www.robertpeake.com/?p=431#comment-1541 The journey begins... :) The journey begins… :)

]]> By: Alex Escude http://www.robertpeake.com/archives/431-Poetry-as-Defiance.html/comment-page-1#comment-1540 Alex Escude Tue, 30 Dec 2008 04:08:25 +0000 http://www.robertpeake.com/?p=431#comment-1540 When I finished my MA in creative writing. Sans the F. I felt a split between what I'd done and what I was going to do, but that split didn't materialize truly until four years later. What hit me first was "how am I going to make a living?" I think it's the need to thrive beyond poetry that keeps the poetry fresh and vital. Congrats and good luck. When I finished my MA in creative writing. Sans the F. I felt a split between what I’d done and what I was going to do, but that split didn’t materialize truly until four years later. What hit me first was “how am I going to make a living?” I think it’s the need to thrive beyond poetry that keeps the poetry fresh and vital. Congrats and good luck.

]]> By: Gavin Frye http://www.robertpeake.com/archives/431-Poetry-as-Defiance.html/comment-page-1#comment-1539 Gavin Frye Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:33:50 +0000 http://www.robertpeake.com/?p=431#comment-1539 I am appreciating your words, Robert, and also Stafford's powerful quote. I find that when I have the willingness to sit down in response to my call to write, an intimate thread between me and the invisible often becomes more and more accessible inwardly. This partnering becomes something that leads me somewhere I have never been, is often subtely intoxicating in its presence, in it's pleasure that I have entered the water to learn more of it, to flow together. Like writing these words right now, discovering what I am expressing as I express. This post, as well as your earlier post about the value of regularly and consciously choosing to get up early in the morning to open to the flow of writing, mean a lot right now. As of late, I am being called to write more and more regularly -- or more accurately, to take the time to visit with the flow and let it speak to me -- and am witnessing myself saying "OK" more often. I am opening to new strands of transmission, and they seem as sacred and important to honor as my next breath. Thank you, Robert, Gavin I am appreciating your words, Robert, and also Stafford’s powerful quote. I find that when I have the willingness to sit down in response to my call to write, an intimate thread between me and the invisible often becomes more and more accessible inwardly. This partnering becomes something that leads me somewhere I have never been, is often subtely intoxicating in its presence, in it’s pleasure that I have entered the water to learn more of it, to flow together. Like writing these words right now, discovering what I am expressing as I express.

This post, as well as your earlier post about the value of regularly and consciously choosing to get up early in the morning to open to the flow of writing, mean a lot right now. As of late, I am being called to write more and more regularly — or more accurately, to take the time to visit with the flow and let it speak to me — and am witnessing myself saying “OK” more often. I am opening to new strands of transmission, and they seem as sacred and important to honor as my next breath. Thank you, Robert, Gavin

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