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I'm a bicycling poet who lived in Parker for several years and worked at YourHub.com, covering Parker and Franktown for two years.

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Poetry Friday: What are you waiting for?

Contributed by: Tabitha Dial, YourHub.com   on 7/12/2006

A friend of mine, who I met through Elisabeth Kinsey, a classmate from one of my Metro State College of Denver poetry classes with Rene'e Ruderman, introduced me to Denver poet Michele Harvey a while back.

Maybe it's been a couple years.

Maybe just one.

But I'm sure the introduction was made somewhere through e-mail, and I believe we first met in person one fine day at a poetry reading at West Side Books. Still, I could be wrong.

Regardless, Michele has asked me to look at her manuscript of poetry and write a short blurb about it as she enters the world of self-publishing. I really admire her for that-- she's been serious about poetry for about two years straight, though I think she told me she used to write poetry before. Now she's ready to publish a collection of verse.

Her manuscript was the first piece of mail received at the new apartment, and so far the only item to arrive with my name on it (snail mail's a big thing in my life- but that's for another blog about me and my friend Julie Kraft).

I hope to deliver Michele a fine review in the next week or two.

Is there a manuscript of poetry waiting inside of you? The poem of the week for May 26 from American Life in Poetry addresses the fear that can come from taking on the task of writing.

Are you like the woman in the poem? Do you have something to say about this poem? Please post your comments in the comments box below.

Here is the American Life in Poetry column and poem, by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate:

Everywhere I travel I meet people who want to write poetry but worry that what they write won't be "any good." No one can judge the worth of a poem before it's been written, and setting high standards for yourself can keep you from writing. And if you don't write you'll miss out on the pleasure of making something from words, of seeing your thoughts on a page. Here Leslie Monsour offers a concise snapshot of a self-censoring poet.

The Education of a Poet

Her pencil poised, she's ready to create,
Then listens to her mind's perverse debate
On whether what she does serves any use;
And that is all she needs for an excuse
To spend all afternoon and half the night
Enjoying poems other people write.

Leslie Monsour's newest book of poetry is "The Alarming Beauty of the Sky" (2005) published by Red Hen Press. Poem copyright (c) 2000 by Leslie Monsour and reprinted from "The Formalist," Vol. 11, by permission of the author. This weekly column is supported by The Poetry Foundation, The Library of Congress, and the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. This column does not accept unsolicited poetry.

American Life in Poetry provides newspapers and online publications with a free weekly column featuring contemporary American poems. The sole mission of this project is to promote poetry: American Life in Poetry seeks to create a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture.


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Submitted By: Michele Harvey
posted on 6/9/2006 @ 3:31:36 PM
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About American Life in Poetry poem, it's what we do when know one is looking that truly counts the most or so it has been said. Michele Harvey
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Submitted By: Tabitha Dial
posted on 6/9/2006 @ 11:03:14 AM
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In a perfect world, no one would spend their time reading other people's poetry as they privately crave to write their own. I can very much understand how the woman described in this poem feels, yet I'm thankful that I've never thought like her, so far as I recall it stopping me from writing.
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Tabitha Dial has posted 194 blog entries and 816 comments since joining on 9/14/2005. Tabitha Dial's average blog rating is 4.96.
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