LR Young

LR Young completed her Masters in Literature in Spring of 2009. Her current emphasis is poetry, the intimacy of words and string of consciousness revelations, rhythm and imagery. It is just as Ginsberg said: "Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does." She lives in the Colorado mountains with her husband and two cats.

Recommendations for the writer of poetry in general:

1) look at other forms beside rhyming couplets. It might open up your language options. Unless you are Shakespeare or Petrarch and can nail iambic pentameter, then try sonnets (and abab is another option if rhyming in set meter is your thing). Beware the sing-song!

2) Read Poetry. Not just your friends' work. Study your craft. Masters include: e.e.cummings, rumi, hafiz, pablo neruda, allen ginsberg, ranier maria rilke, mina loy, ezra pound, t.s. eliot, walt whitman, william carlos williams, jean toomer, homer, sappho, wallace stevens, sylvia plath, adrienne rich, mary oliver, c.d. wright, lynn hejinian, joy harjo, william blake, percy bysshe shelley, dylan thomas, christina rossetti, dante gabriel rossetti, emily dickinson, gertrude stein, langston hughes, w.h. auden, robert browning, wordsworth, keats, yeats, ruskin, frost, anne bradstreet, omar khayyam, elizabeth bishop, and if you dig poe, then read poe.

3) if you want to do haiku, then read: matsuo basho


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