Laura

Marvin gave us two handouts. One is on meter, and he did it only when asked; if you're interested in meter, you can find similar information and in more detail easily through the library or on the web.

The other was his 32 Statements About Writing Poetry, which can be found on the internet here at Copper Canyon Press and here at the Arbutus Online Literary Journal (which has put them all on one page, which makes them easier to read.

This is the last post.

Honest.

I think.

[Sigh. I figured out why this didn't post on its own. Hopefully it goes through this time.]

( And now that I am home, I add a cut. )

I am here and have spent the day meandering the coast. I am also a dork - US 26 is not the road I was remembering. Not sure what was. I visited Ecola State Park which made up for the lack of scary roads on the drive out here. I am glad I did not know what the roads there were like going in. I would not have gone if I had, but the parts I could see were so beautiful.... (Large chunks of the park are only accessible to hikers. I'm not sure I'm up to those trails in cool weather, in summer weather I am quite sure I'm not.)

I am checked in at the hostel now and it is very nice. I definitely will have computer/internet access if I need it but it is $1 per 15 minutes, so you may not hear from me with my usual obsessiveness. Then again, I may have access from the workshop (well, after the workshop) also. And I'm going to try the library tomorrow, I think. But I definitely do have at least sporadic access.

They even have a printer, so if the workshop computers are really busy, I can come back here and pay $1 and be able to type up and print a poem if I need to.

The parking lot is small - smaller than I realized when I was told it almost never filled up. I find that dubious. It has maybe 10-15 spaces, I think, and there's multiple 6-person dorms here plus single rooms.... The dorm is just fine. There is only one other woman in my dorm right now, silver-haired and polite. It turns out she is in the poetry workshop with me! We both just stopped and stared once we started the "so what are you here for" conversation. I've loaned her my Marvin Bell anthology (not the reader, I once again could not find that when packing - I brought Nightworks down) as she's mostly only gotten to read his Dead Man poems and not anything else - I recommended To Dorothy.

Off again now - well, after a couple more minutes reading but don't expect me to keep up with my whole friends page, please. Must decide if I am driving (and risking a lack of parking space on return) or walking (...quite a ways, to anything interesting...but then again it's all flat and I can rest and I should be fine. Hm.)

Yes, I am easily, easily made hyper. I am now registered for the poetry workshop. I have the vacation time off.

And now that I have zipped home to take care of that, I am off to do the grocery shopping and go to the library.

*bounce*

Things I own that no one else does. This is going to be a very, very hard meme, both because my tastes are not often that weird, and because technically Scott and I co-own all this stuff. The last question will be easier, since it doesn't involve owning stuff.

Name a CD you own that no-one else on your friends list does:

Hrrm. Hard. My taste in music is very mainstream for the most part, and where it's not, it overlaps pretty well with one or another person on my friends-list, because usually one of them coaxed me out of the easy-to-find stuff. :P If I try Tom Lehrer or the Kingston Trio, I believe my parents will match me if no one else will; and I know exactly who will laugh if I try much of anything by Suzanne Vega or Billy Joel. Or...yeah.

This reduces me to the fact that many of my friends dislike Jimmy Buffett (though I think my attempt with that one is going to fail), to things I don't actually listen to and may get rid of (which I consider cheating), or to the sorts of things you're ashamed to admit you have. :P

I'll start with Jimmy Buffett, anyway. Just in case I get away with it. Fruitcakes. The first of his stuff I ever listened to, actually, though I owned it on tape before I got the CD so it is not the first CD of his that I got. :)

Name a book you own that no-one else on your friends list does:

Hmmm. The computer-geek books, roleplaying books, and fiction books, besides being shared with Scott, are likely also owned by many people on my friends-list, as are probably a good many others. I'll take a guess that the books in Spanish and the poetry books are my two best chances here, and go with Marvin Bell's Drawn by Stones, by Earth, by Things that Have Been in the Fire (in part because a poetry book 20 years old is not likely to be in too many collections, and Bell is not as big a Name as he ought to be).

Name a movie you own on DVD/VHS/whatever that no-one else on your friends list does:

Ah. Here is where I am very, very unlikely to succeed. I don't like movies. If I stick to ones that are at least partially 'mine' and not wholly Scott's (not that we have many between us, but he gets some freebies from work and some of those might be obscure...), I don't believe I will hit anything that qualifies. Anything Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter is, for example, laughable. Balto would be likelier, but I'm pretty sure I know at least one person who has it. The Neverending Story is unlikely to qualify. Beaches or Cabaret are not movies I've ever seen discussed on my friends list, but I would be surprised if no one had a copy of them.

I know I own a few more, I can't recall 'em at the moment. Let's stop there. Maybe one of those qualify. If not, well...I'm not a movie person. :P

Name a place that you have visited that no-one else on your friends list has:

Hmm. Well, I can't count anywhere I went with my parents, since they're on the list, or Scott, or the hangouts around college. I'm going to go with Silver Falls State Park.

...which my dad has been to. Sigh. Hrm. See, I think I can get away with a number of places my job took me, but, to name the particular locations (and thus departments) is to state more about our clients than I try to here, so I don't get to use those. Hrrm. Can I get away with the Chinese Classical Garden in Portland? (Of course, I have been only once - not so very impressed - but I have been there....) Darnit. There should be more and better options, but really I cannot think of many, if any.

I give up. :P