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Oh My Thesis

May 13, 2008 by jessiecarty

I swore to myself that I would wait until June 1st to start my thesis. Why June 1st? Well for starters that is the day after my final residency as a non-graduating student. yah! and wah but also because we do not submit poems during June and July for workshop so there is the time factor. But, I couldn’t wait. I have compiled up to January 2008 residency now in a document and it is already a little frustrating. I went into compiling the thesis with this grand idea of how it was going to be obvious which poems to use because they would be so many on my certain obsessions. Hmm…doesn’t seem to be so or if there are many poems on certain “topics” I’m not fond of the poems themselves.

*sigh*

I just want to get the poems grouped together and printed so I can start considering them. Not just because this will be my thesis and first manuscript, but because I feel that urge to move on. I have new material from the first of the year and from NaPoWriMo that is just so different and ultimately feels more like the poet I want to be. So the items that I am putting together for the thesis/manuscript feel almost false. You know how it is going back to read your old work right? I don’t, however, feel I should just abandon all the work I put in to revise these poems–some as old as 1996 because a few of them have been published and others are just on that cusp. But there is that part of me that just wants to tackle the new stuff. I need restraint!

Oh, and there is the issue with my two chapbooks I am sending out to contests right now. A few of those poems have been workshopped but I don’t plan on including them in the thesis because both chapbooks are somewhat themed. That makes my core of poems to include in the thesis/manuscript smaller and smaller.

That’s just me venting. Received another e-jection today (that term from a fellow Queenie ) but it didn’t bother me. Still have 16 sets of poems out there. I just want them back and the thesis poems typed up so I can decide what poems are worth continuing to revise and which ones need to be tucked away.

Oh and can someone tell my husband what he should do when he grows up?

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6 Responses to “Oh My Thesis”

on May 14, 2008 at 1:57 am1 Em

Keep working to get your poetry out there, girlie!
on May 14, 2008 at 2:47 am2 jessiecarty

Thanks for the encouragement It is like having a job trying to get published I swear! Does your hubby still try to send things out?
on May 14, 2008 at 5:31 pm3 helenl

Hi Jessie, I love the term “e-jection.” LOL It is having a job. I just got an e-jection from a poet I’ll be reading with in hickory in September. Thanks a lot, John Amen. Now do I invite him to submit to the Mule. Kill ‘em with kindness.
on May 14, 2008 at 6:53 pm4 jessiecarty

I can’t take credit for “e-jection” but I love the term!

How could someone turn down the Mule? The horror!!!
on May 15, 2008 at 7:23 pm5 helenl

I did ask him, Jessie. He said, yes. Poems in the Mule in August. Why editors think they have to worry poets silly is beyond my comprehension. Do they think it improves their e-mag or their own writing? LOL No reason why publication can’t be pleasant for writers and editors and publishers.
on May 15, 2008 at 8:03 pm6 jessiecarty

Excellent! I’ll be looking forward to reading those