Quick Muse

This site is wonderful!!! I did find it odd that Kerouac’s “first thought equals best thought” view of ‘spontaneous prose’ was being challenged, its on the “About” page. But as all collegiate writers know perfection lies in the editorial process, but with poetry? Sadly, most of my blog posts are a testament to that, but I currently working on that.

Another Kerouac based tangent that a found amidst the pages was poet laureate Robert Pinsky’s ‘Quick Muse’ piece was about Jazz legend Charlie Parker. The death of this jazz great is believed to be the inspiration for a collection of poetry by Kerouac, entitled “Mexico City Blues.” Within this eulogy I have a particular fondness for Choruses 211 & 149.

Overall, this site reminded me of the ‘Poetry Tag Rooms’ that I used to visit when I was in Indianapolis. (Does anyone know if these chat rooms still exist? If so could you provide a link or a way of navigating to one?) For those who do not know what a tag room, let me supply a brief explanation. In this chat room you don’t type anything when you first enter, instead just read the poem that is being composed in the scroll space. When the poet is finished, there is a minute or two of kudos and criticism, and then he/she TAGS someone in the room, giving them either the subject or first line of a poem for them to compose. Think of it as a flash fiction endeavor but pertaining to poetry not prose

However, this site does capture the real time essence of creating poetry.

Is there a version of Quick Muse for amateur poets?