#and I will just churn out a buncha 2-5 panel edits with every poem I just so happen to come across

[simmyfrobby]

what’s your process like for making a new poetry edit? like, do you find a poem and go hmm i could do something with this, do you look for poems/images that fit a specific narrative, or something else entirely? i just love all your edits, and i’m curious about the creative process behind them!

ooh i love this question! i love talking poetry edits!

it depends a little bit!

sometimes (and this is especially true for the shorter poems) i come across a poem that reminds me of a player and immediately sorta know what i want the finished product to look like.

(like with the Marner “i was never a child just a smaller image of myself” edit where i stumbled across the poem and KNEW there were pictures of baby-leafs-fan Marner i could use)

more often than not i will see a picture or read someones analysis of an event and it will remind me of a specific line of poetry. (see: the Tkachuk poem inspired by this post, and the Marner poem inspired by this post) these are usually the better edits! 

every once in a while i will collect a few pictures that tell a story on their own and try to match them with a poem after the fact. (flower poem is an example of this) 

And sometimes my friends send me poems and go “i bet you could do something really awful with this” (@charleskachow & @jonassiegenthighler honourable mentions) in which case i usually just go “okay i have a poem. i have an hour. what am i doing.” (result: hot dog poem, red wings poem, Tavares poem)

when it comes to the little impromptu ones there is no system. no process. just whichever poem first comes to mind when i think about that player + a getty images picture i like

all this goes to say: no real process. i am chronically online. i listen to a lot of hockey podcasts. i think about poetry 24/7. everything reminds me of some poem or other. and even when i’m not feeling terribly inspired i have a backlog of 20+ poems that i should really get around to finishing at some point. 

#when im really emotional about any given event or player #every single poem will remind me of them #and I will just churn out a buncha 2-5 panel edits with every poem I just so happen to come across #because im SAD #um so yea that explains all the bruinsposting that happened around the time when bergy announced his retirement #if im Normal about a player/event I am usually able to spend more time figuring out the emotional beats of the poem & match this w pictures #and the edits turn out better as a result #so the rule of thumb is #the more I like a player #the shittier the edits #which I personally think is quite fun. no one tell me otherwise. #thank you for asking <3