Thursday, March 22, 1934
Daily Nebraskan
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Judith Sornberger
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By Jackie Fox
Judith Sornberger is one of many
talented poets working in the Lincoln
area. Her work has been widely pub
lished in literary magazines, including
Calyx, Pebble and the Kansas Quar
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She is in her second year of teaching
English at UNL. Prior to that she taught
creative writing at the Southeast Com
munity College Corrections Division.
She has recently started her own pub
lishing company, Free Rein Press, and
has just completed editing an anthol-
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ogy of Nebraska women poets called
All my Grandmothers Could Sing, to
be available this summer.
Sornberger has been writing poetry
since she was in second grade. She said
she received her first recognition as a
poet in third grade when she won a
Highlights magazine contest "for a
horrible poem based on Hickory Dick
ory Dock."
Sornberger said there are many
ways to approach writing. "My poems
are often different from each other
because of the way each one started.
Some of my poems come all at once . . .
in a linear process, but other poems
seem to come almost in splotches. Ill
know that there's something, and then
often 111 let it sit because I dont have
the metaphor yet. Sometimes the met
aphor is in the writing, but sometimes
it comes later," Sornberger said.
"I don't let myself have writer's block.
' I think writer's blocks are luxuries that
we allow ourselves. I know there are
times I don't write, and I know that it's
because I'm busy or I'm lazy. Some
times there are things I'm not ready to
write about, but the trick fGr me is to
write other things," Sornberger said.
The most important quality for poets
to have is faith, she said. "Poetry de
mands a great deal of faith, in so many
different ways; faith that you will find
a metaphor, faith that you will find the
words, faith that it's possible that you
will be able to not only satisfy yourself
but mean something to other people,
too."
She finds similarities between writ
ing and teaching because both are
creative acts. But there are differences
as well.
"You have a finished product that
you can always share in one (poetry),
and with the other (teaching) you
never know what the product of your
efforts is. You don't know that your
class is the thing that will make stu
dents decide to become writers them
selves. You only get immediate results,"
Sornberger said.
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Wish
By Judith Sornberger
Feeling dark and exotic
after the day of sun,
I sit with you on the bank
of a man-made lake in
Kansas,
wishing it were the Nile,
wishing we were eating
something
other than potato chips -figs,
perhaps, or olives.
I wish the stars would
come out with it:
To which do I owe
my skin and skeleton,
the cloaks I wrap
around my longings.
And to which do I owe
my silver hair?
When we speak of my
children,
I wish they were here
and that they'd never been
born.
I wish I were sitting be
side you
with all things still before
me,
that my children .were
grains
of light we could awaken
in the tunnels of this
night's sleep.
I wish that you could
come to me
tonight with any other
yardstick
but the past, and that the
past
had not been the only
way here.
I wish I would become
worthy of stars.
I wish you could forget
the darkening sky and
admit
that just for now there is
no other
moon than the one bob
bing on my hair.
Look, you say, pointing to thefirststar. Make a wish.
the drop
of light newly fallen Reprinted by special per-
from the moon's wan face, mission.
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