Writing

National Poetry Writing Month 2016, Day #3

2016/04/03 — 2 Comments

Today’s NaPoWriMo prompt is another one that made me immediately recoil: write a poem in the form of a fan letter to a celebrity. I made this palatable by using the viator form, in which the first line of the first stanza becomes the second line of the second stanza, and so on, until the poem ends with the line with which it began.
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Working on the new book, day 2

2016/04/02 — Leave a comment

The second day of picking possible images for the poems in the new book seemed to much slower—I got part of the way through the Oddities section before calling it a day after less than twenty poems and three hours. Continue reading

Working on the new book, day 1

2016/04/01 — Leave a comment

Technically, I have been easing my way into this book for the last couple of weeks, but today marks my first full day of actively working on it. So, what have I done with it? Continue reading

Stuff—31 March 2016

2016/03/31 — Leave a comment

With the end of March comes the start of April—and, with the start of April, National Poetry Writing Month, a/k/a NaPoWriMo. Accordingly, this seems as good a time as any for an update… Continue reading