Well, I did not write anything yesterday (I say ‘yesterday’ even though I haven’t gone to sleep yet)—but I now have a title for my next collection of poems: Continue reading
update
Updated Amazon Author Central Page
Yes, I finally got around to making a few updates. Here is the URL: amazon.com/author/kevinjoconner
(1 May 2018)
CDC Poetry Project update
Update: the poem I submitted to The CDC Poetry Project is now scheduled to run on January 15th. For more information on exactly what The CDC Poetry Project is, go to https://cdcpoetry.wordpress.com/. I will post the link to the poem once I have it.
(5 January 2018)
Dear Thursday… in production
Production on ‘Dear Thursday…’ is under way. After first preparing the Word file for the e-book version, I copied the contents into InDesign, then generated the interior PDF, which I have uploaded to IngramSpark (along with the cover, which you can see below) to start the process.
My target date for publication is November 27th—which will be ‘Cyber Monday’ this year. The pertinent information appears below.
It won’t be long now: ‘Dear Thursday…’
Today’s entry in the Love Notes to the Days of the Week series is no. 359—which means it is almost time to start preparing the ‘Dear Thursday…’ volume for publication, as this coming Thursday will be the last entry for Year Four. I expect to have everything put together and ready to go before the end of November.
Until then, I am putting the finishing touches on 8: Eight-word Poems, and have started sorting through the material for what I am still calling The Lilac Years.
And I must get my proper website back up and running. I had started rebuilding it with the assumption that The Lilac Years would be out around this time, so I have some changes to make to what I have already done. I am aiming for having the basic site back online by the end of the month.
Stay tuned!
(13 October 2017)
Rejection season has arrived!
Okay, it’s actually the first notices regarding competitions I have submitted my work to this year; it just so happens that the first two notices—one, really (I have not received the second notice, but the winners have already been announced via Twitter, so…)—are out, and my name appears among neither the winners nor the finalists/runners-up.
This is actually a bit of a relief. For one thing, it means I can raid the material for possible inclusion in my next book. For another, it means that I no longer have to worry about how the books in question would have been presented—that is, about the size, cover design, layout, and typeface selection—or about someone else’s publishing schedule.
None of my other outstanding competitions involve works for publication; in that sense, the pressure is off.
(13 September 2017)
Next…
Friday is September 1st—time for a new writing challenge. I think I am going to go with the thing I mentioned a couple of days ago—i.e., avoiding the word I, regardless of form or format. Will it be harder than May 2016’s verbless poem challenge? Stay tuned to find out. Continue reading
State of the Art(ist), August 2017
It has been a while since I last posted something that wasn’t either a poem, a ‘love note’ entry, or somehow not directly related to my self-publishing activity (the ‘Resistance Song of the Day’ notwithstanding). So, here goes… Continue reading
2017 Poetry Marathon: It’s official
It is official! I will be participating in the half-marathon portion of the 2017 Poetry Marathon. This means that, starting with the 6 o’clock hour (Pacific time) on August 5th, I will be writing and posting a new poem every hour for twelve hours.
Although I write new poems daily, try to write more than one at a time whenever possible, and have opted for the half-marathon instead of the full marathon (which involves writing and posting a new poem every hour for twenty-four hours), this event is no small endeavor. Fortunately, the marathon takes place a week earlier this year, so there will be no need to reshuffle my schedule—last year, I skipped the earlier of the two open mics I would normally go to, then scrambled to make the second one on time.
So! On Saturday, August 5th, starting somewhere between 6 and 7 a.m. Pacific time, you can follow my progress at https://thepoetrymarathon.com/blog/kevinjoconner/, and the marathon as a whole at https://thepoetrymarathon.com/blog/. I will also post my poems on this blog, as well as on ello.
Meanwhile, on with the countdown!
(26 July 2017)
It’s in the mail!
It is that time of year again—time for Pulitzer entries… Continue reading
Ordinary Average Thoughts 