A poem I wrote the day after the election was published today as part of an anti-inauguration collection by Anti-Heroin Chic. My sincere thanks go to editor James Diaz for creating this venue for poets on this occasion.
Winter Haiku
“Winter Haiku” was published in the Weekly Avocet, #214. My thanks to the editor, Charles Portolano. The title refers to a series of five haiku about winter. The Weekly Avocet is not available online.
100 Rejections / 30 poems
I’m aiming for 100 rejections in 2017. I already have five, so if I need to move the target up to 200 or even 3000, well, I will. And I vow to market my poems in a thoughtful way. I won’t deliberately select elite publications just to inflate my numbers. Nor will I deliberately misread…
Revising
I wrote multiple drafts of a poem, but something was wrong with it. I workshopped it with a group of U of Iowa International Writing Program students and no one could identify what was wrong. Today is the second day of a two day snowstorm. It’s hovering at zero and there’s wind and fine particles…
Submitting
It is with mingled hope and trepidation that I submit two poems to an unnamed outlet. Submit means to offer up and that I do. Submitting material is part of writing. Rejection is part of writing. I take this step, again, as I have before, and claim myself as writer. The trepidation is that there…