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Thanks for stopping by! If you’re new here and want to keep up on poetry and 32 Poems, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. I wrote five poems in the airport on the way to see my grandmother in April. I knew that would be the last time I’d want to write […]
Creating a garden makes sense to me. Why join a gym when I can get exercise by gardening? I also want to prove to myself that I really can grow something and have some kind of self sufficiency regarding food.
Today, I went to Home Depot. Since the store is enormous, it’s hard to find what […]
I’ve got writing prompts.
This is the last day of greatest hits here at the 32 Poems blog. Today, I invite you to get:
Creative Writing Prompts
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Since I’m away on possibly sad business, I’m sharing greatest hits from the 32 Poems blog this week.
Today, I invite you to read about Using Google to Write Poems.
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Improv theatre has always interested me. Poetry = improv. I don’t know why I did not think about it like that before. Now it seems glaringly obvious that every act of writing is an act of improvisation. Since writing is not as physical as acting, I never made the comparison before.
When writing my NaPoWriMo […]
NaPoWriMo continues. On April 17th, I will have been writing a poem per day for 30 days. I write the poems quickly, revise very little and move onto the next day. If you ask me what I wrote about yesterday, I’ll likely have no idea. I let it go and move on. A few moments […]
Several folks are weighing in on the “what audience do you write for” question.
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Leslie Pietrzyk heard Mary Gaitskill speak about becoming a writer. The reason I’m even quoting this passage is because MG speaks honestly about the hard work — and loads of rejection — involved to achieve success.
From Leslie’s notes:
Persistence. She talked about the many, many, many years where no one was publishing her stories…and the many […]
Someone sent me an article from The Chronicle of Higher Education about the University of Iowa’s desire to make graduate works available online and searchable by Google.
My first question is whether this will be done with the MFA work of visual artists? Will every installation be photographed and scanned? Will paintings be photographed, scanned and […]
Allen Taylor’s post “Modern Poetry is Sick” discusses whether poetry is sick when it’s not accessible. In this post, “accessible” can mean the poem itself being easily understood and/or the poem being accessible via book, forum, video, blog and so on.
Allen quotes a blog post by Michael Palmer that says poetry must do the following […]