Poetry on the brain
I've been reading poetry anthologies, grabbing various ones from the library. It's been a while since I've done this and I forgot how much I love it. It's a really good way for me to find a variety of poets to enjoy. Like sampling from a bakery. I've been putting a sticky note on the inside cover and then writing down any poet and poem that I fall in love with as I go along. I'll have to see if I can track down more from those poets in the future. A few on that list: Rick Barot, Paul Beatty, Rafael Campo, Denise Duhamel, Jeffrey McDaniel, Ruth L. Schwartz.
Reading so much poetry does strange things to my thinking. Everything becomes a poem. Simple things become deeper, take on interesting wording in my head. Sometimes sentences in my head start taking on little pauses as I unconsciously tag in line breaks. It's amusing. It makes things more interesting inside my head.
I'm thinking about making a small website to try and get out there a bit more. Just the free one through google, probably. I don't like to put up poetry anywhere public, especially as a lot of places that look for poetry submissions count websites and blogs as previously published. Most places avoid anything that's been previously published. Unsurprisingly. But I could put up any of my poems that have already been published somewhere. Granted, that's only two poems, at the moment, but even that's enough to give a sampling of my work -- and with luck, I'll be able to add up more in the future. And, of course, I could eventually expand it to be a website for my writing, in general, and maybe my art.
Reading so much poetry does strange things to my thinking. Everything becomes a poem. Simple things become deeper, take on interesting wording in my head. Sometimes sentences in my head start taking on little pauses as I unconsciously tag in line breaks. It's amusing. It makes things more interesting inside my head.
I'm thinking about making a small website to try and get out there a bit more. Just the free one through google, probably. I don't like to put up poetry anywhere public, especially as a lot of places that look for poetry submissions count websites and blogs as previously published. Most places avoid anything that's been previously published. Unsurprisingly. But I could put up any of my poems that have already been published somewhere. Granted, that's only two poems, at the moment, but even that's enough to give a sampling of my work -- and with luck, I'll be able to add up more in the future. And, of course, I could eventually expand it to be a website for my writing, in general, and maybe my art.