I just wrote a ridiculous and unnecessarily long email about poetry to an undergraduate professor and it's so rare that I write anything lately that's not work-related, I thought perhaps I should save it somewhere for posterity.  (Also: POETRY!  Oh yeah!  That's that thing I love!)
( Poetry of witness. )

Hey do you guys know what time it is? What's that? It's POETRY O'CLOCK??

HAPPY ALMOST NATIONAL POETRY MONTH. SIGN UP FOR YOUR REGULARLY APRIL DAILY POETRY EMAIL, TUMBLR ENTRY, TWITTER UPDATE, LJ POST OR RSS FEED. No need to re-subscribe for those already on board the crazy train. Tell your friends and family. Wear your seatbelts. No returns ( Read more... )

Eleventh hour PSA for the few uninitiated: today starts my most holy religious season, National Poetry Month! Every year I email out a poem every day: if you want to get in on that action, you can sign up here.

There is also
an LJ feed
a Twitter account
a Tumblr and
an RSS feed(Just be glad I still can't bring myself to set up a Facebook page ( Read more... )

Friends, why is LiveJournal -- nay, the internet at large -- so quiet lately? I realize I have no leg to stand on personally, but I want things to read when I am supposd to be focusing on Productivity! Well, here is my contribution to the silence. I have all these epic half-written posts, most of which involve pictures and adventures (... for ( Read more... )

ANNOUNCEMENT: Tomorrow is the first day of National Poetry Month! I will be resurrecting my NaPoMo email list for the fourth(!) year running, and sending out a delicious poem every day. If you want to get in on the hot poetry action, you can join here or send an email to april_is-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. And tell other people you know! Check ( Read more... )

lianhanshee posted this perfectly pleasant meme and then I douched it up by, uh, answering it only with lines of poetry. I DON'T KNOW, I WAS BORED. It's not my fault, we're less than a month out from National Poetry Month -- like I was telling mixedupfiles, I'm keyed up like a kid at Christmas. (You can click through to the whole poem on any of these, if you're into ( Read more... )