Friday, April 22, 2011

My 30/30

April is National Poetry Month and folks in the pomeing community (I believe their called "poets" or something.) honor this wondrous month by writing a poem every day. That can't be tough, right? ...right?
If you really asked that second "right?" then only two things could be true. 1- You don't know many poets, do you? or 2- You don't know me very well yet.

T'any rate, 30 poems in 30 days is basically the poets' opportunity to show off good work, jerk off non-sexually, have fun procrastinating, cry and commiserate over poor writing and generally wonder how the hell we manage to ever write anything good, capture excellent brain farts in a jar and stink up a whole bunch of pages. We get to share (or not) what happens in our heads before we really get a chance to refine it. For me, it is actually the hardest part of the creative process--writing regardless of the possible result.

I considered making another blogspot or even another tumblr, but I'm already scattering my thoughts around as it is. I've decided, instead, to make this the home of my 30 poems for the month of April. Not the whole blog, but just this ONE entry. I've been a bit behind with typing up work and showing it (fuck it, I'll be honest, I'm doubling up for 10 days because I was busy staring at my toes for the first week) so I'll be updating this as much as I can with links to the various locations of my vile 30 poems.

Imagine it as an Easter Egg Hunt that you didn't even have to work for:

7/30--Escapism
12/30--All is Fair...
13/30--The Roaring, Sore-ing 1920's
14/30--Beat Movements
15/30--Icarus
16/30--Lovable Fuck-Ups
17/30--Stripped


PS--Yes, I know it says "pomeing". No, it is not a misspelling.

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