Poetry Night at the Writing Life, 27 April 2024

I was going to write an epic poem but I wound up with several short ones.

The Des Moines River, just south of Pella, Iowa, April 2024.

Hey, everyone, Happy National Poetry Month, and welcome to the poetry slam. 🙂

For the benefit of some of my new subscribers or anyone wandering onto this page, the fourth weekend of the month is when I always host Poetry Night here. I give all my subscribers a sneak peak look at some of my original poetry for a while, and then eventually I’ll tuck it into my archives for the paid subscribers. But, you get a look at it first here.

Since I started doing this, I’ve usually limited my work to one or two somewhat lengthy poems. This often stemmed from my old background in prose writing and wanting to use plenty of words, even though not all those words are doing heavy lifting. I talked about it some two weeks ago in this essay about how I decided to try mucking around with poet…