Poetry Night at the Writing Life, 27 January 2024
Movement and waiting for movement is our theme this evening.
Hey, everyone. It’s time for some verse tonight.
When I first started doing this on a regular basis, I was a bit worried I wouldn’t have enough material for a monthly spot. I am a relative newcomer when it comes to poetry. As a kid, I was more of a fiction guy than a poet. Poetry was just something I was assigned, but I never really understood the point of writing just a few words in a little line when I could just go ahead and write like I normally talked. It wasn’t until I got older that I realized I could dispense with strict rhyme schemes (although I can play with them every once in a while) and, to paraphrase the description of soccer forward Clint Dempsey by his US Men’s National Team coach Bruce Arena, be willing to just try 💩. And it wasn’t until I found myself in a writing group with several older ladies with an interest in poetry that I decided, “Well, I might as well give it a shot myself.”
Poetry Night at the Writing Life, 20 August 2023
I’ve heard some advice from fellow writers and others that it can often be a good idea to provide freebies, so to speak, to drum up interest in your writing. I also know you have to provide something of value to those willing to lay their money down for paid subscriptions.
It’s a bit of an in-joke that my fiction interests perhaps do not fit into a nice, ne…
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