In April I wrote a poem every day for NaPoWri Mo; and I had 30 poem drafts as a result. I had as added incentive an agrreement I made online with the cool website ReadWritePoem to post a link to each new poem draft. About six of those new poems have been published already in journals, like Sweet and Pif. Some of those poems have ended up in my second full-length collection, Summer, Posthumous.
I was telling a poet friend the other day that the process of writing a poem every day took away the pressure that I would have "writer's block" or that my best poems were behind me. I kept surprising myself with my new poems--and it delighted me to have some much new material to revise, explore, work on. The experience of writing daily, in the middle of a very busy quarter, also showed me that there is no end in an artist's life---the intimate world of writing a poem is there for me as long as I am alive and as long as I am willing toenter it.
While I won't be posting new poem drafts in their entirety, I will post related material and some fragments/ideas.
I have 15 drafts for November so far--I hope you will keep checking in!
I'm also knitting lots of stripey birds in November (I'm on sabbatical)!!
Kathy, you've inspired me to make January KeDrawMo (Kerrie's Drawing Month). And I love the stripey birds. Chirp! Chirp! May I propose French dinner soon?
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