April Announcement
April is poetry month! That’s right, you sons of bitches, it’s a veritable cornucopia of mimesis, apostrophe, enjambment and scansion! Do you know the difference between synechdoche and metonomy? Well I do, dammit, and this month, you’re gonna hear about it!
Instead of regular Tuesday posts, I’ll be posting one daily poem, all month. That’s 30 days, 30 poems! They might even have swearing.
HAQ1
Q: Have I seen this before?
A: Probably not! I can’t guarantee that one or two older ones didn’t sneak in there in some slightly newer form, but the vast majority of these poems are new.
Q: So you’re writing one every day?
A: An excellent question! Unlike other bad idea initiatives you may have heard of, I wrote a lot of these poems over the last few months. I spent at least a little time thinking about and editing them, so they should theoretically be a tick or two north of garbage.
Q: I don’t have to put up with this.
A: Not a question, but you’re right! I’m not going to help you set up an email filter so you can automate ignoring me for a month, but if you did do that, I’d never know.2
Q: What comes next?
A: I actually haven’t submitted work for publication in a couple of years, so it’s possible that I’ll subdivide and package this collection for journal submission, or submit it whole to a chapbook contest, but I haven’t decided yet. Constant rejection is something you live with as a writer, but all the time and effort it takes to submit your work is tougher to stomach. It might be more fun to just work with a designer and make a broadside or something.
Hint hint.
Happy poetry month! See you April 1!