Monthly Archives: December, 2007
2008
I wish you all success with your chosen goals, plenty of time for writing, the perfect writing space, banishment of writer’s block, and plenty of publications! Happy New Year! Stay tuned for more of my writing goals (I know you’re on the edge of your seat)!
resolved
I’m working on my writing resolutions and goals for 2008. I got this idea from the writing group I’m a part of, and I always try to mix more abstract goals with very concrete ones. For example, I’ve got one article idea on my list, with the steps outlined that I want to take to …
a gift for you
A poem to think about, while I take a holiday break: Christmas Tree Lots by Chris Green Christmas trees lined like war refugees, a fallen army made to stand in their greens. Cut down at the foot, on their last leg, they pull themselves up, arms raised. We drop them like wood; tied, they are …
I’ve been on Facebook a lot lately, partly because I’m teaching a course on it this spring (no, really) and partly just because it’s fun. My two favorite applications so far are Scrabulous, where you can play online Scrabble with your friends, and SuperPoke! where you can do things like throw elves at and spin …
progress
When I first started teaching English this fall, I remember wondering (and perhaps blogging) if teaching poetry would be a mini-school for me as a poet. We’re reading such great authors this year–Whitman, Frost, Dickinson, Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes, John Donne and more–many of which I hadn’t read in years myself, and I figured that …
movement
I’ll answer my own question: my best tip for rejection so far is put it behind you, and keep writing. I did a minor polish on the rejected poem and am actively trying to think of where to send it next. Tip number two: start something new! I started a new poem this weekend which …
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