I mentioned in a previous post that there’s a thriving poetry community on Twitter. Now there’s a movement, started by Kelli Russell Agodon and Donna Vorreyer , to expand the twitter poetry community into blogging. Some of the poets are reviving their blogs while others who never stopped are joining the “revival”. Like me.

A list of participating poet bloggers can be found here. I’ve read a few posts in the past two days, finding a myriad of subjects, ideas, and ideals. It’s great! Since sharing is a strong link in the community, I’ve revived the “blog list” widget here that I deleted years ago. I’ll have two lists: Poet Bloggers and What I Read, which can be found at the bottom of the page. It’s an ongoing effort and by no means complete so keep an eye on that space. There are goodies there, I promise. I will probably continue blogging as I’ve been doing, maybe with more emphasis on my writing practice and maybe more of a journal-like stream of consciousness. We’ll see. No hard and fast rules here.

Every morning I spend about an hour (or more!) reading online – poetry, flash fiction, essays – and share some on Twitter. I am @Charlotteash there, feel free to follow for great reading recs.

I’ve begun organizing and printing out my poems in case I get brave enough to enter a chapbook contest this year. Thinking about it is scary but I think it’s time to push myself out of my little cocoon and see what happens. The organizing part isn’t as fun as the creating part so I’ll have to be stern with myself to stay on project.  Any advice would be very welcome! I have two submissions of poetry out right now and ideas of where else I want to submit. I have a flash fiction I sent out last fall that didn’t get any bites so I’m taking a hard look at what might need polishing. It’s a solid story, and I did get some positive comments in the rejections (nice!), but the ending isn’t as strong as I’d like. (A suspicion confirmed by one editor.) I’ve  started two poems and they’re stewing around in my head waiting to be wrapped up. And ideas. I have ideas.

Here’s the problem: I want to write but the pets need feeding, the floor needs sweeping, the food needs cooking, the dishes need washing, the errands need running, etc,etc,etc. Who limited days to 24 hours?!