I'm trying to keep track of things I do (especially in the summer) to keep my poetry in motion, so to speak, on a day to day basis. I do this in another area of my life, my karate, that helps me keep confident I'm working on my stuff while I learn new things and get tested on it. Otherwise, I'd feel overwhelmed and out of focus. So I'm hoping this makes me accountable to the poetry part of my life.
Today I wrote in my daily journal, wrote a poem, sent out a book submission, a chapbook submission, and poetry subs to four journals, and commented (very briefly) on two other poems. I also revised my poems while submitting. I need to read some poems, next. Oh and last night, I got rejected from Sugar House Review.
All this is kind of rare for me. But I am trying to follow Entropy's list of where to submit on a monthly basis. And I'm trying to send out my work to more places, more often. I feel that I haven't been doing a very good job at that. Also, I'm following Jac Jemc's blog which is all about where she gets rejected and that has made me feel better. Other people get rejected all the time, and better writers, so I just need to suck it up.
Another thing I'd like to be doing is applying for writing residencies, but that whole artist statement and reference part of it makes me hesitant. But I'm going to set my sights on that in July and work towards getting to one of those. We'll see how it goes.
Maybe; maybe not
When I was a child I spoke as a thrush, I
thought as a clod, I understood as a stone,
but when I became a man I put away
plain things for lustrous, yet to this day
squat under hooves for kindness where
fetlocks stream with mud—shall I never
get it clear, down in the soily waters.
Denise Riley
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