I stopped writing in July and August. I am grateful for the time with the VONA's Writer Workshop this past end of June, and am honored to be and learn with such great poets. To write at that high level, I gave it everything I had -- put a lot of thought with each word, mine and theirs. I was just exhausted afterwards. I haven't really fully recovered yet. I have to write an equivalent of two poems a day for two months -- hence the title of month 6 and 8. I'll be caught up by 10/17. I have to write two poems today. So the choice for writing two poems a day for a month is the short form. I studied a lot of short form: a love of haiku, cinquains, Li Bai, Issa, Basho, Williams, Bly, Knott, and Armantrout. It's hard. Yes the shortness of the poem can keep attention spans, but every word and spacing is delicate. Shifts meaning and breath. The poem has to make you think longer than you read it. Ex. Tell Don’t Show Just tell me...
Formerly the RetailMFA, This is the Poetry Blog of Darrell Dela Cruz