Return to Poetry

Since January 2017, I have been able to return to writing poetry on a more routine basis, which has been, for me, a joyous renunion with my art of choice.  After my daughter's birth in 2014, I found it difficult to devote as much time, particularly as I was concentrating so intently on graphic novel projects.  Although Max and I have no plans to curb our collaboration, I do intend to continue spending a significant amount of time writing poetry and getting back into the swing of journal submissions.  I've also begun participating in a local poetry Meetup group called Living Poetry (https://livingpoetry.net/), which has created opportunities for meeting, writing, and workshopping with fellow writers.  Collaboration and communion with practitioners of one's craft is, I find, so essential to my life as a writer.  I recently had the opportunity to participate in a very cool online poetry project called ERASE-TRANSFORM, which I heard about through one of the Living Poetry organizers, Bart Barker, who produces a lovely blog at https://bartbarker.wordpress.com/.  ERASE-TRANSFORM invited poets to create poems out of Donald Trump's presidential inauguration speech by removing words, thereby re-envisioning the message therein.  You can read my submission at http://www.erase-transform.ink/blog/2017/03/10/apology/.