Even Day Poems

 

 

 

For the last several years I have chosen one month out of the year to concentrate on writing poetry. This year I have chosen April, which is National Poetry Month, and will write a poem on every "even" day. I'm not a trained or educated poet and, in fact, one of the reasons I think I enjoy poetry is because I don't know enough about it to know how bad I am!

 

I ordered the poetry literary magazine shown above for my NightWriters group, courtesy of the Poetry Foundation, to give us some inspiration.  We are also going to have a Michigan poet, Alison Swan, come to the Box Factory to do a four-part (once a season) "poetry intensive" workshop. The first one is in May. All this should help me ready my own poems on the National Parks, which I plan to self-publish this fall. 

 

I enjoy doing "even day" poems no matter how bad they are because it makes me produce work on a regular basis and makes me pay accute attention to what's going on around me, so I'll have something to write about. Now, true, I usually end up writing about the weather and one or two poems about my cats, but at least I'm paying attention and not rushing through my days trying to get a long and endless list of tasks done that includes everything except being creative.