Saturday, January 25, 2020
Burke, Adam. (2015, Jan. 9). Poetry City Actualized: A look back at the birth of an Iowa City-based literary movement. Little Village Magazine. Online. https://littlevillagemag.com/poetry-city-actualized-a-look-back-at-the-birth-of-an-iowa-city-based-literary-movement/. Accessed 1-2020.
Actualism's
got how many syllables?
...winter wind's howling
This is one I just wrote, for no particular reason, but used it to promote my haiku book, which is on its last day of being given away free. I must say, my whole public relations engines don't work all that well, either that, or it's hard to give away books of haiku. Or maybe I just am not that great or famous of a haiku poet.
It doesn't matter. I will start a new haiku volume, tentatively called New Mex'ku: Haiku from the Land of Enchantment. The haiku, by the way, doesn't sell very well at all. It has ratings of like eleven million on Amazon. But again, it doesn't matter. The way I see it, you don't do it for the ratings, or for the sales. Some days, though, I do it for the ratings. On those days, I'll do other things besides haiku.
It's been a while since I posted here. I gave up my regular production of e pluribus haiku; the last one was in 2018. I've come back around to trying to get them out there, and give them away, just because I think they're cool and maybe to some people they will make them interested enough to buy other things I've written. In general, things are slow. What sells is an old esl volume; apparently my best reputation is in the esl world. For that reason, I might work on an esl volume as well. But two or three other things are also in the works: general short stories, McDonald's short stories, and autobiography. I have a little too much on my plate.
Maybe I'll do like before, and use poetry to while away wasted minutes in the post office lines. I have more of those these days: not more post office lines, but more wasted minutes. Could be a ripe situation for poetry. I'll keep you posted.
got how many syllables?
...winter wind's howling
This is one I just wrote, for no particular reason, but used it to promote my haiku book, which is on its last day of being given away free. I must say, my whole public relations engines don't work all that well, either that, or it's hard to give away books of haiku. Or maybe I just am not that great or famous of a haiku poet.
It doesn't matter. I will start a new haiku volume, tentatively called New Mex'ku: Haiku from the Land of Enchantment. The haiku, by the way, doesn't sell very well at all. It has ratings of like eleven million on Amazon. But again, it doesn't matter. The way I see it, you don't do it for the ratings, or for the sales. Some days, though, I do it for the ratings. On those days, I'll do other things besides haiku.
It's been a while since I posted here. I gave up my regular production of e pluribus haiku; the last one was in 2018. I've come back around to trying to get them out there, and give them away, just because I think they're cool and maybe to some people they will make them interested enough to buy other things I've written. In general, things are slow. What sells is an old esl volume; apparently my best reputation is in the esl world. For that reason, I might work on an esl volume as well. But two or three other things are also in the works: general short stories, McDonald's short stories, and autobiography. I have a little too much on my plate.
Maybe I'll do like before, and use poetry to while away wasted minutes in the post office lines. I have more of those these days: not more post office lines, but more wasted minutes. Could be a ripe situation for poetry. I'll keep you posted.
