Recently Read (and reviewed on Goodreads):
Selfwolf by Mark Halliday
A Far Rockaway of the Heart by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lighthead by Terrance Hayes
The Re-echo Club by Carolyn Wells
Recent DNFs:
Thresherphobe by Mark Halliday
Jab by Mark Halliday
Phantom Pain Wings by Kim Hyesoon
What I'm reading now:
Selected Poems by Kenneth Fearing
Sing Doun the Mune by Helen Adam (on Everand)
What is on the docket for reading the rest of the year (books I own waiting to be read):
Finish Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Collected Theodore Roethke
Collected Howard Nemerov
Collected Frank O'hara
Half Light by Frank Bidart
New European Poets
And if there's any time left:
Collected Thomas Hardy
Collected Robert Penn Warren
Other intended reading:
Once a month a book from the local library.
Regularly reading from books I've saved on Everand (at least 2 per month). (Everand is a great way to explore books and poets without having to buy a bunch of books.)
Netgalley selectively.
Eventually I'd like to start re-reading some books I've had for years and want to see if they're still worth keeping, but I think I won't start that until the second half of the year and it may be more of a focus next year.
Where will I be on the internet and what will I be doing where?
Youtube:
I tried recording in my car but it's about to get too hot for that here in Tennessee. My brain and voice also are not very in sync these days requiring a lot of editing. So it's likely I'll only be doing monthly or occasional updates (like this one) on youtube until my elderly cat, who is prone to bouts of yowling, passes. I'm about to try using pheromones. We'll see if that helps. But for now I'm assuming Youtube videos will be rare. I may yet do the Snob-o-meter tag since I've been thinking about that already.
Goodreads:
This is where I'll be posting my book reviews. I may also be creating poetry-related lists. I've already started a poetry summer reading list and have ideas for others. It's also a good place to keep track of how much I've read (17 books of poetry finished and reviewed and 13 partially read and partially reviewed).
Reddit:
I may start a group (aka subreddit) for sharing poems I've enjoyed and why I particularly like them. It will be a public group so that others can also share poems they enjoy--but they must include a reason that they liked the poem. There's a group on reddit that is people just posting poems without saying anything about them at all. I've discovered that non-poetry-readers who are wanting to get into poetry need help understanding what people like about poems, why they read them and like them. My hope would be that a group like this would help them see the different way people enjoy poems.
Blog:
My blog will mainly be these kinds of reflections or roundups of my poetry reading practice. I may return to sharing poems of others along with highlighting 1-3 elements of them or using the poetry survey technique I was using on Youtube, but my blog is a drop in the ocean so I doubt anyone would see them so it's not really satisfying the spirit of sharing. I don't get anything out of that sort of analysis for its own sake, so I wouldn't be doing it for me.
Whyp:
On Whyp I can share simple recordings of poetry without any analysis (as Youtube requires). The idea behind Whyp is that it doesn't get cataloged by search engines. I currently only use it for what I call my sleep poetry recordings, which are recorded at stage whisper or whisper level to be played during the night to help me get to sleep and stay asleep. I would really like to add to these recordings but there's the same yowling cat issue that prevents me from recording for Youtube.
The other personal poetry project:
While I'm forced to give up time-consuming social media activities, I can return to memorizing poems, which is very difficult for me--and so I tend to avoid it. But I do enjoy it and creates a different relationship with each poem memorized.
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