NaPoWriMo & Something Small Every Day

Me doing me

My first poem for NaPoWriMo was inspired by this photo

I started blogging in 2006. I started and wrote in five blogs between then and 2009, deleting three. I’m not sorry I deleted them because I changed with every iteration of writing and it was time to move on and not look back. The fourth was a New Orleans centered group blog that’s archived but still online. I still have my last blog, Zouxzoux, which is primarily a poetry blog, and I started writing in it again this year after pretty much abandoning it. I’ve been writing poems fairly often in a series I named “Something Small, Every Day (or so).” I’m writing for myself, like I used to, with no thoughts of submitting. I don’t care if I think it’s good or bad or if anyone thinks it’s good or bad, I’m just doing it. I’ve grown tired of the submissions game. Not saying I won’t ever submit again but it hasn’t interested me this year. (I do have one sub in waiting and a flash being published in Bending Genres this month - thanks BG!)

In looking at my archives, I see I participated in NaPoWriMo from 2011 - 2022, skipping the past 2 years. I’m participating this year in combination with “Something Small, Every Day.” I haven’t decided whether to post here, too, but probably not. I’m hoping to get back into the vibrant Wordpress poetry community I used to be part of before I abandoned writing poetry.

All of this to say, please visit my poetry blog here, if you’re into poetry and care to. If you’re doing NaPoWriMo, drop a link and I’ll follow and support you as best I can.

Let’s have fun, for us.