Radius: December 2018

Monday, December 31, 2018

First Day of Class

I am thinking of an assortment of Topeka poets, their poems, and this article:

https://lithub.com/is-topeka-the-most-poetic-city-in-america/

Sunday, December 30, 2018

January 1 offers new opportunities

So many literary magazines are reopening their calls on January 1st. I'm going to get things ready in the next few days to send out.

Friday, December 28, 2018

In the strikeout Erasure is I'm doing I saw on the physical paper I was identifying different themes. I now realize I should save the jpegs I work on in those theme names and submit them out in batches. So I'm naming the files under a theme name, and placing them in a Word document to send out. I worked on four today.

Thursday, December 27, 2018

Reflections

I finished three erasers today for strike-out.

one aspect of having my sabbatical was having the time to reflect on writing. During this break I find that I am still reflecting, especially as my sister-in-law Joy stays with us for a few days. Carrie is making sure she gets her practice time in every day. I think that is the same with poets, but our practice is writing and reading. We have to read and write a little everyday to stay on top of it, and this is something like I said before that I'm going to do in the new year when school starts. Just having even little moments of reflecting to make sure that I stay on top of writing when a poem won't come oh, that's important! This is the practice that we poets have to stay on top of.

Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Submit soon with special requirements

https://www.pshares.org/submit/journal/guidelines

Monday, December 24, 2018

Strike Out: a memoir in erasure

As I am a descendant of a Vietnam Vet, this project explores war and what Dr. Christal Presley calls intergenerational PTSD via an erasure of the Pentagon Papers.

Sunday, December 23, 2018

Sneak writing

As Carrie has the boys out while her father, Pat, and De work on the house, I am getting writing done! I finished my four micro-NF pieces from "The Move," the "We Highlanders" essay, and now I am off to work on Strike Outs. Yes!

Saturday, December 22, 2018

A new commitment

coming off of my sabbatical with enough energy to sustain me to further writing, I have found that a crucial part can be found in blogging what I am writing each day I write. It's a consciousness of what I'm doing in on what days. I've already started writing micro nonfiction best based on Beth and Finley's book Heating and Cooling. I've also done three strikeouts the erasers of the Pentagon papers today. And I did this in the midst of the chaos at home and trying to get a New Hope House feel like a home.