"Light blogging" turned out to be "no blogging," a seriously backlog of email, and not much sleep. I'm not used to being out almost every night. But, to make a much longer list, this time with links, the gig went well, I got my copy of Twentieth-Century American Poetics: Poets on the art of Poetry (which Greg Perry has been intermittently reviewing, next week I meet Chris Murray and Kasey Mohammad (and possibly Tony Tost and Clayton Couch) at the Carrboro Poetry Festival, and the week after that I'll be at the West Chester University Poetry Conference, where I'll be learning from Timothy Steele and meeting Jilly Dybka.
When I didn't really think I'd be able to go to West Chester this year I was working on verse forms with repetends (hence triolets, refrains, and rondeaux redouble) so that, if a financial miracle happened, I could take Sam Gwynn's workshop. Then, when the miracle occurred (thanks to my wife), I signed up for Steele's. Now I'm excited about studying meter, even briefly, with the man who is possibly our foremost scholar on the subject, but I'm still not sure how that happened. I think maybe it's the same kind of thing that's kept me from seriously reading Yeats for a long while, or, perhaps, the baser motive of career networking. It sounds better to say making new contacts, doesn't it?
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