In the past few months, I’ve had two poems mentioned in odd places on the Web:

— “theremin” was linked to on the http://www.thereminworld.com site;
— “Snakes On A Plane” was linked and mentioned on snakesonablog.

I believe I’ve found my market: odd, single-interest webdwellers.

Coming up: a poem about smoking fetishism. And I already have one about Nigerian e-mail fraud…

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In other news: I was offered the Big Corporate Job.

$67K/year. 10% minimum end of year bonus. Stock options.

I turned it down.

I fly out to San Diego next week to start work with the consulting firm. Independent contracting business and anxiety creating money scramble, here I come.

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Also: I’m going to Slammasters, hope to talk about the Ken Hunt Prize there. See all y’all.

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Still looking for features for the new Tuesday night reading in Providence — hit me up, o my people.

Forwarded from girlsnqueers. I’m not currently involved in the event, so please direct any inquiries to the email addresses shown.

Information on Memorial Event for Lisa King

i am not writing well right now and i think it’s because i have too much time to write. i am sprawling all over the place and it’s allowing me to indulge every little whim.

i have never believed in writer’s block, believing that a writer can always write; it tends to be a case of not liking what comes out, so you stop. my favorite thing is to see someone who writes a long dissertation on being unable to write.

the key is not to stop and bemoan things, but to shift focus. i really think every poet also needs another creative outlet — you don’t have to be great at it
(hence my guitar playing), but you have to be willing to step from one to the other when the call comes.

time to rein in and hang on for a bit…focus energies differently. practice guitar, write some songs, get ahead on the column, etc. then, dig out some of the poems i’ve written in the last year and revise and edit. memorize. focus on getting gigs.

there’s more to being a poet than an endless spew of poetry. it’s knowing how to make use of the fallow times.