Short relaxation of the pace in posting here coming up

April, AKA National Poetry Month here in the USA, is usually a time when I’m out doing readings and shows.  For some reason, that’s not happening this month.  Ah well.  

It’s also the time for NaPoWriMo, or National Poetry Writing Month.  A lot of my friends are doing a “30/30,”  writing 30 poems in 30 days to celebrate.  Long time readers of this blog know I kinda do that every month, so I’m not making a big deal about it…in fact, I’m taking a little “break” from it.

I’ll be spending some time in April doing other poetry-related things — catching up on reading for one; editing old poems for another; and mostly working on music and promotion for the Duende Project, the music and poetry collaboration of Steven Lanning-Cafaro, Chris O’Donnell, and me.  I’ll be writing and practicing some guitar parts, choosing poems for us to work on, and most of all getting ready for more gigs and recording in the next few months.

I’m also thinking about pulling an actual manuscript together.  I have mixed feelings about it as it sorta negates the whole point of doing this blog (see the “About” section here if you don’t know why I say that) but a lot of people seem to think I should.  Do you?  Chime in in the comments here if you have a thought about it…and whether you might purchase such a thing were it to become available.  

Anyway — if you see fewer poems from me over the next few weeks than you are used to, that’s why.  I’ll try to check in with other content, links to edited poems for example…but it’s a good month to look a little deeper into the archives here if you are so inclined.

Thanks, as always, for subscribing and reading and commenting.  It means the world to me.

Tony