Year of Poetry Update - Week 42

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Quite possibly the worst week in terms of productivity this year and a reminder that if I don't get in some good morning work on poetry writing it just doesn't get done.

No poetry purchases this week but in doing my tax I worked out that I had spent nearly $500 on poetry this year - both collections and technical works.

The Writing...

was missing in action this week.  I did manage to jot one line down but I won't count that.  

This week I forgot I was old and needed more than one good night's sleep to recover from a post midnight DVD marathon.  

Getting a sinus migraine today didn't help either.  

The Study...

was about the only thing that I achieved this week. I read James Longenbach's chapter on line and syntax in Art of the Poetic Line. 

Then finished off noting the chapter on Image in Frances Mayes', The Discovery of Poetry - A field Guide to Reading and Writing Poems. 

I also read an article on Lithub with regard to aiming for 100 rejections a year, well worth reading.  I had planned to right my own reflections on it this week but ...well ... you get the picture.  Check it out. 

WHY YOU SHOULD AIM FOR 100 REJECTIONS A YEAR

Close Reading...

also missing in action. But in my defense I did lots of shallow page flipping.




For the Statbadgers:


Total time: 2:35 (410:31) hrs


poem writing = 02.00 (189:16) hrs

close reading =0:00(81:09) hrs

technique/theory 2:10(96:00) hrs

reflection = 0:35(34:37) hrs



Poetry written:

0(37) poems completed


(0)16 poems in draft


1 poem abandoned


1 poem facing execution at dawn


Poems Submitted:


0(23 in total) poems



Poems Published:


0(7) poem



Live Performances:
0(2)


Interviews:
0(1)


Rejections:


0(10) poems