Magnetic

Two new poems with a short shelf life

What a week it has been! Travel and work and appointments. Oh my!

I’ve also been doing a lot of thinking about this newsletter and how to use it in a way that keeps me engaged with all of you, but also keeps my poems viable as submissions. Most lit magazines and journals will only accept unpublished poems, and they consider even sharing on a personal blog with a small readership to be publication.

Of course, if you’d like a publisher to take a chance on your poetry collection they will definitely want your carefully curated stack of poems to come with a social media presence and a list of subscribers. So what’s a poet to do?

I don’t have any answers yet. But I have had some great conversations with other poets here over the last few months, most recently with

David Donoghue

at Notes & Noises (Thanks, David!) I’m starting to wrap my brain around how to do this… I think.

For today, I have a couple of poems to share that I wrote at work this week, if you can consider magnetic poetry a form of writing. We have a poetry display for National Poetry Month and staff and patrons have been adding their own poems to the metal cart. I don’t see myself ever publishing these, so I’ll gift them to you. Maybe this will become a magnetic poetry newsletter. Who knows?

Happy Weekend, Everyone!