These past few weeks may be the highest concentration of posts about poetry that I have ever done here at Top of JC’s Mind.
By coincidence, I’ve been involved with several readings and anthology launches in recent weeks.
Well, it may be coincidence or it may be that it was because April is National Poetry Month here in the US, although only some of the poetic activities were connected to Poetry Month.
I’m actually expecting to have several more poet-y posts coming up over the next couple of weeks, so stay tuned.
If nothing else, the poetry posts break up the political ones. 😉
While this may be shameless, I will close with my favorite recent poetry post link: https://topofjcsmind.wordpress.com/2021/04/19/natl-poetry-month-celebration-with-me/. It was my first time as a featured poet in a reading and I’m still super-excited about it.
You may be thinking, but I don’t understand poetry. I promise that I am not inscrutable, though, so maybe you can give it a try! If you do, I hope you enjoy!
(And, yes, it may be cheating to use SoCS to promote other posts. If so, my apologies to Linda.)
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Linda’s prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday this week is “may.” Join us! Find out more here: https://lindaghill.com/2021/04/30/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-may-1-2021/

I vote your blog so you do you. Glad you’re enjoying the poetry posts. 🙂
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Thanks, Laura!
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So beautiful
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Thanks!
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It’s exciting how you’re actively engaging in the poetry world! And it’s not cheating when the other post happens to surface in the stream. When I write poetry, I usually enjoy it, though I have never had any real training. I’m looking forward to reading / listening to more of your poems.
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I’m glad to hear that you enjoy writing poetry. Given your background you might be especially interested in the interview at the beginning of the reading that I write about here: https://topofjcsmind.wordpress.com/2021/04/24/another-reading/ It touches on writing as a way of dealing with issues that arise in our lives.
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Thank you! I look forward to exploring this!
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❤
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