poetically challenged

A friend of mine is trying to get her poetry blog off the ground. She writes very good poetry, but can be a little shy to showcase it. Why not stop by and visit, and maybe drop a word of encouragement to her if you like what you see there?

She also keeps these blogs:

top five lists
stories
places she has been

I think you’d enjoy a visit to her sites. If you’ve got a few minutes, stop in and take a look at what she’s been doing.

I started this blog, in part, to see how I liked the site here at blog.com. For the most part, it has been a very pleasant experience, blogging here.

In fact, I’ve liked it so much that I am migrating two blogs from other sites over to this one. The first is a blog focused on what I am reading and my recommendations about that. It is called PC Reading List. Don’t worry — the “PC” stands for poetically challenged, so I won’t beat you over the head with any particular ideological stance… well, I mean, I’ll try not to. I’ve been keeping a blog of recommended reads over at live journal. I’ll probably let that one fade away eventually, as I focus more on the blog at this site.

The other new blog I’ve started is called lightverse. It will be comprised mostly of light, humorous verse. I’ll include some pointers to fun poems that I find here and there, and to poetry contests too. I’ve been keeping lighverse at xanga for a while now, and enjoying it. But I’d like to have my blogs all consolidated here, so as to maintain them more conveniently.

Hope you enjoy!

A friend who I blog with at another site has recently set up a blog account here. She’s always full of useful information, and is very upbeat about what she does. Take a look at her site here. It’s already shaping up very nicely!

I’ll be using this blog space to practice my poetry. I’ll work less on content than on use of a specific form when I post. If I write a villanelle, for instance, I am not so much seeking to write moving content as to gain some comfort within the form.

I am treating this blog, then, as a space for writing exercises. I don’t expect much brilliance here, but I hope it will be a place that will help me gain a greater adeptness in more serious ventures into poetry writing as I go along.

Once in a while, I’ll pop in, in more prosaic form, and share reflections about writing processes too.

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