[New-Poetry] Re: Poetry Blogs

[David Graham]

What makes you think a journal has to be about its author, Tad?  This  
is a serious question.  My only "rule" in my journal is that it is  
private writing.  Which isn't the same thing as autobiographical.  I  
simply tell myself I don't have to show it to anyone, though of  
course quite a lot of stuff makes it out into public view after  
incubating & being revised.

Many journal entries are not about me, in any case, and I almost  
never use the journal as a diary of my day or my emotional ebb-and-flow.

For that matter, I've seen a great many blogs that are very much  
about their authors' every transient notion & emotion.


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David Graham
grahamd at ripon.edu

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On Jun 11, 2007, at 1:57 PM, TheOldMole wrote:

> I'm absolutely allergic to journals (my own, that is) and could  
> never keep one. A blog, being more public, doesn't have to be about  
> me, which I find a lot more doable.

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