[New-Poetry] Re: Poetry Blogs

[Bob Marcacci]

i started blogging regularly when i moved abroad a five years ago to keep my
family tuned in to my life... nothing more artistic than that... i have only
blogged one poem during that time, but i put links to current work there...
my poems is my poems and me blog is me blog...

i always wrote by hand into a journal and still do and find no substitute
for that... we use the other side of our brains, ne? or do we? the blog is
just a different realm... it forces me to do more and different kinds of
writing... it's a record of other important things and fashion and
networking and, often, and why not, silly... in fact, the blog forces a
different kind of honesty...

maybe you're just afraid to write something you never wrote before... and,
well, you can't have youtube or audio poetry in your handwritten jobber...

anyway, it has only made me write more, and that can't hurt... one must be
drenched in words, if possible...

unfortunately, if you're not online, you just don't exist...

-- 
Bob Marcacci
<http://marcacci.blogspot.com/>

Marriage: cure for love.
 - Ambrose Bierce


> From: David Graham <grahamd at ripon.edu>
> Reply-To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &amp; Views"
> <new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:15:31 -0400
> To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &amp; Views"
> <new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
> Subject: [New-Poetry] Re: Poetry Blogs
> 
> No blog for me, alas or hooray as the case may be.  It's not that I
> am not filled with lofty and important thoughts about poesie, and
> surely it would be a kindness for me to share more with the world,
> but the fact is, I am selfish.
> 
> I've been keeping an analog writing journal for over 30 years now,
> and am pretty religious about putting words into it daily.  Like many
> writers I am rather ritualistic about my habits:  has to be a 9x6
> lined spiral notebook, black ink pen.  I am also addicted to the
> notion--very much an anti-blog ethos, I realize--that the essential
> nature of my journal is its privacy.  Knowing that no one need ever
> see a word I write there is one thing that keeps me honest, gives me
> permission to jot down *anything*, no matter how disreputable,
> pointless, or embarrassing.  Without the privacy option, I'm afraid I
> would do more self-censoring and less wild experimentation.
> 
> One thing that's kept me from blogging is that I'm afraid to fix
> something that ain't broke, at least in terms of my own personal
> workshop.  It's hard to see how blogging wouldn't cut down on my
> journal keeping.  Or worse, encourage more self-censorship.
> 
> And when I've got some poetical rumination in my journal that I think
> the world needs to know about, well, I can always type it up & post
> here. . . .  If I had more hours in the day, I'd probably be tempted
> to blog in addition to journal keeping, but only if it didn't hurt
> the analog journal.
> 
> I'm curious to know from the bloggers among us:  has blogging changed
> your writing habits notably?
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> David Graham
> grahamd at ripon.edu
> 
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> 
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> 
> 
> 
> On Jun 8, 2007, at 12:23 PM, Bob Grumman wrote:
> 
>> A while back, I announced that I was going to write about poetry
>> blogs in my Small Press review column.  Since then, I've done a
>> number of them, covering some New-Poetry members' blogs--Mike
>> Snider's and Chris Lott's, for instance.  I'm working on another
>> installment in which I'll be mentioning David Graham's list of
>> blogs, and his Poetry Library.  I want to mention the blog I
>> thought you had, too, David--although it looks like you are one of
>> the few of us without one.  If you have one, please let me know its
>> URL.
>> 
>> Anyone else who wants to make me aware of a blog, do so.  I can't
>> be exhaustive, but I'm trying to cover as many as I can--across the
>> whole range of what's going on in American poetry.  The column I'm
>> doing today will be about James F.'s, Halvard's, Anny's, Jeff's,
>> Tom Beckett's--and David's, if he has one.  Won't, alas, be able to
>> say much about any of them--but something.
>> 
>> Thanks, Bob
>> 
> 
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