[New-Poetry] Re: Poetry Blogs

[TheOldMole]

I shouldn't generalize. I've always found myself getting in the way when 
I tried to keep a journal.

What I do keep is sketchbooks. And I'm as likely to put words in them as 
pictures. Does that count?

David Graham wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> ========================================
> David Graham
> grahamd at ripon.edu <mailto:grahamd at ripon.edu>
>
> Home Page:
> http://web.mac.com/drjazz/iWeb/Site/About%20Me.html
>
> Poetry Library:
> http://web.mac.com/drjazz/iWeb/Site/DGPoLibrary.html
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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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