Writing from "local ground (s)"

Wow, I haven't written here in a month. That's pretty terrible, but speaks to one of those issues for writers - those periods when other demands and stresses of life keep you from writing. Some of that has to do with paying the rent.

I am compelled to start posting again on a more regular basis, and compelled to start doing that today by a very exciting new release in which I am a humble participant. And it is this:

 

Local Ground(s)—Midwest Poetics: Selected Prose Verse Wisconsin 2009–2014, edited by Sarah Busse & Wendy Vardaman

DIGITAL LAUNCH TONIGHT, NOV. 19, ON FACEBOOK/TWITTER/TUMBLIR. 7-9 CST

Back in late 2012, I received an email message from Sarah and Wendy about an idea they had hatched, which piqued my interest immediately. Curious about the whole blogging thing, Sarah proposed an email exchange among several women poets here in Wisconsin who blog about writing - not blogging to promote their writing, but about writing itself, about writing poetry.

I was still feeling pretty much of a newbie in terms of poetry-writing, so I was excited, but also humbled, at the thought of being in an exchange of this kind with the likes of Sarah Busse, Jennifer Morales, Margaret Rozga, and Lisa Vihos.