Shorter is better!!!! Shorter, shorter is better! It’s hard to remember this.

I was able to edit a sheaf of pages from the “Brown Journal” into several prose poems that I’m fairly pleased with. It is such an ODD process. I find it very difficult, although today I think I was getting the hang of it.
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I did some high priority tasks today and then I ran off to Border’s to get back to poetry mind.

Poetry and routine
Poetry and commitment
Poetry and accomplishment
Poetry and competition
Poetry and spirituality
Poetry and spells, rituals, objects
Poetry and theory
Poetry and who knows what

I am trying to clarify my intentions. So they don’t go floating off into the seasonal breezes.

1) Write everything vividly, intensely, and with “language.”
2) Edit more of those journal entries. Try for differing lengths. Experiment with shortness.
3) Make a chapbook for Bev’s, even though it is utterly crude, it will be another beginning.
4) Subscribe to a few journals that I found in BAP2002.
5) Note those websites in BAP2002. Check them out.

I won’t go back to school. I know there’s a way to be part of poetry mind without formal studying. I gag on the whole idea. It’s anti-poe-thetical.

sidereality (ISSN 1543-0316) | Reviews — V. 2, N. 1 | “Book Review of The Best American Poetry 2002″ by Steven J. Stewart

It’s possible that 2002 is the only volume in this series that I’ll like…

I’ve looked at Rita Dove’s (2000) and Robert Bly’s (1999) and well, not found much. Bly’s has a prose poem by Edson that is masterful. I know it because I get a clenching feeling in my stomach.

I’m feeling very fond of Robert Creeley these days.