True story.
Thanks to everybody who has bought a copy of Newspaper Blackout and kept it on the Poetry Foundation’s Best Seller list for 16 weeks straight.
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PAYING FOR COLLEGE
FORECLOSURE
The folks from PBS Newshour were down last week to film me for their Poetry Series. It should air very soon — follow me on Twitter or Facebook and I’ll post there when I get the word that it’s about to run.
Mike Melia blogged this poem from Newspaper Blackout yesterday on the Newshour Art Beat blog.
Here’s what I said to Drew Dernavich about the poem:
It’s funny you mention “Foreclosure,” because that’s my least favorite poem in the whole damned book. My wife liked that one and made me keep it in!
Moral: listen to your wife.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE REQUIREMENT
Newspaper Blackout is still just $10 on Amazon.
WRITE SOMETHING GOOD
This is an excerpt from my newsletter I sent out yesterday. You can subscribe to it here.
My TEDxPennQuarter talk is centered around a flowchart that compares my own publishing journey with what I was taught in college was the traditional route of becoming a published author. Looking at the chart, it strikes me that no matter what route you take, everything always comes back to the simplest beginning:
Write something good.
It’s easy to get caught up in the madness of the machine, and not get any time to do the thing you love. Brittany Forks said the same thing on her site recently:
The release of my book came and went. There was no big hurrah, no parties, no signings. As I am writing this, it is over a year after my book release, and finally I have climbed out of that depression and I am ready to start creating beautiful things again.
Summer is for recharging. Don’t despair. Read. (Here’s a list of books I recommend.) Take time to be bored. Enjoy the sunshine. Keep making things.
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