Well I have got a quarter way to my goal of having read (and written about) 100 poems, short stories and essays. What I have gained so far: Discovering Ellen Gilchrist's Rhoda stories, which are exactly the kind of story I want to read and write. Getting back into micro-fiction - the book Sudden Impacts being a real treasure. Finding several new poets to read: Denise Levertov, Laura Riding, Sonia Sanchez and Fay Zwicky are all really exciting to me. Many people have also given me a gigantic list of female poets to read. Becoming more comfortable writing in a different voice to that of my fiction, where there is always a pressure to be funny. Figuring out how to write sincerely about things. But writing an entry has been challenging. Furthermore, finding something I want to write about is even more so. For every essay I choose there are two others, and every poem I read five more. I have stopped reading novels almost entirely and am putting all my reading into this blog. Well, now that…
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