Confession Tuesday - Feb 11, 2025

Good Morning -- This is My Confession Tuesday Literary Confession.

My friend, 

Quickly, follow me to the confessional. 

I confess that  I am struggeling in these early weeks of the Trump V.2 administration to keep my mind from going so very dark. But, alas that is not necessaraly a bad thing in terms of writing. On the other hand, it really sucks in terms of governing.  I won't go into details but I confess that  Trump is exausting with his Blitzkrieg attacks on government institutions. The Chaos is not condusive to good governance.

I am presently reading Paletine as a Metaphore by  Mahmoud Darwish - it is Translated by Amira El-Zein and Carolyn Forche'. Darwish is a highly recognized Palestinian poet whose works are extrordinary and the give us much insight into a culture and a people burdened by apharthide and ethenic cleansing.  This book is a serise of 5 interviews with with the poet by other literary individuals.  I confess I am learning much from it but I am also questioning my own thoughts on poetry - it's process, it's passon, and what it means to be a poet. 

I have been writing  with The Grind this month. It involves writing a poem draft or revising a poem daily for the whole month. We are broken into groups and we email each day's work to the group. It is not a group for critique, but simply as a means of  being a source of accountability. I confess some of thes one day works suck, but some have promise. The main things is we write. Day after day. 

That's it until next week. 

​Go forth and read and write.