Over on the Absolute Write forum (where I was named poet laureate recently; thanks AW!), I've started a new poetry project. Like William Haskins' amazingly influential and riveting Blue Rock project, The Gunfighter Hollis Brown Poetry Project looks to build mythology of a fictional Western figure named Hollis Brown. There are some tacit rules, but mostly, I'm looking to get some new people involved in poetry.
Is that you? If so, click here and contribute something in whatever poetic form you choose. You'll need to register on the AW forum first, but I recommend that anyway if enjoy or want to learn anything about writing of any kind (and I mean any kind, from novels to cook books).
Help me create Hollis Brown and help yourself to writing and reading some great poetry
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Recently, the Absolute Write forum folk named me the forum's Poet Laureate. It's a three month stint and runs from now until June 15. It's an exciting honor. There's a lot of poetry submitted for critque to the forum and the forum is an active supporter of all things poetry.
As part of the naming, the AW forum asked me 20 questions about the how's and why's of why I write poetry. I've copied and pasted these below, but you can also link directly to the post here. In any case, some answers might surprise you. Others won't. Hopefully, I didn't bury myself under the weight of my own hyperbole.
But before you get to that, this is a great time to plug my poetry book "Vibrating Moonlight" available at LuLu.com. The person who sends me over 100 copies sold gets a free coffee mug. And now, them questions.
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