Poetry and Life
It’s been a crazy busy week. On Monday evening I was interviewed by John Evans and Ella Curry on the Black Author’s Network on Blog Talk Radio. we discussed poetry in general, my interest in poetry and then I read some of my work. I have done public speaking, I have hosted tele-seminars and I have always felt comfortable and at ease, but for some reason I was incredibly nervous at first. I guess it was because I was not leading the discussion and I had to be ready to answer the questions intelligently on a live radio show. But Ella and John were gracious and made me feel at ease. Once I got started reading my poetry I became relaxed and calm. Unfortunately, my VoIP phone kept cutting out and I had to dial back in twice. There was a terrible thunder and lightning storm that night, and whenever there’s an electrical storm, I tend to lose DSL periodically.
Here’s a link to the recording if you want to listen to the replay: Black Author’s Network World Poetry Month
In preparation for the show I was going to publish a chapbook of my work, but I was so busy I did not have time to get that together. I did put up a separate blog devoted solely to my poetry. You are welcome to take a look, http://ebbourne.wordpress.com. I was thrilled to get a flurry of comments on that new blog after the show. This is the first time I have published a blog and gotten comments on it from the very first day it was up. You’ve gotta love wordpress.com.
The Maryland Sheep & Wool festival is coming up next weekend, which is also my birthday weekend. The girls will be going off with their father and I will be free to enjoy the festival and to hang with my girlfriends. It’s an annual happening and it’s really the highlight of my spring. (Clearly I don’t get out much) I won’t be spending a butt-load of cash this year as I have in the past. I would like to get some yarn to knit myself a skirt and maybe some nice manly-looking yarn to make something for my sweetums. A few weeks ago I finished knitting a shawl with sleeves that I started about four years ago. I will blog about it and post pictures on my knitting blog, http://knitahat.blogspot.com.
As I write this I am sitting in my ‘other office,’ my local indie coffee house. They have Reggae and salsa music playing making it difficult for me to keep my butt still in my chair and write. But I am on deadline today, so I’d better end here and get some other work done.
I enjoyed your blogcast and realized that my daughter could have benefiited from that when she was in high school. She is a published poet in the local paper in the late 90s. She continues to write although she is a veternarian. I have attempted to write, although my current job has taken over my writing ability. I long to get back to my writing. My deceased husband loved to write and always attended workshops. I think my daughter inherited the gift from both sides of the family. I wrote my own speeches for oratorical competitions when I was in high school and college. Wow, time passes so fast. I am glad that their is a website to express yourself through poetry. I will be prepared for next year. Will see you on the 2nd.