Monthly Archives: February 2024

I’ve been focusing more on writing haiku and senryu lately. As a part of that focus, I want to start reading more books of haiku rather than just haiku journals. Boyer, David M. Overpacked for the Afterlife. N.p.: David M. Boyer, 2023. I read a review of this book in the latest issue of Frogpond.Continue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Haiku Edition”

My previous post listed all of the books I bought at AWP last week. There were a few publishers who are usually there that I wanted to visit who did not attend the book fair this year. Thus, after I got home I ordered three books that I had been hoping to buy in person.Continue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Virtual AWP Edition/Authors Whose Last Name Mostly Begins With P Edition”

I just returned from this year’s Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) conference. As usual, I bought plenty of books at the book fair. Akbar, Kaveh. Martyr! New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2024. Alabanza, Travis. None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary. New York: Feminist Press, 2023. Brownlow, Exodus Oktavia. I’mContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: AWP Edition”

Since January 2021, I’ve been keeping a list of my writing activity for each month (here’s last month’s). I do so partly as a form of encouragement for myself to show that I am still able to do some writing despite the energy-sucking terrors of our times (which were especially terrible this month), and partlyContinue reading “Writing Activity, January 2024”