MIA

Dear Reader,

I'm sorry for going MIA on many fronts.  As I sit with endless information (and miss information) at my fingertips, I am amazed at how quickly one can become disheartened.  I have asked, because I have been trained to ask "What is the place of poetry in our modern lives?"  This is the question that has set my pen on fire and also burnt me out, singed bits of my personality escaping never to join me again.  Today as I looked for volunteer positions that might give me skills to work in writing I found many blogs worth following which led me here.  Oh here, where ever I am, somehow forgetting the endless resources left to me. 

Dear Chicago,

I am sorry I have been ignoring you, keeping to the frugal corners of my apartment.  I will do better dear to follow you in your loud parade in my pursuit of poetry.  The blogs, the projects, the journals of others including: The Poetry Foundation, Neighborhood Writing alliance and their Journal of Ordinary Thought, Logan Square Literary Review and so many others, all worth inspiring art through art. 

This week’s goal

To attend at least on poetry base event.

Best

-Hadley